2010 Sucrogen Townsville 400
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The 2010 Sucrogen Townsville 400 was the eighth race meeting of the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series
2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series
The 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series was an FIA sanctioned international motor racing series for V8 Supercars. It was the twelfth V8 Supercar Championship Series and the fourteenth series in which V8 Supercars have contested the premier Australian touring car title...

. It featured Races 15 and 16 of the series and was held on the weekend of 9–11 July at the Townsville Street Circuit
Townsville Street Circuit
Townsville Street Circuit is a temporary street circuit located in Townsville, Queensland, Australia.-The circuit:Townsville Street Circuit is a reminiscent of the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit. It winds its way through Reid Park where specially constructed roads form approximately 70 percent of the...

, in Townsville
Townsville, Queensland
Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Australia, in the state of Queensland. Adjacent to the central section of the Great Barrier Reef, it is in the dry tropics region of Queensland. Townsville is Australia's largest urban centre north of the Sunshine Coast, with a 2006 census...

, in Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It was the second running of the Townsville 400 street race.

Race 15

Jamie Whincup secured pole position with a clean run in the top ten shootout, three-tenths faster than Mark Winterbottom and half a second ahead of Garth Tander. Jason Bright highlighted a resurgence for Brad Jones Racing to qualify fourth fastest. Team mate Jason Richards had been fastest in Friday practice but faded without explanation in qualifying. The two Dick Johnson Racing Falcons were next, James Courtney ahead of Steven Johnson. Craig Lowndes had qualified fastest, but a mistake in the Top Ten Shootout at the final corner saw Lowndes start tenth behind Fabian Coulthard, Lee Holdesworth and Shane Van Gisbergen. Cameron McConville on his return to the V8 Supercar series, replacing Daniel Gaunt in the Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Commodore, qualified twentieth while Jonathon Webb, debuting his new sponsor Mother Energy Drinks, qualified next-to last with Tony Ricciardello half a second behind the field.

Tony D'Alberto started from pit lane after breaking an axle during qualifying with unidentified further damage putting him into the pits after the warm-up lap. Winterbottom won the start to lead early with Craig Lowndes clouting the wall at the kink before turn 1, breaking his Watts linkage. Tander took the lead at the end of turn 1 with Whincup moving into second at tturn 1 of the second lap. Jason Bright was taken by the two DJR Falcons with turn 1 seeing Courtney tap team mate Johnson into a spin. A queue quickly built up behind Bright, the BJR Commodore not able to lap as quickly as the three leaders.

Jason Bargwanna acquired a 'meatball' flag, calling him into the pits to get a dislodged and dragging rear bar removed from the car. Lap eight saw Whincup pinch the race lead from Tander into turn 1. Lap 11 saw Holdsworth take fourth from Bright. A lap later Courtney took Bright as well with Coulthard closing in. The race settled down and once pit stop cycles were completed

Whincup went on for a nine second victory over Tander with Winterbottom ten seconds away in third. Holdsworth drove into fourth position, getting past James Courtney at the final pitstop. Russell Ingall climbed into sixth position, winning a dice with Jason Richards. Shane Van Gisbergen, Steven Richards and Paul Dumbrell completed the top ten. Bright would eventually suffer an engine failure, ending his best run of the year. After his dramas Craig Lowndes finished 11 laps down in 26th position.

Race 16

Whincup wins the start from Tander, Lowndes and Courtney. There was contact early between Steven Johnson and Steven Richards, later on the opening lap there was contact between Rick Kelly and Tony D'Alberto which saw the pair lurch into the path of Russell Ingall. Ingall was out on the spot with a broken left rear and D'Alberto limped back to the pits to retire.

Steven Richards tagged Jason Richards into a spin, sending Lee Holdsworth and Steven Johnson across the infield in avoidance with Johnons hitting Jason Richards stationery Commodore. Whincup pitted after eight laps with brake failure caused by a cut brake line. Winterbottom was first to pit on lap.

Lap 31 saw contact between Jason Bargwanna and Lee Holdsworth, sending Holdsworth into the tyre barrier. Holdsworth restarted. Not long after Lowndes fighting for second with Tander brushed a wall, bending a front suspension arm, damaging the cars steering. Lowndes immediately fell away from Tander and back towards Courtney. It took about five laps, but Courtney finally took Lowndes for third.

Tander speared off the track about ten laps at the same corner wher track was starting to break up. Tander nosed into the barriers, recovered quickly and backed up across the path of Courtney and Lowndes. Courtney braked and Lowndes, unsighted, hit the back of Courtney's Falcon. Lowndes limped back to the pits to retire. Courtnye continued with little damage.

