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  • 5/14/2025
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00:00:00Welcome back to the Castrol Townsville 500 we're in North Queensland in the dry tropics and that is Castle Hill great view from just atop the mountain it's about a thousand feet in the old language just a little under 300 meters and it looks across this wonderful racetrack which is a hybrid street circuit part permanent racetrack part street circuit and it's a sea of colour down there at the moment 25 V8 supercars all the teams all the crews all the VIP
00:00:30guests a lot of media and there's a lot to cheer for Brett's well Jason Bright this is something would make your lips wet with excitement I guess you've got the Holden boys in front of you Scotty McLaughlin beside you this looks pretty promising yeah I mean the car's been pretty quick all weekend so you know just got to make the most of this race because the second one we didn't qualify so well so you know we're just going to make hay this time and see what happens but we'll give it a good bread hot go good luck out there Brody cheers mate thank you
00:00:56Fabian Coulthard just relaxing having a bit of a chat here with James Moffat can I first of all ask what are you guys chatting about what's the chat I'm guessing it's not strategy
00:01:07it's just general helmet chat I'm debuting a new helmet a nice chrome one he goes once you go chrome you never go back so yeah we're covering off the big issues
00:01:15mate I've got to ask you you've obviously qualified on pole for the next one but P14 for this one so we don't get that can you explain
00:01:24um basically we you know got held up in that you know the last part of the first qualifying you didn't get to do a second lap and you know that was pretty important for us you know we we did one in the first got a good time a reasonable time in the first part but when it mattered we didn't do a time good enough because we didn't get that second lap so that's in the past we got polled for the next one so that's the main thing
00:01:43all right Moffat you're going to chase him up from the just over here mate oh we'll give it a crack that's for sure
00:01:48but I just got to say a quick hi to Greg back home he's in hospital doing it a bit tough we're thinking of you keep fighting mate and you'll get well soon
00:01:55all right thanks Moffat good luck pal
00:01:57Craig Lowndes thank you very much for the fan that you just gave me there now Craig sitting P5 on the grid for this one I know you'd like to be a little bit further up the front
00:02:05but the important thing is your championship contender Mark Winterbottom P17 this really is a fantastic opportunity to make up crucial points
00:02:14well it is around I think that you know we had a bad Sunday at Darwin we know how quickly it can change so
00:02:19to be honest we sort of we've been up and down a little bit this weekend with the car set up and getting it right for this track
00:02:25very easy to make a mistake and lose a lot of time but I'm actually quite thankful for where we qualified
00:02:29and we've saved some tyres for tomorrow and again I know what happened on Darwin so
00:02:34very mindful of getting some like get points and maximizing where we are at the moment
00:02:38thanks very much Craig good luck for this one thank you
00:02:41gee we love coming to Townsville you can see why have a look around us James Warburton the boss of V8 Supercars is with us
00:02:46along with the Minister for Major Events and Federal Minister the Honourable Jan Stuckey
00:02:51Jan great to have you here James this place just delivers time after time doesn't it's great to be back again and staying here for a while
00:02:57oh look absolutely Mark I think this is an absolute favourite for our fans for our drivers and our teams
00:03:02this is the first of the the new years in our new contract and we're here for many years to come
00:03:06and we have great support from the Queensland Government the Minister in particular and also we're delighted to have
00:03:11Castrol on board as our major sponsor for the years to come so absolutely wonderful to be here
00:03:16and Minister as far as you go looking after tourism and major events I mean this is such a great event for this part of Australia
00:03:21look it certainly is and the Queensland Government is proud to be supporting this event for the next three years
00:03:27as we can see the crowds have turned out the weather is fantastic and it really looks like it's going to be a bumper race
00:03:34the saying is Townsville shines and it's shining today
00:03:37Townsville always shines but today it's shining even more
00:03:40we love it too and Diane Hall marketing director for Castrol great to have you guys on board as major sponsor
00:03:45here because it makes such a difference to the event it's just a beautiful event to be at
00:03:49absolutely we're really proud to be back in the V8s I mean it's our heartland and there's what a better
00:03:54way to be than up here at Townsville at the Castrol Townsville 500
00:03:56it is a great race we love it guys thank you very much enjoy the race
00:03:59there you go Larko
00:04:00thanks mate Mark Witterbottom now I can't remember mate all the times I've been coming down here to have a chat to you
00:04:05I've never had to walk this far back that I can recall no mechanical problems no dramas with the car
00:04:09just not fast enough set up's not right
00:04:11yeah it's uh it's not ideal I tell you that much but um it is what it is you know you you've got such a
00:04:17competitive category and when you get it right you look great but when it's slightly off um you know
00:04:22two tenths I'd be about 15 spots further forward so it is what it is you um have to try and charge on
00:04:28now and try and fix it so let me ask you mate if you just look down you can see the yellow Dunlop
00:04:32Sport Max there that means hard tyres the whole field's got them for all the races so it's hard to put a
00:04:36strategy option in here mate isn't it to try and recover in a shorter race what do you do
00:04:41yeah um yeah you can't really strategize because tomorrow you've got to use uh the best of what
00:04:46you finish with today so if you go too long uh you've got to then use that tyre so it's going
00:04:51to hurt you somewhere I'm hoping that tomorrow I can qualify better than where I am today and then
00:04:56um you know try and get through tomorrow but um you still got to make the most points and do the
00:05:00best you can we'll pit when we think it's right and uh hopefully we've got enough speed in the
00:05:04race to come through but off quality we're genuinely 17 so you can't re-strategize something
00:05:09when you're not quick enough so uh we'll try see where we end up well as you know mate there's a
00:05:13big blue army out there that are right behind you me included so best of luck thanks mate cheers
00:05:17hey James Courtney I know these are the days you dream of pole position your teammate beside you
00:05:21this looks pretty good yeah no it's great for the team awesome result uh you know it's a shame the
00:05:26second one didn't go the same I made a mistake on my lap which cost us a bit but uh the car's coming
00:05:31on really well mate the sun's shining I'm racing the car for a living there's not too much to be
00:05:35upset about can you get away from GT at the start yeah it's a drag race between the two of us so uh
00:05:40we've been eyeing each other off in the garage but uh no it's going to be a great love just got to
00:05:45keep our heads straight and and um bring good result home for the team mate excellent all the
00:05:49best actually we might just quickly duck over and see if we can catch up with Garth Tander just as
00:05:53he's getting set here and the tension is building on the grid it's a great time to be out here but
00:05:57uh GT we just duck in there very quickly uh just had a chat to James Courtney beside you he's getting
00:06:02set for the drag race up to turn one how are you feeling about that as long as he's happy with the
00:06:06drag race to be second at turn one it'll be fine but um yeah obviously um yeah it's good to have
00:06:11both cars on the front row the team's done an awesome job with the car this weekend certainly
00:06:15made a big step forward in Darwin and we've carried that through to here so um yeah look not going
00:06:19to do anything silly between James and I we just need to get make sure we file in however it gets a
00:06:23better start and then just let the race play out how much of a boost is this sort of result for
00:06:28your team oh look it's good I mean for me personally it's great to be up here JC's been up here for a
00:06:33little bit this year but um for me it's great to be up here didn't quite get it right in quality too
00:06:37so for the next one we're a little bit further back but the car's strong so um you know we
00:06:41traditionally had a pretty good race car so uh that the weakness has been starting close to the
00:06:45front so we fixed that for this one so there we go have a great time out there mate good luck
00:06:49cheers mate thanks lee holdsworth um mate i notice you're one of the few guys that are still hanging
00:06:55around here near your car a lot of them have cleared to go and sit in the shade you've obviously got
00:06:59yourself well hydrated and looked after what have you done for preparation uh well i mean this this
00:07:05round is actually a little bit cooler than Darwin so um we're definitely uh conditioned for the heat
00:07:10but um obviously a lot of water and power rate and uh just keep the fluids up a lot of training in
00:07:16between races and uh hopefully it pays off in this race well you boys are looking pretty strong
00:07:20this weekend so best of luck yeah thank you cheers like it jamie winkup off p10 for this race now this
00:07:25is one of those situations a bit of a dilemma for yourself championship hunt you need to push hard
00:07:30to get those crucial points but also risk management is important you can't afford for anything to go
00:07:35wrong in this race yeah that's a good call we're gonna we're gonna push on we're gonna be on the attack
00:07:39um p10 not ideal for for both races so um we'll see if we can push through a few but um the key is
00:07:45if we've got good pace we should be able to do that if not uh to be hang on till the end
