2009 Hamilton 400

Race details
Round 2 of 14 in the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series on the Hamilton Street Circuit at Hamilton, New Zealand.
Date 18–19 March 2009
Location Hamilton, New Zealand
Course Hamilton Street Circuit
3.4 km
Distance 118 (2 x 59) laps, 401.2 km
Weather
Pole
Driver R3 Mark Winterbottom


R4 Steven Johnson
R3 Ford Performance Racing
R4 Dick Johnson Racing
Time R3 1:23.8053
R4 1:24.1606
Race 1
First Jamie Whincup 1:27:20.3645 Team Vodafone
Second Mark Winterbottom 1:27:21.9023 Ford Performance Racing
Third Lee Holdsworth 1:27:22.6768 Garry Rogers Motorsport
Race 2
First Jamie Whincup 1:27:34.7215 Team Vodafone
Second James Courtney 1:27:40.7534 Dick Johnson Racing
Third Steven Johnson 1:27:43.2754 Dick Johnson Racing

The 2009 Hamilton 400 was the second race meeting of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It was held on the weekend of April 17–19 around the inner city streets of Hamilton, in New Zealand. The 2009 Hamilton 400 was the second running of the event, and the second event to feature a new format in which each race was considered its own round.

Contents

Rule change

In a change from the first round, the qualifying procedure was changed with a qualifying session to be held for each of the two races, instead of one session for both races.

Round 3

Qualifying

Qualifying was held on Saturday April 18, and was split into two sessions and followed with a top ten shootout.[1] Jamie Whincup was fastest in qualifying for Team Vodafone but Mark Winterbottom secured his ninth pole position by just seven 10,000ths of a second. Steven Johnson and Michael Caruso produced unexpectedly good lap to qualify on the second row, particular for Caruso to be the top Holden on the grid.[2]

Race

Jason Bright changed his engine after qualifying and stalled on dummy grid. Fiore and D'Alberto started from the pitlane. Caruso was slow away from the second row as Winterbottom stormed away from Whincup, Johnson, Tander, Holdsworth, Lowndes and Courtney. Whincup dived into the lead at turn 6 to lead the opening lap. D'Alberto crashed on the third lap at turn 7. D'Alberto restarts but the following lap Murphy and Slade, separately, crashed at the same point. Murphy was out with bent steering. A safety car was called for D'Alberto's car prior to the Nash Commodore restarting.

Perkins spun at the restart trying to avoid Dumbrell. Dumbrell had a spin a lap later, tangling with Van Gisbergen. Pitstops began around lap 20, beginning with Jason Bright. Craig Lowndes was an early stopper. James Courtney and Fabian Coulthard were big climbers through the field before Courtney stopped early on lap 24. Tander stalled in his pitstop and was passed by four cars as he exited.

Lowndes brushed the wall at turn 7 on lap 37, causing him to pit into the garage for mechanical work and rejoined losing some laps. Marcus Marshall also had an engine fail late in the running after clobbering a tyre bundle on the back chicane. Fiore retired after a clash with Cameron McConville, while Ingall slowed in late lap with mechanical problems. A shambolic safety car restart that saw faster cars mixed up with the mechanically wounded cars of Ingall and Caruso caused Courtney to hit the back of Tander's Commodore, slowing both cars in the later laps.

Whincup stormed away at the final restart to win from Winterbottom with Lee Holdsworth continuing his early season good form to finish third ahead of the consistent Steven Johnson

Round 4

Round 4 was held on Sunday April 19.

Qualifying

The new format for Sunday qualifying made its debut, a return to traditional qualifying methods with all cars on the track together. The session was red flagged late in the session with many of the faster runners caught out just warming up for their final runs at pole after Tim Slade crashed. Steven Johnson was fastest at the time, securing only his second pole position, his previous, Canberra in 2001, also a street circuit. Team mate James Courtney started alongside as Ford dominated the timesheet occupying eight of the top ten position with the only Holdens the garry Rogers Motorsport duo of Michael Caruso and Lee Holdsworth occupying the third row of the grid behind Steven Richards and Jamie Whincup.

Race

Dean Fiore started from pitlane while Tim Slade's car was too heavily damaged to continue. Johnson ran away from the start to lead while Steven Richards jumped past James Courtney for second as the safety car came out to attend a collision between Mark Winterbottom and the wall. Todd Kelly, being pressured by Jason Bargwanna, then struck Winterbottom. Kelly limped back to the pits while Winterbottom was stranded on the track with broken steering.

Whincup, unable to make progress against Johnson, Richards and Courtney, pitted early to try to get clear air, but it was a slow stop. Johnson slow built up a lead with Courtney moving into second on lap 22. Richards, suffering rear tyre problems, soon succumbed to Holdsworth and Caruso.

