2011 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series

The 2011 Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series was the twelfth running of the V8 Supercar Development series, an Australian touring car racing series for V8 Supercars. It acted as the principal support category at seven 2011 International V8 Supercars Championship events. The series began on 17 March at the Adelaide Street Circuit and ended on 3 December at the Homebush Street Circuit after 17 races held at seven rounds.

2011 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series
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Andrew Thompson, driving a Triple Eight Race Engineering prepared Holden VE Commodore, dominated the series, winning eleven of the 17 races. Thompson won by 306 points over Jack Perkins who drove a Sonic Motor Racing Services Ford BF Falcon. Perkins defeated third placed David Russell (MW Motorsport Ford BF Falcon) by seven points, after winning the final race of the year at the Homebush Street Circuit.

The six races not won by Thompson included Race 2 at the Adelaide Street Circuit which was won in emotional circumstances by Jason Richards driving a Greg Murphy Racing Holden VE Commodore, the Brad Jones Racing driver from the V8 Supercars Championship taking a guest drive during a break in his treatment for a serious illness. Other race wins were attained by Tim Blanchard who won the reverse grid race at the Townsville Street Circuit in a Ford BF Falcon, Scott McLaughlin, who won Race 1 at Queensland Raceway in a Stone Brothers Racing Ford BF Falcon, former series winner Andrew Jones who won the reverse grid race at Queensland Raceway in a Brad Jones Racing prepared Holden VE Commodore and Jack Perkins, who won two late season races at Sandown Raceway and the Homebush Street Circuit.

Calendar
The Ford BF Falcon of Tom Tweedie at the Adelaide round

The 2011 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series was contested over seven rounds:[1]

Rd. Event Circuit Location Date Winner
1 Clipsal 500 Adelaide Street Circuit Adelaide, South Australia 17–20 March Nick Percat
2 Trading Post Perth Challenge Barbagallo Raceway Perth, Western Australia 29 April–1 May Andrew Thompson
3 Sucrogen Townsville 400 Townsville Street Circuit Townsville, Queensland 8–10 July Andrew Thompson
4 Coates Hire Ipswich 300 Queensland Raceway Ipswich, Queensland 19–21 August Andrew Thompson
5 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 Mount Panorama Circuit Bathurst, New South Wales 6–9 October Andrew Thompson
6 Norton 360 Sandown Challenge Sandown Raceway Melbourne, Victoria 18–20 November Andrew Thompson
7 Sydney Telstra 500 Homebush Street Circuit Sydney, New South Wales 3–5 December Andrew Thompson

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers contested the 2011 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series.[2] This was the last season in which the Holden VZ Commodore was eligible to compete.

Team Car No. Driver Rounds
Miles Racing Ford BF Falcon 10 Chaz Mostert 1–5
Luke Youlden 6
90 Ashley Walsh 1–5
Sieders Racing Team Ford BF Falcon 13 Colin Sieders 1, 3, 5, 7
Brad Jones Racing Holden VE Commodore 20 Andrew Jones 3–4, 7
Triple F Racing Ford BF Falcon 23 Todd Fiore 1–5
Greg Murphy Racing Holden VE Commodore 24 Tony Bates 1, 3–7
Matt Hansen 2
45 Jason Richards 1
James Brock 3–5
Nick Cassidy 6–7
48 Geoff Emery All
51 Daniel Jilesen All
Paul Freestone Racing Ford BF Falcon 25 Paul Freestone 1, 5
MW Motorsport Ford BF Falcon 26 Tom Tweedie 1–6
27 Tim Blanchard All
28 David Russell All
Eggleston Motorsport Holden VE Commodore 38 Cameron McConville 3–4
Gavin Bullas 5
Holden VZ Commodore 54 Lindsay Yelland 3
Jay Motorsport Holden VZ Commodore 43 Jay Verdnik 1
Matt Stone Racing Holden VE Commodore 50 Stephen Voight 5
Ford BF Falcon 86 Robert Cregan All
Ford Performance Racing Ford FG Falcon 56 Chaz Mostert 6
100 7
Novocastrian Motorsport Ford BF Falcon 58 Drew Russell All
59 Aaren Russell All
Warrin Mining Holden VZ Commodore
Holden VE Commodore		 62 Adam Wallis 1, 4–5
Paul Morris Motorsport Holden VE Commodore 67 Paul Morris 2–7
Action Racing Holden VE Commodore 71 Marcus Zukanovic All
Brett Stewart Racing Holden VE Commodore 73 Brett Stewart 2–7
McGill Motorsport Ford BF Falcon 75 Aaron McGill All
Kelly Racing Holden VE Commodore 77 Grant Denyer 4
Cameron Waters 6
Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VE Commodore 80 Andrew Thompson All
Tony D'Alberto Racing Holden VE Commodore 83 David Wall 1–2, 4–7
Dale Wood 3
Fastaz Motorsport Holden VZ Commodore 92 Taz Douglas 1–4, 6–7
Stone Brothers Racing Ford BF Falcon
Ford FG Falcon		 93 Scott McLaughlin All
Batavia Coast Motorsport Ford BF Falcon 95 Nathan Vince 1–2
Walkinshaw Racing Holden VE Commodore 222 Nick Percat All
Sonic Motor Racing Services Ford FG Falcon 777 Rodney Jane All
Ford BF Falcon 999 Jack Perkins All

