Triple Eight Race Engineering duo Shane van Gisbergen and Richie Stanaway have won the 2023 Bathurst 1000. Image: InSyde Media
Shane van Gisbergen/Richie Stanaway have won the 2023 Bathurst 1000 in an ultra-tense finish after heartbreak for their Red Bull Ampol Racing team-mate Broc Feeney.
Mechanical issues affected all three of the cars which had vied for victory for most of the day, being the two full-time Triple Eight Race Engineering Camaros, and the #99 Erebus Motorsport Camaro which Brodie Kostecki had put on pole position.
Feeney was running a fairly comfortable second with 25 laps remaining, and still an outside chance of victory, when his gear lever mount failed after Triple Eight’s #888 Supercheap Auto wildcard entry had gone through two of them earlier in the race.
Almost as soon as the #88 Camaro had its drama, it developed that Kostecki’s Coca-Cola machine had a steering problem.
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