VOLUME 3 - ISSUE 24
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11th DECEMBER 2013
TEAM EDGE RACE WRAP: V8 SUPERCARS - SYDNEY 500 Castrol-backed team drivers have capped off another intense year of motor racing with the completion of the 2013 V8 Supercars Championship at Sydney Olympic Park. With the series heading down to the wire it was Jamie Whincup who took the crown with Craig Lowndes second followed by Castrol-backed Pepsi Max Crew FPR driver Will Davison third and Mark Winterbottom fourth in the Championship, respectively. Heading into Sydney’s final round, Winterbottom was ahead of teammate Davison but an incident in the closing stages of the
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the course of the season and finishing inside the top half of the field in 14th. Sydney also marked a sentimental moment in the career of Russell Ingall - a man who started, and has now finished - his full time V8 Supercars career on Castrol oil. Ingall bowed out of full time V8 Supercars racing in Sydney with a solid top-10 finish and a credible 14th in the championship despite a rocky year, which was highlighted by a podium result at the Armor All Gold Coast 600. In 2014 V8 Supercars will enjoy a 16 event schedule with a return to Sydney Motorsport Park as a new addition to the calendar.
2013 Championship standings
Saturday’s race saw ‘Frosty’ pushed into a wall, dropping him down the order and Davison ahead in the standings.
squad capped off a successful debut year for the Nissan Altima V8 Supercar with three Top-10 finishes on Saturday.
This is where the battle of the Castrolbacked drivers would stay after Davison made a late pass during the final part of Sunday’s race to finish sixth for the race and third in the championship by a mere six points ahead of Winterbottom. The Castrol-backed Nissan Motorsport
Home-town driver Michael Caruso finished seventh, while the Jack Daniel’s Racing duo of Rick and Todd Kelly were ninth and 10th respectively. Rick Kelly was the most consistent of the Nissan Altima drivers across the course of the year, taking 12 top-10 results across
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Pos
Driver
Points
1
Jamie Whincup
3094
2
Craig Lowndes
2966
3
Will Davison
2799
4
Mark Winterbottom
2793
5
Shane Van Gisbergen
2508
6
Fabian Coulthard
2501
7
Jason Bright
2381
8
Garth Tander
2322
9
David Reynolds
2058
10
Scott McLaughlin
1934
11
James Courtney
1909
12
Jonathon Webb
1901
13
Alex Davison
1812
14
Rick Kelly
1754
15
Russell Ingall
1556
16
Tony D’Alberto
1526
17
Chaz Mostert
1520
18
James Moffat
1448
19
Alexandre Premat
1376
20
Lee Holdsworth
1361
21
David Wall
1346
22
Tim Slade
1298
23
Michael Caruso
1233
24
Dean Fiore
1211
25
Todd Kelly
1139
26
Tim Blanchard
1080
27
Scott Pye
1049
28
Maro Engel
836
PREDICTOR: ACC-SELL-OR-ATORS WINS GRAND PRIZE Team Acc-sell-or-ators has won a VIP trip to next year’s Clipsal 500 for winning the 2013 Castrol EDGE V8 Predictor. Scoring the most points in the inaugural V8 Predictor competition sees team Acc-sell-or-ators win the amazing VIP trip which includes flights, accommodation, tickets, spending money and a hot lap of the Adelaide track in a V8 Supercar. Acc-sell-or-ators topped the overall standings by 30 points over Kiwichik racing with Clearly No Way rounding out the top-three. The battle amongst the Experts saw the Speedcafe.com Team win a close race with international sportscar racer Oliver Gavin by a mere five points. Not far behind in third was the 2005 V8 Supercar Champion Russell Ingall on a
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Weekend Results
total of 235 season prediction points. The final round winner for the year was NISMO Raiders after scoring 57 points with a 50% prediction accuracy for the Sydney 500 round. For winning the final round NISMO Raiders picks up the ‘bonus prize’ of a signed Ford Performance Racing shirt and cap tagged by Mark Winterbottom, Will Davison, Steve Richards and Steve Owen. With over 5000 players the Castrol EDGE V8 Predictor has enjoyed a successful inaugural year and Speedcafe.com thanks everyone who has played and enjoyed this all new online V8 Supercar fantasy game.
