Sydney NRMA 500 RACES 36, 37 and 38
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ROUND 14 - Sydney NRMA 500 RACES 36, 37 and 38 Homebush Street Circuit, Sydney Olympic Park, December 5-7 2014 The Homebush street circuit winds its way around the Sydney Olympic Park facility, originally built to host the 2000 Olympic Games. Five time series champion Mark Skaife helped design the race track, dubbed the concrete canyon. The 13 turns feature a mixture of fast and slow corners and a variety of track surfaces. Coupled with a less than smooth track and changes in the camber around the circuit make pulling o the ‘perfect’ lap dicult. The track also houses both the widest (Australia Avenue) and the narrowest (Edwin Flack Avenue) sections of track on the calendar. 2 1 85 90 3 km/h km/h 4 2nd gear 2nd gear Format: Super Street 75 Jim Bean Corner 70 km/h km/h Length 3.42km: 2nd gear 2nd gear Direction: Anti Clockwise Fastest point Average Speed: 139km/h 5 155 km/h 248 Gear Changes: 36 km/h 4th gear Full throttle 52 % of lap 6th gear 6 85 km/h Wilson Security Corner 7 2nd gear 90 km/h 2nd gear Slowest point Sydney Corner 67 km/h 69 Race 36: 125km (37 laps) Coates Hire Corner km/h 95 60 1st gear 2nd gear km/h km/h 10 11 Race 37: 125km (37 laps) 2nd gear 13 Fuso Corner 1st gear 12 8 73 Race 38: 250km (74 laps) 9 km/h 2nd gear 80 km/h Race Lap Record: Craig Lowndes (2011) // 1:28.3839 // Holden Commodore VE II 2nd gear NRMA Corner Quali. Lap Record: Jamie Whincup (2011) // 1:27.3813 // Holden Commodore VE II Tyre allocation 24 hard 12 wet 8 pre-marked hard or soft for practice Race wins by driver Poles by driver James Courtney // Jonathon Webb // Lee Holdsworth Mark Winterbottom // Will Davison // Jamie Whincup 1 1 Tim Slade // Jamie Whincup // Shane van Gisbergen Shane van Gisbergen // Garth Tander Craig Lowndes 2 2 Garth Tander // Will Davison 3 Lee Holdsworth Schedule Friday: Saturday: Sunday: 9:30am – 9:50am Practice One 9:00am – 9:20am Practice Four 11:05am – 11:25am Qualifying - Race 38 11:45am – 12:05pm Practice Two 11:15am – 11:25am Qualifying - Race 36 1:30pm – 2:00pm Top 10 Shootout 2:20pm – 2:40pm Practice Three 11:35am – 11:45am Qualifying - Race 37 3:40pm Race 38 (74 laps) 2:30pm Race 36 (37 laps) 4:50pm Race 37 (37 laps) Times shown are Australian Eastern Daylight Time (GMT+11) www.v8scglobal.com.