Update on Tagliani and Marshall racing in Oz (off topic)

[marcus]

Alex tagliani and marcus marshall are competing in the Sandown 500 V8 supercar race this weekend driving for WPS racing in a Ford falcon.

Today was opening day practice and they got down to business in the first 2 hr session.

34 cars are taking part and they ended up 23rd fastest in the 1st session (not sure which driver set the faster time) with a time of 1:12.5440 only 0:01.6817 seconds off the fastest car.

the 2nd session of the day was simply for the 2nd drivers alone in the car.

so Tags went out and got down to business and set a very respectable time of 1:12.4970 (0:01.0663 seconds off pole) in 16th place again out of 34 cars.

a very good effort first time up in a V8 supercar and hopefully the Champcar boys have a great weekend

[Kicking-back]

Originally Posted by marcus

(not sure which driver set the faster time)

I can hazard a guess

[Rick]

it would actually be surprising ( and a bloody good effort) if Tags is faster at this stage. Marshall is no mug and has more experience in these cars.

[marcus]

Qualifying has been run and won.

Tags and Marshall have qualified 25th on the grid for tomorrows race out of 34 cars.

the print out ive got saldy has every car listed as the driver who qualified it but of course there car is listed as both of them but from I believe Marshall is the lead driver and was due to qualify for them but if tags has done well that could easilly be changed.

25th its gonna be a tough day for them back there and the weather is looking very shaky but I wish them well

[Timu]

Betta Electrical 500, Sandown International Raceway, Round 9 9/9/2005 - 11/9/2005
Qualifying
Race Day: Saturday, 13:30-14:15 Race Duration: 20 Minutes Reverse Grid: N

Pos Car Entrant Driver Vehicle Laps Fastest Lap Fastest Lap Time Gap
1 1 Pirtek Racing Marcos Ambrose Ford Falcon BA 19 19 1:10.6715
2 888 Team Betta Electrical Craig Lowndes Ford Falcon BA 19 18 1:10.8166 0:00.1451
3 2 Holden Racing Team Mark Skaife Holden Commodore VZ 19 19 1:10.9262 0:00.2547
4 24 Team Perkins Racing Steven Richards Holden Commodore VY 19 19 1:11.1422 0:00.4707
5 88 Team Betta Electrical Steve Ellery Ford Falcon BA 21 21 1:11.1878 0:00.5163
6 9 Caltex Racing Russell Ingall Ford Falcon BA 17 16 1:11.2174 0:00.5459
7 51 Super Cheap Auto Racing Greg Murphy Holden Commodore VZ 17 13 1:11.2312 0:00.5597
8 6 Ford Performance Racing D.Brabham/J.Bright Ford Falcon BA 22 18 1:11.3132 0:00.6417
9 16 HSV Dealer Team Garth Tander Holden Commodore VZ 19 17 1:11.3412 0:00.6697
10 17 Westpoint Racing Steven Johnson Ford Falcon BA 20 20 1:11.4246 0:00.7531
11 34 Repco Valvoline Cummins Team Cameron McConville Holden Commodore VZ 20 20 1:11.4461 0:00.7746
12 21 Team BOC John Bowe Ford Falcon BA 22 20 1:11.5327 0:00.8612
13 3 Dodo Racing Jason Richards Holden Commodore VZ 19 19 1:11.5535 0:00.8820
14 20 Larkham Orrcon Racing Jason Bargwanna Ford Falcon BA 19 18 1:11.5894 0:00.9179
15 5 Ford Performance Racing Greg Ritter Ford Falcon BA 21 16 1:11.6788 0:01.0073
16 44 Team Dynamik Max Wilson Holden Commodore VZ 20 17 1:11.7186 0:01.0471
17 18 Westpoint Racing Glenn Seton Ford Falcon BA 22 21 1:11.7627 0:01.0912
18 22 Holden Racing Team Jim Richards Holden Commodore VZ 20 20 1:11.8411 0:01.1696
19 67 Sirromet-Life Style Wine Paul Morris Holden Commodore VZ 21 20 1:12.0017 0:01.3302
20 12 Team BOC Dale Brede Ford Falcon BA 13 12 1:12.0234 0:01.3519
21 50 Super Cheap Auto Racing Owen Kelly Holden Commodore VZ 19 18 1:12.0603 0:01.3888
22 25 Fujitsu Racing Steve Owen Ford Falcon BA 21 18 1:12.0823 0:01.4108
23 48 WPS David Besnard Ford Falcon BA 18 18 1:12.2123 0:01.5408
24 10 Larkham Orrcon Racing Mathew Halliday Ford Falcon BA 20 20 1:12.2679 0:01.5964
25 8 WPS Racing M.Marshall/A.Tagliani Ford Falcon BA 19 12 1:12.3078 0:01.6363
26 23 Dodo Racing F.Coulthard/T.D'Alberto Holden Commodore VZ 22 18 1:12.3162 0:01.6447
27 33 Repco Valvoline Cummins Team Lee Holdsworth Holden Commodore VZ 20 20 1:12.4063 0:01.7348
28 15 HSV Dealer Team M.Noske/T.Leahey Holden Commodore VZ 20 20 1:12.5012 0:01.8297
29 75 Toll Racing A.Tratt/T.Evangelou Holden Commodore VY 20 19 1:12.6866 0:02.0151
30 021 Team Kiwi Racing John Faulkner Holden Commodore VZ 19 19 1:12.8118 0:02.1403
31 7 Autobarn Racing Alex Davison Holden Commodore VZ 18 12 1:13.0668 0:02.3953
32 11 Team Perkins Racing Christian D'Agostin Holden Commodore VY 21 21 1:13.0883 0:02.4168
33 45 WOW Sight & Sound Mark Porter Holden Commodore VZ 18 18 1:13.2470 0:02.5755
34 52 Fujitsu Racing Jose Fernandez Ford Falcon BA 21 20 1:13.4734 0:02.8019

[marcus]

The morning wamr up has been run and Tags and marshall i believe were 22nd fastest in the warm up.

the race is due to start in about 30 mins.

also as a side note disaster has struck for another former champcar driver Max Wilson.

his team mate New Zealander Simon Wills has rolled their car in the morning warm up several times over a barrier and into the catch fencing.

the car is too badly dmamged to take the race start so Wills and Wilson will sit the Sandown 500 out.

P.S Wills was unhurt in the accidnet.

[marcus]

a race update on how the boys are going.

they havent had muich TV time so im not sure whats happening but they have apparently made 4 pitstops and are down in 26th position at the moment (with thanks to retro from the V8 forum for the info)

[BOOSTER]

Originally Posted by Kicking-back

I can hazard a guess

Suprise suprise, but MARSHALL did the first ten minutes in qualifying and tagliarni the secound half the first half was wet and drying and the secound half the whole field went quicker in the last five laps. marshall did a 1.12.3 tagliarni a 1.12.6 besnard a 1.12.2 The race tagliarni did the first stint 55 laps and went a lap down early on and besnard the first stint also, tagliarni posted a 1.13.3 besnard a 1.12.9 and marshall 1.12.8 with only six dry laps then it rained the rest is history.
Its a shame marshall can t show this sort of "speed in champ car"

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