2003 Konica V8 Supercar Series

The 2003 Konica V8 Supercar Series was an Australian touring car series held for V8 Supercars. It was the fourth series held for second tier V8 Supercar teams. The season began on 23 February 2003 at Wakefield Park and finished on 31 August at Mallala Motor Sport Park. The season consisted of six rounds held across three different states.

The series was won by Mark Winterbottom who won eight races during the course of the 16 race series and four of the six rounds. The new points system placed an increased emphasis on finishing races and saw that series runner up Matthew White finished just 58 points despite White taking only two wins and six top three race finishes in total.

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Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers have competed during the 2003 Konica V8 Supercar Series.

Team No Driver Make Model
Brad Jones Racing 12 Andrew Jones AU Falcon
Imrie Motor Sport 14 Geoff Full
Steve Owen		 VX Commodore
Paul Cruickshank Racing 22 Todd Wanless AU Falcon
Terry Wyhoon Racing 25 Terry Wyhoon AU Falcon
M3 Motorsport 26 Peter Doulman
Bob McDonald		 VT Commodore
Howard Racing 27 Marcus Marshall AU Falcon
49 Tim Gordon
94 Mark Howard
Matthew White Racing 28 Matthew White
VX Commodore
AU Falcon
Steven Ellery Racing 30 Luke Youlden AU Falcon
Clyde Lawrence Racing 35 Clyde Lawrence VS Commodore
South Pacific Motor Sport 38 Mathew Hunt VS Commodore
Peter Motorsport 40 Brett Peters AU Falcon
Stone Brothers Racing 41 Mark Winterbottom AU Falcon
Holden Young Lions 46 Dale Brede VX Commodore
96 Tony D'Alberto
Craig Bastian 47 Craig Bastian AU Falcon
Fernandez Racing 55 José Fernández AU Falcon
Kevin Mundy Racing 56 Kevin Mundy AU Falcon
Motorsport Engineering Services 58 Derek van Zelm VT Commodore
Phoenix Motorsport 59 Jamie Miller VX Commodore
Independent Race Cars Australia 64 Mark Porter VX Commodore
Shane Beikoff Racing 68 Shane Beikoff
VS Commodore
EL Falcon
Spiess Heckler Racing 69 Robert Jones VX Commodore
Dick Johnson Racing 71 Tony Ricciardello
Warren Luff		 AU Falcon
Robert Smith Racing 72 Owen Kelly VX Commodore
V8 Racing 77 Richard Mork
Michael Simpson
Tim Rowse		 VS Commodore
Graham Crawford 87 Graham Crawford EL Falcon
Halliday Motor Sport 88 Peter Gazzard AU Falcon
Sydney Star Racing 89 Adam Wallis AU Falcon
98 Grant Elliott VS Commodore
Peter Best 90 Peter Best VS Commodore
Thexton Motor Racing 100 David Thexton AU Falcon
Chance Of A Lifetime 110 David Russell AU Falcon
A.N.T. Racing 300 Tony Evangelou VS Commodore
Nichols Motorsport 666 Phillip Nichols AU Falcon

Race calendar

Round Date Circuit Location Winning driver
1 22-23 February Wakefield Park Goulburn, New South Wales Mark Winterbottom
2 20-21 March Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia Mark Winterbottom
3 3-4 May Eastern Creek Raceway Sydney, New South Wales Mark Winterbottom
4 5-6 July Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit Phillip Island, Victoria Matthew White
5 2-3 August Winton Motor Raceway Benalla, Victoria Andrew Jones
6 30-31 August Mallala Motor Sport Park Mallala, South Australia Mark Winterbottom

Results and standings

The season consisted of six rounds across three different states. Rounds 1 and 3-6 consisted of three races. The second race of each weekend saw the finishing order of race 1 reversed to form the grid, a 'reverse grid' race. Round 2 consisted of a single race. Points were awarded for all cars who finished each race in finishing order. Points may have been offered beyond the 29th position but at no point during the season did more than 29 cars finish a race. Round 2's single race carried three times the points of a single race elsewhere in the season. The pointscore also saw the worst round result deducted, although the worst result had to be a round the competitor had entered.

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th
Rounds 1 & 3-6
Points		 64 62 60 58 56 54 52 50 48 46 44 42 40 38 36 34 32 30 28 26 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8
Round 2
Points		 192 186 180 174 168 162 156 150 144 138 132 126 120 114 108 102 96 90 84 78 72 66 60 54 48 42 36 30 24

Drivers championship

Points table referenced, in part, as follows:[1]