Global leaderboard
POINTS
WHINCUP, Jamie
279
RANK
TEAM NAME
POINTS
1
Acc-sell-or-ators
525
2
BRIGHT, Jason
258
VAN GISBERGEN, Shane
254
2
Kiwichik racing
495
3
3
Clearly No Way
488
4
DAVISON, Will
207
REYNOLDS, David
192
4
Tigerjones
482
5
5
Peckstar
477
6
WEBB, Jonathon
174
477
7
LOWNDES, Craig
171
D’ALBERTO, Tony
165
6
pommie v8s
7
Hispania Racing Team
470
8
8
WFD Motorsport
470
9
SLADE, Tim
162
DAVISON, Alex
159
9
Raid Photography
468
10
10
BlueOvalRulz
467
11
CARUSO, Michael
144
KELLY, Rick
135
11
jackierlaw
466
12
12
beachsidebear
466
13
KELLY, Todd
132
464
14
MOSTERT, Chaz
126
PREMAT, Alexandre
123
13
xr5
14
Scalextric V8
464
15
15
Team Philthy
463
16
INGALL, Russell
117
COULTHARD, Fabian
108
16
Kartsim Racing (Net Virtue)
463
17
17
RHFF46
461
18
WINTERBOTTOM, Mark
102
HOLDSWORTH, Lee
102
18
JWS-888-
461
18
19
Squigz
460
19
FIORE, Dean
96
460
19
WALL, David
96
20
PERCAT, Nick
84
21
MCLAUGHLIN, Scott
69
22
TANDER, Garth
63
20
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Expert leaderboard
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WEEKEND RESULT 1
RANK
TEAM NAME
POINTS
23
MOFFAT, James
45
1
Speedcafe.com Team
411
24
BLANCHARD, Tim
0
2
Oliver Gavin
406
24
ENGEL, Maro
0
3
Russell Ingall
235
24
PYE, Scott
0
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DE PASQUALE CLAIMS CASTROLSUPPORTED FORMULA FORD TITLE Anton De Pasquale secured the Castrolsupported Australian Formula Ford Championship title by taking a clean sweep of victories at Phillip Island. The points leader cruised to the chequered flag in the first of Sunday’s races, but he was made to work a lot harder in the second. The results were enough to earn him the title with a round remaining a Homebush. This season is the last for the Formula Fords running as a CAMS championship, with the class set to be reborn as a national series in 2014. De Pasquale led from pole in Sunday’s opening race and was largely untroubled throughout the encounter. The real battle was for the other podium positions as Liam Sager and Macauley Jones continued their weekend scrap. Sager held second on the opening lap before Jones grabbed the position on the following lap. By lap five Jones began to hold the field up and four car battle developed for second. The complexion soon changed when Jones was spun around at Turn 6. This allowed Sam Power and Simon Hodge through to second and third respectively. Jones retired while Sager was bumped down the order. James Golding capitalised on the Jones incident too and it wasn’t long before he stormed up to second. He held
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onto the position with Power in third. De Pasquale was faced with a much stronger battle in the second race despite leading from the start. However, he soon came under attack on the second lap when Golding breezed around the outside for the lead at Turn 1. A lap later the action at the front went up another notch, as third placed Power used De Pasquale and Golding’s tow to move around the pair and grab the lead. On lap six De Pasquale found himself all over Power and he slipped down the inside at Turn 4 to move to the head of the field. Once in the lead, he began to stretch a lead which he took the chequered flag, winning the
championship in the process. Power finished second while Golding claimed the final place on the podium in third. The weekend though was all about the champion, who delivered yet another title to Mick Ritter’s crack Sonic Motor Racing Services outfit. “I wanted to make sure I could have a perfect weekend given the way the first two races went,” said De Pasquale. “It would’ve been bad to have won the first two that way and not have the perfect weekend so I tried to win it as hard as I could. The championship was in the back of my mind.. but it was a great race and would have been pretty good for the fans watching!”
CASTROL-BACKED GREG MURPHY WINS V8 SUPERTOURERS TITLE For the second year running a Castrolbacked driver has won New Zealand’s premier motorsport championship with Greg Murphy crowned the 2013 V8 SuperTourer Champion. Following Supercheap Auto Racing driver Scott McLaughlin’s championship success last year, Mike Pero Racing’s Murphy is the 2013 BNT New Zealand V8 SuperTourers Champion, clinching victory after two thrilling races at the Mike Pero Pukekohe 500. Castrol was represented well within the series front runners, and Murphy entered the final race just one point ahead of another Castrol-supported driver, Ant Pedersen.
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After losing the points lead with fifth in the morning’s 70 lap race, Murphy and co-driver Jack Perkins (another name synonymous with Castrol in Australia) fought back with second in the afternoon final. Murphy sealed the title by 28 points. A number of positional changes throughout the final stint ensured a nail-biting and closely fought championship battle. “These are very high performing race cars, not too far off the V8 Supercars raced in Australia, with many V8 Supercar drivers competing in this series also, the cars are put under a lot of pressure during race weekends,” said Murphy. “The durability and performance we’ve had all season is testament to the quality of Castrol lubricants and fluids we run throughout the car exclusively.” The final round of the 2013 V8 SuperTourer Championship was won by fellow Castrol-backed competitors McLaughlin and Australian codriver James Moffat. The Mike Pero Commodore boasts a highly-tuned 7.0 litre, 575hp Chevrolet V8 that relies on Castrol EDGE 10W-60 to deliver strength under the extreme pressure of tier one motorsport.In fact, every fluid that helps keep the car on track is a Castrol product, readily available to everyday car users. Six of the top ten Championship finishers utilise Castrol fluids exclusively.
BNT V8 SuperTourers Series Points – Final 2013 Standings Pos
Driver
Points
1.
Greg Murphy
3559
2.
Ant Pedersen
3531
3.
Shane Van Gisbergen
3066
4.
Richard Moore
2878
5.
Scott McLaughlin
2744
6.
Daniel Gaunt
2412
7.
Andre Heimgartner
2237
8.
Tim Edgell
1871
9.
Chaz Mostert
1899
10.
Paul Manuell
1871
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