Who Is Going To Win Sandown 500?

[HSVLVR]

I can tell you now, Holden won't win but there is a good chance at it.

[HSVLVR]

I made a mistake on the last option. It was going to be "DONT CARE!!!"

[WyleECoyote]

Although I'm a Holden fan, I think the Triple 8 car of Lowndes and Co-driver might just take it out.
It would be nice to see the Kelly brothers take it out tho.

[blingbling]

Holden won't win but there is a good chance at it.

What?

[acemotorsport]

Although I'm a Holden fan, I think the Triple 8 car of Lowndes and Co-driver might just take it out.

yeah

[fpv_gtho]

888 i think will walk away with it. Sandown's got alot in common with Adelaide, alot of 90 degree corners and the back straight is alot like Adelaide as well. SBR in past years have dominated both tracks, and 888 were with them last year. This year they won it without a challenge from SBR, so by that reasoning theyre definately favourites.

[Monty_Burns]

Anybody out of 888, FPR or SBR will win......but HRT and HSVDT will be dangerous as well.

[Daz27]

Lowndes and Whincup... Skaifey next... Has there been an announcement about the controversial holden pairings been made yet? Last I heard they were going to go back on the earlier decision and not allow the two holden teams to swap their drivers...

[fpv_gtho]

I dont think all the teams have been able to agree, but they might get it disallowed for next year.

It seems most people though are more ticked off that its TW doing it, and theyve dealt with how he works before, rather than the fact Tander and Skaife are 2 top line drivers.

[Peter PaP]

Practice 1 Results:

1 888 Team Betta Electrical C.Lowndes/J.Whincup Ford Falcon BA 44 44 1:10.9708
2 2 Holden Racing Team M.Skaife/G.Tander Holden Commodore VZ 52 47 1:11.0554 0:00.0846
3 6 Ford Performance Racing J.Bright/M.Winterbottom Ford Falcon BA 50 50 1:11.1705 0:00.1997
4 1 Caltex Racing J.Courtney/R.Ingall/L.Youlden Ford Falcon BA 50 49 1:11.2221 0:00.2513
5 8 WPS Racing D.Besnard/M.Wilson Ford Falcon BA 49 48 1:11.2372 0:00.2664
6 3 Tasman Motorsport A.Jones/J.Richards Holden Commodore VZ 51 45 1:11.2608 0:00.2900
7 14 Team BOC J.Bowe/D.Brede/B.Jones/M.Porter Ford Falcon BA 49 43 1:11.2993 0:00.3285
8 7 Jack Daniel's Racing P.Dumbrell/S.Richards Holden Commodore VZ 52 52 1:11.3929 0:00.4221
9 17 FirstRock Home Loans W.Davison/S.Johnson Ford Falcon BA 46 38 1:11.4075 0:00.4367
10 34 Repco Valvoline Cummins Team D.Canto/L.Holdsworth Holden Commodore VZ 49 45 1:11.4170 0:00.4462
11 4 Jeld-Wen Motorsport J.Courtney/G.Seton Ford Falcon BA 50 50 1:11.5508 0:00.5800
12 10 WPS Racing C.Baird/J.Bargwanna/M.Wilson Ford Falcon BA 43 43 1:11.5732 0:00.6024
13 51 Supercheap Auto Racing C.McConville/G.Murphy/N.Pretty/P.Weel Holden Commodore VZ 51 49 1:11.6123 0:00.6415
14 15 Toll HSV Dealer Team R.Kelly/T.Kelly/A.Tratt Holden Commodore VZ 52 40 1:11.6153 0:00.6445
15 021 Team Kiwi Racing F.Coulthard/P.Radisich Holden Commodore VZ 52 49 1:11.7618 0:00.7910
16 25 Fujitsu Racing W.Luff/A.Macrow Ford Falcon BA 52 50 1:11.7786 0:00.8078
17 18 APVC Racing A.Davison/G.Denyer Ford Falcon BA 50 42 1:11.7950 0:00.8242
18 20 Glenfords AEG Racing M.Marshall/J.Webb Ford Falcon BA 52 52 1:11.9738 0:01.0030
19 55 Autobarn Racing T.Longhurst/S.Owen Holden Commodore VZ 52 25 1:12.1112 0:01.1404
20 5 Ford Performance Racing M.Halliday/C.McLean Ford Falcon BA 52 46 1:12.1399 0:01.1691
21 33 Repco Valvoline Cummins Team L.Holdsworth/G.Ritter/P.Scifleet Holden Commodore VZ 52 50 1:12.2037 0:01.2329
22 12 Team BOC D.Brede/M.Porter Ford Falcon BA 51 46 1:12.2077 0:01.2369
23 50 Supercheap Auto Racing N.Pretty/P.Weel Holden Commodore VZ 51 46 1:12.2650 0:01.2942
24 67 Team Sirromet Wines Paul Morris Holden Commodore VZ 29 29 1:12.2931 0:01.3223
25 22 Holden Racing Team R.Briscoe/Jim Richards/G.Tander Holden Commodore VZ 53 53 1:12.3360 0:01.3652
26 39 Team Sirromet Wines A.Gurr/P.Morris/K.Scott Holden Commodore VZ 50 50 1:12.4243 0:01.4535
27 23 Tasman Motorsport O.Kelly/M.Noske Holden Commodore VZ 52 26 1:12.4371 0:01.4663
28 16 Toll HSV Dealer Team T.D'Alberto/T.Kelly/A.Tratt Holden Commodore VZ 52 52 1:12.6124 0:01.6416
29 88 Team Betta Electrical R.Lyons/A.Simonsen Ford Falcon BA 47 47 1:12.6141 0:01.6433
30 11 Jack Daniel's Racing J.Perkins/S.Price Holden Commodore VZ 51 51 1:12.6881 0:01.7173
31 26 Fujitsu Racing J.Fernandez/T.Ricciardello Ford Falcon BA 51 43 1:13.1113 0:02.1405

