1:64 WILSON SECURITY HOLDEN VF COMMODORE HOLDEN RACING TEAM 2016 SANDOWN 500 WINNER (THE LAST HRT WIN)
B64H16R - #2 GARTH TANDER / WARREN LUFF
In possibly the biggest news of the 2016 Supercars Championship season, Holden announced that it would no longer be supporting the Walkinshaw Racing-run Holden Racing Team in 2017. Instead, Holden opted to send its funding and the 'official factory team' title to the Triple Eight Race Engineering-run Red Bull Racing Australia. It was a move that created mass headlines and significant backlash from the HRT faithful at the time but at the end of the day the deal had been done and ultimately most people moved on.
Later that season came the Wilson Security Sandown 500, dubbed the 'Retro Round' as many teams embraced the history of the sport or their teams by running retro styled liveries or uniforms. HRT bucked the trend and arrived with the same livery they had run all year, clearly opting to focus on their results on track rather than the celebrations around it. It worked.
Starting from P2, Tander and Luff took out the iconic race with the front guard of their car hanging off and Red Bull Racing Australia's Shane van Gisbergen finishing fast, closing the final gap to 0.34 seconds. The win added a Sandown 500 victory to an already long list of achievements for Tander and history will show that the result would also mark the last win for that era of the Holden Racing Team, a fitting finish given only Mark Skaife represented the team more times than Tander.
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