Clipsal 500 - Round 1

Disscuss all the 'stuff' from the Clipsal 500 here...

Well Clipsal is alive! Practice starts today...

Tomorrow?

Ah. Yep! My bad!

Hey guys qualifying is tomorrow!
LOL when I checked it for last year I thought WTF? Courtney? It's probably going to happen this year. Maybe Jase will finally take a pole postion?

Hey! No baggin out Courtney! He can drive! when he wants to...

1 88 Team Vodafone Jamie Whincup Ford Falcon BF 5000 24 22 1:21.3301R
2 4 Jeld-Wen Motorsport James Courtney Ford Falcon BF 5000 16 16 1:21.3406r 0:00.0105
3 5 Ford Performance Racing Mark Winterbottom Ford Falcon BF 5000 22 21 1:21.6647 0:00.3346
4 1 Toll Holden Racing Team Garth Tander Holden Commodore VE 5000 20 18 1:21.6930 0:00.3629
5 18 Jim Beam Racing Will Davison Ford Falcon BF 5000 20 16 1:21.7557 0:00.4256
6 888 Team Vodafone Craig Lowndes Ford Falcon BF 5000 23 20 1:21.8745 0:00.5444
7 33 Valvoline Cummins Race Team Lee Holdsworth Holden Commodore VE 5000 20 20 1:21.9638 0:00.6337
8 17 Jim Beam Racing Steven Johnson Ford Falcon BF 5000 21 18 1:22.0282 0:00.6981
9 6 Ford Performance Racing Steven Richards Ford Falcon BF 5000 27 27 1:22.0976 0:00.7675
10 16 Autobarn Racing Team Paul Dumbrell Holden Commodore VE 5000 18
11 7 Jack Daniel's Racing Todd Kelly Holden Commodore VE 5000 20 20 1:21.9779 0:00.6478
12 15 HSV Dealer Team Rick Kelly Holden Commodore VE 5000 18 16 1:22.0049 0:00.6748
13 9 SP Tools Racing Shane Van Gisbergen Ford Falcon BF 5000 21 20 1:22.0814 0:00.7513
14 2 Toll Holden Racing Team Mark Skaife Holden Commodore VE 5000 18 12 1:22.0939 0:00.7638
15 3 Tasman Motorsport Jason Richards Holden Commodore VE 5000 19 18 1:22.1513 0:00.8212
16 111 Glenfords Racing Fabian Coulthard Ford Falcon BF 5000 20 15 1:22.3425 0:01.0124
17 25 Fujitsu Racing Jason Bright Ford Falcon BF 5000 11 11 1:22.3910 0:01.0609
18 39 Supercheap Auto Racing Russell Ingall Holden Commodore VE 5000 15 14 1:22.4469 0:01.1168
19 14 Team WOW Cameron McConville Holden Commodore VE 5000 14 13 1:22.4609 0:01.1308
20 51 Tasman Motorsport Greg Murphy Holden Commodore VE 5000 18 18 1:22.7538 0:01.4237
21 12 Team BOC Andrew Jones Holden Commodore VE 5000 11 11 1:22.7571 0:01.4270
22 34 Valvoline Cummins Race Team Michael Caruso Holden Commodore VE 5000 12 9 1:22.7915 0:01.4614
23 11 Jack Daniel's Racing Shane Price Holden Commodore VE 5000 12 12 1:22.9660 0:01.6359
24 55 Rod Nash Racing Tony D'Alberto Holden Commodore VE 5000 12 12 1:23.0891 0:01.7590
25 50 PWR Performance Products Andrew Thompson Holden Commodore VE 5000 12 12 1:23.1461 0:01.8160
26 67 Supercheap Auto Racing Paul Morris Holden Commodore VE 5000 11 5 1:23.6190 0:02.2889
27 021 Team Kiwi Racing Kayne Scott Ford Falcon BF 5000 11 11 1:23.9923 0:02.6622
28 26 IRWIN Racing Marcus Marshall Ford Falcon BF 5000 10 9 1:24.5641 0:03.2340
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WOOT!!! Whinners / JC / Frosty - do it for the blue oval!!!

ahem...



thanks to our friends @ V8 Central...

Skaifey didn't do too well. Not like he does good here anyway...

AND... a great drive by Gizzy! 13th for his very first time @ Clipsal!!! WOO!!!

Good on him! If he can keep it up, he will be a star in the future...

I also had a look at Practice 1 and Skaifey was second... very wierd for him to drop 10 places or so....

LOL Gizzy better than Skaife, Murphy and (it pains me to say it) Jase...

hehehe. Lets hope the top 3 stay around for the whole weekend!!!

Like I said before, Skaifey was 2nd in the first practice. Add that and his pos in P2 and you have an average of 8. Skaifey is a possible competitor.

Good race!!! GO FORD!!!!

But this was overshadowed by a HUGE accident from Ashley Cooper, in the Development Series. I'll put more of this shock in the support catagories but on the race, Holdsworth ftw!

