Jamie Whincup: “A weird, but great end to the year”
The 2014 V8 Supercars season finale offered plenty of action with two of the three races red flagged due to torrential rain, a weekend the newly crowned champion Jamie Whincup labels “weird but great”.
“It was a weird end to the year but it was a great end to the year. We’re good at bottling up our emotions because we have so many good things throughout the year but we put it to the side for this moment right now. I can’t wait to celebrate with the people that have made this happen being both my real family and my motorsports family,” said Whincup.
The now record breaking six-time champion fought his way back to the lead of the championship after a tough start and has won eleven races since the Hidden Valley Raceway rounds in June.
“It’s been a tough grind this year right from the start and like always the crew dug deep and did what was required to be number one again. It’s unbelievable, it doesn’t matter what curveballs are thrown their way, they always manage to rise above it and finish on top, it’s inspirational,” said Whincup.
The Triple Eight Race Engineering driver secured the title a full 583 points ahead of Tekno Autosports’ Shane Van Gisbergen who managed to snatch second place in the championship at the final round ahead of Ford Performance Racing driver Mark Winterbottom and Whincup’s Triple Eight team-mate Craig Lowndes. Whincup’s season statistics speak a clear language with 14 victories, 21 podium finishes and ten pole positions.
