{"id":909249,"date":"2026-09-29T02:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909249\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T02:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:06:18","slug":"grove-racing-to-continue-bathurst-1000-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909249\/","title":{"rendered":"Grove Racing to continue Bathurst 1000 tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FOR the fifth time in as many years, Grove Racing will unleash a special Repco Bathurst 1000 livery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Penrite-backed Ford team enters this year\u2019s Great Race as the defending winners, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2716-Matt-Payne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Payne<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-8-Garth-Tander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garth Tander<\/a>\u2019s heroics in the epic 2025 edition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The squad hasn\u2019t given any hints as to what its Mount Panorama warpaint will look like this time around, merely that something fresh is coming \u2013 as was announced via a light-hearted social media clip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s worth noting that this year marks the centenary of the Penrite business, for which a recent gala <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/payne-tander-reunited-with-bathurst-1000-winner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brought together Payne, Tander and their retired Bathurst-winning chassis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grove Racing runs the numbers #19 and #26 in Supercars as a nod to Penrite\u2019s founding year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Primary drivers Payne and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2726-Kai-Allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kai Allen<\/a> will team up with respective co-drivers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-4-Will-Davison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Davison<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-14-Tim-Slade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Slade<\/a> for the October 8-11 meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previous Grove Racing Bathurst 1000 liveries:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"266074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MW-bathurst-1000-friday-hi-res-261-of-317-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-266074\"  \/>2025. Pic: Mark Walker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOR the fifth time in as many years, Grove Racing will unleash a special Repco Bathurst 1000 livery.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-909249","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\/909249","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=909249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}