2014 Dunlop V8 Supercar Series

2014 Dunlop V8 Supercar Series season
Previous:	2013	Next:	2015
Parent series: International V8 Supercars Championship

The 2014 Dunlop Series was a motor racing competition for V8 Supercars. It was the fifteenth running of the V8 Supercar Development Series, a support series to the International V8 Supercars Championship. The 2014 season featured a new format for the Dunlop Series weekends. Each round of the series – with the exception of Bathurst – featured two forty-minute races, rather than a range of two-race and three-race weekends. The Bathurst round was a single-race event, held over an endurance distance of 250 kilometres (160 miles), and allowing for optional driver changes.^[1]

2002 series champion Paul Dumbrell became the third driver to clinch a second title, after winning six races (and three rounds) during the season; this included four consecutive wins at Queensland Raceway, the Bathurst endurance race and the first race at Sydney Olympic Park. Despite missing the second Barbagallo race due to business commitments,^[2] Eggleston Motorsport's Dumbrell won the championship by 247 points ahead of Ford Performance Racing driver Cameron Waters. Waters won two races at Winton and the second Sydney Olympic Park race, where he also took the round win to move ahead of Ashley Walsh, who had held the runner-up spot for Matt Stone Racing prior to the event. Walsh won three races and two rounds in the early part of the season, but faded towards the end of the season. The championship top five was rounded out by New Zealand's Chris Pither (Brad Jones Racing) and Andre Heimgartner (MW Motorsport), who won races at Townsville and Barbagallo respectively. Pither also won the round at Townsville, his first in the series.

Teams and drivers

Garry Jacobson (Holden VE Commodore) placed 11th in the series

Dan Day (Holden VE Commodore) placed 20th in the series

The following teams and drivers competed in the 2014 series.

Season entries						Endurance entries
Team	Vehicle	No.	Driver	Rounds		Co-driver
Team Kean Racing	Holden VE Commodore	3	Josh Kean[3]	2–7		Tony D'Alberto[4]
		32		1
Image Racing	Ford FG Falcon	10	Taz Douglas[5]	1–2, 7
			Jack Le Brocq[6]	3–5
		49		1–2, 6
RSport Engineering	Holden VE Commodore	11	Joshua Hunter[6]	1
			Garth Walden	2
			Ben Porter	3
			Paul McKinnon	4, 7
			Phil Woodbury	5
		44	Fredrik Lestrup[7]	1–4
			Brett Hobson	5–7
		77	Tim Macrow[4]	6–7
		98	Aaron Tebb[6]	1–2, 4–6		Fredrik Lestrup[8]
Brad Jones Racing	Holden VE Commodore	12	Macauley Jones[9]	4–7
		20	Andrew Jones	All
		42	Chris Pither	All
Dragon Motor Racing	Holden VE Commodore	13	Kristian Lindbom[10]	5
			James Golding	7
		24	Tim Macrow[11]	2, 4
			Ben Schoots[12]	5
Dan Day Racing	Holden VE Commodore	25	Dan Day	All
MW Motorsport	Ford FG Falcon	26	Andre Heimgartner[13]	All		Steve Owen[14]
		27	Ryan Simpson[6]	1
			Steve Owen	2
			Dean Fiore	3–4
			Tim Blanchard	5
			Peter Rullo	6
		28	Morgan Haber[6]	1–6
			Kurt Kostecki	7
Matt Stone Racing	Ford FG Falcon	35	Todd Hazelwood[15]	All
		60	Michael Hector[16]	1–6
			Shae Davies	7
		87	Ashley Walsh[17]	All
		158	Ryal Harris[18]	6
		170	Steven Johnson[19]	4–5
Eggleston Motorsport	Holden VE Commodore	38	Ant Pedersen[20]	All
		54	Garry Jacobson[21]	All
		88	Paul Dumbrell[22]	All
THR Developments	Holden VE Commodore	45	Jay Verdnik[6][23]	1
			Shane Price	2
		46	Jordan Ormsby	1–2
GMJ Motorsport	Holden VE Commodore	48	Geoff Emery[24]	All
		50	Matt Hansen[24]	All
	Ford FG Falcon	51	Jim Pollicina[25]	All
Team Enzed FPR	Ford FG Falcon	56	Cameron Waters[26]	All
Novocastrian Motorsport	Ford FG Falcon	58	Aaren Russell[5]	All
Warrin Mining Racing	Holden VE Commodore	62	Adam Wallis	1, 3–4
Paul Morris Motorsport	Ford FG Falcon	67	Paul Morris	All
Action Racing[27]	Ford FG Falcon	71	Marcus Zukanovic	All
Formula Tech Racing	Holden VE Commodore	73	Brett Stewart	All
McGill Motorsport	Holden VE Commodore	75	Aaron McGill	All

Calendar

The 2014 Dunlop Series calendar was released on 23 September 2013. The championship consisted of thirteen races at seven venues, all in support of the International V8 Supercars Championship.

