Dale Wood completes Gold Coast 600 grid

Dale Wood will suit up alongside Tony Ricciardello for the Armor All Gold Coast 600, completing this weekend’s driving line-up.

Wood drove with Todd Kelly in the #7 Jack Daniel’s Racing Commodore VE at Phillip Island and Bathurst and has been drafted into the #16 Kelly Racing Stratco-backed Commodore VE for the Surfers Paradise street race.

The second Kelly Racing entry will be driven by Jason Bargwanna and IndyCar driver Alex Tagliani.

Wood is one of 13 Gold Coast rookies. Even though most of the international drivers have not competed at the famous street track in a V8, most of them do have experience at the circuit. In total, there are nine V8 debutants.

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Wood has never started a V8 race at the track and is looking forward to what will be a challenging meeting.

“I think it’s going to be a really great event and I’m happy to be a part of it,” said Wood.

“To run in all three endurance events gives me some good seat time in these cars, which is something young drivers always suffer with.

“I think the organisers have done a great job with this new event and building it up so I’m hoping we can do a solid job in the Stratco Commodore in front of the big crowd.

“I think the attrition rate will be big at this event, something similar to what we see at Clipsal, but I think it will be a great challenge.

“We will be treating this race a little like Adelaide, in that if you finish the Clipsal 500 you generally know you are going to have a half-reasonable result.

“There will be some guys out there that will still race really hard and then there will be those entries who decide to take a more conservative approach. It comes down to where you are in the championship and how much you want to put the car on the line.”

Below is the entry list for this weekend’s V8 Supercars event – the Armor All Gold Coast 600.

ENTRY LIST: 2010 Armor All Gold Coast 600

No	Drivers	Team	Car
1	Jamie Whincup/Steve Owen	TeamVodafone	Commodore VE II
2	Garth Tander/Cameron McConville	Toll Holden Racing Team	Commodore VE II
3	Tony D’Alberto/Tiago Monteiro	Centaur Racing	Commodore VE
4	Alex Davison/David Brabham	IRWIN Racing	Falcon FG
5	Mark Winterbottom/Luke Youlden	Orrcon Steel FPR	Falcon FG
6	Steve Richards/Will Power	Dunlop Super Dealer FPR	Falcon FG
7	Todd Kelly/Scott Dixon	Jack Daniel’s Racing	Commodore VE II
8	Jason Richards/Andrew Jones	Team BOC	Commodore VE II
9	Shane Van Gisbergen/John McIntyre	SP Tools Racing	Falcon FG
10	Andrew Thompson/Mika Salo	Bundaberg Red Racing	Commodore VE II
11	Jason Bargwanna/Alex Tagliani	Rock Racing	Commodore VE
12	Dean Fiore/Gianni Morbidelli	Triple F Racing	Falcon FG
14	Jason Bright/Alain Menu	Trading Post Racing	Commodore VE II
15	Rick Kelly/Owen Kelly	Jack Daniel’s Racing	Commodore VE II
16	Tony Ricciardello/Dale Wood	Stratco Racing	Commodore VE
17	Steven Johnson/Dario Franchitti	Jim Beam Racing	Falcon FG
18	James Courtney/Warren Luff	Jim Beam Racing	Falcon FG
19	Jonathon Webb/Sebastien Bourdais	Dick Johnson Racing	Falcon FG
21	Karl Reindler/Fabrizio Giovanardi	Fair Dinkum Sheds Racing	Commodore VE
22	Will Davison/Ryan Briscoe	Toll Holden Racing Team	Commodore VE II
24	Fabian Coulthard/David Reynolds	Bundaberg Red Racing	Commodore VE
30	Nathan Pretty/Scott Pruett	Gulf Western Oil Racing	Commodore VE
33	Lee Holdsworth/Greg Ritter	Fujitsu Racing/GRM	Commodore VE II
34	Michael Caruso/Patrick Long	Fujitsu Racing/GRM	Commodore VE II
39	Russell Ingall /Jack Perkins	Supercheap Auto Racing	Commodore VE II
47	Tim Slade/Helio Castroneves	Wilson Security Racing	Falcon FG
51	Greg Murphy/Yvan Muller	Castrol Edge Racing	Commodore VE II
55	Paul Dumbrell/Jacques Villeneuve	The Bottle-O Racing Team	Falcon FG
888	Craig Lowndes/Andy Priaulx	TeamVodafone	Commodore VE II

KEY: Italics are for international drivers