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MURPHY AND SKAIFE 10TH
October 13, 2009
October 13, 2009
A seventh place qualifying position for tomorrow's Bathurst 1000 was taken away from Sprint Gas Racing when Greg Murphy failed to get to the pit exit starting position at the designated time.
Normal practice is for race stewards to call each car up to pit exit in preparation for the shootout start. The stewards called up the drivers starting prior to and following Murphy, but not Murphy himself.
Murphy's time was good enough for seventh on the starting grid but his exclusion from the shootout means he and driving partner Mark Skaife will start tomorrow's race from 10th place.
"In reality they (officials) didn't follow normal procedure in calling down our car but I guess they probably didn't want to admit to a mistake," Greg Murphy said.
"Rules are rules but surely it's a case of the punishment not fitting the crime.
"We lost three grid places but we have a top ten car that should be well and truly on the race pace."
Murphy pushed his Sprint Gas Holden as hard as possible and bettered the then fastest time by almost three seconds.
"I pushed as hard as possible without risking car damage," Murphy said.
\"The track conditions were changing rapidly which is evidenced by how much faster I was to Russell (Ingall). Van Gisburgen then went a second and a half faster again.
"The track was always going to get better."
Murphy would have liked to have qualified higher.
"It's obviously an advantage starting as close to the front as possible but to use an old cliché, it's a long day, and tenth is not too bad," Murphy said.
