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UD Number One on the Mountain

11th October 2011

UD Trucks visited the top step of the Bathurst podium on the weekend, with the Toll Holden Racing team duo of Garth Tander and Nick Percat taking a thrilling victory in the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.


With laps counting down, Tander resisted a last ditch charge from rival Craig Lowndes to claim the crown by a slender 0.2917sec.


Throughout the week the winning combination were front runners, with Tander claiming provisional pole position prior to wet conditions half way through the Top-Ten Shootout, which relegated the car to the fifth row of the starting grid.


Twenty-three year old Percat meanwhile was one of the revelations of the race, with his success the first for a Bathurst rookie in 34 years.


The result comes in the first season of UD Truck's involvement with Walkinshaw Racing, with the team's race cars hauled nationwide behind the cleanest and greenest prime mover in the V8 Supercar paddock, the UD GW470 Automated.


"The whole of UD Trucks are incredibly proud of the efforts of Garth, Nick and the entire Toll Holden Racing Team crew, in winning the biggest event on the Australian motorsport calendar," said Cris Gillespie, the Marketing and Communications Manager of UD Trucks Region Oceania.


"To date our relationship with Walkinshaw Racing (which includes the Toll Holden Racing Team as well as Bundaberg Racing) has been incredibly successful, much in the same way that the UD GW has been the top selling Japanese built prime mover over 350HP for the past six years running.

 

"We are particularly proud to be able to assist the Toll Holden Racing Team lower its carbon footprint, with the UD GW470's ECO Fleet emission control system giving the team the only prime movers in the V8 paddock that meet the strict JPLT 05 emissions standard.


"Even while hauling the team's B-Double trailers around Australia, the trucks emit lower harmful gases, and consume less fuel.


"We look forward to more success on and off the track together into the future."


Earlier in the weekend, the UD Trucks supported V8 Ute also made an appearance on the podium with team driver Cameron McConville finishing second in the second race, after leading the field away from pole position.


The win in the main race is not the first for a UD Trucks transported vehicle in the Bathurst 1000, with company a backer of the all-conquering Gibson Motorsport Nissan GT-R squad in the early 1990s.


UD Trucks has also enjoyed previous motorsport involvement with TeamVodafone in V8 Supercars, the Clipsal 500, the Sandown 500, as well as with Possum Bourne Motorsport in the Australian Rally Championship.