00:07:50tire degradation there's plenty of talk about this this race last year was on hard and soft tires
00:07:55hard tires only for this one so much different yeah hard tires i think the tire deg um it's going
00:08:00to be slightly higher than usual just that the track slightly gets older each year so um yeah who
00:08:05knows hopefully we're there at the end but um we'll push on hard and see what we can do good
00:08:09luck jamie thank you thanks shane van gisberg and you gave us one of the great finishes in darwin
00:08:14the last time we raced uh you're in a great position here third row of the grid can we see
00:08:19another one of those fantastic finishes yeah i think we're gonna have some good strategy again but uh
00:08:24yeah that darwin race was really cool great way to finish the weekend but uh we have a fast car
00:08:29did we're in the top six both qualifying so let's try and give it a go we'll uh we'll see if we can
00:08:34make it exciting for you again shane you do always do that you do make it exciting when do you start
00:08:38to make your move through these guys as quickly as you can yeah i think so i think we're going to
00:08:42put early like most will just to get the tires out of the way so i'll be pushing from the start and
00:08:47then try and get them at the end as well but uh who knows let's just give it a crack i love the
00:08:52attitude thanks mate good luck scott mclaughlin you're surrounded by a sea of holdings around you
00:08:57you're the only volvo up here plenty of work to be done but uh you're in a good spot for this race
00:09:02yeah for sure i mean uh two fourth places isn't a bad thing so uh yeah good little spot here just
00:09:07get my start sorted get the driver sorted uh pull himself together we'll be all right it's a tough
00:09:11race this afternoon lots of heat and uh a track degradation is going to be a tough one yeah for
00:09:16sure i mean uh the tough on the rear tires especially around the back the long right handers
00:09:20and stuff like that so uh yeah it has a lot to do with us and how we control it so hopefully we
00:09:25control it the best good luck scotty thank you cheers
00:09:28so it's a fantastic scene looking from the chopper down on the racetrack and you can see we've
00:09:34traveled from darwin to townsville the seventh event of the 2014 calendar reed park is the venue
00:09:39street circuit permanent racetrack it's a combo just under three kilometers scobey yeah look it is a
00:09:45fantastic layout neil and it's got a real character about it unlike anywhere else 2.86 k's as you said
00:09:52it's got some fast sections 255 kilometers an hour down the main straight and the main straight
00:09:56has got a kink in it which actually is called turn one into pretty lively turn two there's always
00:10:02action there hard on brakes certainly very hard on suspension it's pretty tough on the shock
00:10:07absorbers they climb over a lot of curbs here and there's potential for damage in that area
00:10:11medium to high tire wear it's gone up a little bit year on year but only relatively small percentage
00:10:16couple of other interesting facts just to throw in here jason bright who's qualified well he's
00:10:21actually in search of his very first podium at this place hasn't happened in the five years
00:10:26previous there he is in the team boc entry on the second row of the grid alongside scott mclaughlin
00:10:30another bit of news from down in the pit paddock that i discovered before teammate to this man on
00:10:34screen mark winterbottom chas mostard had a little problem that engine was shutting itself down in
00:10:39qualifying earlier they had to change the engine control unit or the ecu in the car and had to go
00:10:44through the wiring in that vehicle to try and exercise the demons that it's got and get it to make sure it's
00:10:50running right had a little bit of a brake trauma just prior to that qualifying session as well and
00:10:53just to add insult chas's got a bit of a man cold this weekend but i'm sure he'll he won't be worried
00:10:59too much about that when he gets stuck into it here's jamie wincup car number one reigning champion
00:11:03more wins on this circuit than any other driver got the job done beautifully back in 2009 race one the
00:11:11very first win here for triple eight race engineering and it was then team vodafone in a ford falcon lots
00:11:16changed in the game since then different cars holton racing team in form though front row of the grid
00:11:22there's david reynolds botlow racing he's had a pole at this location previously i think a little bit of
00:11:28a struggle at the moment the last race win for him was back on the gold coast last year trying to
00:11:34stabilize form is often a challenge helmet cam jack daniels racing it'll be 300 races for that sponsor
00:11:40for tomorrow for sunday
00:11:50let's have a look at the fuso starting grid at an hrt front row james courtney fantastic job and a season
00:11:56best for garth tander jason bright as we're just looking at the grid a second ago very good job car
00:12:04float very nicely lounge and van gisburg and there'll be some action on row three five and six on the
00:12:10grid tim slade and will davidson great job will davidson to be the first of the aerebus mercedes-benz
00:12:17e63's nick perkard also a great job jamie wick up tenth for walk with your performance cars in the top
00:12:24ten davy reynolds first of the fpr cars michael caruso the first of the nissans chas boston there as we
00:12:31said a little bit crook james moffett we just spoke to him a second ago with fabian coulthard
00:12:37mark winterbottom the series leader way down in 17th position and he's got to be very careful in
00:12:43the early laps of this race not to get caught up in all the drama that comes with street circuit
00:12:49dimensions and the lively start to this race as i said into turn two always a concertina effect there
00:12:56robert dalgren jack perkins and dale wood make up the 25 starters for today's race 20
00:13:07that's your puso starting grid and that is the scene from the chopper looking down towards the
00:13:11eastern end of the racetrack towards the townsville cbd and to the coast and magnetic island off to the
00:13:17east we've seen some beautiful imagery in here one of the nine cars that are carrying cameras for us
00:13:22this weekend this is tim slade super cheap auto racing got heart rate monitors on the boys as
00:13:27well and they'll be working hard on the street circuit like this scotty mclaughlin driving the
00:13:31volvo working brake temperature working tire temperature 155 beats a minute he's trying to
00:13:37get a bit of body temperature as well and some oil pressure in there too he's off to the us on
00:13:41tuesday he's going to new hampshire to see a nascar race next weekend and his girlfriend's parents
00:13:47live in phoenix arizona and then he'll be off to new york to las vegas and having a little bit of a
00:13:51break between now and the next event at queensland raceway nice nice might join him a bit of excess
00:13:57baggage will davison he's had a win here aribus motorsport v8 well let's go down and join barrette
00:14:04hey neil welcome to the best view on the circuit the starters box a privileged position to be for
00:14:08the start of the race now as these guys grid up and particularly our front panel watch the yellow
00:14:13flags of the marshals disappear once the cars are in position in the box the engineers will run off the
00:14:18wall once all the cars are in we'll see the green flag at the back of the grid damien white who is
00:14:23in control here puts up the five second board at that point he hits an ignition key which counts down
00:14:28the last three seconds before the lights go out so the lights go on at five seconds they go out about
00:14:33three later and we are good to go 25 cars moving into position castrol townsville 500 beautiful conditions
00:14:42make no mistake both hrt drivers want to be leading at turn two
00:14:49who's your money on hard one this one different format can't pick it green flag ready
00:14:54wins here for wind cover two for tanda one for courtney one for winter bottom and one for will davison
00:15:01who will win race number 20 of the championship
00:15:08even jump by both the holton racing team entries it'll be the secondary part of the start that
00:15:13determines it still side by side through the first kick tanda on the outside courtney on the inside look at
00:15:21mclaughlin trying to grab third tanda drops in he gets a bump from lounge but wide and to the lead oh
00:15:28problem for tanda and to the lead goes mclaughlin mclaughlin a beautiful opportunistic move down the
00:15:34inside he leads then it's courtney look at bright bright's going to grab second here they went basically
00:15:39into the corner just hit the fence courtney's in the fence the way out of turn three they cost each other
00:15:45of that that was a bump from behind from tanda who pushed courtney out of the lead and back into
00:15:50third spot so trauma for both the holton racing team entries in the first several corners and they've
00:15:56already lost massive position i think courtney's wounded the cars all over the place he made heavy
00:16:02contact with the left rear and we can still see it sliding there and a problem for most at car number
00:16:08six is rotating probably got some help in that process there's a look at look at lounge skates in
00:16:15on the rear brakes it's an absolute traffic nightmare down there oh he's been spun seriously that's one
00:16:23of the wildest first slaps we've seen all the year there was so much contact between the cars
00:16:29otherwise otherwise and they were bumping off turn three bumping off turn right up to turn three
00:16:34lounge has been part of all that and that is a championship defining moment too many people
00:16:40exerting too much aggression on lap one races one at the end not the start this is big damage for
00:16:45lounge over and out sorry about that that's the end of that so it all started wildly down at turn two on
00:16:54lap one and it continued all the way up to turn ten people being pushed shoved rotated
00:17:01out of it and it's still going on there's bits of mirror plastic paint debris everywhere it's
00:17:06mclaughlin bright tander slain van gisbergen wink up davison courtney reynolds perker that's your 10.
