Bathurst - Safety Cars and Other Stats

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OK - 9 safety car periods totalling 44 racing laps or, in terms of time wasted - 2 hours 7 min 52 secs behind the safety cars!

The longest safety period in terms of laps, was the first - 7 laps but losing only 18 minutes. Safety period 4 only covered 6 laps, but took 22 mins 30 secs!

In order:

# From To Total Time
1 28 34 7 18:10
2 44 47 4 09:15
3 52 56 5 14:40
4 73 78 6 22:30
5 86 89 4 12:50
6 93 97 5 13:40
7 109 112 5 14:25
8 136 139 4 11:47
9 141 144 4 10:30

Race Leaders:
In all 19 different lead changes with 9 different leaders

Jones of course led the first 29 laps until passed by Skaife - however, Skaife although winning the race only led for 34 laps. Kelly in the 51 car, led a total of 31 laps, but the race leader for more laps than anyone was the Ingall/Richards car with 44 laps.

# Car From To Total
1 21 1 29 29
2 1 30 55 6
3 51 36 64 29
4 16 65 68 4
5 51 69 70 2
6 1 71 71 1
7 4 72 73 2
8 5 74 78 5
9 16 79 84 5
10 1 85 96 1
11 02 96 96 1
12 11 97 97 1
13 02 98 104 7
14 2 105 107 3
15 66 108 109 2
16 16 110 135 26
17 66 136 137 2
18 16 138 145 8
10 1 146 161

Fastest Laps:

In all the fastest lap was set on 20 seperate occasions - all in the first 29 laps! Some fastest laps were broken by consecutive cars crossing the timing line eg at the 28 min mark the 21 car did a 2:10.1726 to set the first new lap record only to have Skaife travelling 0.5555 sec behind Bowe then drop it to 2:10.0734. 10 times were recorded under the old lap record ie they were officially lap records until subsequently broken with John Bowe eventually setting the record at 2:09.5705 - 0.8 under the old record which he set in last years event.

Skaife (1), Bowe (21) and Kelly(51) were the only drivers to go under the old lap record in terms of setting fastest lap, however, 5 drivers in total all set fastest times, for their cars, under the old record - and all in the first 29 laps...Nos 21, 51, 1, 2 and 16.


Cars setting race fastest laps were 21 (Bowe), 1 (Skaife), 51 (Kelly) and 2 (Bright).

The slowest fastest lap set durg the race, excluding the Grice/Halliday car (which only recorded 1 lap) was the #59 car of Searle and Miller with a 2:17.0804 (which is 105.48% of the fastest time set).