[charged]

go brighty/winterbottom top effort

Top work by Lowndes after they stuffed up the race strategy, and the pad change

[fpv_gtho]

There were some great drives out there today. Lowndes unlapping himself with the help of the safety car, Bright and Kelly towards the end there and i gotta give mention to Brad Jones and John Bowe. Havent seen them in the top 5 in a good while.

[HSVLVR]

Skaife/Tander and Murphy/McConville done well but their cars played up.

[fpv_gtho]

I dont know what McConville was doing actually Racing whilst his car was spewing out smoke and oil. I thought they made it pretty clear in the drivers briefing to pull off the racing line in such a situation. Perhaps they need to put the hammer down a bit more, expecially with the enduro's as theres so many drivers not normally racing in the series. Alot of others were doing similarly stupid things, like dumping gravel all over the racing line.

[charged]

Hopefully BJR will have a good Bathurst, what I like about the enduro's, its not always about absolute car speed, a lot of other factors come into play.
I still rate Bowey as a very good enduro racer, just pumping out consistent laps. and keeping out of trouble. Some of the young guns can crank out a few blistering laps, but they havent got the maturity or race smarts of some of the experienced drivers.

Jeez we are rapt if we finish a race weekend with no DNFs and thats a total of 34 laps, let alone 161 laps

Betta Electrical 500 - 2006 V8 Supercar Series, Rd8
SANDOWN INTERNATIONAL MOTOR RACEWAY

V8 SUPERCARS - Betta Electrical 500


Event R13 161 Laps
Scheduled Start 13:00
PROVISIONAL RESULT

Page 1 Issue 1 SS28B
Start Sun Sep 3 13:03
Elapsed Time 03:22:16


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Pos Car Entrant Driver Vehicle Cap CL Lap Race.Time Fastest...Lap

