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00:002014 what a season it's been so far we're 19 of 38 races in and right from the beginning these
00:12boys have seriously been playing for keeps I remember asking myself the question should I
00:17just run third or should I make this young kid work for his second place we went side by side
00:22for three or four corners which was pretty epic stuff I was probably the happiest person to ever
00:33come second you think I've won the race you know it all just happened at the blink of an eye
00:37Jason Bright over and over and up and into the wall it felt like it was sort of tumbling for quite a
00:45while winning Clipsa this year it was pretty emotional he was all busted up at Phillip
00:50pilot he comes back Courtney gets the win it was a pretty magical moment and a massive release of
00:57a lot of emotion and Lee Holdsworth drives into the history books probably the most emotional
01:05moment and I'll never ever forget it yeah put a fair bit of pressure on myself driving for the
01:11factory Ford team and Chas Mostert wins for the first time for Ford Performance Racing that car
01:17was just on fire but it was fantastic to have a car that comes out straight out of blocks and be fast
01:23and contend for wins is pretty awesome it's V for Volvo it's V for victory Scott McLaughlin breaks through
01:29and I'm just the lucky driver that's you know be able to show my talent inside the car like that so
01:34I'm very grateful these are the moments that have defined a championship that is well and truly
01:39there for the taking and the best bit is we're only halfway there this weekend we take the fight to
01:52the streets of Townsville when you're rolling the whole town's pumped their amps were there a lot of
01:58the people in town come out to the event and it's just a really good buzz around town yeah there's
02:02nothing better than being on the start grid and you can hear the crowd over the engine really makes
02:06a lift it's only about a minute 12 minute 13 every lap so we come past the crowd quite often it's a
02:11great little bullring for us and exciting we have supercar racing welcome to North Queensland for the
02:17Castrol Townsville 500 driven by TAFE Queensland the V8 supercars only on seven
02:24yes thank you for joining us Castrol Townsville 500 driven by TAFE Queensland the second of our
02:40super street events for 2014 and that's the scene from above Reid Park 2.8 kilometre racetrack 13 turns
02:47the CBD in the background and the coast a beautiful view magnetic island out to the east we are preparing
02:53for qualifying it's going to be a very busy weekend in pit lane let's get down there and start out with
02:57Mark Larkham yeah thanks Neil busy one yes you're right mate and I think what's going to be tough even
03:02for this qualifying I don't think there's real a really straight read on form but what we do know
03:06these Mercs the Erebus Mercedes Benzers were quick they were solid all yesterday in practice but one of
03:12the little battles they've got in these short qualifying sessions look down behind me it's a long way to the
03:17pit lane exit so by the time they get down there and out they've already lost time within this short
03:22session so what they're doing you can see there's no Dunlop marking on this tyre that's what we call
03:26the warm-up tyre they'll come in and put one set of tyres on one crack only in these qualifying sessions
03:32hot sorry cold tyre very difficult street circuit low grip and you've got to do it in two laps this
03:38will be tough it was this guy Shane Van Gisbergen of VIP Pet Foods who was quickest in the final
03:43practice session earlier today not just a little bit four and a half tenths quicker than Lee Holdsworth he
03:49was like I was just talking about in yesterday's practice session big story of the day though is
03:53Mark Winterbottom and his lack of pace only managed P16 in the session earlier today he admitted he
03:59struggled yesterday a lot of work for him to do in this morning's quality session but bang is he was
04:05on pole position last year can he do it again and these very tough quality sessions let's see
04:09guys this is what makes this racetrack one of the best places in Australia to watch V8 supercars
04:16have a look around everywhere you look from here a great vantage point over on the far hill is turn
04:22seven they've got a great view there and right along this hill here everyone has a great view of turn
04:26seven eight and nine it is absolutely perfect and it's the reason why people like these two Pete and
04:32Jane pack up from Echuca in Victoria and get themselves up here to leave the minus eight temperatures
04:36behind and get up here to where it's fantastic in summer it is just a just a beautiful place to be
04:41any time of the year but right now it is 27 degrees and gorgeous Mark Beretta thank you very much at a
04:47long way from Echuca on the Murray River to Townsville but a trip that's worthwhile it's a beautiful day
04:52up here let's have a look at the lineup of our field this weekend 25 cars we've got Jamie Wincup who's been
