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| Clipsal 500 - RACE REVIEW; the season begins | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 2 2007, 04:00 AM (425 Views) | |
| Alliblue | Mar 2 2007, 04:00 AM Post #1 |
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the first round of the season is here ![]() so far in practice all the expected teams are looking good - HSV, HRT, FPR and the newly rebranded team Vodafone among them Clipsal 500 |
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| stradlin24 | Mar 2 2007, 11:53 PM Post #2 |
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Holden v Ford is back! I saw a preview show which was on Motors TV over here with Rick Kelly, Craig Lowndes, Mark Winterbottom and Jason Richards sitting down and discussing last season and the new season together not many words between Lowndes and Kelly and I noticed some very evil looks by Lowndes towards Kelly I don't think Ford have forgotton what happened at the last race of last season hopefully FPR can go all the way this season, and if HSV and HRT are involved again, then they don't play the shameful tactics they did last season, which they did time and time again Team Kiwi are switching to Ford and they will be the team I will be suppoting this season (even though they will probably be hopeless) |
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| stradlin24 | Mar 3 2007, 12:16 AM Post #3 |
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1. James Courtney SBR/Jeld-Wen Ford 1m 22.3584s 2. Jamie Whincup 888/Vodafone Ford 1m 22.4712s 3. Garth Tander Toll HSV Holden 1m 22.5496s 4. Mark Winterbottom FPR/Ford Credit Ford 1m 22.5900s 5. Jason Richards Tasman Holden 1m 22.6406s 6. Craig Lowndes 888/Vodafone Ford 1m 22.6513s 7. Todd Kelly HRT Holden 1m 22.6850s 8. Russell Ingall SBR/Caltex Ford 1m 22.6960s 9. Steven Johnson DJR/Jim Beam Ford 1m 22.7326s 10. Lee Holdsworth GRM/Repco Valvoline Holden 1m 23.3118s 11. Greg Murphy Tasman Holden 1m 22.9274s 12. Jason Bright Britek/Fujitsu Ford 1m 22.9992s 13. Will Davison DJR/Jim Beam Ford 1m 23.0449s 14. Dean Canto GRM/Repco Valvoline Holden 1m 23.0614s 15 Rick Kelly Toll HSV Holden 1m 23.0704s 16. Steven Richards FPR/Castrol Ford 1m 23.0722s 17. Mark Skaife HRT Holden 1m 23.1464s 18. Andrew Jones BOC Ford 1m 23.2983s 19. Jason Bargwanna WPS Ford 1m 23.5071s 20. Paul Dumbrell Supercheap Holden 1m 24.5840s 21. John Bowe PCR/Glenfords Ford 1m 23.6123s 22. Paul Morris Morris/Sirromet Holden 1m 23.6507s 23. Max Wilson WPS Ford 1m 23.6656s 24. Cameron McConville Supercheap Holden 1m 23.7515s 25. Fabien Coulthard Morris/Sirromet Holden 1m 23.8029s 26. Jack Perkins Perkins/Jack Daniel's Holden 1m 23.8635s 27. Alan Gurr Britek/Irwin Ford 1m 23.8805s 28. Brad Jones BOC Ford 1m 23.9948s 29. Steve Owen Autobarn Holden 1m 24.0337s 30. Adam Macrow Kiwi Ford 1m 24.1811s 31. Shane Price Perkins/Jack Daniel's Holden 1m 24.2683s Qualifying time from the Clipsal 500 Go Lowndes! |
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| stradlin24 | Mar 4 2007, 06:11 PM Post #4 |
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Race 1 results 1. Todd Kelly HRT Holden 78 laps 1hr 50m 40.5932s 2. James Courtney SBR/Jeld-Wen Ford 78 laps 3. Jamie Whincup 888/Vodafone Ford 78 laps 4 Rick Kelly Toll HSV Holden 78 laps 5. Mark Winterbottom FPR/Ford Credit Ford 78 laps 6. Garth Tander Toll HSV Holden 78 laps 7. Greg Murphy Tasman Holden 78 laps 8. Russell Ingall SBR/Caltex Ford 78 laps 9. Steven Johnson DJR/Jim Beam Ford 78 laps 10. Jason Bright Britek/Fujitsu Ford 78 laps 11. Steven Richards FPR/Castrol Ford 78 laps 12. Dean Canto GRM/Repco Valvoline Holden 