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00:00so many laps so many stories thousands upon thousands of kilometers not to
00:12mention that incredible thousand k's in a day at the mountain 2013 Wow what a
00:24season nine different pole sitters 13 different race winners five rookie
00:29winners nine different teams three manufacturers they've all tasted
00:34victory the championship has never ever been this close and the series fight is
00:40going to the Sydney 500 it's been a crazy year Scotty pie Tassie was massive
00:48Barbagallo no not again Scott McLaughlin the youngest ever winner in V8 he's on
00:56top of the world number one Kiwi mate well done then he's into the wall car 22
01:02Bathurst Gold Coast Phillip Island three in a row bang crash one
01:12stories everywhere Foster Moffat Coulthard Reynolds all breaking through Betty
01:19all color and character pit lane will never be the same the enforcer farewell mate
01:25racing won't be the same either Bridey in New Zealand such an emotional win
01:31Jason Richards that one's for you because sometimes it is about so much more than
01:37winning Jamie Winker meticulous all season this guy's a winner Mark
01:44Winterbottom this guy's a fighter these two have been at it all year long and
01:52Lounsey here comes Lounsey riding high into the record books the people's
01:57champion today becomes the all-time race winner 2013 what a season Merck in the
02:06mix Nissan shaking them up FPR firing them up Red Bull racking them up and now
02:13only one question remains who will be the champion yes it is on it's on Sydney so
02:20this is it the Sydney NRMA motoring and services 500 only on seven
02:28it is the last remaining piece of the 2013 puzzle who will win the title and
02:35after such an amazing season it's probably fitting that Sydney is where the
02:40championship will be decided because here anything can happen and the
02:44contenders are ready to go to battle Jamie Winker he's been dominant all season
02:48Mark Winterbottom a former winner in Sydney Craig Lounce a two-time winner in
02:53Sydney can he get his first championship in 14 years we are about to find out
02:58because we have an amazing weekend in store for you welcome to the NRMA Sydney
03:03500 here at Sydney Olympic Park and the V8 supercars on seven everything about
03:08this place is completely different from the cars lining up in this special
03:12pavilion paddock behind me to the dangers lurking at every single turn on the
03:17track and of course for the first time ever a twilight race 28 V8 supercars
03:23setting off into the sunset this afternoon but it is all about the
03:28championship and boy is it close so let's take a look 20 points is the
03:32difference between the teammates Jamie Winkup and Craig Lowndes Mark
03:36Winterbottom 124 points behind and Will Davison is still in it because there are
03:41300 points in total on offer this weekend the winner today gets 150 can Winkup
03:47get his fifth title can Lowndes get his fourth can the Ford boys claim their
03:52first it all goes on the line right now because qualifying is about to get
03:56underway and joining me in commentary as always Mark Scaife and Neil Crompton
04:00qualifying gets underway for the Sydney NRMA motoring and services 500 the second
04:11last qualifying session for 2013 this is going to be vital 20 minutes it determines the starting order
04:18from 11 through to 28 but remember the top 10 will fight out for a shootout a shot at the shootout this
04:26afternoon before we set the grid 1 to 10 for this afternoon's 250 odd kilometres 74 laps
04:33looking at the history of the event we've had eight races here over four years
04:36Lee Holtzworth has had three poles Will Davison's had a couple of poles
04:40Garth Tandler a couple of pole positions Tim Slade brilliant performance
04:44one pole position and yesterday we had four practice sessions the reigning champion
04:48Jamie Winkup was the fastest man he achieved a one minute 27.7 the cars have been quick the weather is
04:54beautiful if we look at the sector splits of the way in which different drivers stitch together the
04:59three sectors around this circuit we think that on brand new tyres in good conditions and a clear run
05:04we'll probably see something in the order of a low one minute 27. so all 28 cars are out there
05:11including Nick Percat driving for James Courtney car number 22 as the result of the broken leg that
05:17James sustained in that incident turn four in Phillip Island here's our track map 3.4 kilometres Sydney
05:23Olympic Park rather simplistic to look at it graphically it's not like that when you drive
