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00:00this year's V8 supercars championship is alive a staggering 10 different race
00:09winners in just 16 races when the racing is this cutthroat rivalries
00:14intensify and the fight is taken to a whole new level
00:20that's my goodness never before have so many drivers believe that this championship is within their reach
00:40the red bull is always the hunted the winning ways continue the smiling assassin gets angry and gets
00:47even but this year the hunters have gathered in numbers last year Ford Performance Racing finally
00:55conquered the mountain this year their eyes are firmly on the next trophy that eludes them and
01:01Chas Mostert wins for the first time the red fans have been thirsty for blood for too long maybe this
01:08year they'll finally reap the rewards what about the new kids on the block only one year in their
01:24young gun is proudly dressed in sky blue and leading the way it's been for ball though it's been for
01:29victory Scott McLaughlin breaks through and there must be something in the water in Aubrey Brad Jones
01:36racing is always amongst the points consistency will ensure they'll be there in the end Jason
01:42Bright it was a perfect job it's only fitting that the next stop on the calendar is Hidden Valley
01:48Raceway in Darwin the top end is a harsh unforgiving place but synonymous with hard and aggressive racing
01:56and you can't forget the heat welcome to the sky city triple crown from Hidden Valley Raceway in
02:06Darwin oh this is big they're all in the fence the only place you'll see it live and free is right here on 7th
02:14field preparing now for qualifying race number 17 of the V8 supercars championship as we formally
02:30welcome you to Hidden Valley Raceway enormous crowd building up here finding their best spots up in the
02:35valley to watch all the action that's about to unfold our 17th qualifying we've had some great battles so
02:42far and tussles for pole positions so far this year Jamie Winkup and Scotty McLaughlin have each
02:47got four so far we've got beautiful conditions out there and a bit of a headwind uh it's a lovely day
02:53to be in the commentary box watching the action it's a little warm in pit lane though Larko it is a little
02:57warm down here Neil we'll have a look at that in a minute but if you're a forward supporter you can
03:00expect plenty this weekend or you should i mean Mark Winterbottom leading the championship and he's
03:05got a fantastic record here at Darwin Chas Mostert won recently at Barbagillo Raceway remember
03:11that look for something there and of course Davey Reynolds you remember here last year very very
03:15strong but what's going to be difficult here is the heat i've got my heat gun here let's just have a
03:19look at the temperature on the ground here can i never see that rich there you go that's 51.5 nearly
03:2452 degrees already that's going to get hot up and i can tell you when you're driving the car
03:28the temperature of the track has an absolute material impact on your setup and your ability to gain lap
03:33speed big news for Erebus motorsport this weekend there's been much speculation in recent times
03:39regarding sponsorship and the stability of this team but this weekend positive news will davison
03:45and lee holdsworth both cars running amg customer sports branding across the doors and the bonnets
03:51now this is positive news for the team no deal has yet to be signed but it is a symbolic gesture in
03:57regards to ongoing positive discussions about continuing their agreement beyond this current
04:05deal now ceo of Erebus motorsport ryan madison said this is very positive news we're going to
04:10talk to him later on in the telecast but what this really says is the cars are great this is great
04:16for Erebus motorsport this is really great for v8 supercars fingers crossed that this deal gets signed
04:21reana crean mark larkham reporting from the pit lane will be joined a little bit later on by mark
04:27beretta sky city triple crown darwin the venue and we've got 25 runners jamie wincup and garth
04:33tander cars one and two lee holdsworth todd kelly jason bryant will davis and fabian coultard still
04:39hasn't had a podium at this location rick kelly's been successful here in the past scotty pie car number 16
04:45his teammate david wall jack perkins a new engineer this weekend dale wood we saw him swimming with the
04:50crocs earlier chief minister had arrived with james courtney yesterday that was exciting russell
04:55ingalls got form on the board six wins here scotty mclaughlin a winner in western australia
05:00his teammate robert dahlgren was fast yesterday in practice davy reynolds two pole positions last
05:05year shane van gisbergen fastest man yesterday in practice nick perkatt oh i saw him last night got a
