By Holden Racing Team's standards at the time, 2011 wasn't the greatest year prior to Bathurst. It just hadn’t been their year, and they certainly didn’t go to Bathurst that year as favourites. The sad fact in 2011 was that the Holden Racing Team now was Holden’s front-line V8 Supercars operation in name only. The reality was that former Ford team turned Holden outfit, Triple Eight, with its star aces Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup, was the team doing most of the winning for Holden.
But Bathurst is a different race from any other, and on the day on the Mountain in 2011 everything fell into place for the HRT. It was Tander’s third Great Race win, and for his co-driver Nick Percat, a win on debut in the 1000.
They only narrowly headed the Craig Lowndes/Mark Skaife Triple Eight Commodore home, leaving Skaife a fraction of a second short of scoring a seventh Bathurst win in what was his final Bathurst 1000 start.
It was not a good day for Ford: Ford Performance Racing had pace and looked threatening but both cars had issues; the Stone Brothers Falcons didn’t have the pace but were running a fuel consumption strategy that might have paid dividends had both the Alex Davison/David Brabham and Shane van Gisbergen/John McIntyre cars not got involved in on-track incidents.
This DVD includes action that occurred during the commercial breaks, but does not feature any support races.
Duration: Approximately 6 Hours 47 Minutes