2014 V8SC Qualifying Grid

[Terry S]

I have crunched the numbers from the qualifying sessions for the 25 races to date for the V8's, and come up with the grid below based on average YTD qualifying positions:

1 McLaughlin
2 Lowndes
3 Whincup
4 Winterbottom
5 Van Gisbergen
6 Courtney
7 Coulthard
8 Mostert
9 Bright
10 Slade
11 Davison
12 Tander
13 Reynolds
14 Holdsworth
15 Percat
16 Caruso
17 R Kelly
18 Pye
19 Moffat
20 T Kelly
21 Ingall
22 Wall
23 Wood
24 Dahlgren
25 Perkins

Some quick observations:
- What a magnificent job McLaughlin and Garry Rogers have done in their first
Volvo year
- First Ford is 4th
- First Mercedes is 11th
- First Nissan is way back in 16th
- Van Gisbergen is faster than HDT
- Mostert in 8th is fastest of new boys, and much better than experienced “team
mate”Reynolds
- Courtney and Slade better than Tander, who I thought was supposed to be
team leader
- Percat doing very well at 15th for first year
- Caruso fastest of the Nissans. He is being wasted there.
- The last five are predictable. Why not cut grids to 20?

For discussion