2012 Winton Motor Raceway V8 Supercar Event

Race details
Round 14 of 15 in the 2012 International V8 Supercars Championship on the Winton Motor Raceway at Winton, Victoria.
Date	16–18 November 2012
Location	Winton, Victoria
Course	Winton Motor Raceway 3.0 km
Distance	113 (1 x 46, 1 x 67) laps, 340 km
Weather	Fine
colspan="4" style="background-color:"#E2F0E8;" | Pole
Driver	R1: Mark Winterbottom R2: Jamie Whincup		R1: Ford Performance Racing R2: Triple Eight Race Engineering
Time	R1: 1:23.1443 R2: 1:22.7970
Race 1
First	Jamie Whincup	01:08:36.3754	Triple Eight Race Engineering
Second	Craig Lowndes	01:08:39.6107	Triple Eight Race Engineering
Third	Lee Holdsworth	01:08:49.9752	Stone Brothers Racing
Race 2
First	Craig Lowndes	01:38:39.4858	Triple Eight Race Engineering
Second	Mark Winterbottom	01:38:45.2975	Ford Performance Racing
Third	Jamie Whincup	01:38:48.1383	Triple Eight Race Engineering
Final standings
First	Craig Lowndes	Triple Eight Race Engineering	288 pts
Second	Jamie Whincup	Triple Eight Race Engineering	279 pts
Third	Mark Winterbottom	Ford Performance Racing	258 pts

The 2012 Winton Motor Raceway V8 Supercar event was a motor race for the Australian sedan-based V8 Supercars racing cars. It was the fourteenth event of the 2012 International V8 Supercars Championship. It was held on the weekend of 16-18 November at the Winton Motor Raceway near Benalla, Victoria.

Triple Eight Race Engineering won both races, with Jamie Whincup winning on Saturday and Craig Lowndes winning on Sunday. Whincup overcame a drive-through penalty in the second race to finish on the podium. In doing so, he secured his fourth V8 Supercar title with one round remaining, despite his closest rival Mark Winterbottom, of Ford Performance Racing, scoring the third-highest points total across the weekend.^[1]

Standings

• After 28 of 30 races.

References

External links

• Official series website