2 Dec 2011 - 4 Dec 2011
Sydney Telstra 500 - Olympic Park Street Circuit
Being crashed into twice would have ruined most drivers’ race at Sydney Olympic Park today but not Team BOC’s Jason Bright, who recovered both times to finish ninth.
The wet-dry race was a strategic nightmare, but Team BOC made all the right calls to put Brighty in P5 behind a lap-49 safety car. His pace was enough to keep him there until Jonathan Webb, who had been struggling to hang onto Bright until then, T-boned the Team BOC Commodore into Turn 11. Bright dropped to P13 but recovered to ninth by the end of 74 laps.
Bright says the stewards’ decision not to investigate the Webb incident has left him with ‘no faith’ in the V8 Supercar judicial system.
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Jason Bright
“I don’t know what Webby was thinking. He never had the pace to hang onto us at any stage in the race but, for some reason, still thought he could stick it down the inside. The speed at which he hit me says he wouldn’t have made the corner if he hadn’t used me as a brake.
“I can’t believe the officials didn’t have more of a look at it, which leaves me with no faith in our judicial system once again. I’ve copped two drive-through penalties during races this year but they didn’t even look into this incident after the race; they just wiped it.
“My gut feeling is that Webby came from a long way back, because he was so far behind me all through the race. Turn 11’s just not a corner where you can come from a long way back because it’s got such a short braking area, so how can that be just a racing incident and not require further investigation?
“Before that Todd Kelly turned me around as well, so to have lost that many spots and still end up in the top ten shows how good the car was. We had a very quick car at the end. We really should have been on the podium, which is a big turnaround from the start of this weekend.”
Sydney Telstra 500 - 2010 V8 Supercars Races 27 & 28
SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK STREET CIRCUIT
Qualifying
01 Will Davison, Trading Post FPR Falcon, 1:27.4562
02 Jamie Whincup, TeamVodafone, +0.1695
03 Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Falcon, +0.2423
04 Craig Lowndes, TeamVodafone, +0.4525
05 Paul Dumbrell, The Bottle-O Racing Team, +0.4750
06 James Courtney, Toll Holden Racing Team, +0.5433
07 Shane Van Gisbergen, SP Tools Racing, +0.5635
08 Jonathon Webb, Mother Energy Racing Team, +0.6766
09 Tony D'Alberto, Wilson Security Team McGrath, +0.7093
10 Lee Holdsworth, Fujitsu Racing GRM, +0.7224
13 Jason Bright, Team BOC, +1.0539
Sydney Telstra 500 - 2010 V8 Supercars Races 27 & 28
SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK STREET CIRCUIT
Race 28
01 Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Falcon
02 Craig Lowndes, TeamVodafone
03 Shane Van Gisbergen, SP Tools Racing
04 Jonathan Webb, Mother Energy Racing Team
05 Russell Ingall, Supercheap Auto Racing
06 Michael Caruso, Fujitsu Racing GRM
07 James Courtney, Toll Holden Racing Team
08 Jamie Whincup, TeamVodafone
09 Jason Bright, Team BOC
10 Tim Slade, Lucky 7 Racing