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Races 10/11 - Philip Island I Introduction

If the 2012 V8 Supercars Championship is going to be anything more than a three horse race, the challengers are going to have to step up pretty soon.

Jamie Whincup, Will Davison and Mark Winterbottom have dominated the year so far, sharing the nine race victories between them.

Just four events into the season may seem too early to be ruling out the likes of former champions Craig Lowndes and Garth Tander, but the form so far has been ominous at best.

Fourth-placed Craig Lowndes currently sits in excess of a full event’s worth of points behind team-mate Whincup in the standings. Perhaps more pertinently, Lowndes is yet to finish ahead of Whincup in a single race this year.

Like Lowndes, Tander has scored two pole positions, but incidents at Symmons Plains, Hamilton and Barbagallo have taken their toll on his points tally.

History indicates that this weekend could be the one where either Lowndes or Tander break the Whincup-Davison-Winterbottom stranglehold.

The duo have enjoyed their fare share of recent success at Phillip Island, taking two L&H 500 victories each over the last four years.

A bit more of that ‘island magic’ will go a long way towards kick-starting either drivers’ title campaign.

Counting the contenders

Stefan BartholomaeuSJournalist, Speedcafe.comEditor, Speedcafe Race Guides

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Craig lowndes heads to Phillip Island this weekend on a hat-trick of victories at the Victorian circuit.

The popular veteran will face a different challenge this year however, as the event moves away from the 500km race format

that saw Lowndes take the 2010 and 2011 wins alongside co-driver Mark Skaife.

Having scored just one podium finish so far this season, a victory would provide Lowndes’ 2012 championship assault with a much needed boost.

Although fourth in the championship after nine races, Lowndes is more than a full event’s worth of points adrift of his TeamVodafone team-mate Jamie Whincup.

Lowndes spoke to Speedcafe.com’s Grant Rowley about Phillip Island’s new format,

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the controversial Safety Car at Barbagallo and the championship equation ahead of this weekend’s event.

SPEEDCAFE: Phillip Island has been a happy hunting ground for you over the last couple of years, but it’s a different format

for everybody this year. Is it a significantly different mindset that the team takes into the event now that it’s not an enduro?

loWnDeS: Yeah, for sure. It’s a different challenge now. I think strategy wise we’ve now got to think about maximising track

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position and trying to outsmart everyone else. In some ways that sounds no different to an endurance race, but there have got to be quick, sharp decisions, and the car itself has to be set-up a little differently as well.

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They’re shorter stints, so you’re maximising the tyre in a different way. Fuel consumption probably won’t be as big a concern either, so it is a different mindset. I think it’s fantastic that we go there now and race flat out. It’s one of my top two or three favourite circuits to race on - it’s a great place.

SPEEDCAFE: All the drivers seem to rate Phillip Island pretty highly, so not having to share your car with a co-driver (outside of the nominated co-driver practice session on Friday) must be a positive as well!

loWnDeS: Oh for sure. It means you can set the car up to suit exactly what you want to get out of it, where in the past it may have been a bit of a compromise between yourself and your co-driver.

SPEEDCAFE: Weather is always a big factor at Phillip Island, but we haven’t seen a really cold and wet one there for a while...

loWnDeS: A cold and wet weekend is certainly not that pleasant down at Phillip Island. The wind coming off back straight can certainly get pretty strong. The wind makes life a lot harder to set the car up, because if it continues to change it means you’re continually chasing the balance. It’s something that does come up every year down there, so we’ll be keeping a close eye on it as always.

SPEEDCAFE: Championship wise things aren’t looking to bad for you in fourth. You were

obviously compromised a bit in the last race at Barbagallo by the Safety Car. Is it still frustrating looking back on that two weeks on?

loWnDeS: I think myself, Stone Brothers and a few others are still a bit disappointed by what happened, and also what went on after it as well. It’s something that I’m sure will come up in the Drivers’ Briefing at Phillip Island because we really don’t want it happening again.

I doubt it’ll change the outcome of the championship, but it did take us out of the race, and we don’t want to have races artificially changed in that way. We set ourselves up fairly well in that race, and were pretty confident that we could have at least had a podium finish.

SPEEDCAFE: What is your mindset regarding the championship at the moment? You’re almost 300 points behind the leader, which is a whole event’s worth of points, but do you still consider yourself to be right in this championship?

loWnDeS: Oh for sure. I think anything is still possible. We still have a lot of races to go before Homebush, but every weekend that goes by it’s obviously getting harder if we’re falling further away. What went on in Western Australia certainly didn’t help that cause, because we’ve got to maximise every opportunity to still stay in that championship hunt.

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11Races 10/11 - Philip Island I Circuit Info

PhIllIP ISland GRand PRIx CIRCuIt

location: Phillip Island, Victorialength: 4.45 kilometresDirection: Anti-clockwiseaverage speed: 174km/hmaximum speed: 290km/hfastest Point: Front StraightSlowest Point: Turn 5

Circuit DescriptionOriginally designed in 1956, the Phillip Island circuit was re-born for the 1989 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix. The fast and flowing venue has been basically unchanged and hosts two international motorcycle events (MotoGP and World Superbikes) and a full program of national events each year. The circuit hosted V8 Supercars’ 500km pre-Bathurst endurance race between 2008 and 2011, before moving to a new format this year.

