Breaking News - Ford WINS Bathurst
BREAKING NEWS - FORD WINS the Bathurst 1000 🏆
Matt Payne/Garth Tander have delivered Ford a win for the ages in an incident-packed, rain-hit Repco Bathurst 1000.
Payne/Tander started from 18th, with Penrite Racing claiming its first Bathurst win, and Ford its first since 2019. David Reynolds/Lee Holdsworth claimed a remarkable runner-up finish, 0.9s behind, with Golding/David Russell reclassified third.
"It's absolutely insane, that last stint in the wet when I got back in the car it felt like forever," said Payne in Pirtek Victory Lane.
"We kept getting Safety Cars and it kept stalling our race, and then I saw Jimmy get into the side of Cooper and I kind of predicted that was going to happen, and just managed to get through.
"I felt like I ran out of tyres a bit at the end, but a win's a win, we'll take it. It's just so, so good for the guys, they've worked so hard, so cool."
Congratulations Team Penrite Racing from all of us at Team FORD Narellan.