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2005 V8 SUPERCAR: BARBAGELLO

2005 V8 SUPERCAR CHAMPIONSHIP

Round 3 of 13: May 6-8 Barbagallo Perth

SCHEDULE: 3 RACES

• Friday May 6: Practice 1.30 pm - 3.30pm
• Saturday May 7: Top Ten Shootout 11.45am 12.15pm
  Race 1: 3-3.50pm (120km)
• Sunday May 8
  Race 2: 10-11.00am (140km)
  Race 3: 1.40-2.40pm (l40km)

CIRCUIT:

• Barbagallo Raceway, Wannaroo, Perth WA
• located 35 km from Perth
• 2.41 km circuit ; max speed 245 kph
• lap record 57.995s Lowndes 1996
• 2004 winner: Bright, Holden
• 2003 winner: Ambrose, Ford
• 2002 winner: Skaife (R1), Murphy (R2), Bright (R3)
• 2001 winner: Radisich, Ford (R1, 2, 3)
• 2000 winner: Lowndes, Holden (R1, 2, 3)

LAST YEARS BARBAGALLO RESULT: 2004

• RACE 1: 1 Marcos Skaife , Commodore
• RACE 2: 1 Jason Bright , Commodore
• RACE 3: 1 Jason Bright , Commodore

RACE RESULT: BARBAGALLO 2005

RACE 3, MAY 8, 2005

• 1 Russell Ingall, 58 laps, 140 kms
• 2 Steven Richards
• 3 Marcos Ambrose
• 4 Paul Weel
• 5 Steven Johnson
• 6 Mark Skaife
• 7 Todd Kelly
• 8 John Bowe
• 9 Glenn Seton
• 10 Steve Ellery 11 Morris 12 Bargwanna 13 Tander 14 Whincup 15 R Kelly
  

RACE 2, MAY 8, 2005

• 1 Steven Richards, 58 laps, 140 kms
• 2 Russell Ingall
• 3 Craig Lowndes
• 4 Steven Johnson
• 5 Marcos Ambrose
• 6 Paul Weel
• 7 Jason Bright
• 8 Paul Radisich
• 9 Cameron McConville
• 10 Jason Bargwanna 11 Bowe 12 Besnard 13 Ellery 14 Tander 15 Seton

RACE 1, MAY 7, 2005

• 1 Mark Skaife, 51 laps, 120 kms
  "It's the third time I've won the first race (of three) here so now I've got to make sure I win a few more tomorrow. It's certainly going to tough in race two and three tomorrow, we all know that."
• 2 Marcos Ambrose
  "I had no grip and just ran wide which allowed 'Skaifey' to slip past me. Fortunately I was able to gather it up and stay in second place. I had a couple of cracks at Skaife over the remaining laps, but I had the championship in the back on my mind. It was certainly a cracker race and sets up a pretty interesting day for the fans tomorrow."
• 3 Steven Richards
• 4 Russell Ingall
  "It's all good. We are back in the game after qualifying 12th this morning. It was a great move to bring me in early for my stop to break me away from the train of cars I was in and then the boys gave me an awesome 4.3-second stop."
• 5 Greg Murphy
• 6 Paul Radisich
• 7 Jason Richards
• 8 Cameron McConville
• 9 Jason Bargwanna
• 10 Paul Morris
• 11 Johnson 12 Seton 13 Whincup 14 R Kelly 15 Bowe 16 Bright 17 Besnard 18 Wills 19 Baird 20 Winterbottom

QUALIFYNG:

GRID, TOP 10 SHOOT-OUT, MAY 7, 2005

• 1 Craig Lowndes 0m 55.6278s
• 2 Marcos Ambrose +0.11
• 3 Steven Richards +0.18
• 4 Mark Skaife
• 5 Cameron McConville
• 6 Jason Bright
• 7 Garth Tander
• 8 Greg Murphy
• 9 Greg Ritter
• 10 Steve Ellery

FRI PRACTICE, MAY 6, 2005

• 1 Steven Johnson, Ford
  "We've virtually used our drop your worst round after New Zealand so it was good to come here and find speed straight away. In New Zealand we tried a lot of changes during practice and seemed to get lost. This time I got out of the car during the session, looked at a lot of data and a few track maps and we made some good gains"
• 2 Jason Bright, Ford
  "I'm sure qualifying tomorrow will be very interesting and that it may well not be the same guys sitting up here tomorrow afternoon."
• 3 Mark Skaife, Holden
• 4 Max Wilson, Ford
• 5 Todd Kelly, Holden

BEFORE RACE:

Leigh Diffey :

• Heading into Round Three of the V8 Supercar Championship Series at Perth's Barbagallo circuit, the overwhelming sentiment is simply, 'how good has it been so far!'
• The racing has been intense, the stewards have been kept on their toes, the teams have worked overtime and there have been two dominant but deserving winners in Marcos Ambrose and Greg Murphy.
• Barbagallo hasn't seen a clean sweep since Paul Radisich won it all in his DJR Falcon back in 2001, so is that a sign for this weekend? The Rat is right at home in his new Team Kiwi Commodore and the aggressiveness of Barbagallo suits his style.
• Since that Radisich romp, only four drivers have enjoyed success in the West. Mark Skaife, Jason Bright, Greg Murphy and Marcos Ambrose are all in good form and should again be strong in the sand dunes of Wanneroo.
• Surprise of the championship thus far is Paul Weel. He and his Supercheap Auto Racing Commodore have been solid proof of what this series is all about; consistency. He's yet to stand on a race podium, but in his words, "Who cares? I'm up there!".
• Watch out for Craig Lowndes. He was robbed in the final race in New Zealand with a car that failed to start. He'll clearly want revenge in Round Three! The Triple Eight pilot is fourth
  in the points and is yet to win - Perth would be perfect for his return to the top.