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] 2002

Tander was the winner of the 1st ever Bathurst 24hr race driving a modified Holden Monaro running a 7.0L (427cui) motor rather than the 5.7L Gen III that the road car runs. He co-drove this race with Steven Richards, Cameron McConville and Nathan Pretty while driving for V8 Supercar team boss Garry Rogers Motorsport.

[edit] 2003

Tander, again driving the very same Monaro from 2002 with the same co-drivers in the same team, came second to the teams second Monaro driven by the late Peter Brock, Greg Murphy, Jason Bright and Todd Kelly. Driving at the end, Tander finished only 0.2 seconds behind Greg Murphy. They were 13 laps ahead of the 3rd place Porsche 911 GT3 RC.

[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] 2007

Tander races the #16 Toll HSV Commodore in 2007, and won the second round (held at Barbagallo Raceway in his home state of Western Australia), winning all three 50-lap races.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Racing History. Garth Tander. Retrieved on December 2, 2006.
  2. ^ Australian Formula Ford Championship: Records and Statistics. Australian Formula Ford Championship. Retrieved on December 2, 2006.

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Teams contesting the 2007 V8 Supercar Championship Series
Toll HSV Dealer Team Holden Racing Team Tasman Motorsport Stone Brothers Racing Ford Performance Racing Jack Daniel's Racing
1 Rick Kelly
16 Garth Tander		 2 Mark Skaife
22 Todd Kelly		 3 Jason Richards
51 Greg Murphy		 4 James Courtney
9 Russell Ingall		 5 Mark Winterbottom
6 Steven Richards		 7 Shane Price
11 Jack Perkins
WPS Racing Team BOC Dick Johnson Racing Supercheap Auto Racing Team Kiwi Racing Britek Motorsport
8 Max Wilson
10 Jason Bargwanna		 12 Andrew Jones
14 Brad Jones		 17 Steven Johnson
18 Will Davison		 20 Paul Dumbrell
50 Cameron McConville		 021 Paul Radisich 25 Jason Bright
26 Alan Gurr
Garry Rogers Motorsport Team Sirromet Wines Autobarn Racing TeamVodafone Paul Cruickshank Racing
33 Lee Holdsworth
34 Dean Canto		 39 Fabian Coulthard
67 Paul Morris		 55 Steve Owen 88 Jamie Whincup
888 Craig Lowndes		 111 John Bowe
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