{"id":586988,"date":"2026-04-05T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586988\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:05:16","slug":"randle-kavich-kavich-win-dramatic-bathurst-6-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/586988\/","title":{"rendered":"Randle\/Kavich\/Kavich win dramatic Bathurst 6 Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

THEY weren\u2019t first across the line, but Thomas Randle<\/a> and the Kavich brothers have converted pole position into victory at the 2026 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour.<\/p>\n

There was plenty of attrition over the course of the Easter enduro including two particularly spectacular incidents.<\/p>\n

Aaron Seton<\/a> suffered an apparent brake failure that pitched his Mustang through the sandtrap past the braking point at the Chase and into the barriers, violently flipping the #30 onto its side.<\/p>\n

Then with little more than two hours remaining, there was even more mayhem as Grant Denyer (#101 Ford Mustang) and Richard Barram (#84 Volkswagen Scirocco) collided on the run out of Griffins Bend while battling for 23rd.<\/p>\n

Both cars consequently speared left into the concrete wall, with Barram glancing the already stricken Mazda 3 of Matt Kiss.<\/p>\n

Barram (ankle) was transported to Orange Hospital and Denyer (shoulder) to Bathurst Hospital.<\/p>\n

Supersub Cameron Hill<\/a> (#1 BMW) pitted from the lead with approximately an hour to go, leaving a pair of Class A2 cars out front: Cameron McLeod<\/a> (#6 Ford Mustang) from Josh Muggleton (#64 Chevrolet Camaro).<\/p>\n

Randle passed Muggleton before the Safety Car came out for the #86 BMW M3 which had lost a wheel, and hit the lead when McLeod pitted.<\/p>\n

Hill and McLeod soon pitted again on strategic grounds, copping a slight loss of track position in order to set up late-race charges.<\/p>\n

The order when the race restarted with 29 minutes to go was Randle, Muggleton, Oscar Targett (#60 BMW M4), Tim Slade<\/a> (#54 Ford Mustang) and Tyler Mecklem (#9 Ford Mustang), with McLeod seventh and Hill 10th.<\/p>\n

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There were yet another two restarts to come, following interventions caused by Glen Ebert (#71 BMW M240) and Cem Yucel (#222 Volkswagen Golf).<\/p>\n

The latter restart occurred with two laps remaining, by which time it was Randle from Hill, Muggleton, McLeod and Slade.<\/p>\n

Hill, however, was out of victory contention after being handed a 15-second time penalty for a pitstop breach.<\/p>\n

The Brad Jones Racing driver pressed on to pass Randle on the penultimate lap, while McLeod hounded Muggleton into a last-gasp mistake. That saw a change for the class win, but both still made the outright podium.<\/p>\n

Hill was demoted to fifth behind Slade, with the path clearing for Randle plus Ben and Michael Kavich to soak in victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cAwesome to get the result,\u201d said Randle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels a bit bittersweet because we crossed the line second but I think they had a 15-second penalty\u2026 I have just got to thank Ben and Michael Kavich. They have been doing this race since the beginning, 10 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cGWR, it\u2019s their first outright win, so happy Easter to the team and to Thryv and to Breast Cancer Trials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mecklem and Hadrian Morrall were outright sixth ahead of the next class winners, A1 pair Alex Holzl and Oliver Loiacono.<\/p>\n

Other class winners were Karlie Buccini\/Courtney Prince\/Tabitha Ambrose (B1), Richard Shinkfield\/Andrew Milford\/Chris Holdt (B2), James and Trevor Keene (C), Andrew McMaster\/Michael Hazelton\/Richard Buttrose (D), and Calvin Gardiner\/Ruben Dan\/Ashton Sieders (E).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THEY weren\u2019t first across the line, but Thomas Randle and the Kavich brothers have converted pole position into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-586988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}