Garth Tander
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Garth Tander (born 31 March 1977 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian V8 Supercar driver. He raced with the Garry Rogers Motorsport V8 team until the end of 2004, then with Toll HSV Dealer Team.
Tander is married to Leanne Tander, a self-proclaimed motoring enthusiast with her own track record of motorsport achievements who is currently racing in the F3 championship. The two run a team for the F3 championship called Tandersport.
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[edit] Early career
As a child, tander started racing karts, and by the time he was 17 years old, he had won 7 state titles and one Australian title.[1]
Tander was Australian Formula Ford champion in 1997.[2]
After failing to find a budget to run in Formula Holden in 1998, Tander was offered the seat in one of Garry Rogers Motorsport's V8 Supercars.[1]
[edit] V8 Supercars
Tander finished 2nd in the 2000 championship taking the championship to the last round where he was beaten by now 5 time championship winner Mark Skaife.
After winning the famous Bathurst 1000 race in 2000 with Jason Bargwanna, he found limited success and so moved to the new-look HSV Dealer Team for 2005, having a difficult start he finished strong amassing a total of four race wins during the season including taking the maximum amount of points from the round win at Symmonds Plains, finishing 6th in the championship.
[edit] 2006
Tander was leading the V8 Supercar championship in 2006 after 6 rounds, but a disastrous round in Oran Park lost him the championship lead.
The endurance races following were no better. Garth Tander participated in a highly controversial driver swap with the Holden Racing Team which involved Todd Kelly coming to the HSV Dealer Team. Garth and co-driver Mark Skaife dominated the entire Sandown round until a steering problem destroyed the almost certain victory. At the next round at Bathurst, (which Tander and Skaife were tipped to win) the car failed off the line and was smashed off the track before the second turn on lap one. After a crushing end to his Bathurst 1000 campaign, Garth was visibly upset, probably realising that his run at the V8 supercar title was all but over. The car had been near on fastest in every practice and qualifying session prior to the race on the Sunday.
For the second year in a row Tander won the Symmonds Plains round, winning two of the three races. Engine troubles (which resulted in the car running on seven cylinders) during race one dropped him from the race lead to finish fourth with a few laps to go.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Racing History. Garth Tander. Retrieved on 2006-12-02.
- ^ Australian Formula Ford Championship: Records and Statistics. Australian Formula Ford Championship. Retrieved on 2006-12-02.
[edit] External links
- http://www.garthtander.com/ - Tander's website
| Teams contesting the 2006 V8 Supercar Championship Series | |||||||||
| Stone Brothers Racing | Holden Racing Team | Tasman Motorsport | Ford Performance Racing | Jack Daniel's Racing | WPS Racing | ||||
| 1 Russell Ingall 4 James Courtney |
2 Mark Skaife 22 Todd Kelly |
3 Jason Richards 23 Andrew Jones |
5 Mark Winterbottom 6 Jason Bright |
7 Steven Richards 11 Paul Dumbrell |
8 Max Wilson 10 Jason Bargwanna |
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| Team BOC | Toll HSV Dealer Team | Dick Johnson Racing | Paul Cruickshank Racing | Fujitsu Racing | Garry Rogers Motorsport | ||||
| 12 John Bowe 14 Brad Jones |
15 Rick Kelly 16 Garth Tander |
17 Steven Johnson 18 Will Davison |
20 Marcus Marshall | 25 Warren Luff 26 Jose Fernandez |
33 Lee Holdsworth 34 Dean Canto |
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| Team Sirromet Wines | Supercheap Auto Racing | Autobarn Racing | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Team Kiwi Racing | |||||
| 39 Alan Gurr 39 Fabian Coulthard 67 Paul Morris |
50 Cameron McConville 51 Greg Murphy |
55 Steve Owen | 88 Jamie Whincup 888 Craig Lowndes |
021 Paul Radisich | |||||
