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Kavich Brothers combine with Thomas Randle to win stunning 6 Hour
Supercars Championship driver Thomas Randle along with brothers Ben and Michael Kavich have taken an emotional victory in the 2026 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour.
At the helm of the Team Thryv Race For A Cure Class X Ultimate Performance BMW M2 Competition, Randle was passed at the very end by Cameron Hill in Dean Campbell’s winning M2 from last year, but they had a 15-second penalty added which relegated them to fifth outright.
The Kavichs had taken part in all ten Hi-Tec Bathurst 6 Hour races for their first outright success. They delivered BMW an unbeaten outright record as well. The race had eleven safety cars, 13 lead changes and eight different race leaders.
The fight for second was between the A2 Extreme Performance (Naturally Aspirated) front runners. Josh Muggleton who was in the Chev Camaro he shared with Chris Lillis and Zach Bates, appeared to have the measure of Cameron McLeod (Ford Mustang) until Muggleton went off at The Chase on the final lap.
Muggleton recovered to bring the Camaro home third behind McLeod while fourth place went to the Mustang driven by Tim Slade and Tony and Kyle Alford. Campbell and Hill were next and ahead of Hadrian Morrall and Tyler Mecklem whose Mustang was without fourth gear for almost half the race.
In seventh and the first of the A2 Extreme Performance (Forced Induction) Class were brothers Oliver and Liam Loiacono together with Alex Holzl in their Mitsubishi Evo X. They finished just 6.5 seconds ahead of class rivals Cameron Laws, Cody Gillis and Leon Cordoto in their BMW M2 F87.
In ninth place after added-on time penalties, were Amar Sharma, Grant Johnson and Jack Le Brocq in their Class X M3 while tenth were Ric and Tom Shaw, and Zaki Wazir, BMW M4 mounted one lap behind.
Steve Owen and Scott Gore were 7.3 seconds behind in 11th in the Class A2 Lexus for 11th and ahead of third in A1, Bathurst locals Grant, Harry and Darcy Inwood aboard the BMW 1m E82.
The tenth running of the production car enduro produced another exciting, tense and at times, dramatic event.
For the third year in a row, victory in the B1 High Performance (Forced Induction) Class went to the team of Karlie Buccini, Courtney Prince and Tabitha Ambrose. In their BMW 340i, they placed 16th outright and took the win four laps ahead of the Kia Stinger of David Worrell, Scott Walker and Richard Luff with John Fitzgerald. Aaron Zerefos and Robert Bryden (BMW 135i) third.
In Class B2 High Performance (Naturally Aspirated), Richard Stinkfield, Andrew Milford and Chris Holdt (BMW M3 E92) finished just one lap ahead of the Holden Commodore SSV of Tony Virag, Michael Ferns and Liam Evans. Third after dramas which saw them parked at the top of the Cutting for a period were Ian Joyce and Scott Tidyman (Commodore).
A place in history was made in Class C Performance. From the nearby city of Orange, Trevor and James Keene drove their Volkswagen Golf R to class victory. For father Trevor it capped off a trifecta of Bathurst class victories with wins previously in the 24 Hour and the 12 Hour. Second place went to Tony Auddino and Andrew Martin in their Holden Astra VXR.
Production Class D honours went to Andrew McMaster, Michael Hazelton and Richard Buttrose (BMW 125i) as a 45-second restart penalty for the leading Daniel Flanagan, Dean Chapman and Caleb Hefren Subaru BRZ relegated them to third behind Nick Winsor, Brandon and Chris Whittaker (Toyota 86 GTS).
It was the Mazda 3 SP25 shared by a pair of 16-year-olds in Ruben Dan and Ashton Seiders, together with 71-year-old Calvin Gardner the winners in Class E. Second was the Mazda with Adam Brewer, Carter Fox and Manny Mezzasalma ahead of Paul Hewitt, Phil Alexander and Rod Tippett (Mazda). The lone Honda Accord Euro of Greg Boyle and Brett Stevens were the pacesetters until a driveshaft failure.