00:17:13on the wings throwing the rocks around there is will davison i was really surprised by the aggression
00:17:18of lounge but i was also surprised by the aggression of will davison and the other guys in the field
00:17:23but they're still bumping into each other way out of turn eight now check this out they're teammates
00:17:30look at bright he's all over mclaughlin here at the moment this is a real return to fog for
00:17:36bright i think previous best for him here has been a fifth so this is great form he's got this car
00:17:40working well it's got a little bit of uh the door surround on the passenger's side hanging off at the
00:17:46team boc car i can't believe it the two nissan guys have just done half a lap alongside each other
00:17:51that and just let me check that one for you yeah it's rick kelly and james moffett there
00:17:59craig lounge has finished the last 81 races in a row today that's over and out and was approaching
00:18:05a record that was held by russell ingall so and a lot of people on the radio at the moment even as
00:18:12i'm talking just absolutely blueing about all the pushing and shoving and blaming each other
00:18:18so there's a lot of emotion out there at present there's jack perkins off screen gel went entry in
00:18:22the fourth performance racing car he's got his regular engineer dave patterson with him this
00:18:27weekend paul seprinich did some work with him on that car at the last minute look at the dick johnson
00:18:32racing entries wilson security they're doing their best to carve each other up as well it's teammate
00:18:37versus teammate jack's got a big lock up going barely pulled it up these guys are doing their
00:18:42best to have a shot please just just you can't do that have a look at this replay let's settle the
00:18:54heart rates lucky there's no monitors in here at the moment let's watch the tander on the outside
00:18:59courtney on the inside nice jump by scotty mclaughlin lounge jump to the outside it's on the camera cut
00:19:04when they get down to turn two where it starts to get silly the chopper tells a bit more of the story
00:19:09so tander immediately moves across lounge actually got a pretty fair jump in fact probably one of the
00:19:14better starts of the top half dozen garth tried to go around the outside can't do it and then there
00:19:21was contact down here i think between there was between lounge and tander that started and then
00:19:25tander cannoned into courtney bright squeezed lounge who in turn squeezed tander i need to write all
00:19:32this down and carefully memorize it well tander was an innocent victim there because as lounge went
00:19:36from the outside to move across to the inside he pretty much outbraked himself and caused the drama
00:19:41this is it here now so as he moves it over bang he hits tander he hits courtney and mclaughlin goes
00:19:47to the lead now just back there we're just about to say that all that bumping and grinding between
00:19:53tander on the outside ended up having severe damage check this out this is lounge down the inside of
00:20:00courtney they run each other wide tander then goes by they hit as they do it and then will davison check
00:20:06this out will davison was the guy who was jammed into the back of lounge car as it's sideways bang you're
00:20:15gone you're turned around you're in the fence and it's that secondary part of the hit onto the left rear
00:20:20corner of that car that's done the damage and don't forget there's going to be stops here as well
00:20:24now there's been a position change because tander's climbed over jason bright here so that's the position
00:20:32will davison only teetering barely able to stop down the inside he got it done i wasn't sure about that
00:20:37one and uh into the lane comes uh winter bottom yeah guys just quickly i've got my head stuck
00:20:43underneath craig lounge's car here you can see they're changing what's called the rear tolling it's only
00:20:47about a three or four minute job taking a little bit longer a little bit of finger trouble here
00:20:51and uh there's winter bottom who's that winter bottom just him behind me there but uh he will get
00:20:55back out chasing some points yes they've got their little bit of fuel away and uh james moffett
00:21:00was the other car that you can see there the norton hornet the nissan entry so james courtney
00:21:05has fared poorly off the front row he's gone back to eighth and i'm amazed by the amount of contact
00:21:12the calf tander's car has had that he's still in the hunt so still this battle rages between bright
00:21:18and tander and it's not going away because van gisbergen has moved onto the back
00:21:24and they've had some pretty spike battles those two both bright and tander and
00:21:27oh more contact than around there's tander what a shame what a scrappy start to this race
00:21:39well that that was bright but he moved over to cover van gisbergen so when you look at it he
00:21:44moved over there so he's done that then he got to bump himself so he's already going too fast
00:21:49he can't do anything about it so when he's been bumped he's arrowed into the back of tander and spun him
00:21:54seriously i've i've not seen a wilder couple of laps for a long time so everybody coming in now
00:22:01getting this first stop out of the way this is remarkable stuff there's nothing wrong with it but
00:22:07gee whiz depending on your viewpoint whether you're a server or a survey you can have a slightly varied view
00:22:14on it i was about to say jason barguana the driving standards observer he's gonna forget about
00:22:23having dinner tonight we'll have to get some takeaway for him
00:22:29how about the teammates nissan teammates forward teammates of djr meantime scott mclaughlin volvo
00:22:37is the leader 2.8 seconds over jason bright shane van gisbergen is third jamie winkup is next then tim
00:22:44slade then it's reynolds tander rick kelly lee holdsworth and tom kelly that's for 10 already about
00:22:51about a third of the field is pitted
00:23:00and the friction continues here for the battle second place we're looking out of jason bright
00:23:05shane van gisbergen because up the road you saw a glimpse then of the volvo disappearing he's got a
00:23:103.9 second margin scott mclaughlin but these two are still at it bright and van gisbergen second and
00:23:16third then tim slade who's been due for a result in fourth then david reynolds is next in the queue
00:23:21and van gisbergen looking very very strong at the moment as we look over the left shoulder of slade
00:23:27turn three
00:23:31so it's been a question of trying to keep up with all the antics in the opening lap that first
00:23:36half a lap lap one was just bizarre and then a lot of events that involve knock-ons and as a result of
00:23:43that the the contact between cars 28 and 97 tander bright and van gisbergen is under investigation
00:23:50the incident we saw at turn 13. watch van gisbergen here because he's trying to force a hole
00:23:55he's pushing super hard he'll have a go down here you'll stand it on its nose but bright's got in
00:23:59there very deep and manages to hang on just it's good driving but jason bright then he didn't block
00:24:05he just break the car as deep as he could possibly block and then by the time he actually got the car
00:24:10turn he didn't need to be across on the inside he was actually out on the race line so that blocking
00:24:16it costs you time and it effectively allows the other guy to just keep on the back of you and
00:24:23keep harassing you which van gisbergen is very very good at so van gisbergen now shaping up again
00:24:30at turn two this was where all the drama unfolded at the start of the race three or four abreast bumping
00:24:38into each other running each other into the fence i think you'll find also that some cars are carrying
00:24:43little wounds here so at the moment for example bright's clearly got a bit of pressure on him not
00:24:48only from van gisbergen but i reckon he's got something going on with the car he's not quite
00:24:52lapping at the rhythm that you might expect that's allowing slade and reynolds to get in the game
00:24:58and it's also allowed mclaughlin to disappear for battle because he's five and a half seconds in front
00:25:03look at the front of rick kelly's car in the background here as well the jack daniels car
00:25:07looks got a fair whack on the snout car number 15 behind this group our team red bull have had their
00:25:12hands full marked up and just working on getting craig lounge out at the moment they're just about to
00:25:17get him going by the look of a bit of discussion going on i might just try and get a quick word with
00:25:21mark dutton sorted out craig's problem mark yeah yeah so there was some rear damage uh that's why i had
00:25:26the latest spin so in the first few laps when everyone was hitting each other sustained some damage three
00:25:32seconds field boys sorry i'm talking to them as well yeah so um he yeah he was sort of helped with
00:25:37his spin later on so he didn't do it all on his own so we've got it out just in time to uh do enough
00:25:43race laps to be counted as finishing you're a busy man we'll let you go thanks cheers mate
00:25:49so well done barrettes because he can't afford to go one more lap down he's got to do 33 laps
00:25:53to be classified as a finisher so if he goes one more lap down he won't be a finisher won't
00:25:58kick those points slade and reynolds in for their compulsory stop meantime garth panda is
00:26:03the midfield's done the fastest lap of the race there's lounge all tight between slade and reynolds
00:26:09they resolve it by a whisker blue stationary flag being shown there just warning them of the oncoming
00:26:14traffic and there it is there's a big pile of it it's mclaughlin van gisberg and bright rick kelly who
00:26:19i spoke of before is now in position four there's still six cars to take their compulsory stop
00:26:25adrian burgess certainly not the way that you wanted that races out with both your boys on
00:26:30the front or the grid that first couple of laps that was just absolutely wild stuff uh yeah didn't
