Overview
- Stewards added five seconds to James Golding for contact with Cooper Murray at Griffins Bend, dropping Golding and David Russell to third and awarding victory to Matt Payne and Garth Tander.
- Drivers faced torrential rain, fog and near-darkness during a near seven-hour race that featured seven safety cars and six retirements.
- David Reynolds and Lee Holdsworth took second after Reynolds’ outside lunge on the final lap at The Cutting could not find a way past Payne.
- Supercars released footage showing a kangaroo narrowly missing Kai Allen’s car at roughly 250 km/h on Conrod Straight late in the race.
- The win is Tander’s sixth Bathurst crown and strengthens Payne’s title bid, leaving him second as the inaugural Finals begin on the Gold Coast.