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ROUND 12 – Castrol Edge Gold Coast 600 RACES 31 and 32 Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, Surfers Paradise, Queensland. October 24 - 26 2014 Set against the backdrop of one of the most famous beach-side cities in the world, the Surfers Paradise street circuit features fteen turns across the 2.984 kilometre layout. The unforgiving concrete-lined circuit layout combines straight-line speed with slow, narrow and blind corners. The nature of the track frequently causes carnage, none more so than Saturday’s race from 2012 where six cars were eliminated after two failed starts. There are two sections of chicanes, Turns 1, 2 and 3 at the top end of the front straight, and then Turns 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 along the back straight. These sections are typically patrolled with curb sensors to ensure that drivers aren’t cutting across the curbs in order to gain track position. 122 km/h 3rd gear 5 4 Dick Smith Corner 63 km/h 1st gear 153 km/h 148 HSV Beach km/h 3rd gear Chicane 117 km/h Big Pond 3rd gear 6 3 Hairpin 158 3rd gear 2 km/h 8 7 136 3rd gear 1 km/h 10 9 163 265 km/h km/h 3rd gear 3rd gear Queensland 153 124 Chicane km/h Fastest point km/h 3rd gear 3rd gear 78 km/h 2nd gear 11 Falken Corner Format: Pirtek Enduro Cup 79 Circuit Length: 2.984km km/h 81 2nd gear km/h Direction: Anti-Clockwise 12 2nd gear 13 AEG Chill Average Speed: 146km/h Powertools Corner Corner Max. Speed: 265km/h Corners: 15 Race 31: 300km (102 laps) 112 km/h 2nd gear Race 32: 300km (102 laps) Armor All 14 Hairpin 15 Race Lap Record: Will Davison (2011) // 1m10.0851, Ford Falcon FG Coates Hire Corner Quali. Lap Record: David Reynolds (2013) // 1m10.0430s // Ford Falcon FG MkII Tyre allocation 32 soft 20 wet 16 pre-marked soft for practice Race wins by driver Poles by driver Garth Tander 7 5 Jamie Whincup Jamie Whincup 6 4 Greg Murphy // Garth Tander Paul Radisich 5 2 Mark Skaife // Todd Kelly // Mark Winterbottom // Craig Lowndes John Bowe // Greg Murphy // Russell Ingall 4 1 John Bowe // Steven Ellery // Russell Ingall // Jason Bargwanna David Reynolds Craig Lowndes 3 Mark Larkham // Mark Winterbottom // Sebastien Bourdais 2 Mark Skaife // Jason Bargwanna // Marcos Ambrose // Todd Kelly Rick Kelly // Steven Richards // Cameron McConville // Steve Owen 1 Richard Lyons // Mika Salo // Warren Lu // David Reynolds //Dean Canto Schedule Friday: Saturday: Sunday: 9:35 – 10:05am Practice One (All drivers) 11:35 – 11:55am Qualifying race 31 11:25 – 11:45am Qualifying race 32 11:55am – 12:25pm Practice Two (Co-drivers only) 12:40 – 1:10pm Top ten shootout 1:55pm Race 32 (102 laps) 1:40 – 2:10pm Practice Three (Co-drivers only) 2:40pm Race 31 (102 laps) 3:30 – 4:00pm Practice Four (All drivers) www.v8scglobal.com.

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