By lap 24 leading cars were pitting in numbers. Johnson pitted on lap 26 from the lead. Johnson rejoined behind Whincup but ahead of Holdsworth. Caruso pitted from second on lap 28, stalling briefly, rejoining behind Lowndes and Richards, just ahead of Coulthard. Coulthard claimed a position up the back straight from Caruso. Todd Kelly crashed the wall with steering, already repaired once.

Courtney finally pitted from the lead on lap 32, rejoining behind Whincup, in front of Johnson and Holdsworth. Richards was now holding fifth ahead of Lowndes and Coulthard. Richards spun off track on lap 46, dumping a number of positions. Two laps later Shane Van Gisbergen took Rick Kelly off track with an overtaking move gone wrong at the hairpin. Both recovered. Lowndes broke the front left corner of the car, leaving suspension and wheel deranged after clipping the tyre bundle at the back straight chicane. Ingall pulled into the pits trailing smoke with just two laps to go.

Whincup cleared out to win from the Dick Johnson Racing pair of Courtney and Johnson with Holdsworth's fourth position vaulting him past Will Davison into second place in the championship pointscore.

Results

Qualifying Round 3

Pos No Name Car Team Top Ten Part 2 Part 1
Pole 5 Mark Winterbottom Ford FG Falcon Ford Performance Racing 1:23.8053 1:23.6730
2 1 Jamie Whincup Ford FG Falcon Team Vodafone 1:23.8060 1:23.6232
3 17 Steven Johnson Ford FG Falcon Dick Johnson Racing 1:24.0691 1:23.8551
4 34 Michael Caruso Holden VE Commodore Garry Rogers Motorsport 1:24.0801 1:24.1777
5 2 Garth Tander Holden VE Commodore Holden Racing Team 1:24.0862 1:23.9327
6 33 Lee Holdsworth Holden VE Commodore Garry Rogers Motorsport 1:24.1885 1:24.1704
7 888 Craig Lowndes Ford FG Falcon Team Vodafone 1:24.3101 1:23.8543
8 18 James Courtney Ford FG Falcon Dick Johnson Racing 1:24.4742 1:24.1192
9 15 Rick Kelly Holden VE Commodore Jack Daniel's Racing 1:24.5275 1:24.0438
10 7 Todd Kelly Holden VE Commodore Jack Daniel's Racing 1:24.5789 1:24.1021
11 9 Shane Van Gisbergen Ford FG Falcon Stone Brothers Racing 1:24.2719
12 22 Will Davison Holden VE Commodore Holden Racing Team 1:24.2794
13 11 Jack Perkins Holden VE Commodore Kelly Racing 1:24.3279
14 10 Paul Dumbrell Holden VE Commodore Walkinshaw Racing 1:24.3472
15 77 Marcus Marshall Ford BF Falcon Team IntaRacing 1:24.4468
16 4 Alex Davison Ford FG Falcon Stone Brothers Racing 1:24.5732
17 51 Greg Murphy Holden VE Commodore Tasman Motorsport 1:24.7332
18 39 Russell Ingall Holden VE Commodore Paul Morris Motorsport 1:24.7985
19 25 Jason Bright Ford BF Falcon Stone Brothers Racing 1:34.2732
20 8 Jason Richards Holden VE Commodore Brad Jones Racing 1:35.3031
21 111 Fabian Coulthard Ford FG Falcon Paul Cruickshank Racing 1:24.7554
22 6 Steven Richards Ford FG Falcon Ford Performance Racing 1:24.9339
23 24 David Reynolds Holden VE Commodore Walkinshaw Racing 1:24.9360
24 3 Jason Bargwanna Holden VE Commodore Tasman Motorsport 1:24.9723
25 67 Tim Slade Holden VE Commodore Paul Morris Motorsport 1:25.0216
26 333 Michael Patrizi Ford BF Falcon Paul Cruickshank Racing 1:25.1275
27 14 Cameron McConville Holden VE Commodore Brad Jones Racing 1:25.6558
28 021 Dean Fiore Holden VE Commodore Paul Morris Motorsport 1:25.9853
29 16 Dale Wood Holden VE Commodore Kelly Racing 1:26.1629
EXC 55 Tony D'Alberto Holden VE Commodore Rod Nash Racing