Safety car was called when Dean Fiore got stuck in the tyre barriers and could not back out. Todd Kelly was spun around by Michael Caruso at the restart.

Winterbottom built up a lead over Courtney at the chequered flag with Tander third. Fourth for Paul Dumbrell and fifth for Steven Richards saw all three Ford Performance Racing prepared Falcons make the top five. Will Davison returned to the top six with Shane Van Gisbergen getting the better of a long fight with Jonathon Webb. Jason Richards pinched eighth from Webb in the last few laps. Jason Bargwanna had his best result for the year and led the Kelly Racing quartet in tenth. Sixteenth for Cameron McConville on his V8 Supercar return was the best result for the year for Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport. Cruel luck again dogged Jason Bright with another engine failure, this time with five laps to go while sitting fifth.

Qualifying Race 15

Qualifying timesheets:
Pos No Name Car Team Shootout Qualifying
Pole 1 Jamie Whincup
Jamie Whincup
Jamie Whincup is Australian auto racing driver who competes in the V8 Supercar, driving for TeamVodafone. He is a two-time V8 Supercars champion and three-time Bathurst 1000 winner.-Early career:...

Holden VE Commodore Triple Eight Race Engineering 1:13.3223 1:13.0634
2 5 Mark Winterbottom
Mark Winterbottom
Mark "Frosty" Winterbottom, is a racing driver who has competed in the V8 Supercar category since 2003. He currently drives for the Ford Performance Racing team...

Ford FG Falcon
Ford FG Falcon
The Ford FG Falcon is a full-size car produced by the Ford Motor Company of Australia since 2008. The FG series is the current model of the Ford Falcon and is the seventh generation of the car...

Ford Performance Racing
Ford Performance Racing
Ford Performance Racing is a British-owned Australian-based motor racing team that contests the Australian International V8 Supercars Championship...

1:13.6361 1:13.2559
3 2 Garth Tander
Garth Tander
Garth Tander is a multiple-championship winning Australian motor racing driver. Since 1998 Tander has been a competitor in touring car racing series V8 Supercar Championship Series. Tander was the 2007 series champion for the HSV Dealer Team and is a three-time winner in Australia's most...

Holden VE Commodore Holden Racing Team
Holden Racing Team
The Holden Racing Team is a Melbourne based motor racing team. HRT is the most successful V8 Supercar racing team in the history of the category, having won the drivers championship six times, and the series signature race the Bathurst 1000 seven times...

1:13.8638 1:13.5838
4 14 Jason Bright
Jason Bright
Jason Bright is an Australian racing driver currently competing in the V8 Supercar series.-Australia:...

Holden VE Commodore Brad Jones Racing
Brad Jones Racing
Brad Jones Racing is an Australian motor racing team centred around brothers Kim and Brad Jones and is based in Albury, New South Wales. Presently the team compete in the V8 Supercar Series, which they joined in 2000. Recently they have also returned to the Australian Formula Ford Championship...

1:13.8859 1:13.3126
5 18 James Courtney
James Courtney
James Courtney is an Australian racing driver who competes in the V8 Supercar Championship. He is the current Australian Touring Car Champion after winning the 2010 title for Dick Johnson Racing....

Ford FG Falcon
Ford FG Falcon
The Ford FG Falcon is a full-size car produced by the Ford Motor Company of Australia since 2008. The FG series is the current model of the Ford Falcon and is the seventh generation of the car...

Dick Johnson Racing
Dick Johnson Racing
Dick Johnson Racing is Australia's oldest operating motor racing team. Founded by Dick Johnson, the team has won seven Australian Touring Car Championship titles and has taken three victories in Australia's hallmark race, the Bathurst 1000...

1:13.9123 1:13.3422
6 17 Steven Johnson
Steven Johnson (motor racing)
Steven Johnson is an Australian V8 Supercar racing driver. He is the son of former racer and now team-owner Dick Johnson. He has competed full-time for Dick Johnson Racing since 2000...

Ford FG Falcon
Ford FG Falcon
The Ford FG Falcon is a full-size car produced by the Ford Motor Company of Australia since 2008. The FG series is the current model of the Ford Falcon and is the seventh generation of the car...

Dick Johnson Racing
Dick Johnson Racing
Dick Johnson Racing is Australia's oldest operating motor racing team. Founded by Dick Johnson, the team has won seven Australian Touring Car Championship titles and has taken three victories in Australia's hallmark race, the Bathurst 1000...