04:57the king of Townsville since we first started racing here in 2009 Todd Kelly Jack Daniels racing by the way
05:03300 races for that team tomorrow on Sunday Scotty Pie David Wall Dick Johnson racing by the way Stephen
05:10Johnson will be running in the Dunlop series this weekend there are a lot of stories going on and
05:13around great practice day yesterday for example Scott McLaughlin one of the best he's had so far
05:18this weekend puts him in good stead he's off to the US next week what about Craig Lowndes earlier in
05:24the obvious history has drawn like a little bit your future TT is here again
05:28a small st. GV8 extra hanging out of a glider that was bizarre
05:33More than bizarre, I would not be doing it
05:37That's mad and this is the Townsville street circuit layout
05:40It's 14 turns and it's a place that I'm sorry 30 turns
05:44but it's a place that's quite difficult to get your brain around
05:48that one end of the track the western end to your left is a street
05:52circuit format similar to other street circuits around australia but the right hand side of your
05:57screen is a parkland track 255k top speed 2.86 kilometers and in qualifying those three sectors
06:06will be very important we've seen this man in terms of performance neil come back at darwin
06:13with a great run he's been fast but they're not quite happy with these cars and craig lounge for
06:19instance has been over driving this car and struggling in that area right there which is
06:24one of the best vantage points of anywhere we go around our circuits this is a really great place
06:32to watch in that amphitheater at turn 10 11 you're down here in turn 11 we've seen a number of mistakes
06:38over the weekend as well and we've seen them in years gone by and both the red bull racing australia
06:43holton commodore is coming into the pit lane nice recovery to get some solid points by win cup in
06:48darwin good practice run for him yesterday friday as well here's scott mclaughlin when stood
06:53watched the cars down at the final turn turn number 13 earlier to see the way in which they were
06:59treating the final corner what the traction was like what the turn was like and there are a number
07:04of different driving styles and alternatives in the way they're approaching this race track
07:09it's a track that requires an enormous amount of aggression to be able to punch up the number
07:14that you're looking for on the dash you've got to try and make it last over the distance as well but
07:18right now it's about a one lap blast the whole racing team for example in this corner both garth
07:24tander and james courtney use second gear coming off this corner many of their opponents red bull
07:29racing for example religiously were using first gear in the earlier practice session that i saw
07:34courtney's gone fast one minute 13.1 we're looking at his teammate who's only two one hundredths of a
07:40second slower garth tander on screen there at the moment the winner the last time we were on the
07:44streets of townsville and you can see the green box indicates he's off to a strong start jason
07:49bright on screen here team voc never a podium in townsville this will be an important weekend for
07:54him he needs to claw back he's lost a bit of ground recently good start now courtney there
07:5813 one six that's the fastest lap time of the weekend it's a good hrt form remember they were
08:05very strong here last year with their state of origin colors and a one two for tander and courtney
08:10so mclaughlin third at the moment caruso was very fast in practice four for the four practice
08:16sessions over the weekend and one second separates the whole field this is on board now with james
08:23courtney that little tap of the brake pedal to make sure that it's got a full brake pedal and
08:27only just got it stopped for turn 11 you can see courtney there being followed by garth garth into
08:34the pits courtney finishes this lap it won't be quite good enough to eclipse the 13 one six
08:40mark winnemon now has gone fastest in the first sector so this is going to really heat up with only five
08:47minutes remaining we played the qualifying game 19 times so far this year and the ruler of the
08:55qualifying universe has been jamie winkup he's had six armor all pole positions for 2014
09:01his teammate lounge has grabbed four so red bull certainly been on form but historically you look
09:07at what these guys have done at pepsi max fourth performance racing and they've been typically strong
09:12here they're looking for their fifth successive sunday race win this weekend here's the man that
09:17after four practice sessions was the fast guy and as always van gisberg and his flamboyant
09:22look at the wheel work as he tosses the 97 vip pet foods holton commodore around the lights are on
09:29leaps across the bumps running out of road on the exit two green boxes through intermediate two
09:35and he's got two corners to run here he might jump to the top again this weekend we've already seen it
09:41he's had one pole position so far this year it was on the sunday at klipsal in adelaide
09:48a little bit of wheel spin there a lot of cars coming out of the lane so he needs to make this