V8 Supercars Qualifying lap record:Craig Lowndes, Holden Commodore VT, 1m32.0713s, 2000

V8 Supercars race lap record:Craig Lowndes, Holden Commodore VT, 1m33.4389s, 1999

event format:fridayPractice: 2 x 30 min (lower 50% of the Championship)Practice: 2 x 20 min practice (all drivers)

SaturdayPractice 1 x 30 minQualifying: 1 x 20 minRace - 1 x 140km

SundayPractice 1 x 30 minQualifying: 1 x 20 minRace – 1 x 200km

tyre format:Only the hard tyre will be used this weekend due to the sustained high loadings seen at the Phillip Island circuit. Six new sets of the hard tyres will be allocated per car.

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Wind and track temperature both change the behaviour of the car significantly. Even last year we saw in the limited time between the two sprint races the temperature dropped 10 degrees or so and your set-up just goes out the window.

It’s a similar situation if the wind goes from a north-westerly to a south-easterly or something like that. That’s the biggest challenge, dealing with those two factors.

Rain could also play a part this weekend, but the predictions have improved significantly since last week. Where we are down there the radar isn’t very good, so really you just have to wait for it to come and see what happens.

StrategyThe race format still dictates one stop Saturday and two stops Sunday, but they’re quite big fuel windows so it won’t be so much of a fuel race as we’ve seen at several events this year.

Phillip Island is a high degradation circuit tyre wise, but we’re doing shorter stints than we’ve done in the past. We were having to run 34 laps with the 120 litre tank under the 500km format, but with the sprint tank we’re looking at more like 21 laps.

Last year we didn’t see the degradation kicking in until the last seven laps or so of the stints. The track temperature should be a lot cooler this year as well, so even though the circuit is by nature quite hard on tyres, we’re not expecting it to be a major issue.

Unlike what we’ve been seeing at the mixed tyre events, what you might find is that when people are dicing, the first person in won’t necessarily be the winner. If someone is holding you up and you can stay out and do a lap or two in clean-air then it could pay off for you.

QualifyingTraditionally there’s only a very small window for the

the biggest factor to look out for every year at Phillip Island is the weather.

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drivers to get a time down on each set of tyres in qualifying. On the first lap the tyres often aren’t up to temperature, and by the end of the second the rear tyres are past their best. There’s only really time for two runs of two laps, so it is tight for everybody.

PracticeWith the addition of the Practice 0 session for co-drivers this weekend, there’ll be a total of three sessions run before the top drivers in the championship actually get to turn laps.

The co-driver sessions are really just for those guys to get comfortable in the cars, there’s nothing to be gained there for us in terms of set-up work. The lower 50 percent sessions however can be very helpful. You often see those guys right up there in the next two sessions.

As ever, the quality of your practice running will be determined by tyres. They’ve kindly allowed us to use a

set from our test bank for Practice 0, but giving your co-driver a set of green tyres is probably not ideal!

It would have been great to have been able to keep our hard tyres from the Grand Prix, because we had two sets that had done just two laps each, but they were taken by V8 Supercars and destroyed after the event.

The cars that haven’t finished all the races so far this year should be up the front in those early sessions due to having tyres left-over. Most of us will be delving into our tyres from last year, so it’s really just guess work during practice. You can see what your car is going to be like at the end of a stint, but you can’t see what it’s going to be like for qualifying.

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Ford Performance Racing may not lead the V8 Supercars Drivers’ Championship heading into Phillip Island, but they are well on their way to breaking one

of their own team records – and it’s only May!With a clean sweep of the three races at the Tradingpost Perth Challenge at Barbagallo, FPR has now won seven of the nine championship races held so far this season.That is a winning rate of 77% and is just one race win short of equalling FPR’s best season of 2008, when the team took eight race wins for the year.Will Davison has collected five race wins in 2012, while Mark Winterbottom has taken two.

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If there are any drivers that can be called the ‘form’ men of V8 Supercar racing at Phillip Island, there is

no doubt Jamie Whincup and Garth Tander are among them.With seven race wins between them over the last five years, the duo has achieved remarkably consistent results at the seaside Victorian venue.From 2007 onwards, Whincup has

finished in the top three in eight of nine races at Phillip Island, only missing out in the 2010 L&H 500 when his car failed while strongly placed.In that time, Whincup has also never qualified outside the top four – even in the years of the 500-kilometre endurance race where his various co-drivers’ results helped dictate his grid position.

Whincup’s Phillip Island qualifying average since 2007 sits at an amazing 2.14. In the case of Tander, the Holden Racing Team pilot’s good record at Phillip Island stretches back even longer than Whincup’s. He has finished in the top four in 14 of the last 16 races from 2003 onwards; with nine of those being top-three race finishes.

