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V8SC 2008 - Round 14 – NRMA Motoring & Services Grand Finale – Oran Park

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The 2008 comes to a conclusion in what sadly is also the final round at Oran Park Raceway. The event has been extended to four days this year, with supports in the Fujitsu V8 Supercars, V8 Utes, Touring Car Masters, Formula Ford, Aussie Racing Cars, and the Mini Challenge all ending their 2008 championships this weekend. In addition there will be some on track action from the Group A and Group C cars of the past with 3 races across the weekend (albeit in poor timeslots).

In the main game Jamie Whincup is 67 points shy of securing his first title and only a Hamilton-style disaster will see Mark Winterbottom take the championship from him. The retiring Mark Skaife will be hoping for a vast improvement on recent form at a track that has served him well in the past. Two drivers hoping for a repeat of last year’s success will be Lee Holdsworth who took his maiden victory, and Shane Van Gisbergen who made his debut here and impressed everyone with his skills in the wet. All in all it should be a great end to the season, and one would hope this great track is sent off in style.

RESULTS
Natsoft Race Results - Natsoft provide results, lap charts, etc.
V8 Supercar Live Timing - For first time users please register before the session you intend to first use it for.

TRACK MAP
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Oran Park is a 2.62km anti-clockwise circuit, located 45km from Sydney.[/spoiler]

WEATHER
Sydney Forecast (BOM)
Launceston Forecast (Weather.com.au)
NW Tasmania (West Takone) Radar Loop

PREVIOUS SUCCESS
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Year  Driver on Pole    Car     Round Winner       Car 
1999  Mark Skaife       Holden  Mark Skaife        Holden
2000  Mark Skaife       Holden  Mark Skaife        Holden
2001  Craig Lowndes     Ford    Mark Skaife        Holden
2002  Mark Skaife       Holden  Mark Skaife        Holden
2003  Marcos Ambrose    Ford    Marcos Ambrose     Ford
2004  Mark Skaife       Holden  Marcos Ambrose     Ford
2005  Marcos Ambrose    Ford    Russell Ingall     Ford
2006  Jason Bright      Ford    Russell Ingall     Ford
2007  Todd Kelly        Holden  Lee Holdsworth     Holden

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LAP RECORDS
V8 Qualifying – 1999 – Mark Skaife – Holden – 1.07.4806
V8 Lap - 1999 – Craig Lowndes – Holden – 1.08.0631
Outright – 2000 – Tim Leahey – Reynard 92D – 1.01.6718

SCHEDULE (Oran Park +11 GMT (AEDT))
[spoiler]Thursday 4th December 2008
0900-0920: Formula Ford – Practice 1
0930-0950: Aussie Racing Cars – Practice 1
1000-1020: V8 Utes – Practice 1
1030-1050: Mini Challenge – Practice 1
1100-1120: Touring Car Masters – Practice 1
1130-1220: Fujitsu V8 Supercars – Practice 1
1230-1250: Aussie Racing Cars – Qualifying
1300-1320: Formula Ford – Practice 2
1330-1350: V8 Utes – Practice 2
1400-1420: Touring Car Masters – Qualifying 1
1430-1450: Mini Challenge – Practice 2
1500-1550: Fujitsu V8 Supercars – Practice 2
1600-1620: Formula Ford – Qualifying
1635-1655: V8 Utes – Qualifying
1710-1720: Group A/Group C – Qualifying
1740-1800: Fujitsu V8 Supercars – Meeting Rides

Friday 5th December 2008
0900-0920: Aussie Racing Cars – Race 1 – 11 laps
0930-0950: Touring Car Masters – Qualifying 2
0955-1010: Entertainment Session
1020-1040: Fujitsu V8 Supercars – Qualifying Lower 50%
1045-1105: Fujitsu V8 Supercars – Qualifying Upper 50%
1120-1140: Mini Challenge – Qualifying
1150-1205: Formula Ford – Race 1 – 12 laps
1220-1240: V8 Utes – Race 1 – 12 laps
1250-1320: V8 Supercars – Practice Part 1
1325-1355: V8 Supercars – Practice Part 2
1405-1425: Aussie Racing Cars – Race 2 – 11 laps
1435-1550: V8 Supercars – Practice Part 3
1600-1620: Entertainment Session
1630-1700: V8 Supercars – Meeting Rides
1710-1730: Group A/Group C – Race 1 – 14 laps
1740-1800: Support Category Meeting Rides

