{"id":81355,"date":"2025-10-16T03:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81355\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:35:12","slug":"supercars-news-matt-payne-details-awkward-last-lap-bathurst-1000-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/81355\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Matt Payne details awkward last lap Bathurst 1000 dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Payne and James Golding begin the final lap. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

The Grove Racing Mustang driver came under heavy attack from the PremiAir Racing Camaro, which had a five-second post-race time penalty hanging over it.<\/p>\n

Amid a sea of nervous tension back in the Grove garage, Payne yielded to Golding as they started the last lap to focus instead on holding out David Reynolds behind.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t really want to let him go. I really wanted to win it outright, you know, be first across the line,\u201d admitted Payne.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I just felt like we kind of slowed up a little bit there when the track started to dry out a bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cJimmy was so fast in the wet and he was probably a bit better than us when it was drier, so his thing came alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just had to give him the position and Dave was so close behind me, we had to focus on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Golding and Payne post-race. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

The battle between the Penrite Mustang and Nulon Camaro allowed Reynolds to close a near two second margin ahead of the last lap commencing.<\/p>\n

Reynolds piled the pressure onto his former teammate Payne, including a cheeky look around the outside at The Cutting in which the two cars almost collided.<\/a><\/p>\n

Payne held on to cross the line between Golding and Reynolds, becoming the second Bathurst winner in 10 years to greet the chequered flag second.<\/p>\n

It also happened in 2016, when Will Davison \u2013 driving for the Tekno Autosports team that now exists as PremiAir \u2013 trailed a penalised Jamie Whincup to the flag.<\/p>\n

The Penrite Mustang that Payne shared with Garth Tander only led four of Sunday\u2019s 161 laps in what is being lauded as one of the all-time great Bathurst 1000s.<\/p>\n

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Payne let Golding through to focus on Reynolds. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

It\u2019s being compared to the 2014 epic, when Chaz Mostert took the lead for the first time on the final lap as Whincup ran dry on fuel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll always look back and see 2014 as one of the best I\u2019ve ever watched,\u201d said Payne.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully this year can go down as somewhere on par with that. I think that would be pretty epic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sixth Bathurst 1000 win a \u2018very different feeling\u2019 for Tander<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Payne and James Golding begin the final lap. Image: Supplied The Grove Racing Mustang driver came under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37803,28873,111,139,69,1732,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-81355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-james-golding","9":"tag-matt-payne","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-slot4","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}