Supercars 2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 The Complete Race
$35.00
Garth Tander could have been forgiven for thinking Bathurst was an easy race to win. After all, he won it in only his third start – in what was his second full season in the V8 Supercars Championship. But the Bathurst-winning drought that followed – all eight long years – surely disavowed him of that misconception. It’s always a difficult race to win, and that was certainly true of Tander’s second Bathurst triumph in 2009. Tander and Holden Racing Team team-mate Will Davison started their Commodore VE from pole position and led almost 100 laps of the 161-lap journey. But it was a much harder-won victory than those bare stats suggest, because this was probably a race that Ford should have won. Both the Craig Lowndes/Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Falcon FG and the Alex Davison/Shane van Gisbergen example both not only had the pace to match the leading HRT Commodore but they also enjoyed a longer fuel tank range – by some two or three laps. Likewise the Steven Richards/Mark Winterbottom FPR Falcon. But Lowndes and Whincup were always coming from behind after copping an early drive-through penalty for a pitlane infringement, and the FPR Falcon’s hopes literally went up in flames when the car caught fire. In the end it was a triumphant day for Holden as Commodores filled the first four spots, with Lowndes and Whincup fifth in Triple Eight’s last Bathurst with Ford before it switched to Holden.
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- Duration:
- Approximately 7 Hours 50 Minutes
