Supercars legend calls time on career

Garth Tander has called time on his Supercars career, with his victory in the 2025 Bathurst 1000 earlier this season marking his final outing in the series.

Tander won the biggest race on the Supercars calendar on six occassions, leaving him in a share of third on the all-time winners list behind Peter Brock, Jim Richards and Craig Lowndes.

The now 48-year-old also lifted the Supercars title back in 2007 with the HSV Dealer Team having been part of the grid on a full-time basis from 1998 when he debuted with Garry Rogers Motorsport through to 2018 – when he bowed out with the same team.

Since then, Tander has competed as an enduro co-driver, scoring three of his Bathurst wins with Triple Eight and Grove Racing.

Tander bows out fifth on the all-time winners list having revealed his decision during Saturday’s track action at Sandown, where he is part of the TV broadcast team for the penultimate meeting of the season.

“I’ve been really, really fortunate,” he said. “I still remember being a 21-year-old kid qualifying 16th at Phillip Island next to Dick Johnson, my very first race, stalling it on the grid and I was last to the first corner. Not a great start to my Supercars career.

“To be able to end it like that with a win at Bathurst with Grove Racing, it’s a much better way to finish it than the way it started!

“I’m not sure we could go out on a higher high than winning that race, this year’s edition of Bathurst.

“My kids hadn’t been to any of my Bathurst wins, so to have them there, to have them experience it was really really cool, really special. I’m not sure it could be better than that.”