05:10heap of bites on him at the moment scotty so he's gonna be pretty agitated in that car and uh we're
05:16really looking forward to this venue it's one that we've been coming to many times now
05:19a 17 visit it's a little under three kilometers it's a great race track as you know it is a great
05:24race track and it's a very low grip surface cropo which means it's very hard to set the cars up for
05:3014 turns 2.87 k's top speed big long straight 265 kilometers an hour and just under half a lap
05:39on full throttle they're the three sectors the yellow first sector very important to get the lap started
05:45well difficult braking area at sector one the infield slowest sector is red and we're on board
05:51now with mark winterbottom who has been very strong at hidden valley 101 points is his margin the lead
06:00in the championship and just to help the team penty max sport performance racing and us and you at home
06:06you see those black mirrors on frosty's car there as well to help distinguish his car from car number
06:11six right behind him chas mostard so blue mirrors on chas's car black mirrors on frosty's car
06:19mark winterbottom as you said mark has had a great run at this venue remember that last last year we
06:25recovered from the disaster and emphatically made a statement he's going much better this year earlier
06:30in the championship than he was last year he's been a force to be reckoned with but this is his best year
06:34since about four or five years ago strong in 2008 got some local support on the cars here this weekend
06:40as well clicked over the right old age of 33 just recently so happy birthday and on that subject it's
06:48craig lounge birthday today happy 40th to lounsey larko yeah interesting little session this one boys
06:53isn't it we know and we'll talk about it plenty on the weekend the teams very strategically from the
06:58organization have very few tires to use this weekend we'll get into the detail of that but what it's meant
07:03is they've all gone out on what we call their warm-up tires and what's funny we haven't seen it before
07:08they're all still running around and around and around in their warm-up tires because i suspect
07:11they're all only going to use one set only in this first quality session so it's going to go right to
07:15the death really interesting strategy and hard to pick what to do yeah exactly larko so hard tires today
07:22two qualifying sessions so you try to limit the exposure for each of these sessions to use one set of
07:30tires and if you use those two early you only get basically one really good lap out of a set of
07:36tires around here it's very low grip the cars slide they will spin it's a difficult circuit to qualify
07:43well at you can see there james courtney disappearing off the end of the main straight it's a very difficult
07:48braking area when we had a look at the track map turn one is fast and the braking area for it is
07:54bumpy and difficult it's a really interesting thing here for me now remember last year the same
07:59thing happened who's going to sit out the longest what you need to do here is wait to look deep into
08:03the session as you can let others go out in front of you because each time a car goes out with fresh
08:08rubber he lays that rubber down on the track for you so if you can be last you're best off but there's
08:12a great risk with going out last you could get caught up in someone's drama there's a real strategy
08:17game going on here in this session so there's only two cars left active on the track at the
08:22moment everyone's done a sighter the fastest man so far shane van gisbergen he was quick yesterday as
08:28well join us again for qualifying in a tick
08:37jamie winkup on screen at the moment rainy champion with number one on the car took the opportunity to
08:42have a break since we were in perth several weeks ago he's never had a pole position at this location
08:48he's concentrating hard on achieving that goal at the moment now down in the pit lane it's welcome
08:53back to mark barretta hey neil love coming to this place every year we've only got to look around and
08:57see why we all love coming to hidden valley if you've been trying to get a flight to darwin in the last
09:01week you haven't been able to it's for good reason because people come from all over australia and
09:06indeed from all over the region down from asia and across from new zealand to be a part of this
09:11weekend and if you look around this circuit there's a reason for it it's a natural amphitheatre
09:16for racing it is just incredible everywhere you are on the hidden valley circuit you get a great
09:21view of the track if you're raised up above it so you're looking down on the action all weekend long
09:27and that's why everywhere you look on this circuit whether it's across the corporate
09:30area above pit lane or over on the infield people are against the fence they're watching the action