00:26:35go to plan did it there's some average driving uh one bloke managed to take both of them out but uh
00:26:40yeah but we'll see what happens long race long weekend we've got the pace we'll let the stewards do
00:26:44their job now and they can adjudicate fair driving and unfair driving but yeah look head down we've got
00:26:50we've got four cars they're all still in the hunt so we'll fight another day there's 25 blokes out there
00:26:55four are yours what's the one bloke pardon there's 25 out there four of them are yours who's the one
00:27:00bloke i don't know come on give us some names give us some names one of my old friends i think okay
00:27:08thanks adrian yeah and we were looking at garth panda when the interview was taking place he had a
00:27:13very big lock up on the inside front uh that was heading into i think turn five there before scape
00:27:18he'd probably put him so they've sent him back out there there's clearly been another issue and
00:27:24lounge is in the tire barrier and potentially going nowhere that is quite a heavy incident because it's
00:27:32a long way into those tires they should be able to get out there adrian burgess was actually referring
00:27:38to craig lounge yeah so that i think is down at turn eight so we'll just uh we'll get a shot of that
00:27:50and responding at valvoline racing so in comes the volvo scott mclaughlin takes the opportunity 5.4
00:27:57second margin he had over van gisbergen and uh gizzy goes with him and so does jason bright no surprise
00:28:13so it's just a little squirt of fuel here rattled some rubber on they're just doing rears only
00:28:17and here's the man that's been doing the chasing van gisbergen he's looked pretty speedy and there's
00:28:27bright in the background
00:28:30a bit of trouble just getting that right rear past the guard then
00:28:35some damage on the left rear corner of shade's car
00:28:39he just got out in front of rick then rick's got pace this is good yeah so he's in this
00:28:44and he was the fastest car a couple of laps ago he actually did the fastest lap of the race at that
00:28:50time a 15.16 this is loud sorry it wasn't turn eight this is turn five he went to turn left and
00:28:56he's gone straight in that's very fast the approach to that corner is around 185 kilometers an hour now
00:29:03he may not have been going quite that fast but it's at least 170k so they're under the control of
00:29:10the petters chrysler safety car lowndes is in the barrier at five wind cup his teammate is the leader
00:29:22back in townsville petters chrysler safety cars grab the field craig lowndes is the reason he went off
00:29:28at turn five after he came back out of the pits they were responding to a lot of damage on that car
00:29:35because he was turned around early in the race he had contact with will davison and went off at turn
00:29:4012 and the left rear corner of the car had a big whack here's the replay of what happened at five
00:29:44there's already left rear tire smoke tire rubbing on the guard something's failed hasn't turned at
00:29:49all even though he wasn't fully up to speed it's still terribly quick there at normal speed it's 185
00:29:56kilometers an hour on the approach craig is still in the car they've got him on the flatbed truck there
00:30:02and the big question now will be turning this car around listen to this
00:30:12that's getting it repaired turning it around and getting it out for the next one
00:30:15the mitigating factor here will be that this race counts for less in terms of points because it's a
00:30:20dual race combination this afternoon 75 points for a win tomorrow it's 150 for a win
00:30:26so that's a little let off but there's not much time for red bull racing australia to recover
00:30:32restart time win cup is your leader then it's mclaughlin davison tander everybody's done their
00:30:40compulsory stop they've grabbed their little bit of fuel most of them have grabbed a couple of tires
00:30:45and this is a cleansed field it's quite mixed up it's hold volvo
00:30:50aerebus motorsport hold another hold and if you missed the early part of the coverage
00:31:00man there was some stuff going on on lap one
00:31:02louds got into the back of tander tander got into the back of courtney
00:31:07most that was
00:31:08spun halfway through the first lap and then later in the lap will davison and craig lowndes got
00:31:15together after lowndes took a dive down the inside at turn 11 that didn't really work
00:31:23you know the extraordinary thing out of this lounge qualified the highest of all the
00:31:28championship contenders at the moment he qualified fifth we said mark winnerbottom's in trouble
00:31:32jamie wink comes down in tenth lounge has had all that drama unfold now in championship
00:31:38land mark winnerbottom's 144 points in front of jamie wink come who's moved to second and craig
00:31:45lowndes drops back to third 50 points arrears of wink up sometimes it's just the way that it unfolds
00:31:52there it is confirmed for you on screen but there appear to be just massive amounts of aggression
00:31:59in the early part of this race and uh it was up and down the field in a lot of areas
00:32:04and probably what helps to trigger this is that everybody knows that you've actually got to work
00:32:10really really hard to be able to get track position early on and if you can't you're going to pay hard
00:32:16for the rest of the day it's caddell courtney james is a little boy hi mate
00:32:23she's very cute and his dad's sixth at the moment i had a brain freeze this morning because uh
00:32:30he's wearing the state of origin colors on the whole racing team cars look at the damage on the
00:32:34front of rick kelly's car there i referred to that earlier and he's got different color overalls
00:32:38we took a shot on board and went that's james's helmet but not james's suit took a while to resolve
00:32:41that one so i had to go down to the pits before just inside it for myself and get myself back in
00:32:46balance and a shout out to jaz ingle russell ingle's daughter who's 10 today congratulations darling
00:32:55just got it stopped i thought for sure there was going to be contact there and jack perkins
00:33:00bounces off the tire wall on the left hand side but he might have more drama than this as dahlgren
00:33:04comes up alongside as tim edwards looking on and they have a little bump so dahlgren bumps perkins and
00:33:10then ingle goes down the inside and grabs both of them and he caught the scratch on the way too so more
00:33:15paint exchanging going on into the final corner and again another mix-up of positions here
00:33:21it's a 0.7 second margin for wind cup over mclaughlin and then it's will davis and garth
00:33:25tander nick percat james courtney van gisberg and slade reynolds and caruso there's that damage on the
00:33:31nissan looks bad won't really have any detrimental effect on handling you're going to keep a bit of an eye
00:33:38on cooling and the other issue there is that often it makes it a little difficult to cite the corners like
00:33:44right here at turn five you just can't see the apex when the bonnet's folded up like that
00:33:49yeah that'd be the biggest problem for sure especially with the new generation cars you sit
00:33:52a long way back up to the center so with that bonnet raised up like that for sure the left-hand front
00:33:58curving and anywhere where you're close to a fence you have to be very careful there with a clearance
00:34:04lucker yeah just want to have a quick word with timmy edwards um i mean from a championship point
00:34:08of view with lounge uh out that's uh probably not a bad thing for you but really you haven't really
00:34:13with with mark winterbottom capitalized he's still running around in 12th wing cup up front
00:34:18look yeah we're not really worried about what's happened to lands you know we haven't got good
00:34:21enough pace at the moment so you know we've got some work to do unfortunately when you're stuck in
00:34:25traffic you know i don't think you get to see our true race pace because i think we have got a
00:34:29better race car than a than a qualifying car at the moment but you know at the end of the day you
00:34:33know we've got to qualify better we're going to make it hard for ourselves if we don't tim and i have just
00:34:36briefly i saw you at the computer here looks like you're about to fire something into the stewards
00:34:40or not you got a concern oh no no just that uh when rick exited the pit lane um on the safety car
00:34:46um frosty reckons they got to the safety car line he was ahead of car 15 um at the safety car line
00:34:51all right thanks for the heads up look at this exchange going on here for 10th at the moment
00:34:56between michael caruso on the outside of jason bright oh another little paint exchange falls in
00:35:02favor of jason bright but both of them were nearly out of road on a couple of occasions there
00:35:06bright emerges on top so for the time being he's grabbed 10th
00:35:14we're riding with frosty whose pace is not bad but traffic is the issue although he's not that
00:35:19close to the back of caruso at the moment that it should be effective last lap for him was a one
00:35:22minute 15.4 he's about half a second away from the peak pace being set by jamie winkup at the moment
00:35:29and basically all the guys in front of them neil are doing the same speed give you some lap times
00:35:35in a second so winkup was the fastest the 14.9 15 for mclaughlin 15.2 15 dead 15.3 15.2
00:35:45so all the guys through to courtney and that's garth tander for position three down the inside of
00:35:52davison all the way down to courtney who's six they're basically doing the same lap speed so
00:35:57good battle at the front end of this field well craigland's car is at the back of the pitch just
00:36:02coming off the flat top at the moment and uh his engineer jeremy moore is here jeremy what do you uh what
00:36:07do you make of all this what can you piece together uh the moment not really a whole lot with
00:36:11something obviously uh broke or let go to uh make him not make the corner and uh we've ended up a lot