09:54one stick because traffic will fumble him best time of the weekend so far a one minute 13.1
10:00nick perk out on screen
10:01this is on board with rick kelly car number 15 jack daniels racing
10:09so cars coming out now for their second shot at this the business end of qualifying we'll be back to
10:16tell the story in a moment
10:17we've got one minute and 18 seconds remaining in qualifying we're at townsville castrol townsville
10:32500 the event we're watching garth panda headlines ablaze he's got a green box now in the middle sector
10:37meantime craig lowndes is threatening him as well it's going to be very very tight at the top there's
10:43three drivers jammed on a 13 one van gisbergen courtney and tander and tander's got one corner
10:49to run will davison's gone to fourth neil so it's a great job for erebus mclaughlin six caruso is eight
10:56so all the manufacturers represented there and tander with a 13 dead that is a great lap from garth tander
11:03james courtney's also on a good lap and so is this man watch for lounge what's he like in the third
11:08sector he didn't get there he missed out by a tenth of a second lounge here's the response from
11:13courtney in the final corner second to third no wheel spin nice clean and courtney the one and only
11:19driver into the 12s two tenths of a second that's a massive margin
11:24tim slate 13 18 also so that's a great job mclaughlin goes to third with that lap of a 13 07
11:32it's not done yet rob star on the radio to courtney stay with it press on you've got one more lap
11:37these are the guys that got through before the flag came out we've got five seconds remaining this is
11:42jason bright in the final corner jamie winkup was 21st now he's now jumped to eight
11:51courtney tander bright to position three nice job scott mclaughlin four then lounge five so remember
11:57lounge was second just a heartbeat ago van gisbergen's gone into the lane he was on provisional pole
12:02early but he's dropped down the order this is mclaughlin
12:04you can see how much the drivers are pushing around here to achieve speed the right measure of
12:13aggression and conservatism is a very very difficult place to straddle it's a 212 kilometer an hour
12:22braking approach in here to the right hand and down at turn 11. a couple of places around here scopey
12:29where the gear shifts just come at really awkward places wants to feed the car sideways
12:36he's on a very fast second sector in fact it might even eclipse mclaughlin's number it's 700s
12:41faster than mclaughlin there so mclaughlin only does a 13 4 with that one so 1307 was the number
12:47here's winkup who's currently 10th clopper will it be enough
12:52no no 10th oh remember that he's equaled peter brock's all-time pole record of 57 if he gets
13:01one more he breaks the record sets a benchmark but it's all about the holden racing team they pick up
13:06where they left off last year james courtney though the order over garth tander not the way they finished
13:11in the last race last year armor all pole position to james courtney congratulations that's career poll
13:17number seven for jc the fishing helped congratulations and a tiny margin
13:25point two of a second over tander then bright mclaughlin
13:28lounge van gisberg and slade davison percat nice job nick and winkup
13:38it's another armor all pole position for james courtney and the holden racing team he's second for
13:432014 a nice bright shiny way to get the weekend started and the perfect way to pick up from where
13:48they left off in 2013 in fact it's a holden racing team one and two and i'm sure that james and
13:55everybody in that team together with many in the v8 supercar panic want to send a big shout out to
14:01peter harker from holden motorsport who's got a medical issue he's in hospital here at townsville
14:05this weekend pete we hope you're okay doing well and we look forward to having you back in the circus
14:10very soon peter harker best wishes this is james courtney a correction this is uh yes it's james
14:17courtney i just second guessed myself there and what's impressive about the work that these guys
14:22are doing at the moment between qualifying sessions and even in the practice sessions i went down earlier
14:26in the weekend and watched just amazing amount of high intensity work mark to make a determination
14:32about what they're doing and how they're doing it and how few seconds and minutes they've got
14:37available the pressure is enormous the pressure on this man mark winterbottom 17th in that last
14:43session and for a guy that's got 161 point margin in the championship he does not want that remember
14:49he's had tremendous performances here in qualifying over the years meantime his teammate chazzy mostard
14:56he's got a bit of a man cold at the moment i heard him on the radio also talking about brake
15:00rotor vibration just a few minutes ago so a few issues down there for those blokes yeah neil and to
15:05add to that the thing i love about our game here there's so many ways to skin the cat up this end
15:09of pit lane the top end of pit lane mark winterbottom jamie winkup craig lownds all went out on three
