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Castrol Racing’s Greg Murphyhas deemed the weekend’s non-championship BRC IMPCO V8Supercar Challenge at the QantasAustralian Grand Prix in Melbourne asuccess.

The Kiwi hero says he can now headhome to New Zealand for the next pointsround of the V8 Supercar ChampionshipSeries, the ITM 400 in Hamilton, full of confidence, believing this year presentshis best chance to repeat his Pukekohesuccess since his last win there in 2005.

“I am very pleased with the workthat’s happened this weekend, wemade a lot of progress with the CastrolEDGE Commodore and I feel like I’m invery good shape heading to Hamilton

– the best shape I’ve been in, in years,”Murphy said.

Being a non-championship round, theGrand Prix presents a valuable opportunityto test under competition conditionswithout the pressure of championship

points being offered, enabling teams to trynew setups and, in Murphy’s case, gainexperience with new cars – which is notpossible at points races.

A four-time winner of his ‘home’ round inNew Zealand when it was previously heldat Pukekohe, Murphy was quickest ‘out of the box’ during Thursday’s practice, thenprovisionally qualified the Castrol EDGECommodore third before a mistake inFriday’s Top 10 Shootout placed himtenth on the grid.

After finishing tenth in Friday night’srace, Murphy was handed a 10 secondpenalty for jumping the start whichpushed him back to 20th for the followingnight’s race.

He and Paul Morris Motorsports’ team-mate Russell Ingall moved forward inthe pack but a brake issue with Ingall’scar saw him sensationally rear-end theCastrol EDGE Commodore and push it off track, Murphy recovering to finish 18th.

Grand Prix event a success for Castrol Racing’s Greg Murphy After a successful outing in Melbourne in theCastrol EDGE Commodore, Greg Murphy (left)is confidently looking ahead to next month’s ITM 400 in New Zealand.

“I FEEL LIKE I AM IN VERY GOOD SHAPE HEADING[HOME] TO HAMILTON – THE BEST SHAPE I’VEBEEN IN, IN YEARS,” GREG MURPHY

Kiwi hero says he is in the best shape to repeat his hometown heroics



For Sunday’s final race, Murphy wasagain pushed off the circuit in a first lapmelee and dropped to near last, but the12-time series round winner showed histrue class and stormed through the field tofinish a very good ninth at the end of the 13laps – the drive impressing many tracksideobservers.

“Coming back from where we were wasproof of the quality of our Triple Eight-designed, PMM-built car and how, whenwe’ve got everything where we need it to be,

just what we can do with it,” he said.“I wasn’t pleased with our early

race results, the first two races weredisappointing – all started by me jumpingthe start in Race 1 and receiving a penalty

– but we made a number of extremely goodchanges and got a result with car balance.

“We are coming away from Melbourne witha lot of good information and we take a lot of positives out of the weekend.

“As I said earlier, I’m feeling confidentabout Hamilton and the Castrol EDGE teamis in good shape. A good result there is agreat way to get the championship on trackfor our team.

“If things go our way, who knows...”The ITM 400 in Hamilton, NZ, takes placeon 16-18 April.

RACE 2 – 13 laps1. Garth Tander, Toll Holden Racing Team Holden

2. Jamie Whincup, TeamVodafone Holden

3. James Courtney, Jim Beam Racing Ford

4. Shane Van Gisbergen, SP Tools Racing Ford

5. Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Falcon Ford

6. Will Davison, Toll Holden Racing Team Holden

7. Steven Johnson, Jim Beam Racing Ford

8. Craig Lowndes, TeamVodafone Holden

9. Paul Dumbrell, The Bottle-O Racing Team Ford

10. Lee Holdsworth, Fujitsu Racing/GRM Holden

18. Greg Murphy, Castrol EDGE Holden

1. Garth Tander, Toll Holden Racing Team Holden

2. Shane Van Gisbergen, SP Tools Racing Ford





7. Jason Richards, Team BOC Holden

8. Russell Ingall, Supercheap Auto Racing Holden

9. Greg Murphy, Castrol Edge Racing Holden

10. Todd Kelly, Jack Daniel’s Racing Holden

RACE 3 – 13 laps

2010 V8 SUPERCAR CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (non-championship event)

RESULTS – BRC IMPCO V8 SUPERCAR CHALLENGE, MELBOURNE, 25-28 MARCH

RACE 1 – 13 laps1. James Courtney, Jim Beam Ford

2. Garth Tander, Toll Holden Racing Team Holden

3. Shane Van Gisbergen, SP Tools Ford


5. Jamie Whincup, TeamVodafone Holden

6. Todd Kelly, Jack Daniel’s Racing Holden



9. Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Falcon Ford


20. Greg Murphy, Castrol EDGE Holden

The Castrol EDGE Commodoreshowed its potential at the non-

championship Grand Prix event inMelbourne, Greg Murphy fastest in

Thursday practice and qualifying third (above). Murphy is hoping this is the

view his competitors will get to see

plenty of at Hamilton in New Zealand next month (right).



Blueprint for future V8s unveiled with invitation to more manufacturersV8 Supercars Australia hasunveiled its plans for the

Car of the Future (COTF),which will be introducedfor the 2012 season.The plans were presented atCrown Casino in Melbournetoday (Monday) by MarkSkaife, who has headed up theCOTF project for the past 18months.While on the outside it willbe virtually indistinguishablefrom the current day car apart from its new 18 inchwheels, under the skin COTFwill be lighter and carry more

controlled components,including independent rear

suspension, and built at aprojected cost of $250,000for a rolling chassis

– a proposed saving of approximately $100,000 over today’s cars.The main purpose of COTFis to allow the introduction of new manufacturers, whichwith a lifting of the current‘Australian made’ and ‘madewith a 5ltr V8’ rules will beallowed into the categoryunder the series’ new “Openthe shop front” policy.

V8 Supercar’s Car of the Future was presented to the media by project head Mark Skaife at Crown Casino in Melbourne today.

V8 Supercars introduces Car of the Future

Greg Murphy was looking all relaxed (far left), the four-timeBathurst winner quickest ‘out of the box’ in practice and

provisionally qualifying third inthe Castrol EDGE Commodore(above). Murphy feels he hasa good chance when the V8 Supercar Series visits New Zealand for the ITM 400 next month.

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