00:36:15more damage than uh what should have been um it's a shame we are looking like a good run there uh our
00:36:20championship contenders behind us and we're looking like we'll get some decent points but it wasn't to
00:36:23be um i think it's we're going to fight against time to beat the uh the get the car ready for the next
00:36:28race i think it's a bit of a struggle i think we're out for today and a big hit from the championship i
00:36:33think so um we've just got to try to make amends tomorrow and do the best we can from here on in
00:36:38big job mate all the best thanks mate significant bruising on that car isn't there i mean the panel
00:36:43works one thing but it's just a question of what is going on with the tube work underneath the car
00:36:48and uh just how much structural work they're going to have to do here it is this is the reason why turn
00:36:53five in the marbles car wouldn't turn for some reason we'll find out why a bit later but he's gone in
00:36:57pretty quickly now it wasn't at full speed because the left rear tire was already rubbing really hard on that
00:37:02guard but i venture to say that craig was still doing the best part of 160 on kilometers an hour
00:37:07when he's fired in there jamie wincup is the man in control he's got a half second margin scotty
00:37:13mclaughlin has actually closed that gap ever so slightly
00:37:24it's a beautiful day in townsville as you can see check out that view that's magnetic island just to
00:37:30the east of the townsville cbd what a race it's lap 22 of 44 race 20 of the v8 supercars championship
00:37:38and this is the replay of the start lounges got into tanda tanda got into courtney here's the replay
00:37:46bang bang bang skiddle the field and out the other side pop scott mclaughlin but the nonsense didn't
00:37:52stop the pushing and shoving continued all the way through the first lap there was a lot of stuff going
00:37:56on up and down the field jason bright was mixed in here with james courtney courtney clobbered the
00:38:02wall i think that actually hurt the car at one point caught ah that's the reason why the jack
00:38:07daniels car's got all that bonnet damage so chas molstett was rotated there rick kelly was the one
00:38:12that had a lot of damage on his car lounge tried to make a move down the inside of courtney that didn't
00:38:16work here it is again in replay and then as they got further around the corner to turn 12 will davison and
00:38:24craig lounge get together and this is what happens craig goes around a little touch the front was no
00:38:30big deal but the secondary part of that impact did a lot of damage to that car they put him into the
00:38:34garage they returned it because they needed to get him classified and out there van gisberg at me
00:38:39time hits bright bright hits tanda tanda does a 180 adrian burgess has got plenty to say about it
00:38:46and then they sent craig back out the car still obviously carrying a bruise and then he couldn't get
00:38:52it turned at five it's gone straight into the wall whacked that tire barrier and done substantial
00:38:57damage and a huge question now as to whether or not they get it out for race 21 this afternoon
00:39:01meant you to say that it might be game over for them and we won't see that red bull racing
00:39:06australia corridor until tomorrow we'll follow that story for you through the afternoon a lot of lounge
00:39:11fans out there meantime half a second that's what it looks like gap first to second and you can see the
00:39:17green boxes they tell a story because mclaughlin's racing balance is obviously good with that car as
00:39:23the race is progressing in the last several laps he just keeps on clawing back millimeters to win cup
00:39:29tanda's making progress we saw him get by davison a bit earlier and at the moment it's a season best
00:39:34fifth for nick percat but boy has he got some pressure he's got former champion james courtney and a
00:39:39teammate right behind him and shane van gisbergen who's been performing beautifully in the last few
00:39:44races with the sort of pressure driving that we've seen from him so nick's got his hands full in
00:39:49these next few laps he has and that's been a very good drive by nick percat today this is this mad helmet
00:39:56cam of rick kelly's we were able to clear up that damage you can see there that's the left hand front
00:40:02bonnet that's peeled up and i heard tim shankin say over the radio a second ago to check that out they've
00:40:10had a really good look at it and it's apparently secured okay so the officials are going to let them
00:40:18go van gisbergen saying he's got no rear tires i've got no drive at all car number 97 vip pet foods from
00:40:25seventh position he's sandwiched between courtney and slave we're riding with rick kelly he's 13th at
00:40:29the moment so that replay that we saw in the highlights there tells the story and i didn't see
00:40:34who it was who checked everybody up but most it was a bit of a victim someone was stumbling in front
00:40:39of him and then rick went into the back of mostert that's what did that damage yeah yeah i need to
00:40:44learn shorthand because there was that much going on the first lap i was trying to keep it all under
00:40:48control trying to manage the paperwork right yeah so rick on screen at the moment is 13 seconds off
00:40:56the lead of the race we've had a petters chrysler safety car intervention to recover craig lounge this
00:41:01is down at turn 11 now for uh rick first gear down there to launch that car back out he uses first
00:41:08again at this final corner at turn 13 it's a beautiful little race track this one it's just
00:41:1360 kilometers an hour here punches out the other side then it's a short shift to second manages the
00:41:18wheel spin here's the race leader that margin continues to stay very tight guys in the red bull
00:41:25transporter craig lounge is back just been medically checked out let's start with that you okay yeah yeah
00:41:29fine i couldn't find anything which is normal um that was tough i mean that was that was a big impact what
00:41:35happened you know uh well after the first impact when we when we tagged the wall coming in a pit
00:41:39entry um it obviously bent the steering but also bent the rear the guys had done a great job getting
00:41:43me back out jj was on the radio saying we've got a lap in our in grace to try and keep get some points
00:41:48back and we'll get some points for the race i went out of three over the crest about to hit five turn
00:41:54the wheel but nothing happened she went straight in so uh very quick but uh thankfully the tire absorbed
00:41:59most of it it looked probably worse than what it felt like inside the car to be honest because it's
00:42:03sort of the nose buried under the tires got to the windscreen which when it stopped and
00:42:07and of course now i couldn't get out so i just had to sit and wait to be retrieved which i did
00:42:11now hopefully we can see we get the car ready for race two and this is the chat obviously we didn't
00:42:15want to have and the car's in a bit of a mess but so too is your championship as a result of that this
00:42:19is going to be tough now it's been a hell of a year it's been up and down like a yo-yo so uh yeah
00:42:23we've got great speed we've picked up some elements where we we struggled last year which is uh
00:42:27qualifying we've now picked that side of it up and we've uh unfortunately lost the other side
00:42:31of it which is the racing side of it so uh a bit of a bad luck look that's motor racing we all know
00:42:35you take the good with the bad so uh hopefully now fingers crossed we can get the car ready for race
00:42:39two you're 195 points back from the league but we know this is a long season we do know anything can
00:42:43happen oh look definitely like you know we still haven't got from the endurance side of it which is
00:42:46you know 300 points solely for our race um and that can definitely make or break a championship
00:42:51we've always said you come out of the back side of the gold coast and you know whether you're still in
00:42:55the hunt um and look if the points are still there for grabs i'm going to take them so now
00:42:59if bets are off i'm going to try and win races yeah and we know you'll keep punching good on you
00:43:03thanks louncy and do you want to say the kids yeah thanks brett probably won't get a chance
00:43:06levo and shelly come on you mate well done neil crompton you're just asking about how far into
00:43:12the car this damage might have got i'm just standing having a bit of walk around the car
00:43:15everything's sort of pointing in the right direction the guys are into it it's up on stand
00:43:18i'd actually say it is repairable a lot of damage around that front radiator support area they're
00:43:23putting a front left upright in it which is a major suspension component but i'd say absolutely
00:43:28repairable and a good sign of that there's a really good productivity situation down here
00:43:32but not panic and there's a difference
00:43:36so we're watching this fantastic battle here at the moment between reynolds and slade this is for
00:43:42the back end of the top 10 can you believe it on it goes incidentally v8 supercar fans
00:43:50you can track the series via facebook and we've hit the half million mark on our way to a million can you
00:43:55you believe that we've got a problem slate's got a drama why did that suddenly just check up
00:44:02so all of a sudden appear to have been an issue there with it's got some steering problems
00:44:11i heard him say a minute ago he's got some steering drama going so
00:44:14what a shame because he's been showing lots of speed this afternoon tim slade
00:44:27you can see how off center it is there but hard to
00:44:34just coasting there so he's dropped back all the way to 12th position he's just trying to stay out of
00:44:38everybody's way we saw him up as high as i think fourth earlier in the race so 1.4 seconds now by
00:44:46the way between wind cup and mclaughlin and then tander in third place
00:44:54and race control just monitoring car number 47.