05:28on this racetrack it's tough it's hard it's complex there's an enormous number of challenges it's the
05:34second hardest circuit on the 14 event tour for brakes you can echo that remark for suspension it requires
05:40supreme concentration and the accuracy required by the drivers to put a lap together here is very important
05:46first second and third sectors well yesterday in practice the best first sector time was the 33.8
05:52the best cumulative time to the end of the second sector was a one minute 1.7 and then of course as
05:57i said it was a high 27 for Jamie Winkup yesterday after practice and this is the scene
06:03ANZ stadium all phones arena the Olympic Park train station plop right smack bang in the middle
06:10they've done their siding lap and so boys it's game on now for qualifying we've spoken so many times
06:16about the importance of qualifying throughout the course of this season this is bar none the most
06:22important qualifying session of the year this is unbelievable pressure you saw Winterbottom when we
06:27were talking to him earlier you know how good this guy's been Winkup has been the benchmark qualifier for
06:33the season but this around this unbelievably tough layout as you said crumpo this will be ultra and
06:41though we won't determine hole in this particular session it gives us something of an indication and
06:46it's Jamie Winkup has been supreme in this area 34 events or races down in 2013 he's had 12 pole
06:53positions that's an incredible performance to occupy that percentage and his team red bull racing
06:57Australia together with Craig Lowndes have grabbed 13 of them it's a great performance but on the flip
07:03side of that crumpo is Jamie's record that has been spoken about at this circuit now he hasn't had to
07:10come here and win over the last couple of years he's just had to come here and perform but he knows that
07:15they're chasing him down he's yet to get a pole position around this circuit he's qualified on the
07:19front row a couple of times last year he qualified mid-pack for one race and down the end of the pack
07:26for the second race so he'll know this time around that he's got to be up at the front he's got to win
07:33this race or win tomorrow's race to hold off the challenge from this man and Mark Winterbottom
07:39Winterbottom's already made it clear he's going to come here and go maximum attack
07:44so there are challenges coming everywhere so keep an eye on the green boxes Shane Van Gisbergen showing
07:51good speed there at the moment and that's a point that I wanted to make he's on screen the VIP Petfoods
07:56Techno Autosports Commodore remember that this time last year we thought he was leaving the sport and
08:00came back after his period with Stone Brothers Racing at Techno in the Holden he's been very quick
08:06here over the years he could have won that race but they ran the thing so lean it didn't quite get to
08:10the end for the victory that he was seeking but I wanted to make the point chaps that we've been talking a lot
08:16about and the focus is correctly pointing at three or four drivers in the championship hunt
08:20there are 24 other guys out there could not care less about any of that they will be strong and they
08:25will actually muddy the waters and if you look at the form here eight races seven different winners
08:30only Lowndes is a double winner it indicates that any one of these guys could actually get up there and
08:35spoil the party and they've all got different aims haven't they they've all got different stories all
08:40the way up and down pit lane if you take out the top four you've got a whole stack of guys who
08:44are thinking about next year we've got Russell Ingle who's winding it up full time you've got Nick
08:49Perkat in the car that James Courtney should have been in we know that Nick is going to join the
08:54series full time next year so there's a lot to play for for the other 24 drivers they won't care
09:00anything about the guys who are fighting for the championship and Nick Perkat at the moment is
09:04actually the fastest man one minute 28.7 in car number 22. now some people will be rolling up on
09:09older tires having oh there's Jason Bright coming back the wrong way at turn 10. that'd be hard to do
09:15there it would be because it's a very short shoot second gear so something weird's gone on the team
09:19boc entries pulled to the right to stay out of the way so 28.7 fastest time at the moment for Nick
09:25Perkat and the Holden Racing Team Commodore and we'll expect some fireworks shortly when they come in and
09:30stick green brand new Dunlop slick tires on their cars wind cup was the first in to put new rubber on