Saturday 6th December 2008
0900-0920: Mini Challenge – Race 1 – 11 laps
0930-0945: Entertainment Session
0955-1015: Aussie Racing Cars – Race 3 – 11 laps
1025-1045: Touring Car Masters – Race 1 – 14 laps
1055-1110: Formula Ford – Race 2 – 12 laps
1125-1150: V8 Utes – Race 2 – 14 laps
1205-1225: V8 Supercars – Leg 1 Qualifying
1230-1245: V8 Supercars – Leg 2 Qualifying
1250-1300: V8 Supercars – Leg 3 Qualifying
1315-1335: Entertainment Session
1400-1430: Fujitsu V8 Supercars – Race 1 – 22 laps
1440-1450: Drift Display
1500-1520: Mini Challenge – Race 2 – 11 laps
1545-1655: V8 Supercars – Race 1 – 55 laps (CPS between Laps 5 and 38)
1700-1720: Touring Car Masters – Race 2 – 14 laps
1730-1750: Group A/Group C – Race 2 – 14 laps

Sunday 7th December 2008
0830-0850: Group A/Group C – Race 3 – 14 laps
0900-0920: Mini Challenge – Race 3 – 11 laps
0930-0950: V8 Utes – Race 3 – 12 laps
1000-1020: Entertainment Session
1030-1045: Formula Ford – Race 3 – 12 laps
1110-1220: V8 Supercars – Race 2 – 55 laps (CPS between Laps 5 and 38)
1235-1255: Touring Car Masters – Race 3 – 14 laps
1325-1355: Fujitsu V8 Supercars – Race 2 – 22 laps
1410-1425: Entertainment Session
1435-1455: Aussie Racing Cars – Race 4 – 11 laps
1525-1635: V8 Supercars – Race 3 – 55 laps (CPS between Laps 5 and 38)[/spoiler]

ENTRY LIST + CHAMPIONSHIP STATISTICS
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                                                                C'ship     Round Statistics     Race Statistics 
No.       Sponsor Name                 Driver               Car Pos Pts   Best  1-2-3  T5-T10  Best  1-2-3  T5-T10