The Phillip Island event may no longer feature an endurance race, but it will have an endurance ‘flavour’.A 30-minute practice session on Friday morning will be limited to additional drivers (i.e. endurance co-drivers), giving them some track time prior to the big Sandown and Bathurst races later in the year.The date change of Winton from August to November prompted the session to be included at Phillip Island.

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Supercheap Auto Racing’s Russell Ingall will line up for his 209th Australian Touring Car Championship/V8 Supercars Championship event start at Phillip Island.He draws level with former series champion Glenn Seton for fourth on the all-time list of event starts in

ATCC/V8SC history.Only John Bowe (225), Mark Skaife (220) and Peter Brock (212) have started more events than Ingall.From the 208 events in which he has competed, Ingall has lined up for an amazing 484 individual races.

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Alex Prémat (Fujitsu Racing/GRM) is the only driver in the Phillip Island 300 field to have never raced at the circuit, however there’s a range of drivers making their first solo V8 Supercar appearance at the track.With just one ‘sprint’ event held at Phillip Island since 2007, 2012 is the first ‘solo’ start at Phillip Island for five drivers in the 28-strong field.Those drivers are: Karl Reindler (Fair Dinkum Sheds Racing), James Moffat (Team Norton DJR), Jonathon Webb (Tekno Autosports), David Wall (Wilson Security Racing) and Taz Douglas (Team iSelect).

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the BaGman’S SaY...Jamie Whincup heads to Phillip Island as the championship leader,

and has a strong record at the Victorian venue, finishing eight of the last nine races here in the top three. Victories have proven hard to come by however, with just two career Phillip Island race wins. The 2012 season so far has been a very similar story, with Whincup finishing eight of the nine races in the top three but winning just twice. Expect him to go head-to-head with FPR once again this weekend.

Team-mate Craig Lowndes has won in both of the last two years at Phillip Island, but may struggle to add to that tally with the move away from the endurance format.

Base: Banyo, QueenslandCar: Holden Commodore VEIIChassis: Triple Eight Race EngineeringEngines: KRE Team principal: Roland Dane

Team: TeamVodafoneBorn: 6 February 1983V8SC debut: Queensland, 2002Starts: 254 Wins: 54Career Highlights: 2008, 2009 & 2011 V8 Supercars Champion, 1st 2006, 2007 & 2008 Bathurst 1000, 2002 Australian Formula Ford Champion

Team: TeamVodafoneBorn: 21 June 1974V8SC debut: Calder Park, 1996Starts: 450 Wins: 82Career Highlights: 1996, 1998 & 1999 V8 Supercars Champion, 1st 1996, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010 Bathurst 1000, 1993 Australian Formula Ford Champion

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Walkinshaw Racing

#2 Garth Tander

#22 James Courtney

#66 Russell Ingall

Base: Clayton, VictoriaCar: Holden Commodore VEIIChassis: Walkinshaw RacingEngines: Walkinshaw RacingTeam principal: Steve Hallam

Team: Toll Holden Racing TeamBorn: 31 March 1977V8SC debut: Phillip Island, 1998Starts: 419 Wins: 50Career Highlights: 2007 V8 Supercars Champion, 1st 2000, 2009 & 2011 Bathurst 1000, 1997 Australian Formula Ford Champion

Team: Toll Holden Racing Team Born: 29 June 1980V8SC debut: Sandown, 2005Starts: 198 Wins: 9Career Highlights: 2010 V8 Supercars Champion, 2001 British Formula Ford Champion, 2002 Jaguar F1 test driver, 2000 British Formula Ford Champion

Team: Supercheap Auto RacingBorn: 24 February 1964V8SC debut: Eastern Creek, 1996Starts: 484 Wins: 27Career Highlights: 2005 V8 Supercars Champion, 1st 1995 & 1997 Bathurst 1000,1st 1998 Sandown 500 & 1999 Queensland 500, 1993 British Formula Ford Champion

the BaGman’S SaY...Expect Garth Tander to be a thorn in the side of the HRT/FPR

juggernaut this weekend. Although not the kindest on its tyres, the lead HRT entry was among the fastest here last year, recovering from a pitlane start to challenge for victory. Tander also won here in HRT VE Commodores machinery in both 2008 and 2009.

HRT’s 2012 form has been up-and-down to date, with Tander’s generally strong qualifying performances hamstrung by incidents at Symmons, Hamilton and Barbagallo. It’s been largely podium or bust for Tander so far, but more champagne should be on the cards here.