09:35there's the armor all qualifying leaderboard we'll be back at sydney olympic park for qualifying in a tick
09:44qualifying continues here at the sydney 500 but we've had a red flag throughout the break and this
09:49is the reason why garth tander down at turn one this was never going to make it hard into the fence
09:57tander had just posted the fastest lap
10:00before that high speed impact never ever made the corner and as a result of that the car is being
10:08transported back with major front end damage garth's time has been wiped he will play no further part in
10:14this qualifying session barrettes oh just with garth down and watching that back on the big screen it's
10:19hard to watch gt isn't it uh no it was worse when i was in there um yeah look i it just it was just
10:26grabbing a front tire and i was wide and um it just wouldn't slow down enough and it was enough
10:31just to send me widened into the wall and i hit the wall pretty hard so it's done a fair bit of damage
10:36that's the consequence of this circuit though is i mean you were up to p1 you had fast car fast time
10:42but that's what happens here yeah fast car fast times are relevant now because we lose that time so
10:46even if we can fix the car we start at the back so yeah it's disappointing it's frustrating we had a lot of
10:52next year's componentry in the car and it was working well it would have been nice to get a race
10:55on it but um we'll see the boys will do their best job at fixing the car if we can and um see if we
11:01can make it out for the race we'll have to start from the back so um a bit of creative strategy and
11:06uh see what we can do all right gt enjoy some family time garth was the inaugural winner of the
11:12sydney 500 street race back in 2009 he's had two poles around here so he knows his way around
11:18successfully hasn't had a pole position in 2013 and that happened hasn't happened to him for a long
11:24long time yeah he's always been a very good qualifier and good on street circuits matt and he went to the
11:28top you know but for at this point was very good he went to the top he was fastest before that incident
11:34and now to start from the back just shows how unforgiving this place can be so that changes
11:40the game again they've had to sit in pit lane all regroup they've got eight and a half minutes to go
11:45remember we're looking for the top 10 to go into the shootout jamie winkup our championship leader
11:51leads the time sheets with a 127.76 and he's going on with it shane van gisbergen's in the picture
11:58so too is lounge and winner bottom davison's looking very speedy here as you can see by the
12:04green boxes he's popped to the top that's the fastest time of the weekend so far one minute 27.67
12:09it's just a fraction faster than his old rival winkup and it's better than yesterday's best time which
12:14was a 127.70 now we're on board again with winkup dawn fraser avenue the roller coaster ride into the
12:23left-hander at turn nine just got it stopped it's where we saw jason ride off before at turn 10.
12:30this gives you an indication of how busy second third fourth back to second for the right-hander
12:36here at turn 11. little squirt of the throttle 12 another squirt of throttle in second gear into the
12:41gutter on the right hand side just climbing over the curb and then breezing up against that wall on
12:47the exit and that's a 27.3 so we rode with winkup when he found four tenths mark dutton he's engineer
12:53he's got 0.28 of a margin over will davison so he's reached that target time we spoke about we thought
13:01they'd get to the low 27s he's done that will they go further here's cool time what a good lap that is
13:08a pivotal lap in this year's championship that was very very high quality from winkup he's series
13:14combatant craig louser's currently sixth fabian koolthar when we joined him he was getting pretty
13:23loose down at turn nine he's up to third position for the lockwood commodore so winkup is setting the
13:29pace and making a statement in terms of the championship this fight for the top 10 continues
13:37at sydney olympic park where the cars are right on the edge
13:47this is pressure cooker stuff at the sydney 500 it's only qualifying but qualifying can mean
13:53absolutely everything by the time they get out and race and jamie winkup
13:57leads the timesheets all four title fighters are inside the top 10 with three and a half minutes
14:03to go yeah maddie and i've just watched with interest both the red bull cars both stopped
14:08during this qualifying session not a change to either of the cars but lots of engineering talk between