Pos Driver Pen. WAK[2] ADE[3] EAS[4] PHI[5] WIN[6] MAL[7] Pts
1 Mark Winterbottom 1 6 1 1 3 1 2 1 6 7 13 3 2 1 1 1 922 (1084)
2 Matthew White 4 8 6 4 6 7 1 6 3 1 2 9 4 2 8 2 864 (1026)
3 Mark Porter 8 12 4 3 13 2 Ret 4 9 9 24 2 Ret 4 7 3 780 (876)
4 Brett Peters 14 1 7 8 8 Ret 11 7 11 3 11 22 8 9 12 7 718 (812)
5 Luke Youlden 50 7 3 5 20 2 4 7 23 1 2 4 13 6 19 Ret 10 688 (766)
6 Dale Brede Ret 4 16 2 5 13 4 3 Ret DNS 3 Ret 7 7 Ret 6 680 (740)
7 Owen Kelly 2 9 2 11 1 15 3 26 2 Ret 25 1 3 Ret DNS DNS 680 (702)
8 Peter Gazzard Ret 13 8 5 7 9 5 21 5 6 6 12 Ret 6 Ret DNS 658 (712)
9 Craig Bastian 17 7 11 Ret 9 5 10 9 23 10 14 7 10 18 13 19 626
10 Kevin Mundy 9 14 10 7 15 6 6 20 24 14 8 Ret 9 11 Ret DNS 612 (684)
11 Andrew Jones 6 2 9 24 2 4 Ret 1 5 1 3 Ret 4 604 (658)
12 David Russell Ret DNS DNS 13 12 11 9 13 7 11 10 18 11 Ret 17 Ret 542 (560)
13 Jamie Miller 19 19 17 16 14 12 14 16 18 13 19 15 22 15 11 11 536 (622)
14 Terry Wyhoon Ret DNS DNS 12 17 Ret 12 12 Ret DNS 12 4 15 12 4 17 510
15 José Fernández 10 10 DNS 9 16 3 8 14 10 17 Ret DNS 13 496 (536)
16 Todd Wanless 5 15 14 14 10 8 Ret 5 Ret 20 16 3 15 470 (552)
17 Tony Ricciardello 3 5 3 21 4 10 Ret Ret 17 18 Ret 8 Ret 440 (490)
18 Robert Jones 15 Ret 17 13 8 Ret DNS 18 11 14 10 9 9 434 (484)
19 Mark Howard 11 17 15 Ret Ret 16 16 18 19 16 22 14 16 17 Ret 16 432
20 Grant Elliott 16 Ret DNS 10 11 Ret DNS 28 Ret Ret 9 19 Ret 13 Ret 14 370 (380)
21 Tony D'Alberto Ret 14 15 10 21 8 Ret DNS DNS 14 5 8 338
22 Tim Gordon 22 20 Ret 23 22 Ret 17 29 Ret 21 23 20 18 Ret 14 Ret 322 (354)
23 Clyde Lawrence 13 16 19 17 20 Ret DNS Ret DNS DNS 20 16 20 310
24 Tony Evangelou 21 11 13 18 24 13 Ret 20 16 23 278 (336)
25 Shane Beikoff 18 21 12 19 21 18 18 21 Ret DNS 264 (288)
26 Steve Owen 27 8 5 Ret 6 5 8 10 Ret 238 (348)
27 Adam Wallis 17 14 22 15 10 21 21 2 12 234 (326)
28 David Thexton 19 16 15 17 23 17 Ret 15 18 182 (248)
29 Graham Crawford 15 Ret 18 22 22 20 20 160 (226)
30 Marcus Marshall 5 25 4 7 17 Ret 130 (232)
31 Tim Rowse 15 15 12 16 Ret 13 114 (188)
32 Peter Doulman 11 12 19 26 Ret 12 114 (170)
33 Richard Mork 20 18 Ret 18 Ret Ret 56 (86)
34 Derek van Zelm Ret Ret DNS Ret 21 19 52
35 Peter Best Ret Ret 19 25 22 DNS 48 (86)
36 Geoff Full Ret Ret 19 25 22 DNS 48
Warren Luff 5 6 5 0 (166)
Michael Simpson 6 0 (162)
Mathew Hunt 19 19 Ret 0 (78)
Bob McDonald Ret 22 Ret 0 (66)
Phillip Nichols DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS Ret DNS DNS 0
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Finished, in points
Blue Finished, no points
Not classified (NC)
Purple Did not finish (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not participate
Excluded (EX)

References

  1. ^ "2003 Konica V8 Supercar Series Points". Official website of the V8 Supercar Championship Series. 31 August 2003. http://www.v8supercars.com.au/v8data/2003/dpprgmnreasy.asp?EvntId=138&SrsInd=N&SrsName=2003%20KONICA%20V8%20SUPERCAR%20SERIES%20POINTS&SrsMEDFile=/v8data/sers/sers_2m.gif&EvtName=&EvtRnds=Round6&EvtDates=30/08/2003%20-%2031/08/2003&DPdataDt=22/09/2003&TPdataDt22/09/2003&CtName=Mallala%20Raceway&ssn=2003&ts=&keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=400&width=800. Retrieved 20 January 2009. 
  2. ^ "Wakefield Park Raceway 23/02/2003 2003 Konica V8 Supercar Series - Round 1". National Software. 23 February 2003. http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?23/02/2003.WAKE. Retrieved 20 January 2009. 
  3. ^ "Adelaide Parklands Circuit 23/03/2003 2003 V8 Supercar Championship Series - Round 1". National Software. 23 March 2003. http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?23/03/2003.ADEL. Retrieved 20 January 2009. 
  4. ^ "Eastern Creek International Raceway 04/05/2003 2003 V8 Supercar Championship Series - Round 3". National Software. 4 May 2003. http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?04/05/2003.ECIR. Retrieved 20 January 2009. 
  5. ^ "Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit 06/07/2003 2003 Konica V8 Supercar Series - Round 4". National Software. 6 July 2003. http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?06/07/2003.PHIL. Retrieved 20 January 2009. 
  6. ^ "Winton Motor Raceway 03/08/2003 2003 Konica V8 Supercar Series - Round 5". National Software. 3 August 2003. http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?03/08/2003.WIN. Retrieved 20 January 2009. 
  7. ^ "Mallala Motorsport Park 31/08/2003 2003 Konica V8 Supercar Series - Round 6". National Software. 31 August 2003. http://www.natsoft.com.au/cgi-bin/results.cgi?31/08/2003.MALL. Retrieved 20 January 2009. 

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