1:13.9416 1:13.5924
7 24 Fabian Coulthard
Fabian Coulthard
Fabian Coulthard is a professional race car driver, currently racing for Walkinshaw Racing known commercially as Bundaberg Racing Team in the Australian V8 Supercar series....

Holden VE Commodore Walkinshaw Racing
Walkinshaw Racing
Walkinshaw Racing, known commercially as Bundaberg Racing Team, is one of two Australian motor racing teams operated by British owned Walkinshaw Performance...

1:14.0071 1:13.6186
8 33 Lee Holdsworth
Lee Holdsworth
Lee Holdsworth was born in Melbourne, Victoria on 2 February 1983. Holdsworth is currently an Australian V8 Supercar racing driver. Holdsworth drives the #33 Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VE Commodore.-History:...

Holden VE Commodore Garry Rogers Motorsport
Garry Rogers Motorsport
Garry Rogers Motorsport is an Australian motor racing team presently competing in V8 Supercar.-The early years:Garry Rogers Motorsport has its origins in Garry Rogers' own exploits in Sports Sedans during the late 1960s and the 1970s. In the mid-1970s Rogers got more serious, running a BDA Escort...

1:14.0149 1:13.6042
9 9 Shane Van Gisbergen
Shane Van Gisbergen
Shane Van Gisbergen is a racing driver from Auckland, New Zealand. He currently drives for Stone Brothers Racing in the Australian V8 Supercar Championship Series.-New Zealand racing history:...

Ford FG Falcon
Ford FG Falcon
The Ford FG Falcon is a full-size car produced by the Ford Motor Company of Australia since 2008. The FG series is the current model of the Ford Falcon and is the seventh generation of the car...

Stone Brothers Racing
Stone Brothers Racing
Stone Brothers Racing is an Australian motor racing team competing in the International V8 Supercars Championship, formed in 1998 by experienced New Zealand-born motorsport veterans, Ross Stone and Jim Stone after buying out their partner in their previous racing team...

1:14.5248 1:13.5284
10 888 Craig Lowndes
Craig Lowndes
Craig Lowndes is a multi-championship winning Australian racing driver. He is a three-time V8 Supercar champion and five-time winner of Australia's most famous motor race, the Bathurst 1000...

Holden VE Commodore Triple Eight Race Engineering 1:14.6617 1:13.0511
11 6 Steven Richards
Steven Richards
Steven Richards is a New Zealand racing driver, currently competing in the with the team. He previously raced in the V8 Supercar series for Ford Performance Racing....

Ford FG Falcon
Ford FG Falcon
The Ford FG Falcon is a full-size car produced by the Ford Motor Company of Australia since 2008. The FG series is the current model of the Ford Falcon and is the seventh generation of the car...

Ford Performance Racing
Ford Performance Racing
Ford Performance Racing is a British-owned Australian-based motor racing team that contests the Australian International V8 Supercars Championship...

1:13.6230
12 7 Todd Kelly
Todd Kelly
Todd Kelly is a V8 Supercar racing driver, currently living in Melbourne, Victoria. He is the older brother of former V8 Supercar and Bathurst 1000 champion, Rick Kelly. He drove for the Holden Racing Team from 2003 until 2007, and Jack Daniel's Racing in 2008...

Holden VE Commodore Kelly Racing
Kelly Racing
Kelly Racing is a team competing in the Australian V8 Supercar series. It is owned by John and Margaret Kelly, and made its debut in 2009. The team's current four drivers are 2006 V8 Supercar series champion Rick Kelly and 2005 Bathurst 1000 winner Todd Kelly , four time Bathurst 1000 winner Greg...

1:13.6450
13 15 Rick Kelly
Rick Kelly
Rick Kelly is a current V8 Supercar racing driver, currently living in Melbourne, Victoria. He is the younger brother of former Bathurst 1000 champion, Todd Kelly...

Holden VE Commodore Kelly Racing
Kelly Racing
Kelly Racing is a team competing in the Australian V8 Supercar series. It is owned by John and Margaret Kelly, and made its debut in 2009. The team's current four drivers are 2006 V8 Supercar series champion Rick Kelly and 2005 Bathurst 1000 winner Todd Kelly , four time Bathurst 1000 winner Greg...

1:13.6708
14 22 Will Davison
Will Davison
Will Davison is an Australian racing driver. He currently competes with Ford Performance Racing in the #6 Trading Post FPR Falcon, in the premier Australian touring car class, V8 Supercar.-Early career:...