00:44:57so let's have a look at these margins for you just to establish the order wind cup mclaughlin
00:45:04tander not a bad recovery then davison his former teammate who's had a win here perk out
00:45:10under huge pressure from courtney no rear tires was the word from van gisberg and bright then reynolds
00:45:15then caruso uh then it was uh winter bottom rick kelly fabian coulthard james moffett
00:45:22lee holdsworth scotty pie chas mostard russell ingle todd kelly down the inside car 17 is david wall
00:45:29jack perkins behind him oh a little bit of hip and shoulder between these two
00:45:37tim slade is in the pit lane and they're just trying to examine
00:45:40the front of that car at the moment figure out what the problem is
00:45:47that was pretty wild then i thought there was going to be another
00:45:49drama between turn two and turn three it's probably not over yet because jack perkins just
00:45:55buying into this behind todd kelly this is the 19th 20th and 21st
00:46:04wind cups just etched away from mclaughlin just a little bit again in the last couple of laps
00:46:09it was down to roughly 0.5 of a second now it's 1.6 seconds this is on board looking back at scott pie
00:46:19one of the nine in-car cameras that we've got for you this weekend it's a great shot isn't it
00:46:25gives you an idea of what's going on in and around that cockpit at the moment so he looks in the
00:46:29passenger side mirror glimpse in the rear view mirror now he's checking data watching the shift
00:46:35lights awareness of what's going on around him six-speed sequential gearbox feeds it back to second
00:46:42gear down here at turn two a little kick in the road the gear shift up to three quite bumpy down
00:46:49here you've got to use a bit of the curb to be able to be quick around here let's stay with this
00:46:54we've done a break just to get the nose online here again and climbing over a bit of curb
00:47:04this is down at seven
00:47:14it's a favorite bit of the track here cross boundary street
00:47:17when the tire conditions good it's a hundred percent throttle
00:47:25this is where lounge got in strife right at the beginning of the race through 11 and 12
00:47:29and into the final corner here back to first gear for scott this is the corner that i spoke
00:47:39about earlier in the race where summer choosing second look after the rear tires
00:47:43and scottie pie in car 16 16th position at the moment 23 seconds from the lead of the race
00:47:55wind cup is opening the margin it's now out to two seconds wind cup to mclaughlin
00:48:04and for the second time today the petters chrysler safety car intervenes because jack perkins is in the
00:48:09wall on the exit between turns two and three tim slade's car still got problems they're looking
00:48:15under the front up there's the owner of jack perkins car the gerald went entry charlie schwerkolt
00:48:19and you can tell by the look on charlie's face what he thinks of this there was contact between jack
00:48:24and todd kelly on the exit of turn two on the route down through that little kink to the left
00:48:30down to the third corner and it's resulted in jack being in the wall so safety cars grab the field
00:48:35again here it is again in replay we'll see what happened so jack down the inside
00:48:39gets it cleanly done and then on the crisscross as jack came out the other side they checked up
00:48:46and then contact todd touches the right rear corner of jack's car here he's getting from the other side
00:48:52now so jack's moved to the right to try and cover todd doesn't want to have a bar of it
00:49:00bang and that's a lot of damage that particularly that sort of concrete wall damage at that sort of
00:49:05speed will be front right rail on that car and the cross member all the associated front upright hub
00:49:12disc rotor a lot of the damper everything will be damaged there that'll be a big job
00:49:18down here with charlie schwerkolt uh team owner charlie that uh that looked expensive and i don't
00:49:22want to depress you any more than you need to be but i'm guessing you're going to have a bit of a view
00:49:25on that incident yeah it doesn't look good does it i uh i reckon jack uh got the raw end of the deal
00:49:30there he did mate it's it's a tough gig isn't it it's a it's an expensive game it's tough to get up
00:49:35there and uh jack was going along pretty well there was a good good race but i'm not so sure about the
00:49:39contact from behind yeah it was a clean pass and uh anyway i'm sure it'll get investigated and uh yeah
00:49:45not good at all all right keep keep your chin up mate thanks man thank you i think it takes two to
00:49:51tango with that one larko because he moved over and then you're driving along effectively in a straight
00:49:56got a little kink in it and he didn't have enough there's still overlap didn't have enough room to
00:50:01get across there and there was contact so i think in the end probably it was a 50 50 deal
00:50:07stay with us on the streets of townsville
00:50:15beautiful shot looking overhead townsville we're in queensland and we stay in queensland
00:50:20for our next v8 supercar event co-tyr switch 400 first weekend of august coverage on seven and
00:50:26seven mate we look forward to your company on that one don't forget to join us also for the
00:50:31second v8 supercar race later this afternoon and another coming up again tomorrow incidentally
00:50:36race control is going to investigate the incident between todd kelly and jack perkins between turns
00:50:41two and three the one that triggered the second headers chrysler safety car there's the confirmation
00:50:45for you on screen so it's been a big get out of jail situation here for jamie wincup so far today
00:50:52scapey field crawling along under his control at the moment when you consider that he qualified
00:50:56in 10th all the fireworks in front of him great move in darwin to move up into third in the championship
00:51:02this is manner from heaven for him he's just going to grab points here and is potentially staring
00:51:06down another race win absolutely and mark winterbottom in 11th position i'm looking forward to this last
00:51:1110 laps because this will have given everyone a little reprieve on the tires cool all that down and let's
00:51:17get on with a sprint race to finish this one race 20 the castrol townsville 500.