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Stone Brothers Racing

#4 Lee Holdsworth

#9 Shane van Gisbergen

#47 Tim Slade

Base: Yatla, QueenslandCar: Ford Falcon FGChassis: Stone Brothers RacingEngines: Stone Brothers RacingTeam principal: Ross Stone

Team: IRWIN RacingBorn: 2 February 1983.V8SC debut: Sandown, 2004Starts: 206 Wins: 2Career Highlights: 1st 2010 V8 Supercars Race 26 (Sydney), 1st 2007 V8 Supercars Round 8 (Oran Park), 3rd 2009 Bathurst 1000, 7th 2010 V8 Supercars Championship

Team: SP Tools RacingBorn: 9 May 1989V8SC deubt: Oran Park, 2007 Starts: 143 Wins: 2Career Highlights: 1st 2011 ITM400 Hamilton (Race 6), 1st 2011 Skycity Triple Crown (Race 12), 2005/06 NZ FFord Champion, 2nd 2006/07 Toyota Racing Series

Team: Lucky 7 RacingBorn: 3 August 1985V8SC debut: Adelaide, 2009Starts: 88 Wins: 0Career Highlights: 2nd 2005 Australian Formula Ford Championship, 7th 2008 V8 Supercars Development Series, 9th 2011 V8 Supercars Championship

the BaGman’S SaY...Alongside Garth Tander, Shane van Gisbergen and Lee

Holdsworth appear the only others with any chance of jagging a victory this weekend. While Holdsworth is in his first season with SBR, the form of the SP Tools Falcon at Phillip Island last September almost saw it take the big prize. Also working in the Kiwi’s favour will be in the fact that Phillip Island is the first circuit on this year’s calendar with which he worked alongside Dave Stuart last year. Qualifying inconsistency was car #9’s biggest weakness last year, while so far in 2012 Van Gisbergen and Tander are the only drivers outside of FPR and TeamVodafone to boast single-digit qualifying averages.

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Ford Performance Racing

#5 Mark Winterbottom

#6 Will Davison

#55 David Reynolds

Base: Campbelfield, VictoriaCar: Ford Falcon FGChassis: Ford Performance RacingEngines: Ford Performance RacingTeam principal: Tim Edwards

Team: Orrcon Steel FPRBorn: 20 May 1981V8SC debut: Sandown, 2003Starts: 253 Wins: 19Career Highlights: 1st 2006 Sandown 500, 1st 2003 V8 Supercars Development Series, 2nd 2008 V8 Supercars Championship, 2nd 2002 Australian Formula Ford Championship

Team: Tradingpost FPRBorn: 30 August 1982V8SC debut: Winton, 2004Starts: 203 Wins: 11Career Highlights: 1st 2009 Bathurst 1000, 1st 2009 Phillip Island 500, 2nd 2009 V8 Supercars Championship, 2001 Australian Formula Ford Champion

Team: The Bottle-O RacingBorn: July 1985.V8SC debut: Sandown, 2007Starts: 58 Wins: 0Career Highlights: 2007 Australian Carrera Cup Champion, 2004 Australian Formula Ford Champion, 4th 2008 V8 Supercars Development Series

the BaGman’S SaY...Ford Performance Racing may have won just two races in its

history at Phillip Island, but previous form has repeatedly proven irrelevant to the Ford factory squad this year.

Davison and Winterbottom have won seven of the season’s nine races held so far between them, and have scored one-two finishes at three of the four circuits visited.

Car #6 was clearly the faster of the two here last year, but don’t expect that to necessarily carry-over either.

Reynolds is arguably the most interesting of the trio, with The Bottle-O backed driver more than capable of scoring a maiden podium, if not a win, this weekend.

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Kelly Racing

#7 Todd Kelly

#11 Karl Reindler

Base: Braeside, VictoriaCar: Holden Commodore VEIIChassis: Kelly RacingEngines: Kelly RacingTeam principals: Rick and Todd Kelly

Team: Jack Daniel’s RacingBorn: 9 October 1979V8SC debut: Eastern Creek, 1999Starts: 365 Wins: 19Career Highlights: 1st 2005 Bathurst 1000, 1st 2003 Sandown 500, 2nd 1998 Australian Drivers’ Championship, 2nd 2006 Bathurst 1000, 2nd 2006 Bathurst 1000

Team: Fair Dinkum Sheds RacingBorn: 18 April 1985V8SC debut: Bathurst, 2008Starts: 65 Wins: 0Career Highlights: 2004 Australian F3 Champion, 8th 2008 V8 Supercars Development Series, 3rd 2006 A1GP Shanghai Feature Race

the BaGman’S SaY...The four Kelly Racing entries may again struggle to see the top 10

this weekend unless the predicted wet weather intervenes. While Rick and Todd Kelly sit 10th and 11th in the standings

respectively, the team has seen just one top 10 qualifying performance from its four cars combined so far this year. That’s a less than flattering rate of one in 36!

As tyre conservation has also been far from a strength in recent years, a dry weekend could be a long one for this team.

