V8 Supercars has released the pit lane order teams will line up for the 2014 season, with Championship winning team Triple Eight Race Engineering again securing prime position.
The order is determined by each team’s finishing position in the previous season’s teams’ championship, with the highest pair of Racing Entitlement Contract points determining the final pit lane position.
Triple Eight Race Engineering will again line up closest to the pit exit, while at the other end of pit lane with the official entry list for the 2014 V8 Supercars Championship set at 25 entrants, Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport’s single-car team without a team to share the final boom will have its own bay.
The biggest change to this year’s V8 Supercars pit lane order is Erebus Motorsport’s fall from second to 12th, while four-car team Ford Performance Racing line up across two bays up three positions from last year in second behind their Holden rivals.
Behind Ford Performance Racing, Brad Jones Racing’s Jason Bright and Fabian Coulthard will share a bay, while the team’s third car Dale Wood’s #21 Team ADVAM/GB entry will share with the Team TEKNO V.I.P. Petfoods car piloted by Shane van Gisbergen, after TEKNO Autosports’ scaled down to a single-car entry.
Now a four-car operation, Walkinshaw Racing can pair its cars together with the Holden Racing Team cars taking the first bay, whereas last year’s Supercheap Auto Racing entry paired with customer team Tony D’Alberto Racing.
V8 Supercars 2014 Pit lane Order
Pitbay | Team | Driver | Car |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Triple Eight Race Engineering Red Bull Racing Australia | Jamie Whincup | 1 |
Triple Eight Race Engineering Red Bull Racing Australia | Craig Lowndes | 888 | |
2 | Ford Performance Racing Ford Pepsi Max Crew | Mark Winterbottom | 5 |
Ford Performance Racing Ford Pepsi Max Crew | Chaz Mostert | 6 | |
3 | Ford Performance Racing The Bottle-O Racing | David Reynolds | 55 |
Ford Performance Racing Team JELD-WEN | Jack Perkins | 18 | |
4 | Brad Jones Racing Team BOC | Jason Bright | 8 |
Brad Jones Racing Lockwood Racing | Fabian Coulthard | 14 | |
5 | Team ADVAM/GB | Dale Wood | 21 |
TEKNO Autosports Team TEKNO V.I.P. Petfoods | Shane van Gisbergen | 97 | |
6 | Walkinshaw Racing Holden Racing Team | Garth Tander | 2 |
Walkinshaw Racing Holden Racing Team | James Courtney | 22 | |
7 | Walkinshaw Racing Supercheap Auto Racing | Tim Slade | 47 |
JR Racing Walkinshaw Racing | Nick Percat | 222 | |
8 | Dick Johnson Racing Wilson Security Racing | Scott Pye | 16 |
Dick Johnson Racing Wilson Security Racing | David Wall | 17 | |
9 | Volvo Polestar Racing Valvoline Racing GRM | Scott McLaughlin | 33 |
Volvo Polestar Racing Valvoline Racing GRM | Robert Dahlgren | 34 | |
10 | Nissan Motorsport Jack Daniel's Racing | Todd Kelly | 7 |
Nissan Motorsport Jack Daniel's Racing | Rick Kelly | 15 | |
11 | Nissan Motorsport Norton Hornets | Michael Caruso | 36 |
Nissan Motorsport Norton Hornets | James Moffat | 360 | |
12 | Erebus Motorsport V8 | Lee Holdsworth | 4 |
Erebus Motorsport V8 | Will Davison | 9 | |
13 | Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Repair Management Australia Racing | Russell Ingall | 23 |