00:51:24so nice restart here for wincup taking the pressure off himself straight away tander's managed to shadow
00:51:29mclaughlin instantly and so oh scotty had to cover but now the crisscross is on and tander feeds it in
00:51:35he keeps the speed up and gets away with it on the other side nice job clever bit of experience used
00:51:42there and mclaughlin tries to respond down the inside of three but that was a nice job he ran it
00:51:49in quick ran it in under the brake diagonaled straight to the corner and this might have been
00:51:53a little reprieve for those rear tires also for shane van gisbergen he was complaining bitterly on the
00:52:00radio about five or ten minutes ago at the back of courtney's car looking unstable there remember
00:52:04early in the race he touched the wall with the left rear so there's probably a little bit of geometry
00:52:09damage there and he's under a big assault at the moment from van gisbergen gee there was almost
00:52:14contact then wow that was close he just covers him a little bit courtney just moves it over but he's
00:52:22running there a little bit too deep struggling yeah he's really struggling there definitely will have
00:52:26had damage from that from that early i was just trying to listen to the radio chat then that early
00:52:33contact that we saw in the first two or three laps with everybody running into each other that looks
00:52:38like more damage on rick's car that's worse than what we saw before so before it was the front left
00:52:43corner and now the whole front of the car's caved in so there's more to this story the replay might
00:52:48help explain it and it does so moffett cool tar and in front of that was rick kelly who went into
00:52:56the back of one of the fpr cars winter bottom it was guys there's some action out on the track for
00:53:00sure scott simply your man todd kelly the fingers being pointed at him for turning around jack perkins
00:53:04what do you say to that yeah look it's uh it's an unfortunate incident i suppose look
00:53:09that corner down the end they're always a bit awkward the wall comes back todd left him room
00:53:13on the entry and then uh that the corner naturally closes up so uh i think we'll leave that one to
00:53:18the stewards i just saw on the screen then that they're uh going to investigate it post-race so
00:53:22yeah i'll let i'll let jason uh bagwana decide that one thanks the hard part for scott with that is that
00:53:29given the amount of drama that's unfolded in this race and there's the and there's more that was
00:53:33fabian caulford who's wide well he's got damage to the front of his car because he was actually
00:53:38the meat and the sandwich and all that so he's got the bonnet folded up and that's allowing lee
00:53:43holdsworth down the inside here lee was very quick frightened there's more push and shove one of the
00:53:48djr cars into the back of him it'll be last man standing i'm going to break out the rental car here
00:53:53it might be a chance to get on the podium seriously i haven't seen as much contact as this
00:53:59in a long time especially those early laps yeah and the damage already up and down pit lane here
00:54:04is profound we're going to try and have a bit of a look at it so hang around another thing i want
00:54:08to try and do listening to scott simply there we'll try and bust open and show you the rules in regards
00:54:12to exactly what is and isn't allowed in terms of overtaking and contact hang around while you're
00:54:17talking there larko tim shenken race director is on the race management channel it's a pit lane
00:54:23drive-through penalty black flag car four lee holdsworth for a violation in the pit lane
00:54:28a correction to the safety car restart my apologies misinterpretation so overtaking at the safety car
00:54:35restart car number four confirmation of that graphic up on screen at the moment and that was all that
00:54:40contact that we saw that was at the restart so there's the black flag being shown to lee and this this
00:54:48great coats higher shot down the inside down the inside of mclaughlin he come from nowhere and
00:54:57fired straight down the inside of turn 11. so davison is he going to be able to survive here he fights
00:55:04back he's into the side of mclaughlin it's ben's versus volmer mclaughlin's out in the grass they're
00:55:10rubbing concrete they're rubbing panels they're rubbing each other's nose in it and the game is
00:55:15on here at the moment davison goes to third scott's just lost four spots and a little bit of it was him
00:55:24being cheeky he moved davison wide they've still got contact now with bright he moved over some
00:55:29wide so davison then fired straight down the inside and then davison escorted him off the road coming
00:55:35out of turn 13. so it was a little bit of tit for tat and will davison ended up running him out into the
00:55:41grass and as you can see there scott mclaughlin who was second in this race has now gone to sixth and
00:55:48under pressure from jason bright there'll definitely be damage on those cars too because they hit wheel to
00:55:52the wheel so it was a big move by davison to get down the inside and then what unfolded through turn
00:55:5712 was davison going in the fence so this is a dive badly to stop this is when we erupted because we
00:56:05were on board at the time so he's gone down there absolutely rotated it around the nose squeezed it
00:56:10in there and then rubbed it on the wall on the exit of 12. watch this you know he did that to himself
00:56:14pretty much well it's dirty out there there's absolutely no grip here's the other angle look how filthy
00:56:18it is on the side of the road mclaughlin's got the race line will want to stay with it he's gone
00:56:24parallel to the wall he might have got away with that but you don't want to lean too hard on that
00:56:28left rear after this kind of contact that's a big thump in the seat of the car when you're in it and
00:56:33then he tries to stay with it he makes it stick mclaughlin has the thing rooster tailing in the grass
00:56:38out here grabs a spot and betty's heart rate's up all of our heart rates are up win cup tan actually
00:56:46don't be win cup if this is seriously the water has just parted for him and he's just blazed down
00:56:51the middle without a scratch i don't think he's broken a sweat everybody else has got varying
00:56:55degrees of madness going on in their lives gary rogers heart rate was just up a little bit i thought
00:57:00i have to catch him there for a minute gary look some things go your way you've had a good year this
00:57:04year this race just not going your way today oh well look it's it's no it's not but by the same
00:57:09token maybe we brought a bit of it on ourselves you know you really just got to do your best every day
00:57:14maybe we've done nearly our best today but we better do a bit better later on in the day okay
00:57:18tell us about the pit stop bit of a problem for scotties pit stop oh well we lost a bit of time there
00:57:22that shouldn't have happened really but it did move on from there now all right we'll let you move on
00:57:25you're good at moving on we've got to move on mate no good going backwards thanks mate it's a cut and dry
00:57:29whirl in gary rogers land says it as it is and uh he's a great character in the panic unbroken
00:57:36investment in the sport for more than 50 years and uh he knows what he's looking at and has done
00:57:41for a long time he's man scotty mclaughlin's sixth at the moment and his other operator robert
00:57:45dalgren's down in 20th in car 34. and why he's saying that is that the little mistake in the pit stop
00:57:51took them out of the lead they were in the lead of the race prior to all the stops and then as it unfolded
00:57:55you get a little bit too far back and then at the restart garth tander was a very aggressive move
00:58:00these guys have had a bit of history over the last little while van gearsberg and mclaughlin so
00:58:05there was a little bit of bump and grind then again and both these guys are very brave well they
00:58:12they've got a bit heated in western australia look at the heart rate there for scott mclaughlin
00:58:17he's working hard in that car at the moment and there'll be a fair bit of frustration in that process too
00:58:23because when you've been in a commanding position everybody knows how hard it is to win a v8 supercar
00:58:27race when things go wrong particularly if they're outside your control it's easy to frazzle
00:58:34hey tim slate it's been a wild old day out there but unfortunately you finished the race in the
00:58:38garage it's been a bit of a mystery problem for you guys the right right front steering seems to
00:58:43just have failed for no reason yeah i'm not sure i had a um you know a radio back to the guys earlier on and
00:58:49complained of a bit of vagueness um you know somewhere in the front end and it just sort of
00:58:53progressively got worse and then it sort of got a bit dangerous whereas you know i wasn't really in
00:58:58control of the car anymore the steering was sort of doing its own thing so um yeah it's disappointing
00:59:03you know we um put ourselves in a reasonable position for uh for both races with a you know
00:59:08fairly strong qualifying in both but i don't know it's just to seem seems to be the way it is at the
00:59:13moment whenever we uh yeah seem to be in a reasonable position something happens so um i
00:59:18mean the boys will uh work hard and uh try and work out what it is uh maybe steering rack i'm not sure
00:59:24so yeah hopefully uh get it fixed and out there again for the next one as you said you've got a
00:59:28good strong collie for the second race and this and this uh plus finish of this race is fairly
00:59:32entertaining enjoy it yeah you don't want to be speaking to me watch a race and we are watching
00:59:36mark winterbottom claw back into contention here he's 11th behind michael caruso so these are
00:59:42important points that he's gathering in the process here at the moment so for this particular event
00:59:48remember it's a split scenario today two 125k races and uh it's 36 points that he'll generate in 11th
00:59:57at the moment but you can see there's some incentive in front if he can grab a few more of these spots and
01:00:03that's not going to be an easy task it's caruso reynolds courtney bright in front of him they've
01:00:07all been racing for sheep stations today but consider how far out of the game he's been at
01:00:12different times during this race this is a little bit of a return to form for him well exactly the
01:00:18guy that's the major beneficiary is wing cup we've said this before that he's just had a charmed run
01:00:23in this race but the gap that winterbottom had coming into this weekend was 161 points at the
01:00:30moment it's 147 so he's really 14 points away from the lead that he had before keep in mind it could
01:00:37have been a lot worse when you qualify where he did now the other thing that's happened here because of
01:00:41the two petters chrysler safety car interventions and the time it's taken to clear those cars this
01:00:47event will be time certain so we'll monitor that for you as well may not run its full 44.