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#15 Rick KellyTeam: Jack Daniel’s RacingBorn: 7 January 1983V8SC debut: Queensland, 2001Starts: 306 Wins: 12Career Highlights: 2006 V8 Supercars Champion, 1st 2003 & 2004 Bathurst 1000 , 2001 Australian Drivers’ Champion, 2nd 2000 Australian Formula Ford Championship

#51 Greg MurphyTeam: Pepsi Max CrewBorn: 23 August 1972V8SC debut: Calder, 1997Starts: 421 Wins: 28Career Highlights: 1st 1996, 1999, 2003 & 2004 Bathurst 1000, 1st 1996 & 1997 Sandown 500, 1st 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour, 2nd 2002 & 2003 V8 Supercars Championship

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Brad Jones Racing

#8 Jason Bright

#14 Fabian Coulthard

#21 David Wall

Base: Albury, VictoriaCar: Holden Commodore VEIIChassis: Walkinshaw RacingEngines: Noonan Race EnginesTeam principals: Brad and Kim Jones

Team: Team BOCBorn: 7 March 1973V8SC debut: Symmons Plains, 1997 Starts: 392 Wins: 30Career Highlights: 1st 1998 Bathurst 1000, 1995 Australian Formula Ford Champion, 1997 Australian Drivers’ Champion, 1st 2006 Sandown 500

Team: Lockwood RacingBorn: 28 July 1982V8SC debut: Oran Park, 2004Starts: 165 Wins: 0Career Highlights: 2005 Australian Carrera Cup Champion, 2001 NZ Formula Ford Champion, 3rd 2004 Australian Carrera Cup, 4th 2000 NZ Formula Ford Championship

Team: Wilson Security RacingBorn: 1 January 1983V8SC debut: Phillip Island, 2009Starts: 15 Wins: 0Career Highlights: 2009 & 2010 Australian GT Champion, 3rd 2007 Australian GT Championship, 11th 2011 V8 Supercars Development Series

the BaGman’S SaY...Jason Bright’s tough season appeared to turn a significant corner

last time out at Barbagallo, with the Team BOC Commodore driver scoring his first top five qualifying and race results of the season. Qualifying was the scene of the biggest turnaround, with his Race 7 front-row start a full 21 places better than car #8’s season average to that point!

Although Phillip Island has handed Bright tough results for the last two seasons, it hasn’t been all bad for the team, with a podium (for Jason Richards and Andrew Jones) coming just two years ago.

Bright and his continually impressive team-mate Fabian Coulthard should both be pushing the top 10 this weekend.

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Dick Johnson Racing

#12 Dean Fiore

#17 Steven Johnson

Base: Yatla, QueenslandCar: Ford Falcon FGChassis: Triple Eight Race EngineeringEngines: InnoV8 (Roger Higgins)Team principal: Dick Johnson

Team: Jim Beam RacingBorn: 1 December 1983V8SC debut: Adelaide, 2009Starts: 89 Wins: 0Career Highlights: 2nd 2008 Australian Carrera Cup Championship, 4th 2005 Australian Formula Ford Championship, 5th 2007 Australian Carrera Cup Championship

Team: Jim Beam RacingBorn: 6 September 1974V8SC debut: Oran Park, 1994Starts: 394 Wins: 3Career Highlights: 1st 2001 Queensland 500, 1st 2001 Canberra 400, 5th 2001 V8 Supercars Championship, 6th 2009 V8 Supercars Championship

the BaGman’S SaY...Phillip Island was the scene of Dick Johnson Racing’s downturn in

form last year, as the team endured one of the worst weekends of its long history.

Despite having shown promising signs on the streets of Hamilton, the team also struggled last time out at Barbagallo, where a 10th place in Race 3 for Steven Johnson was the four-car squad’s only top 10 finish of the weekend.

The points battle between Johnson and Steve Owen is arguably the most interesting topic here, while qualifying continues to be a major issue for both Dean Fiore and James Moffat.

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#18 James Moffat

#49 Steve Owen

Team: Team Norton DJRBorn: 18 June 1984V8SC debut: Phillip Island, 2010Starts: 39 Wins: 0Career Highlights: 2nd 2009 V8 Development Series, 3rd 2008 Australian Carrera Cup Championship, 3rd 2007 Australian Formula Ford Championship

Team: VIP Petfoods RacingBorn: 18 December 1974V8SC debut: Bathurst, 1999Starts: 143 Wins: 1Career Highlights: 1st 2008 & 2010 V8 Supercars Development Series, 1st 2010 V8 Supercars Race 20 (Gold Coast), 2nd 1999 Australian Formula Ford Championship

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Tekno Autosports

#19 Jonathon Webb

#91 Michael Patrizi

Base: Stapylton, QueenslandCar: Holden Commodore VEIIChassis: Triple Eight Race EngineeringEngines: KRETeam principal: Jonathon Webb

Team: Tekno AutosportsBorn: 10 December 1983V8SC debut: Sandown, 2006Starts: 70 Wins: 1Career Highlights: 1st 2009 V8 Supercars Development Series, 3rd 2005 Australian Carrera Cup Championship, 2010 V8 Supercars Race 26 winner

Team: Tekno AutosportsBorn: 4 May 1984V8SC debut: Adelaide, 2008Starts: 39 Wins: 0Career Highlights: 2nd 2005 Formula BMW Asia,, 8th 2006 Formula BMW UK, 18th 2007 Formula 3 Euroseries, 6th 2011 Australian Carrera Cup Championship

the BaGman’S SaY...Michael Patrizi underlined the importance of qualifying after his

unexpected fifth place finish last time out at Barbagallo. The West Aussie’s Race 9 campaign had been helped by the appearance of the Safety Car, but a pair of top 10 qualifying efforts on Saturday morning had undoubtedly set-up a productive day.

