After 25 years in Commodores, Garth Tander joined the Blue Oval in 2023, and will race with Matt Payne and Penrite Racing in 2024 as he chases a sixth Bathurst win.
After 25 years in Commodores, Garth Tander joined the Blue Oval in 2023, and will race with Matt Payne and Penrite Racing in 2024 as he chases a sixth Bathurst win.
Tander joined the co-driver club, and Triple Eight, in 2019 after he departed Garry Rogers Motorsport, and nearly won the Great Race at his first attempt with the team.
A year later, Tander scored Bathurst win No. 4 and helped van Gisbergen to his first. In 2022, van Gisbergen and Tander won again before the latter shifted to Ford.
The West Aussie rejoined GRM in 2017, heading back to where his Supercars career started.
Having made his debut in 1998 as the reigning Australian Formula Ford champion, he spent seven seasons with GRM during his first spell, including a Bathurst win and second in the championship in 2000.
He left to join the HSV Dealer Team for 2005, starting a 12-year run within the Walkinshaw Racing umbrella.
Tander won the 2007 Supercars Championship with HSVDT, then moved to the Holden Racing Team for nine years that included two more Bathurst wins.
That spell also featured an Adelaide 500 win, back-to-back Phillip Island 500 victories and success in the 2016 Sandown 500, just days before he was informed he was being dropped.
His two seasons back with GRM netted two podiums and a best of ninth in the championship in 2017.
Tander sits fifth on Supercars’ all-time winners’ list with 57 victories, behind only Jamie Whincup, Craig Lowndes, Mark Skaife and van Gisbergen.