Holden VE Commodore Holden Racing Team
Holden Racing Team
The Holden Racing Team is a Melbourne based motor racing team. HRT is the most successful V8 Supercar racing team in the history of the category, having won the drivers championship six times, and the series signature race the Bathurst 1000 seven times...

1:13.7111
15 11 Jason Bargwanna
Jason Bargwanna
Jason Bargwanna is an Australian racing driver who competes in the V8 Supercar Championship Series.-Career history:Bargwanna commenced his racing career in the late 1980s, initially competing in the Formula Vee category...

Holden VE Commodore Kelly Racing
Kelly Racing
Kelly Racing is a team competing in the Australian V8 Supercar series. It is owned by John and Margaret Kelly, and made its debut in 2009. The team's current four drivers are 2006 V8 Supercar series champion Rick Kelly and 2005 Bathurst 1000 winner Todd Kelly , four time Bathurst 1000 winner Greg...

1:13.7701
16 34 Michael Caruso Holden VE Commodore Garry Rogers Motorsport
Garry Rogers Motorsport
Garry Rogers Motorsport is an Australian motor racing team presently competing in V8 Supercar.-The early years:Garry Rogers Motorsport has its origins in Garry Rogers' own exploits in Sports Sedans during the late 1960s and the 1970s. In the mid-1970s Rogers got more serious, running a BDA Escort...

1:13.8024
17 47 Tim Slade
Tim Slade
Tim Slade in Hornsby NSW is an Australian V8 Supercar racing driver.-Early career:Slade first appeared at a national level racing Formula 3. During the 2004 Australian Formula 3 Championship Slade in his rookie season with Team BRM he won his first race with the team making a one-off appearance at...

Ford FG Falcon
Ford FG Falcon
The Ford FG Falcon is a full-size car produced by the Ford Motor Company of Australia since 2008. The FG series is the current model of the Ford Falcon and is the seventh generation of the car...

James Rosenberg Racing
James Rosenberg Racing
James Rosenberg Racing is a V8 Supercar racing team owned by South Australian agricultural business identity, James Rosenberg. The team was re-formed in 2010 season with Tim Slade as the teams driver after a toe-in-the water year working with Paul Morris Motorsport in 2009...

1:13.8851
18 10 Andrew Thompson Holden VE Commodore Walkinshaw Racing
Walkinshaw Racing
Walkinshaw Racing, known commercially as Bundaberg Racing Team, is one of two Australian motor racing teams operated by British owned Walkinshaw Performance...

1:14.0246
19 4 Alex Davison
Alex Davison
Alex Davison, born 3 November 1979, in Melbourne, Australia, is best known as a racing driver. Davison currently races for Stone Brothers Racing driving a Ford Falcon in the V8 Supercar Championship Series....

Ford FG Falcon
Ford FG Falcon
The Ford FG Falcon is a full-size car produced by the Ford Motor Company of Australia since 2008. The FG series is the current model of the Ford Falcon and is the seventh generation of the car...

Stone Brothers Racing
Stone Brothers Racing
Stone Brothers Racing is an Australian motor racing team competing in the International V8 Supercars Championship, formed in 1998 by experienced New Zealand-born motorsport veterans, Ross Stone and Jim Stone after buying out their partner in their previous racing team...

1:14.0263
20 30 Cameron McConville
Cameron McConville
Cameron 'Cam' McConville is an Australian racing driver and motorsport media personality. While retired from full-time competition McConville still races occasionally and is an indemand endurance event co-driver. McConville spent 14 years as a professional driver, ten of those in the largest...

Holden VE Commodore Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport
Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport
Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport is an Australian motor racing team, established late in 2009 to compete in the V8 Supercar Championship.-Background:...

1:14.1207
21 21 Karl Reindler
Karl Reindler
Karl Reindler is a racing driver from Perth, Western Australia. Reindler will compete in the V8 Supercar series in 2010.Reindler won the 2004 Australian Formula 3 Championship, beating Chris Gilmour by only 3 points....

Holden VE Commodore Britek Motorsport
Britek Motorsport
Britek Motorsport is an Australian V8 Supercar motor racing team. Established in 2005 under the ownership of Bathurst 1000 winning driver Jason Bright, they have struggled in their first two seasons due to testing and licensing restrictions...

1:14.1392
22 12 Dean Fiore
Dean Fiore
Dean Fiore Dean Fiore Dean Fiore (born December 1, 1983 in Kalgoorlie Western Australia is an Australian racing driver. Fiore presently races for his own team, Triple F Racing, a satellite operation of Paul Morris Motorsport in the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series....

