2008 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series

2008 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series season
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The 2008 Fujitsu V8 Supercars season was the ninth running of the Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series, the second-tier V8 Supercar series. It began on 21 February at the Clipsal 500 and ended on 7 December at Oran Park Raceway after seven rounds.

Race calendar

The series consisted of six events in support to the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series and one stand-alone event.^[1]

Rd.	Event	Circuit	Location	Date	Winner
1	Clipsal 500	Adelaide Street Circuit	Adelaide, South Australia	21-24 Feb	Steve Owen
2	Wakefield Park	Wakefield Park	Goulburn, New South Wales	4-6 Apr	Tim Slade
3	Midas 400	Sandown Raceway	Melbourne, Victoria	7-9 Jun	Steve Owen
4	City of Ipswich 300	Queensland Raceway	Ipswich, Queensland	18-20 Jul	Dean Canto
5	Winton	Winton Motor Raceway	Benalla, Victoria	1-3 Aug	Steve Owen
6	Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000	Mount Panorama Circuit	Bathurst, New South Wales	9-12 Oct	Dean Canto
7	Oran Park	Oran Park Raceway	Sydney, New South Wales	4-7 Dec	Jack Perkins

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers have competed during the 2008 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series. This was the last season the Ford AU Falcon was eligible.

Team	No	Driver	Car
Sieders Racing Team	13	Colin Sieders	Ford AU Falcon Ford BA Falcon
	19	David Sieders	Ford BA Falcon
Slade Speed	23	Tim Slade	Holden VZ Commodore
Howard Racing	27	Karl Reindler	Ford BA Falcon
	32	Luke Youlden
	37	Dean Canto
MW Motorsport	28	Matthew White Andy Knight Brad Lowe Nandi Kiss	Ford BA Falcon
	29	Grant Denyer Damian Assaillit
Racer Industries	30	Craig Baird	Ford BA Falcon
A.N.T. Racing	30	Tony Evangelou	Ford BA Falcon
TAG Motorsport	35	Tony Bates	Holden VZ Commodore
	36	Geoff Emery
Eggleston Motorsport	38	Ben Eggleston	Holden VZ Commodore
	54	Taz Douglas Simon Wills
Jay Motorsport	42	Jay Verdnik Shane Price	Holden VZ Commodore
Greg Murphy Racing	44	James Bergmuller	Holden VZ Commodore
	46	Dale Wood
	47	Sam Walter
O'Brien Motorsport	45	Shannon O'Brien	Ford BA Falcon
Image Racing	48	Dean Neville	Ford BA Falcon
	49	Taz Douglas Terry Wyhoon	Ford AU Falcon Ford BA Falcon
Loadsman Racing Team	54	Steve Owen	Holden VZ Commodore
	62
Novacastrian Motorsport	58	Drew Russell	Holden VZ Commodore
Race Image Motorsports	60	Damian Assaillit Jose Fernandez Gene Rollinson	Ford BA Falcon
Prodigy Motorsport	61	Gene Rollinson Clayton Pyne Ryan Brown	Ford BA Falcon
Independent Race Cars Australia	64	Michael Trimble	Holden VZ Commodore
	500	Jack Perkins
Beikoff Racing	68	Shane Beikoff Jonathan Beikoff	Ford AU Falcon
Capital Finance	70	Ashley Cooper	Holden VZ Commodore
Action Racing	73	Marcus Zukanovic	Holden VZ Commodore
Brad Jones Racing	74	Mark McNally	Holden VZ Commodore
McGill Motorsport	75	Aaron McGill	Ford AU Falcon Ford BA Falcon Holden VY Commodore
Wollongong Performance Racing	85	Andrew Fisher	Holden VZ Commodore
Stone Brothers Racing	94	Jonathon Webb	Ford BA Falcon
Mid Coast Ford Racing	96	Joel Spychala	Ford BA Falcon
Sydney Star Racing	95	Brett Holdsworth	Holden VZ Commodore
	98	Brett Hobson
Tony D'Alberto Racing	99	David Reynolds	Holden VZ Commodore

Points system

Points are awarded to any driver that completes 75% of race distance and is running on the completion of the final lap. These are the points awarded for each race.

Pos	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, 6 & 7	150	138	129	120	111	102	96	90	84	78	72	69	66	63	60	57	54	51	48	45	42	39	36	33	30	27	24	21	18
Rounds 2 - 5	100	92	86	80	74	68	64	60	56	52	48	46	44	42	40	38	36	34	32	30	28	26	24	22	20	18	16	14	12

