Team Betta Electrical primed for full on assault at Oran Park
14/8/2004 15:27 (Press Release) -
Triple Eight Race Engineering have pulled out all stops in preparing both Team Betta Electrical BA Falcons for this weekends two 140 km race events in Round 8 of this years V8 Supercar Championship Series.
The entire team have been working non-stop since round 7 at Winton Motor Raceway three weeks ago to ensure both Paul Radisich and Max Wilson’s racecars are both prepared and presented to the highest standard possible.
The team spent a full day testing both cars at Queensland Raceway recently, covering over 200 laps, whilst making adjustments to both cars in order to find the perfect balance and optimum speed advantage.
Campbell Little commenting – “I think the day has been the most productive test session we have yet experienced with the cars, it was most gratifying”.
Max Wilson saying – “I am very impressed with the changes made to the car, it felt really good on the circuit and I posted some very quick times during the day”.
Dean Canto, the teams second enduro driver for the 2004 season covered over 100 laps on the day, commenting the car is by far the best handling and most responsive he has driven to date. “I can’t wait for the Betta Electrical Sandown 500 to roll around in September, I know we as a team will be very competitive indeed”.
“The team has made so many advances this year with both engineering and design, they are light years ahead of last years models I raced in 2003”.
“I believe the balance of this season will definitely see the Team Betta Electrical Fords amongst the front runners” – Canto concluded.
Paul Radisich in car # 88 and Max Wilson in car # 888 are eager to take their respective places on the grid this weekend for the two 140km races – Radisich is currently lying in 11th spot in on the championship ladder with 646 points whilst Max Wilson is further back in 24th.position with 504 points, however with six rounds still to run in this years championship anything can happen and as seen in the past – usually does occur!
Championship point standings following Round Seven:
1: Jason Bright (Holden) 1131
2: Steven Richards (Holden) 1126
3: Rick Kelly (Holden) 1116
4: Marcos Ambrose (Ford) 1106
5: Russell Ingall (Ford) 982
6: Greg Murphy (Holden) 979
7: Garth Tander (Holden) 924
8: Todd Kelly (Holden) 897
9: John Bowe (Ford) 728
10: Jason Bargwanna (Ford) 652
11: Paul Radisich (Ford) 646
12: Glenn Seton (Ford) 623
13: Craig Baird (Holden) 610
14: Paul Dumbrell (Holden) 605
15: Paul Morris (Holden) 604
16: Steven Johnson (Ford) 597
17: Brad Jones (Ford) 576
18: Cameron McConville (Holden) 572
19: Mark Skaife (Holden) 570
20: Paul Weel (Holden) 569
ORAN PARK RACEWAY
Venue: Oran Park Raceway, Sydney, NSW
2004 Race format: Qualifying and Top 10 Shootout (Saturday); 2 x 54 laps (140km) - compulsory tyre (Sunday)
Circuit Length: 2.7km
Circuit Direction: anti-Clockwise
Maximum Speed: 245 km/h (Front Straight)
Qualifying Record: Mark Skaife (1999) 1:07.4806s
Lap Record: Craig Lowndes (1999) 1:08.0631s
2003 result – 1st Marcos Ambrose, 2nd Craig Lowndes, 3rd Mark Skaife
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday 13 August
2:00pm – 3:30pm - Practice 1
Saturday 14 August
9:15am – 9:50am - Practice 2
11:30am – 12:05pm – Practice 3
1:50pm – 2:10pm – Qualifying (Lower 50%)
2:15pm - 2:35pm - Qualifying (Upper 50%)
4:05pm - 4:35pm - Top 10 Shoot Out
Sunday 15 August
9.40am-10am – Warm-up
11.20am – Race 1 (54 laps)
2.30pm – Race 2 (54 laps)
TELEVISION BROADCAST TIMES
Sunday 15 August
2.30-5pm – Race coverage – Network Ten
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