Garth Tander
| Garth Tander | |
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Tander in 2016
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| Nationality |
 Australian
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| Born |
31 March 1977 (age 39) Perth, Western Australia |
| Related to | Leanne Tander (wife) |
| Supercars Record | |
| Car number | 33 |
| Current team | Garry Rogers Motorsport |
| Series championships | 1 (2007) |
| Races | 578 |
| Race wins | 54 |
| Podium finishes | 145 |
| Pole positions | 30 |
| 2016 Championship position | 9th (2252 pts) |
Garth Tander (born 31 March, 1977) is a multiple-championship winning Australian motor racing driver currently competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, driving for Garry Rogers Motorsport. He was the 2007 series champion for the HSV Dealer Team and is a three-time winner in Australia's most prestigious motor race, the Bathurst 1000.
Tander also owns a motor racing team TanderSport, with his wife, fellow racing driver Leanne Tander.
As a child, Tander started racing go karts, and by the time he was 17 years old, he had won 7 state titles and one Australian title.
Tander was Australian Formula Ford champion in 1997.
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.
Tander finished second in the 2000 championship taking the championship to the last round where he was beaten by now five time championship winner Mark Skaife. After winning the famous Bathurst 1000 race in 2000 with Jason Bargwanna, he found limited success.
Tander was the winner of the first Bathurst 24hr race driving a modified Holden Monaro 427C 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. Tander was widely tipped to drive the Monaro for GRM in the Australian Nations Cup Championship in 2003 but concentrated instead on V8 Supercars with the drive going to Nathan Pretty. In the 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour Tander, again driving the very same Monaro from 2002 with the same co-drivers in the same team, came second to the team's second Monaro driven by Peter Brock, Greg Murphy, Jason Bright and Todd Kelly. Driving at the end, Tander finished only 0.2 seconds behind Greg Murphy with Tander setting the race's fastest lap on lap 526, the second last of the race. The GRM Monaro's led the race throughout and finished 13 laps ahead of the third place Porsche 911 GT3 RC.
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