Driver standings

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Pos Driver Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Pts 1 Steve Owen 1st 1st 1st 2nd 14th 1st 10th 1st 2nd 3rd 2nd 2nd 1st 1st 4th 3rd 5th 17th 1762 2 Dean Canto Ret 10th 2nd 27th 1st 2nd 11th 2nd 1st 2nd 1st 1st 4th 7th 2nd 1st 1st 3rd 1621 3 Jonathon Webb 9th 19th 3rd 5th 7th 6th 3rd 4th 3rd 13th 4th 6th 8th 4th 1st 2nd 3rd 6th 1527 4 David Reynolds 17th 9th 5th 3rd 4th 5th 4th 3rd 4th 6th 6th 5th 3rd 3rd 5th 4th 11th 5th 1494 5 Jack Perkins 2nd 2nd 4th 14th 5th 26th Ret 11th 6th Ret Ret 3rd 2nd 2nd 3rd 6th 2nd 1st 1399 6 Dale Wood 4th 3rd Ret 10th Ret 3rd 5th 19th 5th 8th 3rd Ret 5th 9th 6th 5th 13th Ret 1122 7 Tim Slade 3rd Ret 7th 1st 2nd 11th 20th 14th 24th 24th 20th 7th 6th 6th 27th Ret 4th 2nd 1061 8 Karl Reindler 8th 7th 8th 20th 11th 4th 7th 5th 19th 7th 9th 9th 5th 9th 28th 12th 9th Ret 1056 9 Michael Trimble 7th 4th 13th 6th 3rd 7th 2nd 11th 17th 11th 10th 4th Ret Ret 8th 9th Ret 20th 1053 10 Mark McNally 15th 11th 6th 4th Ret 14th 8th 8th Ret 16th 16th 13th 14th 8th 11th 22nd 6th 7th 973 11 Marcus Zukanovic 13th 8th 17th 7th 17th 8th 6th 7th 9th 5th 12th 19th Ret 16th Ret 14th 24th 4th 946 12 Damian Assaillit 18th 12th 14th 15th 16th 16th 12th 9th 18th Ret 18th 12th 16th 12th 9th 7th 12th 12th 896 13 Sam Walter 11th 21st 10th 9th 12th 12th 13th 12th 7th 9th 7th 10th 20th Ret Ret DNS 8th 8th 850 14 Jay Verdnik 12th 14th 9th 16th 6th 9th 9th 6th Ret 12th 28th 11th 12th 14th 10th 8th 838 15 Grant Denyer 5th 5th Ret 11th 9th 10th 1st 25th 10th 1st 5th Ret 13th 11th 816 16 Drew Russell 26th 23rd 12th 8th 8th 15th Ret 17th 15th Ret 22nd 17th 10th 15th 20th 15th 16th 10th 739 17 Geoff Emery 19th 13th 20th 18th Ret 19th 17th 18th 11th 14th 13th 8th 7th 20th 15th Ret 20th 18th 724 18 David Seiders 25th 22nd 18th 13th 10th 25th 19th 20th 13th 15th 17th 14th Ret 21st Ret 19th 7th 9th 699 19 Brett Holdsworth 23rd 16th 15th 17th 13th 17th 25th 22nd 20th 23rd 21st 16th 11th 10th 30th 23rd 14th 23rd 665 20 James Bergmuller 24th 18th 23rd 26th Ret 20th 23rd 23rd 21st 22nd 24th 20th 15th 18th 23rd 20th 18th 16th 573 21 Brett Hobson 10th 6th 11th Ret Ret 13th 14th 13th DNS 18th 10th Ret 487 22 Tony Bates 24th 23rd 19th 21st 15th 16th 25th 20th 19th 23rd Ret 22nd 17th 24th 25th Ret 433 23 Aaron McGill 22nd 24th 26th 25th Ret 24th Ret 27th 22nd Ret 27th 24th 19th 19th 21st 16th Ret 21st 417 24 Ben Eggleston DNS DNS 16th 21st 15th 18th 18th Ret Ret Ret 26th 21st 18th Ret 18th Ret 17th 22nd 398 25 Gene Rollinson 14th Ret 12th 10th 11th 15th Ret 13th 21st 19th 383 26 Joel Spychala 20th 15th 25th 20th Ret 23rd 16th 15th Ret 19th 29th 22nd 21st Ret 355 27 Matthew White 6th 25th 7th 10th 306 28 Colin Sieders 21st 20th 21st 12th Ret 22nd Ret 26th 29th Ret Ret 15th 283 29 Luke Youlden 19th 11th 15th 13th 246 30 Shannon O'Brien 14th 21st 15th 18th 22nd 17th 22nd 245 31 Craig Baird 8th 4th 8th 200 32 Taz Douglas Ret 17th Ret DNS DNS Ret 22nd Ret Ret 18th 23rd 26th 17th Ret 192 33 Tony Evangelou Ret 21st 21st 12th 13th 191 34 Shane Beikoff 22nd 24th Ret 27th 24th 24th Ret 26th 22nd Ret 174 35 Shane Price 19th 11th 120 36 Andy Knight 16th 17th 14th 116 37 Terry Wyhoon 25th Ret Ret 26th 17th 101 38 Brad Lowe 23rd 14th 99 39 Clayton Pyne 19th 22nd 18th 92 40 Andrew Fisher 16th Ret 26th Ret 84 41 Dean Neville 24th 21st 75 42 José Fernández 13th Ret 66 43 Jonathan Beikoff 27th 24th 24th 23rd 25th 25th 64 44 Simon Wills 14th Ret 63 45 Ryan Brown 25th 25th 60 46 Ashley Cooper 16th Ret 57 47 Nandi Kiss 27th Ret Ret 16

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (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 (DNP) Excluded (EX)

References

1. "2008 V8 Supercars calendar". Official website of the V8 Supercar Championship Series. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 11 December 2008.
2. "2008 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series points". Official website of the V8 Supercar Championship Series. 7 December 2008. Retrieved 11 December 2008.