2001 VIP Petfoods Queensland 500

Race details
Round 9 of 13 in the 2001 V8 Supercar Championship Series on the Queensland Raceway at Ipswich, Queensland.
Date 24 - 26 August 2001
Location Ipswich, Queensland
Course Queensland Raceway
3.12 km
Distance 156 laps, 486.7 km
Weather Fine early, storm in closing laps
Pole
Driver Marcos Ambrose Stone Brothers Racing
Time 1:10.5362
Race 1
First Paul Radisich
Steven Johnson
3:17:41.1244 Dick Johnson Racing
Second Russell Ingall
Larry Perkins
3:17:42.0666 Perkins Engineering
Third Todd Kelly
Greg Murphy
3:18:04.4116 K-Mart Racing Team

The 2001 VIP Petfoods Queensland 500 was an endurance race for V8 Supercars held at Queensland Raceway, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia on 26 August 2001. The programmed race distance was 161 laps (approx 500 km) however the race was stopped due to heavy rain and results were declared as at the completion of 156 laps. [1]

The event was Round 9 of the 2001 Shell Championship Series.[2]

Contents

Top fifteen shootout

Pos No Team Driver Car Time
Pole 4 Stone Brothers Racing Marcos Ambrose Ford AU Falcon 1:10.5362
2 9 Stone Brothers Racing David Besnard Ford AU Falcon 1:10.6509
3 2 Holden Racing Team Tony Longhurst Holden VX Commodore 1:10.6695
4 11 Castrol Perkins Racing Russell Ingall Holden VX Commodore 1:10.6800
5 600 John Briggs Motorsport John Bowe Ford AU Falcon 1:10.7107
6 29 Team Sirromet Wines Paul Morris Holden VT Commodore 1:10.7268
7 17 Dick Johnson Racing Paul Radisich Ford AU Falcon 1:10.8704
8 5 Ford Tickford Racing Glenn Seton Ford AU Falcon 1:11.0228
9 00 Gibson Motor Sport Craig Lowndes Ford AU Falcon 1:11.1804
10 10 Larkham Motor Sport Mark Larkham Ford AU Falcon 1:11.2529
11 15 K-Mart Racing Todd Kelly Holden VX Commodore 1:11.2617
12 18 Dick Johnson Racing Greg Ritter Ford AU Falcon 1:11.2787
13 43 Paul Weel Racing Paul Weel Ford AU Falcon 1:11.3674
14 34 Garry Rogers Motorsport Garth Tander Holden VX Commodore 1:11.8497
15 1 Holden Racing Team Mark Skaife Holden VX Commodore 1:25.0870

Results

[3]

Pos No Team Drivers Car Laps Qual
Pos
Shootout
Pos
Series
Points
1 17 Shell Helix Racing Paul Radisich
Steven Johnson
Ford AU Falcon 156 4 7 370
2 11 Perkins Motorsport Larry Perkins
Russell Ingall
Holden VX Commodore 156 1 4 333
3 15 K-Mart Racing Team Greg Murphy
Todd Kelly
Holden VX Commodore 156 6 11 288
4 1 Holden Racing Team Mark Skaife
Jason Bright
Holden VX Commodore 156 2 15 264
5 2 Holden Racing Team Tomas Mezera
Tony Longhurst
Holden VX Commodore 156 7 3 262
6 31 Supercheap Auto Racing Steven Ellery
Geoff Brabham
Ford AU Falcon 155 17 232
7 43 K&J Thermal Products Paul Weel
Tim Leahey
Ford AU Falcon 155 13 13 216
8 6 Ford Tickford Racing Jim Richards
Dean Canto
Ford AU Falcon 154 21 200
9 24 Holden Racing Team Paul Romano
Owen Kelly
Holden VX Commodore 153 28 192
10 29 Big Kev Racer Paul Morris
Matt Neal
Holden VT Commodore 153 8 6 195
11 16 Pepsi-Cola Racing Dugal McDougall
Andrew Miedecke
Holden VX Commodore 153 27 176
12 35 Valvoline Cummins Repco Team Paul Dumbrell
Leanne Ferrier
Holden VT Commodore 153 25 168
13 021 NZ Business Jason Richards
Angus Fogg
Holden VX Commodore [4] 152 23 160
14 50 Ultra Tune Racing Mick Donaher
Layton Crambrook
Holden VT Commodore 151 30 152
15 34 Valvoline Cummins Repco Team Garth Tander
Jason Bargwanna
Holden VX Commodore 147 15 14 144
16 10 Larkham Motor Sport Mark Larkham
Wayne Gardner
Ford AU Falcon 142 12 10 143
17 75 Toll Racing Anthony Tratt
Alan Jones
Ford AU Falcon 138 32 128
18 54 Rod Nash Racing Rod Nash
Tony Ricciardello
Holden VX Commodore 133 31 120
19 3 Lansvale Racing Team Cameron McConville
Rick Bates
Holden VX Commodore 130 18 112
20 14 Delta Europacar - IMS James Brock
Steve Owen
Holden VX Commodore 125 29 104
DNF 600 CAT Racing John Bowe
Simon Wills
Ford AU Falcon 155 5 5 108
DNF 8 Perkins Motorsport Adam Macrow
Luke Youlden
Holden VX Commodore 146 22 88
DNF 9 Caltex Havoline Race Team David Besnard
Matthew White
Ford AU Falcon 135 9 2 96
DNF 18 Shell Helix Racing Greg Ritter
Paul Stokell
Ford AU Falcon 122 11 12 72
DNF 4 Pirtek Racing Marcos Ambrose
Greg Crick
Ford AU Falcon 122 3 1 82
DNF 46 John Faulkner Racing John Faulkner
Peter Doulman
Holden VX Commodore 106 24 56
DNF 88 Castrol Harris Racing Craig Harris
Dale Brede
Ford AU Falcon 101 26 48
DNF 21 Ozemail Brad Jones
John Cleland
Ford AU Falcon 94 20 40
DNF 45 RPM International Racing Phillip Scifleet
Aaron McGill
Ford AU Falcon 65 34 32
DNF 5 Ford Tickford Racing Glenn Seton
Steven Richards
Ford AU Falcon 40 10 8 33
DNF 25 Terry Wyhoon Racing Terry Wyhoon
Rod Salmon
Ford AU Falcon 24 33 16
DNF 00 00 Motorsport Craig Lowndes
Neil Crompton
Ford AU Falcon 15 14 9 16
DNF 7 Rodney Forbes Racing Rodney Forbes
David Parsons
Ford AU Falcon 5 19 0
DNS 51 K-Mart Racing Team Nathan Pretty
Rick Kelly
Holden VX Commodore 16

Note

Statistics

External links

References

  1. ^ http://www.autoweb.com.au/cms/A_54369/title_Ford-Takes-Dramatic-QLD-500/newsarticle.html 2001 VIP Petfoods Queensland 500 race report from www.autoweb.com.au
  2. ^ http://www.v8supercar.com.au/archive/2001Shell/default.asp?ind=M 2001 Season Review from www.v8supercar.com.au
  3. ^ http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?26/08/2001.QRI.R11 2001 VIP Petfoods Queensland 500 race results from www.natsoft.com.au
  4. ^ The Great Race 2001, image on page 179
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