2009 Townsville 400

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The 2009 Dunlop Townsville 400 was the sixth race meeting of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It contained Rounds 11 and 12 of the series and was held on the weekend of July 11–12 at Townsville Street Circuit, in Townsville in Queensland, Australia.

New event

The 2009 Townsville 400 is the inaugural running of this race. The first time a major motorsport has been held in North Queensland, the race has been assembled around a specially created street circuit, as no permanent racing facilities exist in north Queensland, apart from clay surface speedway circuits. Apart from Speedway racing, the largest event previously held in this part of Australia have been rounds of the Queensland Rally Championship.

The race will follow V8 Supercar's most familiar street circuit format with two races evenly split over the Saturday and Sunday of the event, with each race forming its own round of the V8 Supercar series. Similar to the Hamilton 400 event the races will be 200 kilometres in length, rather than the those of the Adelaide 500 which are 250 kilometres long.

The 2.85 kilometre Townsville Street Circuit becomes the sixth race track in Queensland to host a round of the Australian Touring Car Championship (of which the V8 Supercars form a part of its history), following Lowood circuit, Lakeside Raceway, Surfers Paradise Raceway, Queensland Raceway and most recently the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit.

The race also represents an important litmus test for V8 Supercar, as this is the second time they have attempted to grow a street race event in a region where motor racing had not previously had a following, after the failure of the Canberra 400.

Changes

Mark McNally makes his V8 Supercar series debut, replacing Dale Wood in the #16 Kelly Racing Holden Commodore. Wood remains with the team, although it has not yet been confirmed that Wood will form part of the teams endurance racing squad.

Jason Bright debuts his new race car, the first built by his new team. Stone Brothers Racing. The Ford FG Falcon replaces the Ford BF Falcon that Bright brought to the team from his former team, Britek Motorsport. The only drivers left in the series still running the older BF Falcons now are PCR's Michael Patrizi and the car of Marcus Marshall whose proposed sale of the team to Grant Sherrin of Sherrin Motorsport fell through since the previous round of the series at Hidden Valley Raceway.

Results

Qualifying Round 11

Pos	No	Name	Car	Team	Top Ten	Part 2	Part 1
1	33	Lee Holdsworth	Holden VE Commodore	Garry Rogers Motorsport	1:12.7327	1:12.8635
2	18	James Courtney	Ford FG Falcon	Dick Johnson Racing	1:12.8082	1:12.4747
3	2	Garth Tander	Holden VE Commodore	Holden Racing Team	1:12.8263	1:12.8248
4	34	Michael Caruso	Holden VE Commodore	Garry Rogers Motorsport	1:12.8977	1:12.8374
5	22	Will Davison	Holden VE Commodore	Holden Racing Team	1:12.9407	1:12.9526
6	8	Jason Richards	Holden VE Commodore	Brad Jones Racing	1:13.0736	1:12.9893
7	9	Shane Van Gisbergen	Ford FG Falcon	Stone Brothers Racing	1:13.0858	1:12.8251
8	17	Steven Johnson	Ford FG Falcon	Dick Johnson Racing	1:13.2687	1:12.8520
9	1	Jamie Whincup	Ford FG Falcon	Triple Eight Race Engineering	1:13.3629	1:12.6426
10	111	Fabian Coulthard	Ford FG Falcon	Paul Cruickshank Racing	1:13.6079	1:12.8161
11	24	David Reynolds	Holden VE Commodore	Walkinshaw Racing		1:13.0255
12	10	Paul Dumbrell	Holden VE Commodore	Walkinshaw Racing		1:13.0260
13	14	Cameron McConville	Holden VE Commodore	Brad Jones Racing		1:13.0533
14	39	Russell Ingall	Holden VE Commodore	Paul Morris Motorsport		1:13.0584
15	888	Craig Lowndes	Ford FG Falcon	Triple Eight Race Engineering		1:13.1465
16	5	Mark Winterbottom	Ford FG Falcon	Ford Performance Racing		1:13.2002
17	7	Todd Kelly	Holden VE Commodore	Kelly Racing		1:13.4012
18	333	Michael Patrizi	Ford BF Falcon	Paul Cruickshank Racing		1:13.4232
19	15	Rick Kelly	Holden VE Commodore	Kelly Racing		1:13.5178
20	3	Jason Bargwanna	Holden VE Commodore	Tasman Motorsport		1:13.5230
21	6	Steven Richards	Ford FG Falcon	Ford Performance Racing			1:13.5088
22	55	Tony D'Alberto	Holden VE Commodore	Rod Nash Racing			1:13.5341
23	67	Tim Slade	Holden VE Commodore	Paul Morris Motorsport			1:13.5438
24	4	Alex Davison	Ford FG Falcon	Stone Brothers Racing			1:13.7166
25	11	Jack Perkins	Holden VE Commodore	Kelly Racing			1:13.7420
26	51	Greg Murphy	Holden VE Commodore	Tasman Motorsport			1:13.7738
27	25	Jason Bright	Ford FG Falcon	Stone Brothers Racing			1:13.7867
28	12	Dean Fiore	Holden VE Commodore	Triple F Racing			1:13.8292
29	16	Mark McNally	Holden VE Commodore	Kelly Racing			1:14.9106