Series schedule							Results summary
Rnd	Rce	Event	Circuit	Location	Date		Winning driver	Round winner
1	1	Clipsal 500 Adelaide	Adelaide Street Circuit	Adelaide, South Australia	28 February		Ashley Walsh	Paul Dumbrell
	2				1 March		Paul Dumbrell
2	3	Winton 400	Winton Motor Raceway	Benalla, Victoria	5 April		Cameron Waters	Ashley Walsh
	4				6 April		Ashley Walsh
3	5	Perth 400	Barbagallo Raceway	Perth, Western Australia	16 May		Paul Dumbrell	Ashley Walsh
	6				17 May		Andre Heimgartner
4	7	Castrol Townsville 400	Townsville Street Circuit	Townsville, Queensland	4 July		Chris Pither	Chris Pither
	8				5 July		Ashley Walsh
5	9	Coates Hire Ipswich 400	Queensland Raceway	Ipswich, Queensland	2 August		Paul Dumbrell	Paul Dumbrell
	10				3 August		Paul Dumbrell
6	11	Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000	Mount Panorama Circuit	Bathurst, New South Wales	11 October		Paul Dumbrell	Paul Dumbrell
7	12	Sydney NRMA 500	Homebush Street Circuit	Sydney, New South Wales	6 December		Paul Dumbrell	Cameron Waters
	13				7 December		Cameron Waters

Championship standings

Pos. Driver No. ADE WIN BAR TOW QLD BAT SYD Pen. Pts. 1 Paul Dumbrell 88 3 1 5 2 1 DNS 2 4 1 1 1 1 Ret 1686 2 Cameron Waters 56 2 22 1 4 7 Ret 21 2 19 3 2 2 1 25 1439 3 Ashley Walsh 87 1 6 3 1 2 2 18 1 5 2 Ret 12 11 25 1373 4 Chris Pither 42 5 8 11 7 4 7 1 5 Ret 15 3 4 6 25 1361 5 Andre Heimgartner 26 6 7 9 10 9 1 3 3 Ret 12 7 5 8 1314 6 Andrew Jones 20 8 3 4 6 23 6 Ret Ret 3 11 4 6 3 25 1226 7 Aaren Russell 58 9 13 28 14 12 8 4 24 2 8 6 3 2 25 1220 8 Todd Hazelwood 35 11 9 15 11 5 5 8 13 Ret 10 5 20 4 1131 9 Paul Morris 67 7 10 6 5 10 4 Ret 9 8 4 Ret 8 5 1080 10 Ant Pedersen 38 22 4 12 9 8 9 9 7 7 5 18 10 Ret 1053 11 Garry Jacobson 54 10 5 8 3 11 15 15 11 4 6 Ret 21 Ret 50 886 12 Matt Hansen 50 19 19 21 18 14 14 11 15 16 22 14 14 13 798 13 Jack Le Brocq 49 10 Ret Ret 19 15 6 16 22 8 6 7 10 750 14 Geoff Emery 48 13 11 13 12 16 12 7 12 Ret 16 Ret 13 10 50 715 15 Morgan Haber 28 15 12 7 Ret 24 10 Ret 10 10 13 8 25 713 16 Marcus Zukanovic 71 12 Ret 17 13 13 11 12 Ret 9 25 Ret 15 7 666 17 Brett Stewart 73 24 20 18 20 18 21 14 19 12 17 Ret 18 18 603 18 Michael Hector 60 23 17 23 23 21 18 17 25 22 20 16 537 19 Jim Pollicina 51 Ret 21 26 24 20 22 16 Ret 18 21 17 19 16 25 524 20 Dan Day 25 21 18 29 21 22 17 Ret 14 17 Ret 19 16 Ret 516 21 Dean Fiore 27 3 3 6 6 462 22 Macauley Jones 12 10 21 11 23 13 9 Ret 444 23 Josh Kean 32 3 Ret Ret 16 Ret 17 20 20 Ret 13 Ret 12 Ret 15 25 440 24 Taz Douglas 10 4 2 10 27 7 Ret 25 431 25 Steve Owen 27 26 2 8 7 420 26 Aaron McGill 75 25 15 24 26 19 24 23 23 14 Ret Ret Ret 17 25 395 27 Fredrik Lestrup 44 14 Ret 27 16 15 13 13 16 393 28 Brett Hobson 44 Ret 18 11 Ret 14 258 29 Steven Johnson 170 5 17 Ret 14 228 30 Tim Macrow 24 77 Ret 22 Ret DNS 15 Ret 12 228 31 Aaron Tebb 98 Ret Ret 25 19 24 22 20 24 Ret 228 32 Jordan Ormsby 46 16 16 22 17 207 33 Adam Wallis 62 18 Ret DSQ 23 19 20 180 34 Ryal Harris 158 9 168 35 Shae Davies 60 11 9 156 36 Tony D'Alberto 3 12 138 37 Tim Blanchard 27 21 9 126 38 Jay Verdnik 45 20 14 108 39 Phil Woodbury 11 15 19 108 40 Ryan Simpson 27 17 23 90 41 Garth Walden 11 20 25 75 42 Shane Price 45 14 Ret 63 43 James Golding 13 17 Ret 54 44 Paul McKinnon 11 Ret 18 DNS DNS 51 45 Ben Porter 11 Ret 19 48 46 Kurt Kostecki 28 Ret 19 48 47 Joshua Hunter 11 Ret 24 33 Kristian Lindbom 13 Ret DNS 0 Ben Schoots 24 DNS DNS 0 Peter Rullo 27 DNS 0 Pos. Driver No. ADE WIN BAR TOW QLD BAT SYD Pen. Pts.

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) Bold - Pole position Italics - Fastest lap

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External links

• Official website