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This race is considered by critics and fans to be one of the best in the history of the event and regarded by some to be the greatest motor race of all time, with weird and unprecedented events, as well as Mostert's last lap pass on series champion Jamie Whincup - who ran out of fuel when entering Conrod Straight - adding to the excitement of ...
Shortly after the accident Jamie Whincup switched from a two-stop to a three-stop strategy as Will Davison took the lead of the race, leading team-mate Mark Winterbottom. David Reynolds also crashed at Turn 8 just before lap 50, prompting an early round of pit stops and forcing the leaders to enter fuel-saving mode.
Jamie David Whincup (born 6 February 1983) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Supercars Championship. He currently is team principal for Triple Eight Race Engineering . He has driven the No. 88 Holden ZB Commodore , won a record seven Supercars championship titles, four Bathurst 1000 victories, and a Bathurst 12 Hour ...
Holden achieved four straight wins from 2009 to 2012. The 2009 race was won by the HRT's Garth Tander and Will Davison. 2009 was the first Bathurst 1000 using the E85 fuel blend; increased fuel consumption resulted in more pit stops. 2010 saw another win for Lowndes and Triple Eight, this time with Mark Skaife, their fifth and sixth wins ...
Jamie Whincup won his sixth drivers' championship, a series record. Triple Eight Race Engineering won the teams' championship for the fifth consecutive season.. The 2014 International V8 Supercars Championship (often simplified to the 2014 V8 Supercars Championship) was an FIA-sanctioned international motor racing series for V8 Supercars.
Jamie Whincup went on to win the following two races, and also took pole position for the first and third races; Jason Bright qualified on pole for the second. [126] [127] Whincup's wins, coupled with a second place in the first race, allowed him to take the championship lead back from Will Davison, who suffered a puncture in the first race. [125]
Will Davison and Jonathon Webb won the 2016 Bathurst 1000 after Jamie Whincup caused a late crash in the dramatic race. Whincup was running second behind McLaughlin in the closing stages of the Bathurst 1000, when he attempted to pass McLaughlin coming into the chase, but the two touched sending the McLaughlin across the grass on the exit of ...
Drama struck early as Whincup was eliminated from contention early owing to a puncture on the front-right tyre. He was forced to pit, ceded the lead to Winterbottom and emerged from the pitlane in last place. To pour salt on the wounds, he was then issued a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pitlane.