14:14their engineers and the drivers which i love because it personifies the fact that this is about driving
14:20this last few minutes is the race driver not the car yeah that's a really good point larko that level of
14:27effort we said it earlier the risk reward here is really high if you take big risks you get a reward
14:33for lap time but you make a little mistake and we've already seen it with garth tander it will bite you
14:40so wink up number one davison number two fabian coulthard van gisburgh and bright dalberto good job
14:47jonathan webb good job dave reynolds eighth lounge ninth winner bottom tenth oh it's just glanced the
14:53wall hard glanced the wall with the right rig plucked the mirror off as well at the start of the lap so
14:59he was cycling up temperature and pressure in a brand new tire set craig lounge for this final run this
15:04will be the happy hour run so that's not the way you want to start it because that nicks a couple of
15:08kilometers an hour out of the corner exit speed that hurts the terminal speed of the car on australia
15:13avenue down into the breaking area at turn one and lounge at the moment is ninth remember they're
15:18they're vying for a position in the shoot out here and it takes some confidence away you know you're
15:23running to the fence there and you go oh i'm not really sure when i get to the breaking area if it's
15:26okay 33.9 is the first marker he's 0.18 over that time set by his teammate winter bottom meanwhile is 0.25
15:37that was good and on a third 39 that's on par with the best numbers that we've seen around here to
15:43the first sector despite the little glitch at the start for lounge which means he ate a bit of time
15:48there so he's got some pace in the car no surprise there he's got a great history on street circuits
15:53he's been on the podium here four times in the last two years 11 and 12. meanwhile jamie winkup is out of
16:01the car he's parked it so 27 380 is almost three tenths of a second faster than will davison so
16:07that's as good as he can do he's parked up he's parked up because it doesn't really matter where he
16:11is so long as he's in the 10 that's the point for jamie winkup he's got nearly three tenths of a
16:15second margin and that's all that counts at the moment he doesn't matter he's fourth or fifth or whatever
16:20why take the risk lounge up to five so 127.8 for craig lounge that puts mark winterbottom on the bubble
16:29in 10th that's a powerful statement yeah it's very very good you do that lap time you get out of the
16:35car and you stand there that has a pretty big effect on the field when you've seen that and he achieved
16:41the theoretical best mark if you stitch together everyone's best sectors he did that 27.3 we spoke
16:46about how's will davison on two wheels there that looked pretty wild the inside rear of the thing
16:51was up like a go-kart final corner this is where craig lounge rubbed the wall so will davison p2
16:58so it's win cup davison cool tart is the spoiler then van gisbergen fourth lounge fifth
17:03winterbottom championship contender is tenth at the moment so winterbottom's got to do some work
17:08here to make sure that he earns a spot in the top ten we're with him approaching turn eight
17:17left hander on the dawn fraser avenue that is a tricky corner that is a really complicated corner
17:24it's got little rises in it strange camber changes oh look at this alex premier has found the wall
17:32that's a biggie that's right at the last corner for crema who was lifted out of the car here saturday
17:372012. last run for fujitsu racing grm in a holden so winterbottom's got to press on here he's 10th and on
17:45the bubble if anybody grabs this spot from him he'll be out of the shootout he's got one corner
17:49remaining and the yellow flag out in that spot and he hit the fence he hit the fence quite hard
17:55just then seven to seven over seven that's right will davison with a spin and damage at the front
18:03big damage at the front of will davison's car i can see the bottom from the onboard shot have a look
18:07at it it's gone in hard he's position three sydney is biting yeah okay mate um good to see that all right
18:17lot of damage and not go too fast now because you destroy that tire and a shootout to come
18:24and that shows how clever the move was from wincup and red bull to go in and park the car so there's
18:30push and shove involved here with the norton hornet and that's why alex primer ends up into the fence
18:35james moffett in car 360. now watch this for will davison remember he's already comfortably inside the
18:43top 10.
