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Bathurst 1000 results: Matt Payne and Garth Tander win at Mount Panorama, Cooper Murray taken out late

Matt Payne and Garth Tander have won an extraordinary edition of the Bathurst 1000, despite crossing the line second.

Tander, 48, claims his sixth Bathurst 1000 victory, putting him equal third all time, while 23-year-old Kiwi Payne claimed his first crown. 

Payne, whose #100 car started 18th on the grid, only took the lead of the race with five laps to go, when he jumped from third to first in one corner after leaders Cooper Murray and James Golding made contact.

Golding was handed a five-second penalty for the incident, but the driver of the number 31 car did not give up the fight.

Golding took the lead at the start of the final lap and crossed the line first, gaining enough time to earn a third-placed finish.

David Reynolds and Lee Holdsworth (number 25) were upgraded to second place.

But that chaotic finale barely touches the surface of what was an unbelievable race that will doubtless go down in the annals as one of the all time greats.

"The last, I don't even know how many stints were just crazy," Payne said.

"The track was really challenging, even towards the end it was getting really foggy up on the top and we couldn't really see anything.

"There were a lot of curveballs thrown at us but we kept it on the black stuff."

Starting in brilliant sunshine with blue skies, the race was thrown wide open around 60 laps in when the first sprinkles of rain began to fall on Mount Panorama.

That early sprinkle soon turned into a deluge though, with predictable carnage.

Two safety cars, first for Tony D'Alberto crashing into the wall at Forest's Elbow and then for Chaz Mosert's ailing Mustang parking itself on The Chase after suffering an engine issue, had nothing to do with the weather.

But soon after Mostert cracked a beer to drown his sorrows after retiring his car, the rest of the field were left to swim their way around the track.

Several drivers struggled as the road became slippery, but the real drama came after the race passed its halfway mark, when pole sitter Brodie Kostecki slammed into Kai Allen and later Anton De Pesquale hammered into the wall at the Cutting.

Supercars championship leader Broc Feeney crashes into the wall at Forrest's Elbow at the 2025 Bathurst 1000 (Supercars)

With 38 laps remaining, championship leader Broc Feeney drove his car into the wall to throw another spanner in the works and set up one of the all time great final battles, punctuated by rivers of water running down Conrod Straight and multiple safety car periods.

"It was horrible, it was terrible," Tander said of the last 40 laps.

"Matt did an amazing job. Just the conditions at the end, you didn't have to do much wrong to make a mistake and lose a lot of time.

"It was hard to watch."

As the clouds descended over Mount Panorama, reducing visibility to uncomfortable levels, Ryan Wood looked in great shape to hold off the field, only for his Mobil 1 Truck Assist Ford to break down with 23 laps remaining.