78 laps 13. Craig Lowndes 888/Vodafone Ford 78 laps 14. Mark Skaife HRT Holden 78 laps 15. Jason Bargwanna WPS Ford 78 laps 16. Steve Owen Autobarn Holden 78 laps 17. Max Wilson WPS Ford 77 laps 18. Adam Macrow Kiwi Ford 77 laps 19. Jack Perkins Perkins/Jack Daniel's Holden 76 laps 20. Jason Richards Tasman Holden 76 laps 21. Cameron McConville Supercheap Holden 76 laps 22. Shane Price Perkins/Jack Daniel's Holden 76 laps 23. Alan Gurr Britek/Irwin Ford 75 laps 24. Lee Holdsworth GRM/Repco Valvoline Holden 74 laps 25. Andrew Jones BOC Ford 73 laps Rtd Brad Jones BOC Ford 48 laps completed Rtd Paul Dumbrell Supercheap Holden 48 laps completed Rtd Will Davison DJR/Jim Beam Ford 48 laps completed Rtd Paul Morris Morris/Sirromet Holden 48 laps completed Rtd John Bowe PCR/Glenfords Ford 48 laps completed Rtd Fabien Coulthard Morris/Sirromet Holden 48 laps completed top 15 score points |
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| stradlin24 | Mar 4 2007, 06:25 PM Post #5 |
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Race 1 review (by stradlin22) Todd Kelly took victory in the opening V8 supercar race of the season at the Clipsal 500 at Adalaide Kelly who started down in 7th on the grid came through to claim 1st place on the debut of the new Holden Commodore. Pole sitter James Courtney in the Stone Brothers Racing Ford got a terrible start off the line and was down to 5th by the first corner before a coming together betweeen the two Supercheap cars of Paul Dumbrell and Cameron McConville and the BOC car of Andrew Jones brought havoc to the midfield. Both Supercheap cars pitted as did Jones for repairs and all would rejoin but with the new points system none of them would be able to trouble the scorers. Jamie Whincup assumed the lead the bad start by Courtney and was well out on front before slipping down an escape road on the oil of Fabian Coulthards Sirromet/Morris car which has blown an engine. Whincup dropped down the order and the lead was taken by Todd Kelly who would never be caught. Craig Lowndes was running 6th before he clashed with Max Wilson which resulted in a pit lane drive through penalty that would drop him to 13th by the finish. Whincup and Courtney would eventually recover from their respective problems and finish 2nd and 3rd with the hard charging Champion, Rick Kelly right behind them. Rick had started well down the grid but due to good race pace, great overtaking and slick pit work by HSV got him into a top 4 position. Ford Performance Racing finished 5th with Mark Winterbottom, Tander came in 6th and after a terrible 2006 Greg Murphy will be extremley happy to score an excellent 7th place finish in his first race for Tasman Motorsport. Russell Ingall, Steven Johnson and Jason Bright in his first race for his own team would round out the top 10. |
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| stradlin24 | Mar 4 2007, 06:32 PM Post #6 |
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Race 2 results 1. Rick Kelly Toll HSV Holden 78 laps 1hr 58m 54.1927s 2. Todd Kelly HRT Holden 78 laps 3. James Courtney SBR/Jeld-Wen Ford 78 laps 4. Russell Ingall SBR/Caltex Ford 78 laps 5. Jamie Whincup 888/Vodafone Ford 78 laps 6. Steven Johnson DJR/Jim Beam Ford 78 laps 7. Mark Skaife HRT Holden 78 laps 8. Steven Richards FPR/Castrol Ford 78 laps 9. Will Davison DJR/Jim Beam Ford 78 laps 10. Garth Tander Toll HSV Holden 78 laps 11. Craig Lowndes 888/Vodafone Ford 78 laps 12. Lee Holdsworth GRM/Repco Valvoline Holden 78 laps 13. Jason Richards Tasman Holden 78 laps 14. Jason Bright Britek/Fujitsu Ford 78 laps 15. Cameron McConville Supercheap Holden 76 laps 16. Adam