1 6 Ford Performance Racing J.Bright/M.Winterbottom Ford Falcon BA 5000 161 03:22:16.2954 64 1:12.0430
2 15 Toll HSV Dealer Team R.Kelly/T.Kelly Holden Commodore VZ 5000 161 03:22:16.4540 116 1:12.0792
3 888 Team Betta Electrical C.Lowndes/J.Whincup Ford Falcon BA 5000 161 03:22:34.0142 64 1:11.9586
4 17 FirstRock Home Loans W.Davison/S.Johnson Ford Falcon BA 5000 161 03:22:39.1147 64 1:12.3329
5 14 Team BOC J.Bowe/B.Jones Ford Falcon BA 5000 161 03:22:39.8524 64 1:12.4886
6 34 Repco Valvoline Cummins Team D.Canto/L.Holdsworth Holden Commodore VZ 5000 161 03:22:52.3777 20 1:12.6197
7 10 WPS Racing C.Baird/J.Bargwanna Ford Falcon BA 5000 160 03:22:47.8878 121 1:12.5170
8 67 Team Sirromet Wines S.Ellery/P.Morris Holden Commodore VZ 5000 160 03:22:49.6528 57 1:12.5221
9 4 Jeld-Wen Motorsport J.Courtney/G.Seton Ford Falcon BA 5000 160 03:22:56.2422 9 1:12.6120
10 50 Supercheap Auto Racing N.Pretty/P.Weel Holden Commodore VZ 5000 160 03:23:01.7326 66 1:12.6304
11 8 WPS Racing D.Besnard/M.Wilson Ford Falcon BA 5000 160 03:23:05.2664 114 1:12.4972
12 55 Autobarn Racing T.Longhurst/S.Owen Holden Commodore VZ 5000 159 03:22:21.4208 135 1:12.4344
13 021 Team Kiwi Racing F.Coulthard/P.Radisich Holden Commodore VZ 5000 159 03:22:42.2521 122 1:12.6211
14 18 APVC Racing A.Davison/G.Denyer Ford Falcon BA 5000 159 03:22:50.2188 136 1:12.5211
15 5 Ford Performance Racing M.Halliday/C.McLean Ford Falcon BA 5000 159 03:23:04.2103 69 1:12.6076
16 16 Toll HSV Dealer Team T.D'Alberto/A.Tratt Holden Commodore VZ 5000 159 03:23:04.4230 62 1:12.8887
17 88 Team Betta Electrical R.Lyons/A.Simonsen Ford Falcon BA 5000 159 03:23:07.7378 113 1:12.9621
18 12 Team BOC D.Brede/M.Porter Ford Falcon BA 5000 158 03:22:51.3550 67 1:12.8524
19 39 Team Sirromet Wines A.Gurr/K.Scott Holden Commodore VZ 5000 158 03:23:25.7085 98 1:13.5289
20 33 Repco Valvoline Cummins Team G.Ritter/P.Scifleet Holden Commodore VZ 5000 157 03:23:07.1808 11 1:12.7688
21 22 Holden Racing Team R.Briscoe/Jim Richards Holden Commodore VZ 5000 157 03:23:10.4135 63 1:12.2387
22 26 Fujitsu Racing J.Fernandez/
T.Ricciardello Ford Falcon BA 5000 156 03:22:55.4192 35 1:13.5781
23 25 Fujitsu Racing W.Luff/A.Macrow Ford Falcon BA 5000 155 03:22:26.6928 121 1:12.6574
24 11 Jack Daniel's Racing J.Perkins/S.Price Holden Commodore VZ 5000 154 03:22:52.3056 62 1:12.9285
25 20 Glenfords AEG Racing M.Marshall/J.Webb Ford Falcon BA 5000 153 03:22:59.4341 119 1:13.0374
26 2 Holden Racing Team M.Skaife/G.Tander Holden Commodore VZ 5000 149 03:22:16.8465 56 1:11.7104*
27 1 Caltex Racing R.Ingall/L.Youlden Ford Falcon BA 5000 141 03:22:49.4633 6 1:12.7600
28 7 Jack Daniel's Racing P.Dumbrell/S.Richards Holden Commodore VZ 5000 139 03:22:43.4532 12 1:12.8031
29 51 Supercheap Auto Racing C.McConville/G.Murphy Holden Commodore VZ 5000 139 03:23:09.4526 69 1:12.5526
30 3 Tasman Motorsport A.Jones/J.Richards Holden Commodore VZ 5000 133 03:22:46.3831 60 1:12.0985
DNF 23 Tasman Motorsport O.Kelly/M.Noske Holden Commodore VZ 5000 75 03:22:26.8627 73 1:13.0906

PENALTY APPLIED
Competitor# 10 27 Seconds Penalty
Competitor# 18 27 Seconds Penalty

3 Safety Car Periods With A Total Of 6 Laps
Fastest Lap Av.Speed Is 156kph, Race Av.Speed Is 148kph
Current Race Lap Record Is 1:10.8251 Set On 12/09/2004 By Marcos Ambrose In A Ford Falcon BA
R=under lap record by greatest margin, r=under lap record, *=fastest lap time
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Issue# 1 - Printed Sun Sep 3 17:45:26 2006 Timing System By NATSOFT (03)63342353 www.natsoft.com.au/results & Dorian DATA-1
Timing by V8 Supercars & Melbourne University Car Club Inc.