Former Holden driver Garth Tander is a four-time winner at Bathurst with his first victory on Mount Panorama coming in 2000 alongside Jason Bargwanna.
Tander reflected on his maiden Bathurst having made his Supercars debut 1998.
“I was 23 when we won, so I was the second youngest to have won the race at that stage after (Craig) Lowndes,” Tander told SEN’s This Is Your Journey – thanks to Tobin Brothers.
“It was the first time I’d ever finished the Bathurst 100. In 1998 I crashed out, 1999 our car was involved in someone else’s crash, and we got caught up in it, so I’d never finished the race.
“As a 23-year-old, you’re still pretty brash and you’re still pretty confident, so I thought at the time, ‘All you’ve got to do is finish this thing and you’re half a chance’ .
“It’s only until four, five or six years later that you realize how much Bathurst can kick your ass.”
Tander won the Supercars Championship in 2007 with HSVDT and triumphed at Bathurst for a fourth time with Shane van Gisbergen in 2020.
The 44-year-old has won 54 races across his career – the fourth most Supercars victories of all time.