09:34and they're enjoying this beautiful atmosphere and this incredible temperature one quarter
09:38remaining now for jamie wind cup he's got two green boxes through intermediates one and two he's
09:42off to a good start on this lap scott pie is the fastest man as a reference at the moment it's a one
09:47minute ten point nine wind cup just grabs top gear and goes to the top on a 10-1 now compared to
09:55yesterday shane van gisberg and after three practice sessions in the combined was the fastest
10:00109.3 but it's extremely temperature dependent and particularly wind direction dependent and at the
10:06moment it's pretty much on the nose of the cars here as we look at mark winter bottom yet to achieve
10:11a pole position in 2014 it's about 30 to 35 kilometers an hour on the nose as well so not
10:17only does it affect the straight line speed there's a pretty big impact on your choice of where you want
10:22to trigger the braking going into turn one so i'm all qualifying we'll heat up now with only 45 seconds
10:30remaining every car on the circuit wink up tanda winter bottom courtney reynolds moffett mostard
10:36holdsworth slade caulthard that's your top 10. and this man looks quick he's done the fastest time to
10:43turn 10 there's a little curbery profiling gone on at turns nine and ten compared to years gone by
10:48some change to the safety walls here as well is this going to be another unraw pole position here
10:53for scotty mclaughlin oh he's just two 100 slower than this man jamie winkup who's pressed on and
11:02didn't move the marker it was one-tenth of a second slower but the early indication in the first two
11:08sectors of the lap jamie was quicker it was in the last sector he lost some time lounges dropped into third
11:13and zero goes the clock van gisbergen fast yesterday where does he drop in he had a tough
11:21run in western australia he's fourth and a little confuffle yesterday with james moffett in practice
11:27as well car triple two nick perkat 21st there's robert dolger in car number 34 he had a good run
11:33yesterday holdsworth just jumped to seventh then neil so that's a good job with the mercedes-benz
11:40e63 watch for bright here he's got numbers on the board at this venue he's got a lap record a
11:47qualifying record and a practice record at this track and he's just dropped into position eight
11:51in car number eight with some new dunlop signage on that car this weekend so it's win cup mclaughlin and
11:58lounge arm roll pole position race number 17 has been sorted and red bull racing australia and jamie
12:04have broken the hoodoo this was one of the venues that has eluded them over a long period of time
12:10so win cup in good shape
12:15a couple of blokes will be disappointed that kelly's were quite quick yesterday they're marked
12:19down in 18th and 19th russell ingle will be frustrated with that as well jack perkins with
12:25the new engineer this weekend his 25th we'll take a quick break and we'll come back and talk some more
12:30about this particular qualifying in the next one which comes up pretty tight
12:34qualifying for race number 18 and we'll sort out another armor or pole position stay with us
12:43and it's another armor or pole position for jamie wincup he's fifth of the 2014 championship season he's
12:49just one career position away from equaling peter brock it's career number 56 the pole for him amazing
12:57so some armor all dollars will go the way of jamie wincup he've logged a lot of miles at queensland
13:03raceway in the gap between here and western australia he said they gathered a heap of data
13:08they weren't sure whether it was going to give them a yield but i'd suggest based on the margin that
13:12he had in that last session mark scape uh they've applied it very well we're actually surprised you
13:16look at first second and third they're bigger gaps than we've been accustomed to a little bit of it
13:20this weekend and it's something that we'll remark on during the course of the of the two days that
13:24we'll be broadcasting there's huge differences in the setup requirements of the cars between the two
13:29tire variants the dunlop soft and hard tire that's a challenge for these guys absolutely and everyone's
13:36complaining about understeer with the hard tire which means they lack front grip a lot of guys making
13:40changes now between the first qualifying session and and this one now jeremy wincup was the fastest
13:47in sector one and sector three young scott mclaughlin said he hit the curve too hard in sector three he
13:54lost eighteen hundredths of a second in that in that qualifying sector and that meant going to position
14:01two and uh he was looking at the micro sectors in the gap on the data to see where there was time loss and
14:08gain one of the things i overheard him talking about to his engineer richard holloway is the softening
