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ROUND 13 – Plus One Fitness Phillip Island 400 Races 33, 34 & 35 Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, Phillip Island, Victoria. November 14 - 16 2014 The Phillip Island Grand Prix circuit is fast and owing boasting twelve turns across the almost four and half kilometre track. Gardener straight is the fastest section of the circuit, leading past the pits and down towards the right hander at turn one and into the sweeping left hander at the Southern loop. The run down through turns three and four has arguably the best view of any section of racetrack in Australia, overlooking Bass Strait. Format: Super Sprint 236 6 100 km/h Length: 4.4453km km/h 5th gear 3 197 7 2nd gear Direction: Anti Clockwise km/h 4th gear 5 Bass Straight Average Speed: 174 km/h 157 km/h 1 Gear Changes: 20 3rd gear 120 km/h 2 8 Full throttle 54% of lap 4 2nd gear Falken Turn 221 km/h Coates Hire Wilson Security Corner 9 5th gear 70 Hairpin km/h Race 33: 100km (23 laps) 150 km/h 110 km/h 2nd gear Race 34: 100km (23 laps) 4th gear Slowest point 3rd gear Dunlop (Lukey) Heights Race 35: 200km (45 laps) 72 10 km/h 11 2nd gear 121 km/h 290 km/h 3rd gear Fastest point 189 km/h 4th gear Coopers Corner 12 Race Lap Record: Jamie Whincup (2013)//1.32.0246//Holden Commodore VF Quali. Lap Record: Mark Winterbottom (2013)//1.30.6099//Ford Falcon FG MKII Tyre allocation 24 hard 12 wet 8 pre-marked for practice Race wins by driver Poles by driver Allan Grice // Tony Longhurst // Dick Johnson Alan Jones // Marcos Ambrose // Todd Kelly Colin Bond // Allan Grice // Dick Johnson 1 1 Rick Kelly // Steven Richards // Jason Bright // Steve Owen Peter Brock // Craig Baird Will Davison // Luke Youlden // Fabian Coulthard Larry Perkins // Russell Ingall // Mark Winterbottom 2 2 Peter Brock // Mark Skaife Will Davison Marcos Ambrose // Todd Kelly // Jamie Whincup 3 3 Glenn Seton // Jamie Whincup Garth Tander 5 4 Mark Winterbottom Glen Seton 7 5 Craig Lowndes Mark Skaife // Craig Lowndes 9 Schedule Friday: Saturday: Sunday: 10:05am – 10:25am Practice One 11:50am – 12:00pm Qualifying Race 33 1:05pm – 1:25pm Qualifying Race 35 11:45am – 12:05pm Practice Two 12:10pm – 12:20pm Qualifying Race 34 3:55pm - Race 35 1:50pm – 2:10pm Practice Three 2:30pm - Race 33 4:35pm- Race 34 Times shown are Australian Eastern Daylight Time (GMT+11) www.v8scglobal.com.

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