Patrizi has more V8 Supercars experience at Phillip Island than almost any other circuit due to its previous status as an endurance round, which will also work in his favour.

Both Patrizi and Webb have proven they can display top 10 pace, but doing it consistently is often the hardest part.

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Garry Rogers Motorsport

#33 Alexandre Premat

#34 Michael Caruso

Base: Knoxfield, VictoriaCar: Holden Commodore VEIIChassis: Garry Rogers MotorsportEngines: Walkinshaw RacingTeam principal: Garry Rogers

Team: Fujitsu Racing GRMBorn: 5 April 1982V8SC debut: Adelaide, 2012Starts: 9 Wins: 0Career Highlights: 2008 Le Mans Series Champion, 1st 2005-06 A1 GP Series (Team France), 1st 2004 Macau Grand Prix, 1st 2004 Masters of F3

Team: Fujitsu Racing GRMBorn: 25 May 1983V8SC debut: Bathurst, 2006Starts: 129 Wins: 1Career Highlights: 2003 Australian Formula 3 Champion, 3rd 2009 Bathurst 1000, 1st 2009 V8 Supercars Race 10 (Hidden Valley), 2nd 2007 V8 Supercars Development Series

the BaGman’S SaY...Michael Caruso put in a top performance at Barbagallo, dragging a pair

of top 10 finishes from a car seemingly incapable of seeing the top 15 on one-lap pace.

The GRM Commodores traditionally haven’t suited the fast and flowing nature of Phillip Island however, so Caruso looks set to face another tough task here.

Alexandre Premat’s rookie season meanwhile has not built on the promise shown in the opening two events. Qualifying was a real struggle at Barbagallo, while early incidents in the races put paid to much in the way of results. It’s unlikely to get easier this weekend.

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Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport

#30 Taz Douglas

Base: Nunawading, VictoriaCar: Holden Commodore VEIIChassis: Triple Eight Race EngineeringEngines: KRETeam principal: Lucas Dumbrell

Team: Lucas Dumbrell MotorsportBorn: 11 February 1985V8SC debut: Phillip Island, 2009Starts: 14 Wins: 0Career Highlights: 1st 2010 V8 Supercars Development Series Sandown Race 2, 8th 2007 Australian Formula Ford Championship, 9th 2009 V8 Supercars Development Series

Tony D’Alberto Racing

#3 Tony D’Alberto

Base: Knoxfield, VictoriaCar: Ford Falcon FGChassis: Ford Performance RacingEngines: Ford Performance RacingTeam principal: Al D’Alberto

Team: Team HiflexBorn: 9 December 1985V8SC debut: Sandown, 2005Starts: 131 Wins: 0Career Highlights: 1st 2007 V8 Supercars Development Series, 6th 2007 Bathurst 1000, 5th 2005 V8 Supercars Development Series, 9th 2011 Bathurst 1000

the BaGman’S SaY...Tony D’Alberto’s form remains amongst the hardest to predict in the

championship, with the #3 Falcon showing much less track-to-track consistency than the three factory-prepared FPR chassis.

A genuine top 10 contender in Hamilton, D’Alberto struggled to break out of the 20s in either qualifying or the races at Barbagallo.

The former Development Series Champion has turned plenty of laps at Phillip Island over the years, but is yet to race there in a Ford after being struck down by chicken pox on the eve of the 2011 L&H 500.

the BaGman’S SaY...Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport’s Symmons Plains form sadly remains an

anomaly following another tough weekend last time out at Barbagallo.The Tradingpost Perth Challenge weekend was the leanest results-

wise for this small outfit since its Adelaide disaster, and saw the iSelect Commodore visit the circuit’s famous sand traps more than once.

Phillip Island is one of only two circuits that Douglas has previously raced on as part of the V8 Supercars Championship. Solid top 20 race results should certainly be achievable.

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36 Races 10/11 - Philip Island I Race Stats

