Castrol EDGE Australia eNewsletter - Vol 3, Issue 24

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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