Gold Coast 600

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Championship Standings - Top 10:

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SURFERS PARADISE STREET CIRCUIT

Virgin Australia Supercars C'ship - Race 22

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Pos  Driver                Penalty  R1  R2  R3  R4  R5  R6  R7  R8  R9 R10 R11 
                                   R12 R13 R14 R15 R16 R17 R18 R19 R20 R21 R22 Total
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1    Jamie Whincup               0 102 102   0 129 138  51 129 129 138 138 120 
                                   138 138 150  45 120 129 150 204  90 102 138  2580

[COLOR=#ff0000][B]2    Fabian Coulthard           35 138 111   0 150 150  54 138  96 129 129 150 
                                   120  78  42 102 111 150 138 222 258  48  84  2563[/B][/COLOR]

[COLOR=#ff0000][B]3    Scott McLaughlin            0  54 138   0 138  78  63 150 150 150 111 138 
                                   150 150 138 150 138  42 120 276   0  69 150  2553[/B][/COLOR]

4    Chaz Mostert                0  84 129   0  96  72 150 102 138   0  90 111 
                                    54 120 111 138 150 138 111 258 156 150  96  2454

5    Shane Van Gisbergen         0 150 150   0  84 120  57 120 102  90 150   0 
                                   129  96 129 129 129  36 129 120 222 120 129  2391

6    Craig Lowndes              15  90  78   0 120  69  36  96  90 102  60  96 
                                   102 102  78 111 102  96  33 144 144  96 120  1950

7    Mark Winterbottom           0  60  63   0  66  90 138 111 120  84  66  63 
                                    63 129 120  84  78 120  48 168   0  90 111  1872

8    Cameron Waters             35 120  90   0 102  48 102  48  69  39 120 102 
                                    84 111  63  57  90  54   0 300 114 138  42  1858

9    David Reynolds              0  51  69   0 111   0 129  84  57 120  96  90 
                                    96  84  72  78  84  90  84 108 300  54   0  1857

10   Garth Tander                0  69  72   0  78 129  96  78  84  96 102  27 
                                    57  90 102  72  60  84  72 240 102  66  54  1830



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[Gerry]

Unbelievable turnaround by both cars.
That last pit stop of Scotty's must have really demoralised Red Bull and Caltex!

 

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Teams Championship - Top 5:

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Pos  Team                        Penalty  R1  R2  R3  R4  R5  R6  R7  R8  R9 R10 R11 
                                         R12 R13 R14 R15 R16 R17 R18 R19 R20 R21 R22 Total
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[COLOR=#ff0000][B]1    Shell V-Power Racing Team         0 192 249   0 288 228 117 288 246 279 240 288 
                                         270 228 180 252 249 192 258 498 258 117 234  5151[/B][/COLOR]

2    Red Bull Holden Racing Aust       0 252 252   0 213 258 108 249 231 228 288 120 
                                         267 234 279 174 249 165 279 324 312 222 267  4971

3    Prodrive Racing (Aust) Pty Ltd    0 180 153   0 168 138 240 159 189 123 186 165 
                                         147 240 183 141 168 174  48 468 114 228 153  3765

4    Wilson Security Racing GRM        0 147 129   0 126 192 216 147 156 144 159 111 
                                          87 156 198  93 123  84 135 432 102 117 102  3156

5    Erebus Motorsport                 0  51 114   0 174   0 219 126  99 162 123 120 
                                         120 141 111 114  84 147 123 240 540  93  51  2952
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[Poita]

Well that was a miraculous turnaround, made for an enjoyable afternoon. Well done to the team and very unexpected win.

 

[Donut King]

If Whincup had done anything similar to Scotts performance today Skaife & Co would have been labeling it as a champions drive, instead all we get is ad nauseum comment on how DJRTP were banking on a safety car and wouldn't make it on fuel. Interesting comment on how the lap record from Whincup spooked DJRTP into taking a gamble with setup to try keep up.

It's hard seeing us drop the championship lead so close to the end, but I'm confident Scott should be able to outrace Whincup over the remaining rounds, and hopefully PRA can stay in the mix and take some points away from the 888 guys

 

[Racin Jason]

I think 888 are still scratching their heads over the fuel consumption! Great comeback by both cars today. After qualy I wasn't expecting anything like that![bw]

 

[Gerry]

Now be honest.
How many were thinking back to the old ways after qualifying?

 

[Donut King]

Now be honest.
How many were thinking back to the old ways after qualifying?

Not so much back to the old ways, but somewhat worried as we hadn't exactly shown the ability to carry carspeed and slice through the field like 888 seem to be able to do. Thankfully we have now, and we've proven we've got street race form, important with Newcastle being one of the deciders

 

[Gerry]

Not so much back to the old ways, but somewhat worried as we hadn't exactly shown the ability to carry carspeed and slice through the field like 888 seem to be able to do. Thankfully we have now, and we've proven we've got street race form, important with Newcastle being one of the deciders

It was as though suddenly we had become hot and cold again.
One of the odd things for me was that no car changes were made during qualifying to try to improve the situation.
Just throwing new tyres and hoping seemed to be the only option tried.
I think I read where they made wholesale changes after qualifying though so at least they did work through the situation.