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00:0020 minutes of qualifying that's all that's left for 2013 to determine the
00:10grid for the last race of the season you don't need us to tell you how critical
00:15this is for our two championship contenders especially Craig Lowndes
00:22and as pit exit opens we can close off this viewer vote for this afternoon the
00:28first question was no penalty yesterday for winter bottom a fair decision three
00:32quarters reckon it wasn't a fair decision so thanks for having your say and keep your
00:38eyes on v8 supercars.com.au and just seven sport out throughout the afternoon we'll
00:43keep those questions coming don't forget you can join our conversation via twitter just
00:47use the hashtag v8sc so after all of these qualifying sessions throughout the year it
00:57comes down to this 20 minute blast and this is where we've been this is where we are covered
01:03more than six and a half thousand kilometres worth of racing quite extraordinary sydney
01:07olympic park street circuit if you were with us yesterday or have seen this over the last
01:12five years you know you know that it's a car cruncher 3.42 kilometres with all the characteristics
01:19of a street circuit all the bumps all the grinds the curbs as well the concretes barriers that
01:25line the circuit it is so narrow in some parts it's hard to believe that we fit two sometimes
01:31three and ambitiously even four v8 supercars alongside each other so big day for red bull
01:40racing australia at the end of the day they will have a champion most likely it will be jamie
01:45wind cup but we just don't know there are no certainties at all no guarantees at this circuit
01:50and there's no doubt boys that as cool a customer as jamie wind cup has been and as carefree and
01:58fast craig lounge can be they'll be nervous they'll be nervous all right maddie craig lounge especially
02:05he has to qualify well now to give himself any chance this afternoon of winning the series and this man
02:11who qualified so well yesterday neil he only needs to make one little mistake and you're out it's 150
02:17points up for grabs today if he goes out in qualifying or crashes early in the race lounge can win and it's
02:25as simple as making a poor choice so he's talking about the shift lights the gear shift lights on the
02:32steering wheel so it's as simple as making a poor decision under brakes on cue so it didn't pull up
02:37nicely at turn two there at all gets something slightly wrong in one of these ton and a half
02:42devices there's the shift lights illuminating at the top of the steering wheel they can be calibrated
02:47using a laptop programming the engine control unit to stage how you want them to illuminate when you
02:54want them to illuminate have a look at this this is the replay into turn two and this is really exactly
03:01the point that mark was making that i was going to pick up on that and it's so hard to convey the
03:05complexity of driving one of these cars on the knife edge the weight the pace the grip that they offer
03:11get it slightly wrong and you pay a very very big price around a track like this but can win cup
03:17make it pole position number 14. he's miles in front of those around him the next closest
03:23with four mark winterbottom and jason bright so he's been the master of qualifying so far this
03:28year and what's going on out there at the moment is people are just doing a verification run what
03:32levels of grip what's the track condition like how's the traffic because there's plenty of that at the
03:37moment they're all just crawling around at road car speed see the look on jeremy moore's face doesn't
03:44require any words as they all try and find some space it takes a little while for everybody to
03:49get there a couple of hundred meters around this so let's wreck the lap so he's just said sorry jj to
03:58jeremy moore but it's wrecked the lap because he couldn't get onto the straight so basically
04:04jeremy's just saying do a lap get yourself a banker lap make sure you've got a verification of what the
04:09cars like and then bring it in oh big moment ahead of lounge there for one of the norton cars
04:20went straight ahead we're still waiting to see if scotty pie is going to join this
04:23qualifying session after big damage yesterday at sydney olympic park
04:28the norton hornet the nissan ultimate of james moffett skating and skating around this circuit
04:45locking the front wheels trying to get control and this v8 supercar beast around a track that just
04:53wants to punish you for being here 129.01 is the leading time now set by shane van gisberg and on
05:02the podium yesterday the giz alex premer and scott mclaughlin the two gary rogers motorsport commodores
05:09second and third the last day for gary rogers in the v8 supercars under the commodore holden badge
05:16he will move to the volvo works team next year doing some work with rick kelly earlier today jack
05:21daniels racing and he was talking about the vital importance of this event in preparation for the
05:26clips of 500 next year and remember the saturday format changes with the twin 125s for the first
05:32event so very different but he said it's remarkably similar in that it's incredibly physical to try and
05:38get yourself through to the end of it so just recently launched the event for clips to begin next
05:43year's championship season and incidentally just before we went to the break we saw one of those