Series standings
Pos. Driver No. ADE BAR TOW QUE BAT SAN SYD Pen Pts
1 Andrew Thompson 88 1 16 1 1 1 5 1 2 9 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 3 1907
2 Jack Perkins 999 3 21 2 4 6 2 2 10 7 7 3 3 1 11 3 5 1 25 1601
3 David Russell 28 8 13 4 2 2 4 3 5 3 2 2 2 4 16 5 4 8 25 1594
4 Scott McLaughlin 93 7 2 3 3 16 13 8 1 5 5 10 5 5 Ret 4 10 4 1461
5 Tim Blanchard 27 4 4 11 9 9 1 11 11 14 6 6 6 7 2 18 6 19 1262
6 Chaz Mostert 10/56 9 6 8 6 10 10 13 14 4 17 11 7 2 15 2 3 5 65 1253
7 Nick Percat 222 2 3 Ret 16 3 6 5 Ret 6 8 4 8 3 Ret Ret 2 2 50 1207
8 Paul Morris 67 22 DSQ 5 19 4 3 2 3 5 4 Ret 3 6 7 Ret 25 944
9 Rodney Jane 777 11 8 5 19 7 17 9 6 Ret Ret 7 Ret 13 8 9 Ret 16 50 827
10 Daniel Jilesen 51 10 5 6 5 8 3 7 Ret 23 Ret Ret 10 DNS 18 13 Ret 11 25 816
11 David Wall 83 13 7 15 11 8 8 9 8 Ret 8 Ret DNS 11 18 754
12 Robert Cregan 86 17 9 9 8 Ret 15 12 Ret 19 16 Ret 14 18 10 11 20 17 747
13 Aaren Russell 59 21 Ret 16 10 Ret 26 15 21 17 13 13 11 16 12 15 12 15 733
14 Geoff Emery 48 15 Ret 12 12 Ret 18 18 Ret Ret Ret 14 9 10 5 7 13 6 25 732
15 Tom Tweedie 26 16 14 13 14 11 16 17 18 18 12 12 Ret 14 9 12 696
16 Drew Russell 58 6 Ret Ret 13 12 11 Ret Ret 11 11 DNS 11 12 Ret 19 9 9 670
17 Aaron McGill 75 Ret 17 20 17 18 24 23 19 24 24 20 17 19 19 17 19 7 657
18 Tony Bates 24 22 11 20 20 14 7 25 22 16 Ret 9 Ret Ret 15 10 598
19 Taz Douglas 92 5 Ret 11 7 19 14 22 Ret 13 23 Ret 14 14 14 14 50 576
20 Marcus Zukanovic 71 DNS DNS 7 18 4 7 Ret Ret 21 18 9 Ret 17 6 8 Ret DNS 25 553
21 Andrew Jones 20 15 8 10 9 1 10 8 13 25 466
22 Brett Stewart 73 23 Ret 21 25 24 20 20 Ret 22 15 21 17 DNS 18 20 414
23 Todd Fiore 23 23 10 17 Ret Ret DNS DNS 13 15 15 21 16 391
24 Cameron McConville 38 13 9 6 4 12 4 389
25 Colin Sieders 13 18 20 17 21 19 19 Ret 16 12 368
26 James Brock 45 Ret 23 20 12 16 19 15 13 343
27 Ashley Walsh 90 Ret 15 10 15 Ret 22 16 15 Ret 21 DNS DNS 341
28 Adam Wallis 62 19 12 17 22 20 18 Ret 263
29 Jason Richards 45 12 1 219
30 Nathan Vince 95 20 19 19 20 186
31 Nick Cassidy 45 20 13 10 17 Ret 25 153
32 Luke Youlden 10 11 4 16 151
33 Grant Denyer 77 16 10 14 129
34 Paul Freestone 25 Ret 18 17 Ret 105
35 Cameron Waters 77 15 7 Ret 86
36 Jay Verdnik 43 14 Ret 63
37 Dale Wood 83 Ret 12 21 61
38 Matt Hansen 24 18 Ret 51
39 Stephen Voight 50 Ret DNS 0
40 Lindsay Yelland 54 DNS DNS DNS 0
41 Gavin Bullas 38 DNS DNS 0
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not participate (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

See also

2011 V8 Supercar season

References
  1. "Fujitsu Series goes west". Official site of the Australian V8 Supercar Championship Series. 29 October 2010. Archived from the original on 23 February 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
  2. ""Fujitsu Series Teams and Drivers". V8 Supercars Australia. Archived from the original on 2 February 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
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