Ford FG Falcon
Ford FG Falcon
The Ford FG Falcon is a full-size car produced by the Ford Motor Company of Australia since 2008. The FG series is the current model of the Ford Falcon and is the seventh generation of the car...

Triple F Racing
Triple F Racing
Triple F Racing is an Australian motor racing team that is competing in the International V8 Supercars Championship. The team is today based on the Gold Coast in Queenland but continues to have strong links with the team's original home in Perth, Western Australia.The team was formed by the West...

1:14.1621
23 51 Greg Murphy
Greg Murphy
Greg Murphy is a racing driver, best known as a four-time winner of the Bathurst 1000. Greg Murphy joined Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond presenting Top Gear, when it had its first international Live show at ASB Showgrounds in Auckland from February 12 - 15th 2009, and again when the show...

Holden VE Commodore Paul Morris Motorsport 1:14.2218
24 55 Paul Dumbrell
Paul Dumbrell
Paul Dumbrell , is an Australian racing driver who currently drives for Rod Nash Racing in the V8 Supercar Championship Series...

Ford FG Falcon
Ford FG Falcon
The Ford FG Falcon is a full-size car produced by the Ford Motor Company of Australia since 2008. The FG series is the current model of the Ford Falcon and is the seventh generation of the car...

Rod Nash Racing
Rod Nash Racing
Rod Nash Racing is a V8 Supercar racing entity, owned by Rod Nash. Nash continues to own a V8 Supercar Racing Entitlement Contract and his #55 runs on the flanks of the Ford Performance Racing Ford FG Falcon....

1:14.2494
25 8 Jason Richards
Jason Richards
Jason Richards is a motor racing driver, currently on break from full time racing due to his fight with cancer, whilst still providing full engineering support for Brad Jones Racing in the Australian touring car series, V8 Supercar.-Early career:Richards started his motor racing career at the age...

Holden VE Commodore Brad Jones Racing
Brad Jones Racing
Brad Jones Racing is an Australian motor racing team centred around brothers Kim and Brad Jones and is based in Albury, New South Wales. Presently the team compete in the V8 Supercar Series, which they joined in 2000. Recently they have also returned to the Australian Formula Ford Championship...

1:14.2771
26 3 Tony D'Alberto
Tony D'Alberto
Antonio D'Alberto , is an Australian V8 Supercar driver. He drives the #3 Ford FG Falcon for Tony D'Alberto Racing.-Formula Ford:...

Holden VE Commodore Tony D'Alberto Racing
Tony D'Alberto Racing
Tony D'Alberto Racing currently known as Wilson Security Racing is a V8 Supercar racing team, owned by the D'Alberto family which competes in the V8 Supercar Championship Series. The team operates a single Ford FG Falcon driven by Tony D'Alberto...

1:14.2850
27 39 Russell Ingall
Russell Ingall
Russell Ingall is an Australian V8 Supercar driver. Ingall won the V8 Supercar Championship for the first time in 2005, he was also the Championship runner up in 1998, 1999 and 2001. Ingall has also won the Bathurst 1000 motor race twice, in 1995 and 1997...

Holden VE Commodore Paul Morris Motorsport 1:14.4912
28 19 Jonathon Webb
Jonathon Webb
Jonathon Webb is an Australian motor racing driver, currently competing in the V8 Supercar Championship Series....

Ford FG Falcon
Ford FG Falcon
The Ford FG Falcon is a full-size car produced by the Ford Motor Company of Australia since 2008. The FG series is the current model of the Ford Falcon and is the seventh generation of the car...

Tekno Autosports
Tekno Autosports
Tekno Autosports is an Australian motor racing team, established in the early 2000s initially for the motor racing activities of Steve Webb, and later his son Jonathon Webb. The Gold Coast-based team runs a racing entitlement contract to compete in the International V8 Supercars Championship...

1:14.5145
29 16 Tony Ricciardello
Tony Ricciardello
Tony Ricciardello, , is a multiple-championship winning Australian race car driver.Son of Sports Sedan racer and team owner Basil Ricciardello, Tony was brought up into the Western Australian racing scene...

Holden VE Commodore Kelly Racing
Kelly Racing
Kelly Racing is a team competing in the Australian V8 Supercar series. It is owned by John and Margaret Kelly, and made its debut in 2009. The team's current four drivers are 2006 V8 Supercar series champion Rick Kelly and 2005 Bathurst 1000 winner Todd Kelly , four time Bathurst 1000 winner Greg...

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