castrol edge australia enewsletter – vol 4, issue 14

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CASTROL CREWS IN FORM AT IPSWICH 400It was another solid weekend for Castrol-oiled V8 Supercars as the championship took crews to Queensland over the weekend for the Coates Hire Ipswich 400.

Castrol-backed Ford Pepsi Max Crew’s Chaz Mostert again showed his emerging class with a smart drive to third securing his second podium in as many days at Queensland Raceway. He qualified stronger than his Saturday efforts and a good start, the right strategy and solid driving brought home another finish on the rostrum.

Castrol-oiled Norton Nissan driver James Moffat made history for Nissan Motorsport with pole position – and almost scored a podium result – at Queensland Raceway. Moffat took pole for Sunday’s 200km race, Nissan’s first in the V8 Supercars Championship, before finishing fifth at the 3.1km Ipswich circuit.

“Pole was a big highlight, not only for me personally, but for the team as well. It’s the first championship pole for Nissan

since coming back, so that’s a great achievement for everyone,” said Moffat.

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Championship Points

POS DRIVER POINTS

1 Jamie Whincup 1790

2 Mark Winterbottom 1775

3 Craig Lowndes 1628

4 James Courtney 1598

5 Fabian Coulthard 1535

6 Shane Van Gisbergen 1532

7 Scott McLaughlin 1347

8 Chaz Mostert 1322

9 Garth Tander 1309

10 David Reynolds 1201

11 Jason Bright 1125

12 Michael Caruso 1059

13 Scott Pye 1058

14 Will Davison 1043

15 James Moffat 1017

16 Rick Kelly 1005

17 Lee Holdsworth 982

18 Nick Percat 968

19 Russell Ingall 963

20 Tim Slade 936

21 David Wall 855

22 Dale Wood 731

23 Jack Perkins 679

24 Todd Kelly 662

25 Robert Dahlgren 531

“Our car was excellent in the first stint of the race and I thought we were on for a pretty good day. It goes without saying that we have to keep this momentum going towards the endurance races – a time of year that I really enjoy the most.”

FPR’s Mark Winterbottom looked set to challenge his team-mate for a podium place only to be ruled out of contention by a puncture caused by the outside edge of a kerb soon after his final pit stop. He had pace over his main title rival but the puncture and resultant loss of points sees him drop to second, just 15 points back. The next event on the V8 Supercars Championship will be at Sydney Motorsport Park on August 23-24.


Castrol-backed Volkswagen Motorsport driver Jari-Matti Latvala has held his nerve to win Rally Finland despite pressure from VW team-mate Sebastien Ogier.

In what was his second win on home soil, Latvala led throughout the event, but a brake issue late yesterday saw the Frenchman come within reach of taking the rally. Despite the final leg having just three timed stages, Ogier pressed and even with victory on the final Power Stage fell 3.6sec short at the finish.

“It was so hard to take this victory,” said Latvala. “I had a fantastic feeling with

CASTROL-BACKED VW WINS RALLY FINLAND the driving but when I had the brake problem yesterday I was in a difficult position. I was so close to losing the victory but I fought back. I was nervous today but managed to hold it together.”

Citroen’s Kris Meeke claimed third, while Andreas Mikkelsen brought his VW home in fourth. Castrol-backed Ford driver Mikko Hirvonen secured fifth in his Fiesta RS WRC

“It’s been a bit up and down and I’m a bit disappointed as we were aiming to be able to fight for the podium,” said Hirvonen. “It wasn’t so bad at the start

of the rally and on Friday I was really happy with the way we were driving and where we were fighting. But then we made a small mistake and when that happens and you start to hesitate like how I did on Saturday, you just lose so much time. You really can’t afford to do that around here.”

Australia’s Molly Taylor finished third in class and 35th overall.


FINAL POSITIONS: Rally Finland

POS DRIVER TIME DIFF PREV DIFF 1ST

1 Jari-Matti Latvala 2:57:23.2

2 Sebastien Ogier 2:57:26.8 +3.6 +3.6

3 Kris Meeke 2:58:13.8 +47.0 +50.6

4 Andreas Mikkelsen 2:59:15.7 +1:01.9 +1:52.5

5 Mikko Hirvonen 3:00:12.9 +57.2 +2:49.7

6 Juho Hanninen 3:01:52.2 +1:39.3 +4:29.0

7 Elfyn Evans 3:02:49.0 +56.8 +5:25.8

8 Hayden Paddon 3:03:41.0 +52.0 +6:17.8

9 Henning Solberg 3:09:30.2 +5:49.2 +12:07.0

10 Karl Kruuda 3:12:07.9 +2:37.7 +14:44.7

2014 FIA DRIVERS´ STANDINGS

Pos Driver Total

1 Sebastien Ogier 187

2 Jari-Matti Latvala 143

3 Andreas Mikkelsen 95

4 Mads Ostberg 66

5 Mikko Hirvonen 62

6 Kris Meeke 54

7 Thierry Neuville 46

8 Elfyn Evans 42

9 Martin Prokop 31

10 Henning Solberg 26


David Sera has positioned himself for a last round showdown with Castrol EDGE CIK Stars of Karting KZ2 Championship leader Joey Hanssen after a dominant performance at the penultimate round in Newcastle. Sera was in ominous form, qualifying on pole and then winning every race he entered for a maximum round score, setting up a grandstand finish at his home track - Todd Road in Melbourne - over the weekend of September 20-21.