15:15different tire strategies craig's lounge has burned up his set of tires he's coming to come in and put
15:19another one jamie winkup changed the car went out on his warm-up tires hasn't put a new set on yet
15:24mark winterbottom went out on a used hot set of tires and has yet to go out on a new set so this is going to go as
15:29usual down to the wire thanks larko craig lounge with a 13-1-2 was currently fast as he did a 13-1-0 in
15:39the previous qualifying so he basically went out and was able to replicate that number but that's
15:43not going to be good enough because we saw james courtney delve into the 12s eddie most it his son
15:50just on the radio saying he thinks the brakes are a little better so that clears up that question that
15:53i threw up there's wind cup reigning champion third in the championship big points hall for him
15:58in darwin so everybody getting a little taste of what they've got they've made some adjustments
16:05they've done a verification run they'll bolt new rubber on and they'll go out and pull the trigger
16:09in just a moment
16:10two and a half minutes remaining qualifying race 21 townsville on the streets of reed park it's a
16:22beautiful day up here you should be up north it's glorious conditions and fantastic motor racing
16:28action we're watching jamie winkup 10th in the previous qualifying but yet to record a time but
16:33he's about to punch a number but look at him dance on that wheel at the moment he skated in there
16:37on the rear brake and only just pulled it up he had the left hand front wheel locked at the start then
16:42he had the rear locking that you said neil he's really trying hard this is maximum attack for a guy who
16:51is the benchmark qualifier in the field see every little bit of road that he's using i love this
16:57place because it's so compact drivers all talk about the reed park section the parkland part of this
17:05track ben gisberg and also on a good lap at the moment so winkup goes to four to the 13-3
17:11lounge currently still 13-1-2 holds the number one spot jason bright's quick as well he's gone
17:20through the immediate one as the fastest man he's down in 19 his van gisbergen currently
17:24fifth perkatt's quick to van gisbergen to the top on a 13-1 that's been a popular number so far this
17:30weekend it's point zero zero three three back to lounge who's in the pit lane he's the one and only
17:35in the lane keep an eye on dahlgren and perkatt down the order they're quick at the moment davison has
17:41gone to the top in the amg erebus motorsport entry now perkatt 13-0 in car triple two heavy haulage
17:49australian nice job for him saw some great performances from him at pukekoe in new zealand
17:55dahlgren continues to show speed so it's perkatt davison van gisbergen then lounges mclaughlin tanda
18:02winkup tim slates just jumped in saw him go through screen and the super cheap all no entry
18:09there's action every which way the wakato cars are obviously very strong they're four cars in the top
18:1410 in the previous qualifying session and this is going to really heat up here mclaughlin just slightly
18:19better 13-1-1 stays in third spot winkup does the next slap it's slightly better 13-3-4 but not good
18:27enough career defining moment potentially coming up here for perkatt he's still on provisional pole 15
18:33seconds remaining but look at this a bit of traffic and aggravation what's courtard got by way of response
18:40he's down the order at the moment he goes to the top that is a nice bit of work with just seconds
18:45remaining for fabian he's on the provisional pole at the moment the clock's gone zero the flag is out
18:51it's cool time perkatt davison what a mixed bag and winter bottom who made it by before the flag come out
19:00is on the fastest first sector so winter bottom is 17th at the moment he's the fastest man through
19:05intermediate one on the approach to turn three here is tim slade he's seventh at the moment super cheap
19:10baldo racing final corner now it's a question of smooth easy gear shifts slade seventh and no
19:21improvement he was a tenth of a second slower still coulter perkatt davison then mclaughlin van
19:27gisburgen lounge in that lane as i said there's courtney car number 22 8 pole in the last one
19:34and there's the boys at lockwood racing brad jones racing will they survive the test here
19:41yes is the answer so winter bottom came through and something went wrong in the back half of the
19:46circuit so tremendous performance fabian coultard he needed that it was a tough day on sunday in darwin
19:51and that earlier qualifying session and again winter bottom is down the order in 19.
19:56that is going to turn his smile upside down in these two races for this afternoon
20:00armor all pole position goes to fabian coultard the boys at lockwood racing congratulations
20:05and a nice performance by several nick perkatt notably will davison mclaughlin van gisburg and
20:12lounge slade that's his guys so walk and shore racing cars are quick we'll take a break
20:18as the celebrations continue at brad jones racing
20:30and we'll take a break as soon as we go back to brad jones racing