Jumping the start of today's race meant Team BOC's Jason Bright had a ten-second penalty to serve but that was the least of his problems a few laps later.
A rubbing tyre saw him drop back from eighth on the grid before fill-in driver David Russell squeezed him into the wall. Fortunately the only casualty was the Pepsi Max driver and the resulting safety car gave Bright the chance to serve his penalty as well as get some fresh rubber.
From the back of the train Team BOC decided to buck the trend and run the race on only two pit stops instead of three. That saw him climb back to P10 in the closing laps but he had no defence against drivers on fresher rubber, dropping to P13 by the chequered flag.
V8 Supercars will be back in action at Townsville from 6th-8th July.
Jason Bright
Team BOC
"I locked up several times going into Turn Four in the first few laps and my right front tyre was buggered pretty early but we had to slug it out until that first pit stop.
"The way that safety car fell meant a lot of guys went for the three-stop option with race strategy. We gained a lot of places by staying on the two-stop option but it was never going to get us from last to first.
"I knew we would work our way back up but if a safety car had come we would have ended up right at the back again so it was quite a stressful gamble.
"We didn't have anything left by the time the three-stoppers caught us. They had ten-lap fresher tyres and, even though our tyre life was better, you can't compete with that. All in all we still got some points out of it so it wasn't such a bad day."
2012 Skycity Triple Crown-V8Supercar Championship Race 12&13
HIDDEN VALLEY RACEWAY
Race 13 Qualifying
01 Will Davison, Trading Post FPR Ford, 1:08.5004
02 Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Ford, +0.1681
03 David Reynolds, The Bottle-O Racing Team, +0.3450
04 Jamie Whincup, TeamVodafone, +0.3616
05 Michael Caruso, Fujitsu Racing, +0.4837
06 Craig Lowndes, TeamVodafone, +0.5269
07 Fabian Coulthard, Lockwood Racing, +0.5927
08 Jason Bright, Team BOC, +0.6239
09 Michael Patrizi, Tekno Autosports, +0.6789
10 James Courtney, Holden Racing Team, +0.6929
2012 Skycity Triple Crown-V8Supercar Championship Race 12&13
HIDDEN VALLEY RACEWAY
Race 13
01 Craig Lowndes, TeamVodafone
02 Jamie Whincup, TeamVodafone
03 Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Ford
04 Michael Caruso, Fujitsu Racing
05 Fabian Coulthard, Lockwood Racing
06 Will Davison, Trading Post FPR Ford
07 Shane Van Gisbergen, SP Tools Racing
08 David Reynolds, The Bottle-O Racing Team
09 Garth Tander, Holden Racing Team
10 Tim Slade, Lucky 7 Racing
13 Jason Bright, Team BOC
V8 SUPERCARS - SERIES POINTS REPORT
01 Jamie Whincup, 1494
02 Will Davison, 1456
03 Mark Winterbottom, 1445
04 Craig Lowndes, 1247
05 Shane Van Gisbergen, 1145
06 Lee Holdsworth, 1079
07 Tim Slade, 1059
08 Garth Tander, 990
09 Fabian Coulthard , 910
10 Jason Bright, 804