05:47this and alderman's flying off down the road at turn two that was michael caruso that ran wide down
05:52there and rick kelly as you were speaking neil is up to position five with a 29 four he's only four
05:58tenths away from van gisberg and so the two fujitsu cars with premer and mclaughlin second and third
06:06alex davison now jumps to four rick kelly fifth russell engel very good job at the moment he's currently
06:12six it's a lot hotter today guys isn't it very very warm in western sydney and this tripped them
06:19all up in the top 10 years today when it was seriously hot they did a very ordinary job and
06:26the lap time is a long way away from the lap time that we were expecting we're expecting a low 27 at the
06:33moment a 29 flat is the best anyone has been able to achieve so far that'll get better but it won't get
06:39down to the low 27s james courtney it's been a tough year for the whole racing team a lot of work
06:45by your crew during the year and a lot of work last night what's the status of your car that nick's
06:50driving and also gt's car yeah our car well nick and my car's got a little bit of a misfire issue at
06:57the moment which the boys are obviously in a hurry to try and sort out so uh they'll get that sorted and
07:01and uh then nick will get out there and have another crack uh gt side of things a lot of damage went down
07:07yesterday uh when they rebuilt the car so quickly a few things weren't put in quite right yesterday so
07:13that's why gas struggled in the race but change that all around we'll be right today it's another
07:17long day good luck cheers so we come on the second sector a two seven seven which versus the best time
07:28we've seen is a 178 so it's basically a second away from the low 27 that we were envisaging he's
07:37currently right on the cusp here this will put him right up and does 28 7 to the top and look who's
07:45fastest to the second sector now it's craig lounge and that's what it's going to have to be all day for
07:50lounge anything jamie does he's going to have to do better and he does it 128 5. and remember that
07:59initially they'd have gone out on some used tires to just get a bit of a feel for the conditions and
08:03then put brand new dunlop hard slick tires on the car get an understanding of what they're dealing with
08:09so it's red bull racing australia one and two at the moment lounge at win cup 28 5 place 28 7 van
08:15gisberg and third is winter bottom at the moment 13th car number five coming out of turn eight
08:21and win cup missed the next chicane neil so on the next lap win cup's gone through the chicane at turn
08:27two so he will miss his second lap so this is good for craig lounge lounge just slightly up 0.15
08:34faster than win cup but win cup will not get this lap time based on short cutting the chicane so this is
08:40as i said a good thing for craig in the battle to be in front of win cup at the start of this race will
08:49davison's just slotted into third and after yesterday's activities will ended up third in
08:55the championship and ahead of mark winterbottom but now frosty goes into third this is it had a lot of
09:03opposite lock on the steering to catch that didn't he it's the second time we've seen a little bit
09:08crossed up in this session straight through so the grip levels aren't there maybe it's also a brake
09:14bias issue with the percentage of brake front versus rear
09:19and by contrast his his teammate craig lounge and he's having little moments down there as well so the
09:24place is pretty slippery and that's a place that's burned several drivers this weekend he locked the
09:28rears and managed to release the brake and still able to steer the car at the critical moment got
09:33away with it here's jason bright he's currently in fifth yeah guys it was a long night for the crew
09:38at lucas dumbrell motorsport with scott pie's team the sergeant security team they were working away
09:43on his car after that incident with james muffet yesterday till about 3 30 in the morning the guys
09:49have literally finished and they have come running down to pit lane from the indoor paddock huffing and
09:55puffing carrying tools and wheels and all sorts of things so they're lucky enough to get him out
10:00for the last part of this session thanks rihanna rihanna creed in pit lane with the boys of course
10:05mark larkerman and mark barretta shame van gisbergen's pretty quick we'll watch the completion of
10:10will davidson's qualifying lap here so he hasn't been in his own time he remains in fourth but here
10:16comes van gisbergen super quick in the second sector and to the top 128-3 we did cop a 25-point penalty
10:24for that rub with fabian coultard yesterday at turn eight late in the race but he kept his podium
10:29and remember will davison yesterday in qualifying ended up in the wall when he had a subsequent run
10:34to try and sneak into the shootout which he was well and truly in david wall up on two wheels plenty
10:39of action at sydney olympic park
10:50the youngest ever winner in v8 supercars scott mclaughlin you are riding with him
10:55in the fujitsu commodore five and a half minutes to go in qualifying
11:00where are our championship contenders lounge is currently second wind cup is currently third but
11:06they've got flying laps in them and this is always a good ride when we go with the young kiwi because
11:10he's so busy he's pushing hard too out of turn eight this is dawn fraser avenue you watch the roller
11:19coaster ride here up down over the rise hard on the brakes for turn nine
