Bathurst 12 hour

Holden Racing Team Leads Holden’s Bathurst Charge

Holden Racing Team (HRT) stars Garth Tander and Will Davison won the 2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 on the weekend of October 8-11 in one of the most thrilling 1000-kay races from start to finish in recent memory.

The epic race went down to the wire but Tander led a Holden charge who took a clean-sweep of the podium.
Team BOC’s Jason Richards – who set the fastest lap of the race taking 2 min 8.9972 sec to circle Mount Panorama on lap 61 – and Cameron McConville finished only 0.7599 sec behind Tander.

Garry Rogers Motorsport (GRM) young guns Lee Holdsworth and Michael Caruso managed to claw their way back from an earlier spin and a bit of muscling from the more experienced drivers at the end of the race to finish third.

“We had really, really good car speed in all conditions; it was just a matter of lining up the fuel stops to the end so poor Will had to struggle around for about seven laps on wets on a dry track but then it opened up our fuel window to get us to the end,” Tander explained.

“It all seemed reasonably easy; the decisions came easy and the right decisions were made at the right time and today’s one of those days, so Bathurst is certainly one of those races where when it’s your day, it’s your day.”

Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 Event Results
Race 16 of the V8 Supercar Championship Series
1. Garth Tander/Will Davison – Holden Racing Team
2. Jason Richards/Cameron McConville – Team BOC
3. Lee Holdsworth/Michael Caruso – Garry Rogers Motorsport

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