The first final was a canter for the Deadly Kart driver. He won by a considerable margin from Queenslander Kyle Ensbey (Maranello) and Hanssen (CRG). After one of the toughest weekends he’s seen in Castrol EDGE KZ2 competition, Hanssen mustered a third in final one and then came home sixth. The battle for the podium placings in the race saw Chris Hays come home second with Kel Treseder holding off a spirited Matthew Wall. Post-race officials displaced Hays two positions for an early incident with Ensbey, elevating Treseder and Wall.

DAVID SERA HUNTING ANOTHER TITLEVictorian Aaron Cameron (Arrow) had a breakthrough victory in the elite junior category, KF3. He took both finals today becoming the first driver since Jayden Ojeda (Exprit) at round one this year to achieve that feat. He was pushed all the way by the winner of the last two rounds of the Championship, Zane Morse (Tony Kart). After finishing second in final one, Ojeda had a first turn coming together in the second final which dropped him down the order. Showing true Championship quality, the Sydney-sider fought back to finish fifth.

Finishing third, Ojeda’s strongest challenger for the Title, Bryce Fullwood was able to close the gap, albeit by just four points. The Title battle in KF2 is even closer, just as today’s racing was. Nathan Tigani took out the opening final to bring himself to within four points of Championship leader coming into the weekend, Troy Loeskow.

Loeskow bounced back in the second final in emphatic fashion, stalking early leader Tigani and then moving to the

lead before pulling away out in front. In the end, the gap was 2.665 seconds. He also was awarded the Franco Guaitoli Memorial Shield. Just a handful of points separate Loeskow and Tigani heading to Melbourne.

In the TaG Heavy support race, Brendan Nelson kept his unbeaten run in the Series alive this year, crossing the line millimetres in front of local, Andrew Torville. Mitchell Hewitt won the TaG Light race, Tyler O’Leary won the Rookies, TaG Restricted Light was won my Michael Pryor and TaG Restricted Heavy was taken out by Michael Dorman. The next and final round of the Castrol EDGE CIK Stars of Karting will be conducted at Todd Road in Melbourne over the weekend of September 20-21.


Courtney Force took home the Wally from the No. 1 spot at the NHRA Sonoma Nationals when she dismissed competitors Peter Russo, Bob Tasca III, Matt Hagan and 16-time Champion John Force to score her fifth career win. Force became the winningest female driver in Funny Car history with the victory. She took that title from her sister Ashley Force Hood, who had four career Funny Car wins.

“I’ve just had my eyes set on Ashley for a while. There was a big cluster of people who had four wins and I kind of became obsessed with going for No. 5,” said Force “You always want to do well and I know that once Ashley stepped out of the seat and started a family she had totally made herself. She did a great job and I looked up to her. I knew she had four wins and I looked at where her

stats were to try to see where I was at and compare. She’s just done so well. I looked up to her and I feel like I’ve done a pretty good job if I can do half as well as she did. It’s cool to reach No. 5, but I’m very proud of my team because obviously I wouldn’t be here without them and the hard work that they put in. I’m only as good as my team is,” she added.

Force currently owns the fastest speed in the history of 1,000 foot racing at 325.37 mph and has posted top speed in seven of 15 races this year. She also won the 100th pro tour event by a woman when she prevailed May 25th at Topeka, Kan. this year.

John Force was looking for his 8th win at Sonoma Raceway today unfortunately for the 16-time NHRA

COURTNEY FORCE WINS SONOMA IN ALL CASTROL-OILED JFR FINAL

Mello Yello World Champion he came up on the losing end of this epic family match-up. As their 8,000 horsepower Mustangs left the starting line, John was out on Courtney and was on his way to his third win of the season until the massive Goodyear slicks became unglued from the track at the 660 foot mark. That was all Courtney needed to go around her dad and take the win.

“I was outrunning her at half-track by a car and then it rattled. It drove through that little bit of rattle and then it blew the tires off. I still thought I had her but she went by me right at the finish line. We were fast all day and they were a little slower,” said John Force.

