STATS WEEK: Triple 8, Ingall soft tyre kings

Team Vodafone and drivers Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes were the undisputed kings of the soft tyre races in 2009.

When you tally the points scored by the 28 drivers that raced full-time in the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series, both the Triple 8 boys come out first and second in the standings from those 12 races.

The Dunlop SP Sport Maxx Sprint tyre was used at the Winton, Symmons Plains, Darwin, Sandown, Queensland Raceway and Perth events of the 2009 schedule.

The other big mover in the soft tyre standings in Supercheap Auto Racing’s Russell Ingall, who rolled the dice on several occasions this season and saved his ‘softs’ for Sunday’s longer race.

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The most notable drop came from Toll Holden Racing Team’s Garth Tander, who fell from his actual points finish of third down to sixth.

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2009 Soft Tyres Races
12 Races
Actual 2009 Championship position in brackets

1. (1) Jamie Whincup 1389
2. (2) Craig Lowndes 1335
3. (2) Will Davison 1194
4. (9) Russell Ingall 1104
5. (5) Mark Winterbottom 1095
6. (3) Garth Tander 1002
7. (6) Steven Johnson 951
8. (7) James Courtney 930
9. (8) Rick Kelly 885
10. (11) Michael Caruso 870
11. (13) Steven Richards 837
12. (15) Paul Dumbrell 822
13. (16) Fabian Coulthard 789
14. (12) Shane van Gisbergen 786
15. (10) Lee Holdsworth 744
16. (20) Cameron McConville 744
17. (18) Todd Kelly 738
18. (17) Alex Davison 723
19. (14) Jason Richards 702
20. (19) Jason Bright 648
21. (25) Jason Bargwanna 639
22. (21) Greg Murphy 585
23. (22) David Reynolds 537
24. (23) Tim Slade 534
25. (24) Tony D’Alberto 468
26. (27) Michael Patrizi 414
27. (26) Jack Perkins 402
28. (28) Dean Fiore 273