Six-time Bathurst 1000 winner Garth Tander has introduced his retirement from Supercars as a driver.
At Sandown on Saturday, Tander confirmed that final month’s Mount Panorama occasion – the place he received the race with Matthew Payne – was his closing look within the class.
“I hadn’t absolutely made my thoughts up [at Bathurst], nevertheless it was nice to have the children there,” Tander stated on Supercars’ broadcast of the Sandown occasion.
“Clearly after we received, that is fairly cool, that is actually gratifying. It was a pleasant becoming solution to say, that’s it.
“I by no means made the complete determination till per week or two after Bathurst.”
Tander, the 2007 Supercars champion, received 58 races from 648 begins and trails solely Jamie Whincup (125 wins), Craig Lowndes (110), Mark Skaife (90) and Shane van Gisbergen (80) on the all-time winners’ listing.
“I’ve been actually, actually lucky,” Tander continued.
“I nonetheless bear in mind being a 21-year-old child qualifying sixteenth at Phillip Island subsequent to Dick Johnson, my very first race, stalling it on the grid and I used to be final to the primary nook. Not an incredible begin to my Supercars profession.
Matthew Payne, Garth Tander, Grove Racing Ford Mustang GT
Photograph by: Edge Photographics
“To have the ability to finish it like that with a win at Bathurst with Grove Racing, it’s a significantly better solution to end it than the way in which we began.
“I’m unsure we might exit on a better excessive with profitable that race, this 12 months’s version of Bathurst.”
Tander, 48, is anticipated to proceed his rising media profession as a TV commentator, a task which incorporates the Bathurst 12 Hour in addition to Supercars occasions.
The information signifies that Grove Racing is looking for a brand new co-driver to companion Payne subsequent season – although Tander is anticipated to retain hyperlinks with the workforce as a driving advisor.
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