14:12the anti-roll bars in that car just to get a little bit more feel and have it move around perhaps climb
14:17those pervs a little better we're looking at the norton entry here nissen motorsport james moffett car
14:22number 360 qualified 12th in the previous run he was quick yesterday in fact all the nissons were quite
14:28quick yesterday i think the conditions just margin he's run wide down there at one it's a double apex
14:34corner but that was wider than he would want to have been and then he slides it off he's had to
14:37muscle the struggle to get it off the other side of the corner the headwind will be a bit of a
14:42challenge down there at the moment the braking area is so important croppo isn't it you're doing
14:48265 kilometers an hour if you're half a car length two or two and a half meters deeper under brakes there
14:55you get a sizeable gain the braking area very hard to judge it's got low grip so when you put your foot on
15:01the brake you basically apply maximum brake pressure and then you slide the car all the way
15:06into turn one greg crick on the left and ryan madison on the right greg's an accomplished
15:15touring car and sports sedan production car and gt driver and uh he's in there talking to ryan madison
15:22at the moment as they contemplate qualifying now he's baby koutar they've got a new generation the
15:27latest development front suspension component in the car changed to the thing called the front
15:31upright he's got it in car 14. jason bright doesn't have it in car number eight fabian's never had a
15:37podium here but he's plugging away beautifully in the championship he's third at the moment
15:42we've seen some great performances from him during the year and i think the word that we've applied to
15:46it apart from just being overall fast a lot of the time he knows on the days when he can't
15:51you're losing the rear on entry so obviously we don't make that front bar adjustment that's phil
15:55keed he's engineer um on the days where he can't win or he can't get a podium he makes sure that he
16:01gets a decent result and banks points and that's been a hallmark of his championship so far this year
16:05here's jason brighton his teammate will take a quick break and come back it's going to explode on the
16:10racetrack here in qualifying
16:17gary rogers here the owner of gary rogers motorsport valvoline entry operating those two
16:23very fast volvos and scotty mclaughlin has had four pole positions so far this year he's on screen
16:28at the moment trying to weed his way through traffic so he went out one lap before the field so then the
16:34train came out so scott's actually warming his tires up he's a lap ahead of the rest of the field
16:40but you'll need to make sure he doesn't get balked so he's talking a lot with richard holeway
16:47about the strategy of this and as you can see everyone weaving in front of him you need to be
16:51careful this hasn't hurt his opening lap effectively his next lap is the lap that he'll have to do that time
16:58on remember they've made a little change to that car to see if they can smarten it up see whether that gives
17:03him a heel incidentally turned 21 in the gap between hidden valley and uh barbago raceway
17:10it was birthday season we have six blokes including craig lounge who've clocked up another digit since we
17:14last saw them james moffatt who was on screen prior to the break he's clicked over another one and he
17:19threatened me not to mention it which of course is an absolute cue to say happy birthday so here is
17:25craig lounge on screen at the moment green box for him
17:29he's had great success at this venue so maybe a great first sector lounge currently now the fastest
17:40to the second sector see baby in behind him there he's three hundredths of a second slower than lounge at
17:49the second sector so let's just see what this does craig lounge now should go to the top
17:58and he does with a 997 so the first car today to be in the nines yesterday van gisbergen was in the
18:03nines and now wind cup with a 987 and coutard jumps into position three from winter bottom
18:11so wind cup lounge from coutard winter bottom dale wood nice job car 21 james courtney just
18:16bumps him out of the way now he's gone to position number five see him on screen in the foreground
18:21that's a good time from both the red bull racing australia boys to get into the nines only two drivers
18:26are in the one minute nine so far lounge has had one pole position here previously but he's got six
18:32wins to his credit jason bright's just jumped into seventh garth tander's moved up to fifth as well
18:39so it's happy hour on the totem pole names jumping around everywhere wind cup incidentally he's gone
18:45on with it in the next sector on the subsequent lap as lounge makes space for coutard up at turn 10.