11:28right hand and ten that's where all the drama went yesterday between
11:31lowndes and winterbottom train station on the right hand side
11:36turn 12. turn 12. take it out wide right over to the right hand side here on the exit of 13. could
11:49have even got that might have donated a mirror another one mclaughlin goes to third
11:56yeah as you can just see jamie winkup being pushed out now now
12:00craig lounge has just gone out ahead of them both cars sat here no changes to why the cars
12:06both the engineers sat in with their drivers and it was intense because what you've got to
12:11remember here craig lounge's best shot at this is he must get in front of jamie winkup that sounds
12:17obvious but he's got to put jamie back in the pack he's got to create trouble for jamie and i've got to
12:22say the the level of intensity side to side in this garage for the rest of the day well
12:27the heat is on yeah larko could you mention that i'm with roland dane roland in the enviable position
12:32both your cars are battling for this championship but right down the middle of this garage is a
12:37divide now how do you manage that between the two cars there's uh there's not really a divide we're
12:44all in the uh we're all in the same camp that's the strength of uh of this joint is though is that
12:50we're a team so to be honest we've got the two most professional drivers in the category
12:55uh and they understand that they're part of a team as well so uh it's um it's a lot easier
13:02most of the time than people people probably imagine all right thanks roland good luck today
13:07thank you and i guess the fact of the matter is that they've been dealing with this issue over the
13:11last few years it's not as though it's something new to them to have both drivers in the fight for
13:16the championship so they know how to get around it now or know how to deal with it highest pressure
13:21on lounge now mark larkom read that play and informed us 100 i agree and that's a correct
13:31methodology in terms of what this man has got to do he has got to now be in front of winker and this lap
13:39is the all-important one right out to the fence rub the mirror on the wall make sure you don't get
13:45caught with a lap car use every millimeter of road
13:53oh that's wrecked it that's just wrecked that lap
13:59yep straight away so jeremy time to go again best to actually back out of it now rather than use up too
14:05much of the tire got two minutes to get back around here and that's code for just take it easy get yourself
14:12sorted for the next lap give yourself space you see the pressure on jeremy
14:20they've got data that provides them with a track map and a location for every single car on
14:26the track they can see what the margins are between competitors
14:29so it's van gisbergen lounge mclaughlin and win cup and remember the van gisbergen was very speedy in
14:38qualifying yesterday and the shootout second in qualifying third in the shootout
14:43on the podium in the race and win cups just wrecked his lap too neil he's gone through the chicane so he's
14:47got to get back around he went out behind lounge so you heard jeremy say you've got two minutes you can
14:53get around and cruise but win cup can't cruise he's got to actually go quite fast to get back before
14:59the chicken flag comes out this will be unbelievably intense
15:05mark winter bottom 2013 bathys champion goes into second 128 29 here come the times david reynolds
15:13inside the top 10 will davison right out to the wall again and he does donate a side mirror a little bit
15:19of it anyway so davison third yeah this is the one that ruined it for win cup so close so we've
15:28actually seen that quite a few times now haven't we where he's got it all lit up in the rear of the car
15:33so something not quite to his liking or the grip levels are just not there he's bright he's down in
15:3812th at the moment good grip stood right up on two wheels it's a great indicator but not enough
15:43yesterday late in the race they were hurting for rear tires and traction remember he had young tires on
15:48the car he's got the top at 28 0 jason bright webb was on quite a good lap he just ran wide at the
15:56little complex at the back of the train station so that'll put him backwards
16:02so everybody now last lap winter bottom's had a moment as well it's currently third
16:10davison tornado the debris bits and pieces of mirrors
16:14so it's bright fan gisberg and winter bottom davison lounge mclaughlin prema win cup in eighth
16:19then dalberto fabian piltard
16:23lounge is out he's slowed up win cups pressing on we ride with will davison
16:30last ever qualifying session as a ford performance racing driver
16:34and he wants to make this one count he's been quick all weekend he's got good pace
16:41in the fpr falcon let's see what time he does he's currently fourth and he stays there but win cup two green boxes
16:55craig lowndes is ahead of him on the timesheets but not anymore win cup goes to the front row
17:00and van gisbergen what a critical lap van gisbergen can go to the top here
17:09the checkered flag falls but he's on his flying lap he's fastest to the first sector that's scott
17:15pie in front of him so good to see the sergeant security commodore out there
17:19traffic could be a factor here for him van gisbergen's looking very strong here he needs some space what's
17:25scott pie going to do for him he's actually made it very hard for him he's opened up a spot but he