Round 11

Pos	No	Name	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Jamie Whincup	Triple Eight Race Engineering	71	1:35:37.4475	9	150
2	22	Will Davison	Holden Racing Team	71	+1.4s	5	138
3	2	Garth Tander	Holden Racing Team	71	+1.7s	3	129
4	888	Craig Lowndes	Triple Eight Race Engineering	71	+3.0s	15	120
5	34	Michael Caruso	Garry Rogers Motorsport	71	+4.4s	5	111
6	39	Russell Ingall	Paul Morris Motorsport	71	+4.8s	4	102
7	15	Rick Kelly	Kelly Racing	71	+9.5s	19	96
8	5	Mark Winterbottom	Ford Performance Racing	71	+9.8s	16	90
9	14	Cameron McConville	Brad Jones Racing	71	+10.0s	13	84
10	7	Todd Kelly	Kelly Racing	71	+10.2s	17	78
11	10	Paul Dumbrell	Walkinshaw Racing	71	+10.7s	12	72
12	9	Shane Van Gisbergen	Stone Brothers Racing	71	+11.0s	7	69
13	17	Steven Johnson	Dick Johnson Racing	71	+11.3s	8	66
14	3	Jason Bargwanna	Tasman Motorsport	71	+12.9s	20	63
15	111	Fabian Coulthard	Paul Cruickshank Racing	70	+ 1 lap	10	60
16	25	Jason Bright	Stone Brothers Racing	70	+ 1 lap	27	57
17	12	Dean Fiore	Triple F Racing	70	+ 1 lap	15	54
18	11	Jack Perkins	Kelly Racing	70	+ 1 lap	25	51
19	51	Greg Murphy	Tasman Motorsport	69	+ 2 laps	26	48
20	333	Michael Patrizi	Paul Cruickshank Racing	69	+ 2 laps	18	45
21	6	Steven Richards	Ford Performance Racing	68	+ 3 laps	21	42
22	24	David Reynolds	Walkinshaw Racing	66	+ 5 laps	11	39
23	8	Jason Richards	Brad Jones Racing	60	+ 11 laps	6	36
24	16	Mark McNally	Kelly Racing	60	+ 11 laps	29	33
DNF	55	Tony D'Alberto	Rod Nash Racing	67		22
DNF	4	Alex Davison	Stone Brothers Racing	60		24
DNF	67	Tim Slade	Paul Morris Motorsport	42		23
DNF	33	Lee Holdsworth	Garry Rogers Motorsport	28		1
DNF	18	James Courtney	Dick Johnson Racing	5	engine	2

Standings

• After round 12 of 26

Pos	No	Name	Team	Points
1	1	Jamie Whincup	Triple Eight Race Engineering	1560
2	22	Will Davison	Holden Racing Team	1386
3	2	Garth Tander	Holden Racing Team	1212
4	888	Craig Lowndes	Triple Eight Race Engineering	1110
5	17	Steven Johnson	Dick Johnson Racing	1050

External links

• Official event website
• Official series website
• Official timing and results

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