The good news is the reigning NHRA Funny Car clinched his spot in the Countdown to the Championship with


his semi-final win over Alexis DeJoria. So, despite not winning and coming away with a runner-up finish, John Force was excited and happy to see his daughter hoist the Wally with her crew in the winner’s circle at Sonoma Raceway. Despite qualifying number one for the third time this season, Brittany Force was unable to parlay the strong, consistent performance of her Castrol EDGE Dragster to her advantage.

The 2013 NHRA Auto Club Rookie of the Year was the odds-on favorite to go rounds today, and potentially make

to the finals at the NHRA Sonoma Nationals, but as they say in racing, the sure thing when two race cars line up for eliminations is only one’s coming back for the next round. Unfortunately, it wasn’t Brittany Force.

“I am starting to think that the No. 1 qualifier is a curse in Top Fuel. Schumacher went out in the first round last weekend, and we did it this weekend. I was actually talking with him on Friday about it. In Topeka I was No. 1 and was able to go to the semi-finals but we just can’t get the win from the top spot,” said Brittany Force.


John Force and his Castrol GTX High Mileage Mustang ended the annual NHRA Western Swing in the winner’s circle as 16-time NHRA Mello Yello champion claimed his 141st career win at the 27th annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Northwest Nationals. It was also John Force’s third win of the season and fourth consecutive final round appearance. Not only that, the Castrol backed John Force Racing Funny Cars can also claim a Western Swing sweep, as Robert Hight’s win at Denver, Courtney Force’s victory in Sonoma and now John’s success at Seattle have rewritten the NHRA record books.

“It’s great anytime you win but you got to look over there at the Castrol green Ford and all those kids around it,” said

CASTROL RACER FORCE WINS SEATTLEthird-year driver has competed against Densham.

“We had a rough first round. We went out and blew the tires off. It obviously wasn’t the run we had hoped to make,” said Courtney. “We had a good car all weekend, but we couldn’t get it down in the heat today. On the first pass the car didn’t react how we expected it to. The good news is we are staying in the No. 4 spot.”

The 26-year-old driver of the Traxxas Ford Mustang Funny Car is now just nine points out of the No. 3 spot currently occupied by Ron Capps. Brittany Force and the Castrol EDGE team were hoping to rounds today at the NHRA Northwest Nationals, but the 2013 NHRA Auto Club

Force. “They’re really good, but what makes them really good is they team up with my other three teams with Traxxas and Auto Club and of course, the Castrol EDGE dragster. They all work as a team and that’s what makes it click and if somebody’s in trouble, someone’s helping Mike Neff, John Medlen, Ron Douglas, Todd Smith, Dean Antonelli, the lists goes on and on. It’s amazing how we all work as one team and we all share the money and that’s the way we keep it running.”

Courtney Force qualified in the No. 2 spot going into eliminations today right behind her father John Force, but her excitement was cut short when she smoked the tires in the opening round against Gary Densham. This was the first time the


MELLO YELLO POINT STANDINGS - FUNNY CAR

POS DRIVER PTS

1 Robert Hight 1271

2 John Force 1224

3 Ron Capps 989

4 Courtney Force 980

Rookie of the Year was stopped in the opening round.

Despite Brittany’s early exit, she still remains upbeat and positive, even though she was unable to get to another final round during this year’s annual NHRA Western Swing. The Castrol EDGE team will get the weekend off from the NHRA races and return to their home base in Brownsburg, Indiana.


Castrol EDGE V8 Predictor team Rich’s Boy has taken round honours for the Coates Hire Ipswich 400 event scoring themselves a $100 BP fuel card. The Rich’s Boy team’s 85 points haul came with a prediction accuracy of 48% after they took full advantage of the new-to-2014 bonus points system which included a bonus 20 points for correctly predicting a driver on pole position and a race winner.

In the overall league standings team Arne’s Mob has maintained the lead with team Murph and SCATTERS also maintaining their podium spots in second and third respectively. The overall drivers’ points winner for the weekend went to Red Bull Racing Australia’s Craig Lowndes after his three second places finishes for the event.

V8 PREDICTOR: RICH’S BOY TAKES QR ROUND

Meanwhile teammate Jamie Whincup has taken over Ford Pepsi Max Crew driver Mark Winterbottom for the lead of the V8 Supercars Championship by 15 points. In the Experts’ league Greg Rust

took out round honours with 35 points for the Queensland-based event.Speedcafe.com was second on 25 with Andy Priaulx managing a minor score for the round with seven points.


Speedcafe.com continues to lead the race amongst the Expert predictors.

Signing up for the V8 Predictor is easy and players have the chance of winning the ultimate V8 Supercars holiday in 2015 including flights, accommodation, spending money and behind the scenes access to the V8 Supercars world.

There are also $100 BP Fuel vouchers up for grabs for each of the 14 championship rounds contested this year plus bonus prizes on top. Round 9 of the V8 Supercars Championship takes crews to Sydney Motorsport Park on Aug 22-24.