17:30made the line tight that was awkward shane needed all the turning space there to keep his pace up it
17:35could have compromised what may have been a pole in the final sector no he gets away with it the only
17:42guy in the 27s shane van gisbergen pole position still p1 even with traffic great lap buddy great lap
17:54it's a very good lap particularly with the compromise
17:58takes wink up off the front row great lap that's a critical one for van gisbergen takes him off the
18:03front row puts him in the pack parks him alongside winner bottom
18:06can you believe that a third pole position for a fourth rather for shane van gisbergen this season
18:14he'll have jason bright team boc next to him then win cup and winter bottom that'll be interesting
18:20davison and mclaughlin webb and dalberto craig lownds will start this race from ninth that's
18:27getting towards the danger zone chas mostard in 16th his last drive for dick johnson racing before
18:33he moves over to fpr in 2014. so that sets sets the stage for the final race of the year 74 laps ahead
18:43shane van gisbergen vip pet foods is our pole sitter
18:52shane van gisbergen started yesterday's race from third and finished third he'd like to keep that
18:58going in a different manner today by starting on pole and finishing first if he could
19:02fourth pole position for 2013 and they're happy at vip pet foods team techno shane van gisberg and
19:10our armor or pole sitter closes the book on pole positions for 2013 two and a half grand
19:16in the back for the giz yeah he's got the money and he's had a fantastic finish to the season
19:22shane congratulations six six uh trips to the podium in the last six weeks has been remarkable
19:27finish to this year yeah i've had a pretty good year racing all different kinds of things and as you
19:30say six in a row for me it's pretty cool but um you know that lap i got held up by traffic and we
19:35still were pole it shows how good these cars are and how great of a job this team's done like
19:40it's awesome both in the top 10 and quality both days so hopefully we can both get on the podium
19:44again but uh over the moon yesterday finished in a little bit of controversy with fabian coulthard was
19:49that important to you today to come back strong and stamp your authority ah yeah yesterday was in
19:54controversy and we got we got pinged for it and probably rightfully so but uh i gave it a go and got on
19:58the podium but uh today hopefully we can do it without that and uh just get amongst it i enjoyed
20:03that top spot well done thanks a lot cheers jamie winkup um sorry i'm not interrupting your debrief
20:10there mate uh first of all i thought that was a great lap you made a little mistake on the first
20:13one on your fly there recovered and did a great job on what weren't ideal tyres then so that's
20:18encouraging but you don't want to be on the second row mate i know that no no we we sort of we had a
20:23it was a bit of a mess that session to be honest um had a few little glitches going on and i made a
20:27few mistakes so i'm happy to be third to be honest really oh we should have been should have been down
20:31there so we we um we just sort of grabbed whatever we could at the end there all right best of luck and
20:37you need a good start i'm sure you'll nail it i'm going to turn around here and try and uh grab the boss
20:41up here roland hey roland one final question uh we really needed to ask you and i reckon i know the
20:47answer all jokes aside if you had a preference who could win this afternoon who would it be from your
20:54team all jokes aside i'd never tell you there's the answer hey career in politics well done you
21:01walked straight into that one hey just on shane van gisberg and see that bookends the season of
21:07polls he started in adelaide with a pole position and finishes here now we'd like to thank shannon's
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21:29if you haven't done so just go to shannon's.com.au slash club thanks for looking after us this season
21:35in the v8 supercars shannon's great supporters still to come this afternoon on a big day here
21:41at sydney olympic park the final race of the dunlop series casey stone is still out there swinging away
21:46the v8 utes hit the streets again dami im she wowed us on the x-factor she will be here to perform live
21:55and 250 crunching kilometers will round off an extraordinary season don't miss it and there's
22:02scott mclaughlin car 33 earlier this year he became the youngest ever race winner in the v8 supercars
22:09category
22:12the win at pukekohe mate it was something that you just never forget scott mclaughlin the 19 year old kiwi
22:18in charge of this race at pukekohe remember the last lap i had goosebumps going down the body
22:24half a lap remaining for scott mclaughlin the crowd is going berserk
22:27seeing all the crowd and my mum dad my sister all my mates from where i started go-karting to where
22:32i was then they were there there's a new kid in town in the v8 supercars his name is scott mclaughlin
22:38he's on the champions list yeah that car seeing gary seeing all the boys is just something that will
22:44stick in my mind for a very long time and to be in the record books as well so young is a pretty cool
22:48thing as well this youngster is being compared already to the great craig lounge well if he can live up to
22:55that it'll be some kind of career me now me now me now me now me now me now me now