Jamie is under investigation for two separate incidents, one for pushing Steven Richards out of the way, one for pushing Mark Winterbottom out of the way, warnings expected for both.
EDIT: James Courtney under investigation for spinning Todd Kelly

All my best wishes for Ashley and his family...

Anyways, as it is all about Jamie atm:

Oh and this is bull about the investigations against Jamie. He did a fair and clean race!

What, when Jamie pushed BOTH FPR cars out of the way???

Official results:

Pos Car Entrant Driver Vehicle Laps Race Time Fastest Lap Fastest Time
1 88 Team Vodafone Jamie Whincup Ford Falcon BF 78 01:51:37.3538 11 1:22.9556
2 5 Ford Performance Racing Mark Winterbottom Ford Falcon BF 78 01:51:39.1710 34 1:22.9871
3 888 Team Vodafone Craig Lowndes Ford Falcon BF 78 01:51:39.8187 35 1:22.6987
4 33 Valvoline Cummins Race Team Lee Holdsworth Holden Commodore VE 78 01:51:40.2943 51 1:23.2489
5 6 Ford Performance Racing Steven Richards Ford Falcon BF 78 01:51:41.4862 30 1:22.8709
6 17 Jim Beam Racing Steven Johnson Ford Falcon BF 78 01:51:44.8502 40 1:23.4637
7 18 Jim Beam Racing Will Davison Ford Falcon BF 78 01:51:48.3289 12 1:23.2950
8 15 HSV Dealer Team Rick Kelly Holden Commodore VE 78 01:51:54.7493 31 1:23.0982
9 2 Toll Holden Racing Team Mark Skaife Holden Commodore VE 78 01:51:56.4002 34 1:23.2575
10 4 Jeld-Wen Motorsport James Courtney Ford Falcon BF 78 01:51:58.2229 7 1:22.6643
11 51 Tasman Motorsport Greg Murphy Holden Commodore VE 78 01:51:59.3274 34 1:23.4948
12 111 Glenfords Racing Fabian Coulthard Ford Falcon BF 78 01:51:59.5943 37 1:22.9672
13 9 SP Tools Racing Shane Van Gisbergen Ford Falcon BF 78 01:52:00.0039 34 1:22.9512
14 3 Tasman Motorsport Jason Richards Holden Commodore VE 78 01:52:00.2142 33 1:23.4370
15 39 Supercheap Auto Racing Russell Ingall Holden Commodore VE 78 01:52:02.8322 32 1:23.4017
16 7 Jack Daniel's Racing Todd Kelly Holden Commodore VE 78 01:52:13.2754 33 1:23.4852
17 55 Rod Nash Racing Tony D'Alberto Holden Commodore VE 77 01:52:00.8021 9 1:23.6516
18 12 Team BOC Andrew Jones Holden Commodore VE 77 01:52:01.6214 36 1:23.2129
19 26 IRWIN Racing Marcus Marshall Ford Falcon BF 76 01:52:04.1936 54 1:23.8358
20 50 PWR Performance Products Andrew Thompson Holden Commodore VE 76 01:52:06.9260 11 1:24.0305
21 11 Jack Daniel's Racing Shane Price Holden Commodore VE 74 01:52:05.6060 32 1:23.4927
22 021 Team Kiwi Racing Kayne Scott Ford Falcon BF 71 01:52:08.6729 3 1:24.0348
23 1 Toll Holden Racing Team Garth Tander Holden Commodore VE 69 01:52:03.3593 13 1:23.0376
DNF 16 Autobarn Racing Team Paul Dumbrell Holden Commodore VE 67 01:34:57.3071 41 1:23.2505
DNF 14 Team WOW Cameron McConville Holden Commodore VE 63 01:29:50.2122 50 1:23.4482
DNF 67 Supercheap Auto Racing Paul Morris Holden Commodore VE 57 01:52:15.0675 45 1:23.3789
DNF 25 Fujitsu Racing Jason Bright Ford Falcon BF 53 01:20:19.6759 9 1:23.4465
DNF 34 Valvoline Cummins Race Team Michael Caruso Holden Commodore VE 29 41:50.8695 9 1:24.0667

All information from www.v8supercar.com.au

EDIT: Helped with the colouring...

well rubbings racing! your guys do it as well!

The only thing that Tasman did right was punt Courtney off at turn 1, I liked it!

would be to bad if their engine's blew up tomorrow... And he still finished in front of both drivers...

Unless he gets a penalty for spinning Todd

That was extremely bad luck for HRT, especially for Tander. Good on 'em for getting it back on the track. Nice race for Skaife too.

What the retirees said...

Michael Caruso

I hit the tyres at turn 11

Paul Morris

Cmon you ***** (modestly expecting a fine), open the bonnet! (later on, crew finds airbox fire)

Jason Bright

An engine failure

Cameron McConville

An engine failure

Paul Dumbrell

This is why you don't punt Lowndes!

Funny eh?