01:00:542.4 seconds is the gap wing cup to tander then will davison so this is going to be a good result
01:01:01for erebus on current numbers and and also have to dip your hat to nick perk out here who's uh shown
01:01:08some form today in qualifying and second time this season he's been prominent and uh in his first full
01:01:15time championship year in the main game nick perk hat in one of the walk into racing cars you've got a
01:01:20a grin on your face here there is no way that jamie winkup lined up today look i think it was
01:01:27actually a little bit of sweat then he just oh dear but there is no way that he would have thought
01:01:32that it's the last lap i just heard race director tim shen can call that they're monitoring the timing
01:01:37up there so leader has commenced the last lap is the information going out on the that's off
01:01:41computer timing at the moment his third place will davison now for wind cup this will move him on to
01:01:48race win number 81 it's got less than three kilometers remaining and this is a tremendous
01:01:55recovery from the deep so to have qualified where mark said before down in 10th with the caliber of
01:02:01the people around you that you're racing it should not be possible but they've all managed in some
01:02:05form or another to tear themselves apart
01:02:08the crowd loving it sitting out there in beautiful conditions watching some extraordinary tough
01:02:19challenging energized motor racing v8 supercars at their best cars sliding people pushing and shoving
01:02:26there'll be plenty of aggravation after this race and remember they've got another one to come and then
01:02:31tonight they'll have to sit down and analyze it all make better cars go through the adjudication
01:02:37process but it's all about this man again jamie wincup wins on the streets of townsville just as he's done
01:02:44five times before
01:02:50red bull racing australia roll and dame team principal there on the wall congratulating his crew
01:02:56dave couchy engineer mark dutton team manager
01:03:02oh dear i don't want one of those that's a passionate rolling dame that's a a beautiful drive
01:03:10from wind cup and uh completely stayed out of trouble just you know it doesn't look to me as though there's
01:03:16a scratch on that car well he was the beneficiary of all the wild and there was some lunacy i mean there
01:03:24was some bumping and some push and shove early in this race that there will be plenty of stewards
01:03:32reviewing of that as night unfolds and again they've got one more race to go so he got away with that he
01:03:38moved forward whilst the other guys are running into each other look at the reaction it's fantastic
01:03:44it's just a great atmosphere at this place it's probably the best general admission viewing of any
01:03:48racetrack we go to in australia and this is the beauty of street circuit racing you know
01:03:54concrete walls consequences are big if you make a mistake you trip over a curb things get broken
01:03:59and this is a nice job will davison well done to erebus motorsport
01:04:06impressive performance and they they had genuine pace it wasn't just the demise of some of the
01:04:11others there either actually being quick quick on friday quick in practice quick in qualifying and
01:04:16quick quick when it was important when you had to race and get those points so win cup off the
01:04:22racetrack now marshals congratulating the crowd enjoying it
01:04:26it's very very very strong performance and garth tander what a move that dive down the inside of
01:04:38scott mclaughlin very good presence of mind for mclaughlin not to turn in there either so
01:04:42takes two to tango with those sorts of moves tander who went so well here last year onto the podium in
01:04:49second position for hrt race win number six for jamie win cup 2014. it's jan stuckey
01:05:00and i'll guarantee you that he didn't think that was possible i mean they'll talk a positive game
01:05:07you know that it's always possible and you take it as it comes blah blah all that but the reality is
01:05:11from 10th you think it'd be pretty tall order to grab a win today and he's done it and jan stuckey was
01:05:16saying to me before that she went into jamie before qualifying to say you should be on pole why year
01:05:2110th well now she's the first one to congratulate him so even the government people are so attached to
01:05:26this sport and to this man and what great vision of turn five over the curb the car was beautifully
01:05:34controlled and what a day from 10th position and into position two in the championship 147 points in
01:05:45arrears to mark winterbottom and notice it's a scratch free car there as we look at the super
01:05:54slow-mo replay of jamie win cup uh neil crompton just noticed that you have a scratch free car i
01:06:00think you're the only car that started this race has come home scratch free but from 10th to first
01:06:04mate well done that's an incredible drive yeah as you as you know massive action at the start there and
01:06:09i was able just to keep it clean and come through i don't think i'll be that lucky that the next one
01:06:13i'm starting back in 10th again so a great start to the weekend but um it's a long way to go and
01:06:17bank those points as well and bank this as well one of your biggest fans has got something for you
01:06:21ah the honorable jan stuckey minister in queensland for tourism and major events who we know is a big
01:06:26fan of yours i am your good luck charm today congratulations thank you very much i'm so excited
01:06:33for you what a fantastic race i really great appreciate jam appreciate your support thank you
01:06:38good on you minister thanks very much well done jamie enjoy that and uh gee garth tander you went
01:06:44through the ringer today yeah up and down like a yo-yo today so um car was fantastic it's a real shame
01:06:50what happened down at turn one where i got i got pushed into into james and then then i saw what
01:06:55happened with james again in the second part of the lap but and then i got turned around so it was all
01:06:58happening for us but um car was mega guys did a great job in the stops didn't quite have enough to get
01:07:03to jamie because i think probably had to use the car a bit too much in the middle part of the race to get
01:07:06through the field again so um thanks very much to the guys we had a really solid darwin and um
01:07:10it's a nice way to start this weekend we'll keep an eye on you too for these next two races and
01:07:14thanks to castrol the trophy for today for second place gt congratulations and well done will davidson
01:07:19good to see you on the podium mate well done hey that was really really hard fought there was a
01:07:23great little moment of justling there between you and scott mclaughlin well yeah i tell you what i
01:07:27had no right mirror no left mirror and about seven laps in the center mirror decided to just fly off in
01:07:33the cockpit so i was flying blind um but yeah i mean we had really good speed early i got a bit
01:07:38of bent steering in those early laps as well there was carnage going on but i'm just so thrilled um
01:07:43for erebus i really am my engineer luke the whole team um yeah it's it's it's a big milestone it's been
01:07:48a while since i've been on a podium and uh i'm wrapped with scotty i'm not sure you know i was on
01:07:52his outside he sort of moved me out and i hit the wall so i wasn't having any of that and i uh jammed it
01:07:56back up the inside so um yeah i wanted to give these guys some silverware i'd been fourth this year
01:08:00and uh you know i had a sniff of that trophy so we went for it and i got it so um i'm wrapped
01:08:05in big hello to mum all my family at home i'm claire johnny sophia my dad everyone it's uh plenty
01:08:10more of these to come with erebus yeah good stuff well we spoke on the grid at down we said it was
01:08:14about time this was going to happen and you've delivered early that's fantastic mate congratulations
01:08:18grab the silverware on behalf of castrol the trophy and well done on erebus first podium result well done
01:08:24second though we want to win second yeah yeah we might just try and uh grab a word with mark
01:08:30widderbottom here because i can tell you this will be a reasonably intense uh debrief sorry to interrupt
01:08:35there boys i know this would be a pretty intense one mate uh 11th um opportunity to capitalize on
01:08:40lounge being out there but jamie did the job but what i actually feel for you mate because you're 19th in
01:08:45the next one you just got a tough afternoon in front of you and it's not fast enough yeah if it was fast
01:08:50enough you're uh you're okay but um we tried a few things then but uh my complaints at the moment
01:08:55are poor breaking poor entry and really bad drives so i've pretty well covered all of the corner it's
01:09:00not too bad down the straight but um the rest is bad you just got to try and survive so um did our
01:09:05best then got some points but it's a worrying sign we need to get it quicker and that's 19th not the
01:09:10worry it's getting it quicker and half the battle as jamie was probably a little bit fortunate to do
01:09:14is to get through the carnage did you have some gauge of what was going on in front of you and around
01:09:18you oh it was pretty crazy so um yeah all the all the mess happens and then you charge on into it
01:09:24so um it's yeah it's pretty tough so just got to try and stay clean and uh there's guys going around
01:09:30the outside for 20th and all that sort of stuff so ideally qualify at the front you don't put yourself
01:09:35in that position qualify there deal with it try and do the best you can no breaks no turn no exit
01:09:40mate i hope your drinks are a good mix cheers good luck no talent it's all covered
01:09:44certainly was a wild race here's the unofficial results for you because there will be post-race
01:09:51investigations on the super cheap auto scoreboard two seconds the margin between wincup and tander
01:09:56season best performance for garth tander season best performance for will davidson
01:10:00and a season best performance for nick perkak congratulations to those guys
01:10:05mark winterbottom well he salvaged one there in 11th position and got some vital points he's still got a
01:10:09decent cushion but some of that lead has been eroded race number 20 to castrol townsville 500
01:10:16that'll be one that keeps everybody talking in this paddock for some time beautiful shot looking
01:10:19over the top of castle hill back down to townsville and that beautiful shot of the ocean there is the
01:10:25situation in the championship points 147 points is the gap between mark winterbottom and jamie wincup
01:10:31jamie just absolutely drove a great race today and was able to capitalize big problems for craig
01:10:36lounges he drops a spot fabian coultard next moving up one spot into fifth is shane van gisbergen and
01:10:42james courtney's gone down a spot in sixth
01:10:52and coming up this afternoon the action continues we'll have more v8 supercars this time it'll be the
01:10:57dunlop series race one live then later this afternoon another 125 frantic v8 supercar kilometers
01:11:05and we'll wrap it all up later in this afternoon you're getting value for money at the moment v8 supercars
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