Skycity Triple Crown - Darwin

[Poita]

Not a good start to the weekend for the Jim Beam boys, it can only get better from here.

1 88 TeamVodafone Jamie Whincup Holden Commodore VE2 5000 P4 1:09.4369*
2 47 Lucky 7 Racing Tim Slade Ford Falcon FG 5000 P4 1:09.6027 0:00.1658
3 888 TeamVodafone Craig Lowndes Holden Commodore VE2 5000 P4 1:09.6432 0:00.2063
4 9 SP Tools Racing Shane Van Gisbergen Ford Falcon FG 5000 P4 1:09.6456 0:00.2087
5 16 Stratco Racing David Reynolds Holden Commodore VE2 5000 P4 1:09.7874 0:00.3505
6 55 The Bottle-O Racing Team Paul Dumbrell Ford Falcon FG 5000 P4 1:09.8405 0:00.4036
7 15 Jack Daniel's Racing Rick Kelly Holden Commodore VE2 5000 P4 1:09.8672 0:00.4303
8 5 Orrcon Steel FPR Falcon Mark Winterbottom Ford Falcon FG 5000 P4 1:09.8750 0:00.4381
9 6 Trading Post FPR Falcon Will Davison Ford Falcon FG 5000 P4 1:10.0828 0:00.6459
10 7 Jack Daniel's Racing Todd Kelly Holden Commodore VE2 5000 P4 1:10.0847 0:00.6478

26 18 Jim Beam Racing James Moffat Ford Falcon FG 5000 P4 1:10.6836 0:01.2467
28 17 Jim Beam Racing Steven Johnson Ford Falcon FG 5000 P3 1:10.8442 0:01.4073

 

[TS-50]

Yeeeeow !,. . . . . isn't this one of our favoured circuits ? [rt]

 

[PaddockBasher]

Don't think this is actually one of our favoured circuits. DJR have struggled over the years to get results here. Think JC was luck to snag a top 5 last year?

Very quiet at the track today, looked like numbers were down on previous years.

My highlight so far, was getting a ride in the transporter parade yesterday. Great atmoshpere heading through town, and damn, did the air horns echo in downtown Darwin (if you can call it that....)

 

[Car61]

Top Shot PB [sc]

Who's rig were you in ?

 

[DJRMAD]

Does anyone know what the problem may have been?
Were they saving their tyre bank or were the cars sliding around like a dog on lino?

 

[Bartman09]

Does anyone know what the problem may have been?
Were they saving their tyre bank or were the cars sliding around like a dog on lino?

They only ran two new tyres on Juniors car in the last practice session, other than that they ran on older tyres.

 

[Poita]

Steve 2nd Moff 22nd in qualifying, big turnaround from yesterday.

 

[Gerry]

It's getting better Poita!!

 

[Bartman09]

Winterbottom
Whincup
Van Gis bergen
Johnson
Slade
Holdsworth
Lowndes
Murphy
Owen
Dumbrell

4 Fords in the top 5.

 

[Racin Jason]

Why the hell do DJR keep losing spots in the pits? I am so over it.....[rt]

 

[Racin Jason]

Without that slow stop, it would have been a win for Stevie J and mini Moff up to 14th. A good day![bw]

 

[Gerry]

2nd for Steve in spite of the pit stop and up to 6th in the championship. [y]

 

[Racin Jason]

2nd for Steve in spite of the pit stop and up to 6th in the championship. [y]

And would be 4th, a bee's bit away from 3rd but for the 75 point penalty![rt]

 

[Gerry]

And would be 4th, a bee's bit away from 3rd but for the 75 point penalty![rt]

Forgot about that. [!]

Hey Poita - it's still getting better!!

 

[TS-50]

Great result for Steve, showed some good clean pace and aggression where needed and stayed out of the way to benefit from whingecup's dickhead move out of turn 1 which resulted in the field getting on the gas early and almost causing some serious accidents after the resulting dragrace. I'm so over the commentary team too, what's with the winterbottom "propped" he was rammed up the ass and would have had zero traction until the rear settled,. .WTF,. .will whingecup get away with it again? he should eb excluded from the race result in my opinion.[rt]

 

[Maddog]

only thing for certain wont be Whingecup's fault he is after all "the king" according to Skaife and co. At least Stevie got some luck for a change after 88's brain dead move

 

[Racin Jason]

Don't forget Mini! He done good![bw]

 

[DJRMAD]

About now James Courtney must be thinking..........................money isnt everything.

Great job DJR.

 

[Poita]

It's a big step in the right direction, well done to the team today.

Steve slipped back in the pits as they put 4 new tyres on, most of the other front runners did 2, it certainly helped in the latter stages enabling Steve to pull away from Lowndes.

 

[Poita]

Geez I'm glad I'm not a HRT supporter, can they get any worse? For a team with the biggest budget they are acting like they are new comers to the sport, some of their mistake are very amateurish.