V8 PREDICTOR: Rich’s Boy takes QR round

Castrol EDGE V8 Predictor team Rich’s Boy has taken round honours for the Coates Hire Ipswich 400 event scoring themselves a $100 BP fuel card.

The Rich’s Boy team’s 85 points haul came with a prediction accuracy of 48% after they took full advantage of the new-to-2014 bonus points system which included a bonus 20 points for correctly predicting a driver on pole position and a race winner.

In the overall league standings team Arne’s Mob has maintained the lead with team Murph and SCATTERS also maintaining their podium spots in second and third respectively.

The overall drivers’ points winner for the weekend went to Red Bull Racing Australia’s Craig Lowndes after his three second places finishes for the event.

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Meanwhile teammate Jamie Whincup has taken over Ford Pepsi Max Crew driver Mark Winterbottom for the lead of the V8 Supercars Championship by 15 points.

In the Experts’ league Greg Rust took out round honours with 35 points for the Queensland-based event.

Speedcafe.com was second on 25 with Andy Priaulx managing a minor score for the round with seven points. Speedcafe.com continues to lead the race amongst the Expert predictors.

Signing up for the V8 Predictor is easy and players have the chance of winning the ultimate V8 Supercars holiday in 2015 including flights, accommodation, spending money and behind the scenes access to the V8 Supercars world.

There are also $100 BP Fuel vouchers up for grabs for each of the 14 championship rounds contested this year plus bonus prizes on top.

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2014 Castrol EDGE V8 Predictor – Global Leaderboard

RANK	TEAM NAME	POINTS
1	Arne’s Mob	492
2	Murph	449
3	SCATTERS	441
4	bad betty	431
5	Team Obsolete	429
6	red bull 01	429
7	The Flying Bulls!!!	425
8	Bryce’s V8 Tipping	423
9	Cakeevans	423
10	monty	420
11	Tarmac	420
12	Bloopy Enterprises	419
13	#1V8SCFAN	418
14	Low and Slow	417
15	Give it some jandal	416
16	woko	416
17	boats n hoes	416
18	JWS-888-	415
19	eightor	415
20	The NASCAR Offseason	413

2014 Expert Leaderboard

RANK	TEAM NAME	POINTS
1	Speedcafe	235
2	Greg Rust	184
3	Andy Priaulx	171

Weekend Results – Castrol Townsville 500

	RACE RESULT	TIME
1	LOWNDES, Craig	276
2	WHINCUP, Jamie	252
3	COURTNEY, James	244
4	MOSTERT, Chaz	224
5	PYE, Scott	182
6	PERCAT, Nick	178
7	VAN GISBERGEN, Shane	177
8	COULTHARD, Fabian	174
8	TANDER, Garth	174
9	KELLY, Rick	151
10	MOFFAT, James	144
11	WINTERBOTTOM, Mark	141
12	CARUSO, Michael	139
13	MCLAUGHLIN, Scott	136
14	DAVISON, Will	130
15	SLADE, Tim	120
16	BRIGHT, Jason	115
16	WALL, David	115
17	INGALL, Russell	109
18	REYNOLDS, David	102

Additional Points

POLE POSITION	LOWNDES, Craig and MOFFAT, James and MCLAUGHLIN, Scott
FASTEST LAP	CARUSO, Michael and HOLDSWORTH, Lee
RACE WINNER	WHINCUP, Jamie and COURTNEY, James

Championship Points

1	Jamie Whincup	1790
2	Mark Winterbottom	1775
3	Craig Lowndes	1628
4	James Courtney	1598
5	Fabian Coulthard	1535
6	Shane Van Gisbergen	1532
7	Scott McLaughlin	1347
8	Chaz Mostert	1322
9	Garth Tander	1309
10	David Reynolds	1201
11	Jason Bright	1125
12	Michael Caruso	1059
13	Scott Pye	1058
14	Will Davison	1043
15	James Moffat	1017
16	Rick Kelly	1005
17	Lee Holdsworth	982
18	Nick Percat	968
19	Russell Ingall	963
20	Tim Slade	936
21	David Wall	855
22	Dale Wood	731
23	Jack Perkins	679
24	Todd Kelly	662
25	Robert Dahlgren	531