ChamPIonShIP StandInGSPos Driver team Car Pts

1 Jamie Whincup TeamVodafone Holden Commodore VE 1095

2 Will Davison Trading Post FPR Ford Falcon FG 1066

3 Mark Winterbottom Orrcon Steel FPR Ford Falcon FG 935

4 Craig Lowndes TeamVodafone Holden Commodore VE 779

5 Lee Holdsworth IRWIN Racing Ford Falcon FG 737

6 Shane Van Gisbergen SP Tools Racing Ford Falcon FG 695

7 Fabian Coulthard Lockwood Racing Holden Commodore VE 694

9 Tim Slade Lucky 7 Racing Ford Falcon FG 681

9 Garth Tander Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VE 618

10 Rick Kelly Jack Daniel’s Racing Holden Commodore VE 571

11 Michael Caruso Fujitsu Racing GRM Holden Commodore VE 516

12 Todd Kelly Jack Daniel’s Racing Holden Commodore VE 507

13 Steven Johnson Jim Beam Racing Ford Falcon FG 494

14 James Courtney Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VE 470

15 Russell Ingall Supercheap Auto Racing Holden Commodore VE 464

16 Jason Bright Team BOC Holden Commodore VE 453

17 Michael Patrizi Tekno Autosports Holden Commodore VE 426

18 Dean Fiore Jim Beam Racing Ford Falcon FG 421

19 David Reynolds Wilson Security Racing Holden Commodore VE 414

20 Steve Owen VIP Petfoods Racing Ford Falcon FG 402

21 Tony D’Alberto Tony D’Alberto Racing Ford Falcon FG 359

22 Jonathon Webb Tekno Autosport Holden Commodore VE 334

23 Alexandre Premat Fujitsu Racing GRM Holden Commodore VE 330

24 Taz Douglas Team iSelect Holden Commodore VE 300

25 Karl Reindler Fair Dinkum Sheds Racing Holden Commodore VE 288

25 James Moffat Team Norton DJR Ford Falcon FG 270

26 David Wall Wilson Security Racing Holden Commodore VE 253

28 Greg Murphy Pepsi Max Crew Holden Commodore VE 219

29 David Russell Pepsi Max Crew Holden Commodore VE 42

37Races 10/11 - Philip Island I Race Stats

2012 SeaSon StatIStICSrace WinsWill Davison 5, Jamie Whincup 2, Mark

Winterbottom 2

Pole PositionsJamie Whincup 3, Craig Lowndes 2,

Garth Tander 2, Mark Winterbottom 1,

Will Davison 1

fastest lapsMark Winterbottom 3, Jamie Whincup 2,

Garth Tander 2, Craig Lowndes 1, James

Courtney 1

PodiumsWill Davison 8, Jamie Whincup 8, Mark

Winterbottom 6, Garth Tander 3, Shane

van Gisbergen 1, Craig Lowndes 1

results overview

Qualifying results race results

# Driver Best Worst Average Best Worst Average

1 Jamie Whincup 1 5 3.0 1 4 2.2

2 Garth Tander 1 20 6.4 3 28 12.9

3 Tony D’Alberto 6 23 15.7 8 28 18.1

4 Lee Holdsworth 4 15 10.0 4 21 8.6

5 Mark Winterbottom 1 10 4.1 1 23 5.3

6 Will Davison 1 9 3.9 1 25 4.2

7 Todd Kelly 11 21 16.3 8 23 15.6

8 Jason Bright 2 27 17.9 4 28 15.3

9 Shane van Gisbergen 2 14 8.3 2 22 10.1

11 Karl Reindler 25 28 26.6 17 25 21.7

12 Dean Fiore 11 26 20.0 15 22 17.3

14 Fabian Coulthard 6 17 11.2 4 16 9.1

15 Rick Kelly 5 15 12.8 5 20 13.1

17 Steven Johnson 7 24 15.0 10 21 14.8

18 James Moffat 9 20 14.9 14 28 21.4

19 Jonathon Webb 4 23 11.8 9 27 18.3

21 David Wall 22 28 26.3 18 28 23.1

22 James Courtney 8 28 15.0 5 26 15.1

30 Taz Douglas 8 27 22.1 12 27 21.9

33 Alexandre Premat 11 28 22.1 13 28 20.4

34 Michael Caruso 10 22 18.1 7 25 14.2

47 Tim Slade 6 20 12.1 4 15 9.0

49 Steve Owen 5 23 16.0 6 28 17.9

51 Greg Murphy 17 27 22.4 11 27 17.8

55 David Reynolds 3 11 6.3 6 26 15.9

66 Russell Ingall 16 28 21.1 10 25 15.6

91 Michael Patrizi 9 28 19.6 5 27 16.3

888 Craig Lowndes 1 16 6.1 3 28 7.2

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Races 10/11 - Philip Island I Race Stats