1    HRT  Toll Holden Racing Team      Garth Tander         VE   3  2788   1st  3-2-2   8-10    1st  7-5-6  23-26
2    HRT  Toll Holden Racing Team      Mark Skaife          VE  14  1598   1st  1-0-0   1-4     1st  1-1-0   4-10
3    TAS  Sprint Gas Racing            Jason Richards       VE  17  1434   2nd  0-1-0   1-2     2nd  0-1-0   2-6
4    SBR  Jeld-Wen Motorsport          James Courtney       BF   6  2224   3rd  0-0-4   5-8     1st  1-2-4  11-23
5    FPR  Ford Performance Racing      Mark Winterbottom    BF   2  2975   1st  2-3-1   9-12    1st  7-7-5  26-30
6    FPR  Ford Performance Racing      Steven Richards      BF   7  2214   1st  1-1-0   4-9     1st  1-4-1  12-21
7    JDR  Jack Daniel's Racing         Todd Kelly           VE  12  1929   2nd  0-1-0   3-5     1st  1-0-2   6-14
9    SBR  SP Tools Racing              Shane Van Gisbergen  BF  16  1496   4th  0-0-0   1-5     2nd  0-1-0   4-11
11   JDR  Jack Daniel's Racing         Jack Perkins         VE  29   554   8th  0-0-0   0-2     8th  0-0-0   0-2
12   BOC  Team BOC                     Andrew Jones         VE  23  1041  10th  0-0-0   0-1     9th  0-0-0   0-1
14   BOC  Team BOC                     Cameron McConville   BF  22  1264   7th  0-0-0   0-2     3rd  0-0-1   2-7
15   HSV  HSV Dealer Team              Rick Kelly           VE   8  2194   3rd  0-0-1   5-9     2nd  0-2-0   7-25
16   HSV  Autobarn Racing Team         Paul Dumbrell        VE  19  1284   8th  0-0-0   0-1     8th  0-0-0   0-4
17   DJR  Jim Beam Racing              Steven Johnson       BF   9  2029   3rd  0-0-1   2-7     3rd  0-0-1   4-14
18   DJR  Jim Beam Racing              Will Davison         BF   5  2375   1st  1-0-2   5-9     1st  2-2-1  12-28
021  TKR  Team Kiwi Racing             Daniel Gaunt         BF  59    64  26th  0-0-0   0-0    23rd  0-0-0   0-0
25   BRI  Fujitsu Racing               Jason Bright         BF  21  1266   9th  0-0-0   0-3     7th  0-0-0   0-5
26   BRI  IRWIN Racing                 Marcus Marshall      BF  24  1035  14th  0-0-0   0-0    13th  0-0-0   0-0
33   GRM  Valvoline Cummins Race Team  Lee Holdsworth       VE  11  1931   2nd  0-1-0   3-8     2nd  0-1-2   8-19
34   GRM  Valvoline Cummins Race Team  Michael Caruso       VE  20  1279   5th  0-0-0   1-1     5th  0-0-0   1-2
39   PMM  Supercheap Auto Racing       Russell Ingall       VE  10  2010   2nd  0-1-1   5-7     2nd  0-2-2  10-20
50   PWR  PWR Performance Products     Andrew Thompson      VE  28   707  18th  0-0-0   0-0    13th  0-0-0   0-0
51   TAS  Sprint Gas Racing            Greg Murphy          VE  15  1508   2nd  0-1-0   1-3     2nd  0-1-0   1-7
55   RNR  Rod Nash Racing              Tony D'Alberto       VE  25   858  17th  0-0-0   0-0    10th  0-0-0   0-1
67   PMM  Supercheap Auto Racing       Paul Morris          VE  18  1296   9th  0-0-0   0-2     9th  0-0-0   0-3
88   888  Team Vodafone                Jamie Whincup        BF   1  3208   1st  6-2-1  11-12    1st 14-3-5  27-31
111  PCR  Glenfords Racing             Fabian Coulthard     BF  13  1677   5th  0-0-0   1-5     6th  0-0-0   0-12
777  FRS  Ford Rising Stars            Michael Patrizi      BF  27   800  18th  0-0-0   0-0    12th  0-0-0   0-0
888  888  Team Vodafone                Craig Lowndes        BF   4  2619   1st  1-2-1   6-11    1st  2-4-5  17-26
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11   JDR  Jack Daniel's Racing         Shane Price          VE  26   843  13th  0-0-0   0-0    13th  0-0-0   0-0
021  TKR  Team Kiwi Racing             Chris Pither         BF  50   130  25th  0-0-0   0-0    19th  0-0-0   0-0
021  TKR  Team Kiwi Racing             Kayne Scott          BF  31   351  17th  0-0-0   0-0    14th  0-0-0   0-0
021  TKR  Team Kiwi Racing             Steve Owen           BF  32   351  11th  0-0-0   0-0    11th  0-0-0   0-0
021  TKR  Team Kiwi Racing             Fahad Al Musalam     BF  60    46  26th  0-0-0   0-0    23rd  0-0-0   0-0

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SERIES POINTS
[spoiler]DRIVERS CHAMPIONSHIP
TOP 10
Jamie Whincup 3208, Mark Winterbottom 2975, Garth Tander 2788, Craig Lowndes 2619, Will Davison 2375 (+1), James Courtney 2224 (+1), Steven Richards 2214 (-2), Rick Kelly 2194, Steven Johnson 2029 (+1), Russell Ingall 2010 (-1).

TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
5491 Team Vodafone
5002 Ford Performance Racing Team
4224 Jim Beam Racing (+1)
4126 Toll Holden Racing Team (-1)
3720 Stone Brothers Racing
3388 HSV Dealer Team
3256 Garry Rogers Motorsport
3125 Supercheap Auto Racing
3095 Jack Daniels Racing
2840 Tasman Motorsport
2599 Brad Jones Racing
2301 Britek Motorsport
1677 Glenfords Racing (S)
858 Rod Nash Racing (S)
800 Ausdrill Ford Rising Stars (S)
707 PWR Performance Products (S)
694 Team Kiwi Racing (S)[/spoiler]

2008 STATISTICS
POLE SITTERS: 10 Ford, 3 Holden
ROUND WINNERS: 10 Ford, 3 Holden
ROUND PODIUM SPOTS: Ford 26 (10-7-9), Holden 13 (3-6-4)
RACE WINNERS: 26 Ford, 8 Holden

AUSTRALIAN TELECAST TIMES
Times from http://www.v8supercar.com.au/content/te ... channel_7/
Check http://www.tvguide.com.au or your local guides closer to the event to check for any disparity.

Saturday
1400-1730: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth

Sunday
1300-1730: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth

Final round at Oran Park ever. I will miss it for sure, its one of the iconic tracks on the series.

What will happen to it after the race?? Will it be demolished quickly or what??

What you talking about?

It's being flattened some time next year for a housing development. Has been known for 3 years

RIP Oran Park

and Hamilton

Damn, didnt knew, Oran Park was always a good track.

Bathurst

never watching again

get rid of Bahrain and bring back Amaroo Park

Amaroo Park owns

Also, bring back Lakeside, and blow up QR to make up for it

Best races ever, come on



As scotty said, the track will continue to operate next year. There is a round of the Shannons Nationals scheduled for August 2009. It is 2010 that the building is expected to start, and even then OP will be open for the first half of that year (CAMS licence not expected to be renewed for 2010 though)


For some reason V8Supercars seem to think that it is their duty to have the 'final celecration' after they 'farewell' meeting that the track is finished, nothing could be further from the truth. So many people seem to think the track closes after the 2008 V8Supercar meeting, its the VESA propaganda machine at its best again.


I remember my first trip to Oran Park, watching qualifying for the 1988 series round there.

Bring the V8 Supercars to the Thunderdome....thread over.

I noticed a lot of Australian tracks are great fun to race on Toca Race Driver but not so much fun actually watching a race there.

So maybe that's their problem, designed to be fun from behind the wheel, but not so much with overtaking and close racing in mind.

Oran Park is awesome, goodbye crossover bridge *sigh*

I reckon that the 2001 QLD 500 was pretty good as well, as Barry Sheene was going crazy.

Don't forget Eastern Creek. That's the worst track in the country by far.



That track had lot of crashes and don't forget the tyre thing with Ambrose.

Australia and New Zealand has the best GPL tracks

Sandown, Wigram, Lakeside, Amaroo Park, Bathurst, Phillip Island, Levin.

Maybe I only think so because the Tasman series is tast and I have erotic thoughts about "down under".

One thing to mention, its all well and good to criticise a track for no passing but is it always the tracks fault? Surely some of the blame lies with the current V8 formula. The amount of 'parity' and 'controlled components' is a perfect recipe for nose-to-tail-without-passing racing.

Eastern Creek is good circuit, and you can actually see alot of the track from certain spectator points. The problem is VESA have drummed no much negative press about the place over the years that people just believe the hype....




Only ever two fatal accidents at Amaroo, one of which was a spectator in 1986, when Graham Watson & Peter Hopwood clashed heading up the hill during a heat of the Australian F1 Gold Star. Hopwoods car rode up the bank and into the crowd.

Something would have had to have been done to the place long-term though, especially the run up to the lake corner, with a rockface starring right at you as braked.



Warwick Farm was a great circuit, full of quick flowing corners.

Some footage of the track here http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=UNhYNzBd-t0

Also alot of the "Classic Australian Touring Car Races" DVDs from Chevron feature races from there, if anyone wants a look at the track.

Bits of it still remain, but most of it has been lost since the racing circuit was closed by the horse club in 1973

The old Surfers race track was very entertaining. Very fast and flowing. To be fast you had to have no fear though T1 (Taken flat at around 230kph). Any fear in taking that corner usually ended in disaster.