18:48well he did the dave reynolds he tried to turn it at the corner dave reynolds did exactly that but
18:52knew he wasn't going to make it so that was eight yeah that's the corner that i spoke about before
18:57that's the tricky one with a little hop in the middle of it followed by the off camber
19:01and he's gone in there in that little moment of awkward indecision bob graziano
19:05from ford australia there in the white shirt inside the pepsi max ford performance racing
19:09bunker there's some work for those guys before the shootout so everybody into the top 10 shootout
19:14in terms of the championship but remember they're going to have to piece together will davison's car
19:18mark winterbottom in seventh craig lownds in fifth these positions all locked in headed by scott
19:25mclaughlin alex davison in 14th scotty pie will start from 19th james moffett involved in that turn
19:32with alex premier garth tander a major rebuild underway on the front end of car 22 a car two rather
19:41as qualifying part one comes to a close but already the victims are starting to line up
19:47at the sydney nrma motoring and services 500
19:56it is a boxing day tradition around the country 12 30 eastern on seven the rolex sydney hobart and
20:02this has become a tradition of v8 supercars lately the pixar disney family fun zone so if you've got
20:07kids you're coming on out you're in the sydney area jump on that free public transport it's so easy to get
20:13here and let your kids run loose before they tackle the v8 supercars and watch 28 of our finest
20:20drivers strut their stuff around this crunching circuit the king of the kids in terms of qualifying
20:25at the moment though is jamie winkup he's with mark barretta hey jamie winkup congratulations into the
20:30top 10 shootout fastest in that session of qualifying the way you stepped out of the car there at the end
20:35was that sending a message to the rest of the field no no no not at all not at all we um we got a good
20:40lap in um which we're happy with and the the probability of us getting knocked out of a 10
20:45was quite low so uh we decided to stay save a set of tires um you know that's probably two laps more
20:52or two less two less more running than i do on race tires which i need to use this afternoon so
20:56we like to step out thankfully still finished up p1 so i'll go last out for the shootout and
21:01providing i do a good job um we should be somewhere there or thereabouts racing history here at this
21:06circuit hasn't been fantastic but heading into shootout you feeling more comfortable here
21:10uh yes and no i've i've been comfortable in the past and then it's bit me hard so uh just got
21:16to keep the focus on but uh the car is obviously very good i've just got to keep my head it's all
21:20up to me now it's on my shoulders for the shootout and uh and then the race of course we need also
21:24need a good car hopefully we tune it right for the for the conditions strategy is a bit of a bit of
21:29a ferry one with uh with two compulsory pit stops but uh a lot of loads back on me again to do a good
21:34job so i'll do the best i can all right so far so good well done jamie so good thank you
21:38i want to just grab uh mark with a bottom if i could for a sec mate you and i both know that's
21:42that's a good effort you're in the top 10 but it's not fast enough you've got to find a little
21:45chunk of time mate where is it yeah um i think that the track actually before tanda caused a red
21:51flag there was a tire bundle at turn six that was quite um in and when the red flags come out they put
21:56the tire bundle back in a in a worse position so we didn't actually see too many people go that much
22:02quicker um lambs obviously popped in and i jumped in but uh a lot of the other blokes didn't go that
22:07much quicker so um uh obviously win cups time's very good and we're a bit off that but uh yeah we
22:14tried some things overnight hasn't worked necessarily the way you want them but the good thing is you're
22:18in the ten and it's one lap of glory now and if you get it right you you're on pole anyway so um as
22:24long as we're in that's the that's the main thing very best of luck in the shootout mate thanks
22:27mate mark winterbottom qualified seventh to be part of the top 10 shootout work underway for his
22:34teammate will davison on car six you'll remember that he went into the wall pretty hard in the dying
22:39minutes of that qualifying session we're being told he will be right for the one lap dash but does that
22:45alter our question what do you think who will win the 2013 v8 supercar championship he's a long shot will
22:51davison but he's still in it mathematically will it be mark winterbottom will it be craig
22:56lounge or will it be jamie wing cup just go to v8 supercars.com it's easy to navigate or use the
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