Year Driver team Car

2011 Craig Lowndes/Mark Skaife TeamVodafone Holden Commodore VE II

2010 Craig Lowndes/Mark Skaife TeamVodafone Holden Commodore VE II

2009 Jamie Whincup TeamVodafone Ford Falcon FG

Jamie Whincup TeamVodafone Ford Falcon FG

2009 Garth Tander/Will Davison Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VE2008

2008 Garth Tander/Mark Skaife Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VE

2007 Todd Kelly Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VE

Garth Tander Toll HSV Dealer Team Holden Commodore VE

Garth Tander Toll HSV Dealer Team Holden Commodore VE

2006 Mark Winterbottom Ford Performance Racing Ford Falcon BA

Todd Kelly Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VZ

Todd Kelly Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VZ

2005 Marcos Ambrose Stone Brothers Racing Ford Falcon BA

Marcos Ambrose Stone Brothers Racing Ford Falcon BA

Craig Lowndes Triple Eight Race Engineering Ford Falcon BA

2003 Craig Lowndes Ford Performance Racing Ford Falcon BA

2002 Mark Skaife Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VX

Marcos Ambrose Stone Brothers Racing Ford Falcon AU

2001 Mark Skaife Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VX

Mark Skaife Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VX

2000 Craig Baird Stone Brothers Racing Ford Falcon AU

Craig Lowndes Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VT

1999 Craig Lowndes Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VT

Mark Skaife Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VT

Mark Skaife Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VT

1998 Russell Ingall Castrol Perkins Racing Holden Commodore VS

Craig Lowndes Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VS

Mark Skaife Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VS

1997 Larry Perkins Castrol Perkins Racing Holden Commodore VS

Russell Ingall Castrol Perkins Racing Holden Commodore VS

Glenn Seton Glenn Seton Racing Ford Falcon EL

1996 Glenn Seton Glenn Seton Racing Ford Falcon EF

Larry Perkins Castrol Perkins Racing Holden Commodore VR

Craig Lowndes Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VR

1995 Glenn Seton Glenn Seton Racing Ford Falcon EF

Peter Brock Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VR

1994 Glenn Seton Glenn Seton Racing Ford Falcon EB

Glenn Seton Glenn Seton Racing Ford Falcon EB

1993 Glenn Seton Glenn Seton Racing Ford Falcon EB

Glenn Seton Glenn Seton Racing Ford Falcon EB

1990 Dick Johnson Dick Johnson Racing Ford Sierra RS500

1977 Allan Grice Craven Mild Racing Holden Torana A9X

1976 Colin Bond Holden Dealer Team Holden Torana L34

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40 Races 10/11 - Philip Island I Race Stats

Year Driver team Car

2011 Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden Commodore VE

2010 James Courtney Dick Johnson Racing Ford Falcon FG

2009 Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering Ford Falcon FG

2008 Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering Ford Falcon BF

2007 Garth Tander Toll HSV Dealer Team Holden Commodore VE

2006 Rick Kelly Toll HSV Dealer Team Holden Commodore VZ

2005 Russell Ingall Stone Brothers Racing Ford Falcon BA

2004 Marcos Ambrose Stone Brothers Racing Ford Falcon BA

2003 Marcos Ambrose Stone Brothers Racing Ford Falcon BA

2002 Mark Skaife Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VX

2001 Mark Skaife Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VX

2000 Mark Skaife Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VT

1999 Craig Lowndes Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VS/VT

1998 Craig Lowndes Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VS/VT

1997 Glenn Seton Glenn Seton Racing Ford Falcon EL

1996 Craig Lowndes Holden Racing Team Holden Commodore VR

1995 John Bowe Dick Johnson Racing Ford Falcon EF

1994 Mark Skaife Gibson Motor Sport Holden Commodore VP

1993 Glenn Seton Glenn Seton Racing Ford Falcon EB

1992 Mark Skaife Winfield Team Nissan Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R

1991 Jim Richards Gibson Motor Sport Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R

1990 Jim Richards Gibson Motor Sport Nissan Skyline HR31 GTS-R, R32 GT-R

1989 Dick Johnson Dick Johnson Racing Ford Sierra RS500

1988 Dick Johnson Dick Johnson Racing Ford Sierra RS500

1987 Jim Richards JPS Team BMW BMW M3 E30

1986 Robbie Francevic Volvo Dealer Team Volvo 240T

1985 Jim Richards JPS Team BMW BMW 635CSi

1984 Dick Johnson Dick Johnson Racing Ford Falcon XE

1983 Allan Moffat Peter Stuyvesant Racing Mazda RX-7

1982 Dick Johnson Dick Johnson Racing Ford Falcon XD

1981 Dick Johnson Dick Johnson Racing Ford Falcon XD

1980 Peter Brock Marlboro Holden Dealer Team Holden Commodore VB

1979 Bob Morris Ron Hodgson Channel 7 Racing Holden Torana LX SS A9X

1978 Peter Brock Marlboro Holden Dealer Team Holden Torana LX SS A9X

1977 Allan Moffat Moffat Ford Dealers Ford Falcon XB GT, XC

1976 Allan Moffat Allan Moffat Racing Ford Falcon XB GT

1975 Colin Bond Marlboro Holden Dealer Team Holden Torana LH SL/R 5000 L34

1974 Peter Brock Marlboro Holden Dealer Team Holden Torana LJ GTR XU-1, LH SL/R 5000

1973 Allan Moffat Ford Motor Company Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase III

1972 Bob Jane Bob Jane Racing Team Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1

1971 Bob Jane Bob Jane Racing Team Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1

1970 Norm Beechey Shell Racing Team Holden Monaro HT GTS350

1969 Ian Geoghegan Mustang Team Ford Mustang

1968 Ian Geoghegan Mustang Team Ford Mustang

1967 Ian Geoghegan Mustang Team Ford Mustang

1966 Ian Geoghegan Total Team Ford Mustang

1965 Norm Beechey Neptune Racing Team Ford Mustang

1964 Ian Geoghegan Total Team Ford Cortina GT

1963 Bob Jane Bob Jane Jaguar 3.8 Litre Mk II

1962 Bob Jane Bob Jane Jaguar 3.8 Litre Mk II

1961 Bill Pitt Bill Pitt Jaguar 3.4 Litre

1960 David McKay David McKay Jaguar 3.4 Litre

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