Macrow Kiwi Ford 78 laps 17. Paul Morris Morris/Sirromet Holden 78 laps 18. Dean Canto GRM/Repco Valvoline Holden 78 laps 19. Fabien Coulthard Morris/Sirromet Holden 77 laps 20. Paul Dumbrell Supercheap Holden 77 laps 21. Brad Jones BOC Ford 76 laps 22. Shane Price Perkins/Jack Daniel's Holden 75 laps Rtd Max Wilson WPS Ford 67 laps completed Rtd Greg Murphy Tasman Holden 59 laps completed Rtd Andrew Jones BOC Ford 57 laps completed Rtd John Bowe PCR/Glenfords Ford 44 laps completed Rtd Jason Bargwanna WPS Ford 44 laps completed Rtd Mark Winterbottom FPR/Ford Credit Ford 42 laps completed Rtd Jack Perkins Perkins/Jack Daniel's Holden 8 laps completed Rtd Alan Gurr Britek/Irwin Ford 0 laps completed Rtd Steve Owen Autobarn Holden 0 laps completed |
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| stradlin24 | Mar 4 2007, 06:44 PM Post #7 |
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Race 2 review (by stradlin22) This time it was the other Kelly's turn to take victory at Adalaide as Holden had a clean sweep of the weekend wins. 2006 Champion Rick Kelly led pretty much all of the race and took a very impressive victory ahead of race 1 winner Todd Kelly. The start of the race was another disaster for SBR and James Courtney. Courtney had a bad start in race 1 but he had an apalling start in race 2 and dropped as far back as 12th on the first lap. The safety car was out early as Jason Bright ran wide and then cut back accross the track, making contact with Jason Bargwanna who was t-boned by Alan Gurr. Gurr was out and Bargwanna pitted before Steve Owen in the Autobarn racing car picked up some debries on his tyres and smashed into the Adalaide wall, all drivers were unhurt but Gurr and Bargwanna were upset with Bright. The Kelly brothers dominated at the front after the safety car came back in but it wasn't in for long because Jack Perkins lost control of the Jack Daniels car and spun into the wall, it proved to be a tough weekend for Perkins and his fellow rookie teammate Shane Price. The Kelly brothers were never touched, even when it looked like Garth Tander might close them down, he had to serve a pit lane drive through for an earlier pit lane error. James Courtney stormed through the field to claim his second podium of the weekend ahead of Russell Ingall, Jamie Whincup and Steven Johnson. All in all, the weekend belonged to Holden and the Kelly family HRT and HSV have one win each already and its the perfect start to the season after a hectic last few weeks for both teams. |
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| stradlin24 | Mar 4 2007, 09:55 PM Post #8 |
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you see the races Alli? bet your pleased with Rick's win ![]() even I have to admit, the Holdens and the Kelly brothers were extremley impressive |
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| Alliblue | Mar 6 2007, 10:02 PM Post #9 |
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yep saw the races yep happy with Rick's win <thumbs> and Todd's too <thumbs> James Courtney had a good drive in the second race as well still think it's a bit dodgy that the round winner is the winner of the second race rather than points leader... |
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| stradlin24 | Mar 6 2007, 10:05 PM Post #10 |
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cool! ![]() my reviews don't have alot of detail but they contain the important points looks like Holden will be extremley strong this season |
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yep happy with Rick's win <thumbs> and Todd's too <thumbs>
2:41 PM Jul 11