Round 3

Pos No Name Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 1 Jamie Whincup Team Vodafone 59 1:27:20.3645 2 150
2 5 Mark Winterbottom Ford Performance Racing 59 +1.5s 1 138
3 33 Lee Holdsworth Garry Rogers Motorsport 59 +2.3s 6 129
4 22 Will Davison Holden Racing Team 59 +5.6s 12 120
5 17 Steven Johnson Dick Johnson Racing 59 +8.1s 3 111
6 111 Fabian Coulthard Paul Cruickshank Racing 59 +8.6s 21 102
7 15 Rick Kelly Jack Daniels Racing 59 +9.9s 9 96
8 7 Todd Kelly Jack Daniels Racing 59 +11.6s 10 90
9 4 Alex Davison Stone Brothers Racing 59 +14.1s 16 84
10 8 Jason Richards Brad Jones Racing 59 +15.4s 20 78
11 2 Garth Tander Holden Racing Team 59 +17.3s 5 72
12 24 David Reynolds Walkinshaw Racing 59 +17.6s 23 69
13 18 James Courtney Dick Johnson Racing 59 +18.1s 8 66
14 333 Michael Patrizi Paul Cruickshank Racing 59 +18.7s 26 63
15 6 Steven Richards Ford Performance Racing 59 +19.6s 22 60
16 14 Cameron McConville Brad Jones Racing 59 +28.3s 27 57
17 9 Shane Van Gisbergen Stone Brothers Racing 59 +39.8s 11 54
18 10 Paul Dumbrell Walkinshaw Racing 58 + 1 lap 14 51
19 11 Jack Perkins Kelly Racing 58 + 1 lap 13 48
20 55 Tony D'Alberto Rod Nash Racing 58 + 1 lap 30(DNP) 45
21 25 Jason Bright Britek Motorsport 58 + 1 lap 19 42
22 16 Dale Wood Kelly Racing 58 + 1 lap 29 39
23 39 Russell Ingall Paul Morris Motorsport 58 + 1 lap 18 36
24 888 Craig Lowndes Team Vodafone 55 + 4 laps 7 33
25 34 Michael Caruso Garry Rogers Motorsport 52 + 7 laps 4 30
DNF 021 Dean Fiore Paul Morris Motorsport 56 Accident 28
DNF 77 Marcus Marshall Team IntaRacing 53 Engine 15
DNF 3 Jason Bargwanna Tasman Motorsport 44 24
DNF 67 Tim Slade Paul Morris Motorsport 17 25
DNF 51 Greg Murphy Tasman Motorsport 5 Steering 17

Qualifying Round 4

Pos No Name Car Team Time
Pole 17 Steven Johnson Ford FG Falcon Dick Johnson Racing 1:24.1606
2 18 James Courtney Ford FG Falcon Dick Johnson Racing 1:24.2377
3 6 Steven Richards Ford FG Falcon Ford Performance Racing 1:24.2430
4 1 Jamie Whincup Ford FG Falcon Team Vodafone 1:24.2932
5 34 Michael Caruso Holden VE Commodore Garry Rogers Motorsport 1:24.2962
6 33 Lee Holdsworth Holden VE Commodore Garry Rogers Motorsport 1:24.3214
7 9 Shane Van Gisbergen Ford FG Falcon Stone Brothers Racing 1:24.3568
8 888 Craig Lowndes Ford FG Falcon Team Vodafone 1:24.3960
9 111 Fabian Coulthard Ford FG Falcon Paul Cruickshank Racing 1:24.4171
10 5 Mark Winterbottom Ford FG Falcon Ford Performance Racing 1:24.4447
11 51 Greg Murphy Holden VE Commodore Tasman Motorsport 1:24.4647
12 39 Russell Ingall Holden VE Commodore Paul Morris Motorsport 1:24.4872
13 15 Rick Kelly Holden VE Commodore Jack Daniel's Racing 1:24.5692
14 10 Paul Dumbrell Holden VE Commodore Walkinshaw Racing 1:24.6161
15 25 Jason Bright Ford BF Falcon Stone Brothers Racing 1:24.6622
16 55 Tony D'Alberto Holden VE Commodore Rod Nash Racing 1:24.6660
17 7 Todd Kelly Holden VE Commodore Jack Daniel's Racing 1:24.6824
18 8 Jason Richards Holden VE Commodore Brad Jones Racing 1:24.7050
19 2 Garth Tander Holden VE Commodore Holden Racing Team 1:24.7090
20 22 Will Davison Holden VE Commodore Holden Racing Team 1:24.7151
21 4 Alex Davison Ford FG Falcon Stone Brothers Racing 1:24.7493
22 24 David Reynolds Holden VE Commodore Walkinshaw Racing 1:24.7151
23 3 Jason Bargwanna Holden VE Commodore Tasman Motorsport 1:24.8507
24 11 Jack Perkins Holden VE Commodore Kelly Racing 1:24.7671
25 333 Michael Patrizi Ford BF Falcon Paul Cruickshank Racing 1:25.2186
26 67 Tim Slade Holden VE Commodore Paul Morris Motorsport 1:25.4154
27 16 Dale Wood Holden VE Commodore Kelly Racing 1:25.5536
28 14 Cameron McConville Holden VE Commodore Brad Jones Racing 1:25.6336
29 77 Marcus Marshall Ford BF Falcon Team IntaRacing 1:25.6799
30 021 Dean Fiore Holden VE Commodore Paul Morris Motorsport 1:26.0984

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