18:50the call though he pretty should come in because he's three tenths slower on this one at the second
18:56sector than he was before wind cup is still pressed on he's only one hundredth of a second slower at
19:01the second sector than he was in the previous lap so finishing off this sector will be interesting
19:06let's have a look at what wind cup does currently in p1 did come in and so did craig lounge 10.02 so
19:14slightly slower so the effect of the last sector you've used the tyres hard by that stage
19:20not good enough for the last sector for wind cup so wind cup lounge called that winter bottom
19:25mclaughlin tander good job company here's tander on screen at the moment mark at the top end of the
19:30circuit so he was quick in the first sector he lost a little bit of time in the second sector
19:36he's threatening wind cup jamie might make it two from two here having never had a pole coming into this
19:42event and that means he equals peter brock's record if there's sticks of 57 career poles
19:48for jamie wind cup and tander's lap was good but not good enough p6
19:52so congratulations to this man to jamie wind cup
20:01that's an impressive performance he got home by .09 of a second from his teammate
20:06nice job also fabian coultard mark winter bottom who's had nine podiums in the last 12 starts here
20:13is well and truly in contention as well
20:15that's a remarkable performance by wind cup certainly found something in that car since we
20:22last saw him we'll take a quick break and our broadcast from hidden valley raceway this is the
20:27sky city triple crown we'll come back and have a chat to jamie and the boys in just a moment
20:37the big time sport continues on seven with the nfl you'll see it on seven and seven mate what about
20:42the armor all pole position for this man he's equaled peter brock now he's got 57 poles to his
20:47credit it's his sixth for the season two from two today red bull racing with nine it's an outstanding
20:52performance he's mark mereta hey jamie wind cup congratulations it was fast it was furious but
21:00you've got it done another poll excellent yeah yeah um the relative wise it was quick but um
21:07it's pretty hot out there really slippery car felt quite slow but that's that's just the nature of
21:11uh of darwin and and what it's all about so um we've had a test day we've we've really we've really
21:17uh put our heads hard into the into the homework book and come out with a completely different car
21:21this weekend to what we had uh you know at the start of the year and um full credit the guys they
21:25backed themselves last night in a in a setup that was pretty radical and um yeah we we got the job done
21:31for qualifying at least awesome congratulations thank you cheers fabian cool tide a ninth and the third you
21:36were obviously able to make some changes in that very short break between the sessions yeah look you know the
21:41boys tuned it up i i said to uh phil my engineer says there's no way my car's got a 10-1 in it and
21:47then you know we went out and did a 10-0 so obviously i've got no idea what i'm on about but look you
21:51know they tuned it up made it better and you know to move forward in such a short gap in between each
21:56session i think it's a credit to these guys and uh it's gonna be a tough old hot race this afternoon
22:01good luck thank you mark winterbottom uh mate i pumped up your tires before that qualifying
22:07session you didn't let me down second row but i noticed you're quite animated with your engineer
22:11about what the car was doing looks like oversteer it's uh you're trying to describe it but the best
22:16part is of a driver you just do all this and you look like an idiot but um it actually means something
22:20for people watching but um first lap i have a lot of understeer on the on the uh front end which um when you've got
22:26new tires people get that one lap and they do a massive um time so i can do mine on lap two but
22:32the tires are almost gone there so um for the race i think that'll bode well for us but uh we just need
22:38more turn on lap one which uh we're trying to fix but it's so hard you have a race car on good with
22:44good tires and then you have a quality car that looks after its tires but it's not quick enough so
22:48just trying to fix that but um and you can't test that you've got to test it at race meetings so uh
22:53we're getting there we're getting there it's a good heads up thanks pal thanks mate
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23:53so qualifying's done settle in because after the break we've got race number 17 live and then coming
23:57up a bit later this afternoon v8 utes race one live and then still to come we'll have more v8 supercar
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