2014 Expert Leaderboard

RANK TEAM NAME POINTS

1 Speedcafe 235

2 Greg Rust 184

3 Andy Priaulx 171

Weekend Results - Castrol Townsville 500

RACE RESULT POINTS

1 LOWNDES, Craig 276

2 WHINCUP, Jamie 252

3 COURTNEY, James 244

4 MOSTERT, Chaz 224

5 PYE, Scott 182

6 PERCAT, Nick 178

7 VAN GISBERGEN, Shane 177

8 COULTHARD, Fabian 174

8 TANDER, Garth 174

9 KELLY, Rick 151

10 MOFFAT, James 144

11 WINTERBOTTOM, Mark 141

12 CARUSO, Michael 139

13 MCLAUGHLIN, Scott 136

14 DAVISON, Will 130

15 SLADE, Tim 120

16 BRIGHT, Jason 115

16 WALL, David 115

17 INGALL, Russell 109

18 REYNOLDS, David 102

2014 Castrol EDGE V8 Predictor - Global Leaderboard

RANK TEAM NAME POINTS

1 Arne’s Mob 492

2 Murph 449

3 SCATTERS 441

4 bad betty 431

5 Team Obsolete 429

6 red bull 01 429

7 The Flying Bulls!!! 425

8 Bryce’s V8 Tipping 423

9 Cakeevans 423

10 monty 420

11 Tarmac 420

12 Bloopy Enterprises 419

13 #1V8SCFAN 418

14 Low and Slow 417

15 Give it some jandal 416

16 woko 416

17 boats n hoes 416

18 JWS-888- 415

19 eightor 415

20 The NASCAR Offseason 413


Castrol EDGE proudly launched its third year as naming rights sponsor of the prestigious Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship at Mount Panorama, Bathurst. The Qantas Wallabies were joined by Bathurst 1000 winners Mark “Frosty” Winterbottom and Russell “The Enforcer” Ingall to officially launch the Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship at a location which has produced strong success for the Castrol brand since the 1960s.

Mount Panorama symbolises the most demanding challenge of strength on both man and machine and was seen as the perfect fit to launch the Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship. With a notable list of competing rugby nations - New Zealand, Argentina, South Africa and Australia – the Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship is considered as one of the toughest rugby competitions in the world.

Castrol Australia Consumer Marketing Manager Ben Rose was excited by the

chance to bring together two integral parts of the Castrol family, rugby and racing, to launch what is set to be another exciting season.

“We’re extremely proud to once again be partnering with the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) as official performance partners of the Wallabies and naming rights sponsors of the Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship,” he said. “We wanted to share our Castrol heritage with the Wallabies as they travel through regional New South Wales on their ‘Bush to Bledisloe’ tour.

“Castrol EDGE is all about strength and performance under even the most extreme conditions and the link between Castrol EDGE and the mountain is significant, with 19 Bathurst victories won on Castrol oil. The launch at Mount Panorama has allowed the Castrol EDGE brand to bring together two high performance partnerships and showcase the strength required to compete at the highest level,” Rose said.

CASTROL EDGE LAUNCHES 2014 RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP AT MOUNT PANORAMA

The ‘Bush to Bledisloe’ tour is the brainchild of Qantas Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie and is designed to bring passionate NSW Rugby supporters closer to the national team than ever before, with a range of community activities planned across a number of regional NSW towns.

McKenzie said the squad enjoyed the opportunity to launch the Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship alongside some of Bathurst’s elite.

“Our Bush2Bledisloe regional road trip is a really important piece of our preparations for the Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship, and we know it will serve as a strong platform for when the tournament kicks off next week,” McKenzie said.

“We also very much enjoyed today’s experience and learning more about Mount Panorama, an iconic location in Australia. Personally, I’m also an avid fan of motor racing, have been to the


Bathurst event before, and physically walked the track a few years ago. It’s great to be back and share in this opportunity with some of racing’s legends.”

2013 Bathurst 1000 winner Mark Winterbottom was delighted to showcase his sport and the mountain to the Qantas Wallabies and talk about strength and performance with some of the country’s most elite athletes.

“We train extremely hard to race in an event like the Bathurst 1000 so today

was a great opportunity to show our national rugby side how we prepare for a demanding track like Mount Panorama,” he said. “Some of the guys were pretty surprised at the amount of preparation that we put in, but after taking them for a tour of the circuit in the Castrol EDGE bus they were blown away by the extremes that we face. While we may not have to take physical impacts time and again or engage in a scrum with 900kg coming in from each side, we certainly do face extremes that put pressure on our bodies and our V8 Supercars.

“We face extremes of G-force, heat exposure and intense braking pressures and, at such high speeds, one lapse in concentration can end your race. It’s great that we had this opportunity to share our sport with the Wallabies and hopefully we can both claim Championship victories in 2014,” Winterbottom said.

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