2009 Clipsal 500

The 2009 Clipsal 500 was the first race of the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series. It was held on the weekend of 20-22 March around the inner city streets of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.

Qualifying

Qualifying was held on Friday, 20 March, and was split into two sessions. Session one lasted for 34 minutes and 15 seconds and saw the top ten drivers qualifying for the Top Ten Shootout, with positions 11–30 being set by times in the session. In this first session, reigning series champion Jamie Whincup set the pace, setting a new qualifying lap record of 1:21.2773. Although he was some half a second slower in the Shootout, Whincup was still quick enough to lead a Triple Eight Race Engineering 1–2 with Craig Lowndes 0.2545 seconds behind. Mark Winterbottom and Lee Holdsworth had both gone faster than Lowndes, but both drivers lost their respective times due to excessive kerbing use during their hot laps. Garth Tander was top Holden in third, with James Courtney qualifying fourth, in his first session as a Dick Johnson Racing driver.

Race 1 was held on Saturday, 21 March.

Race 2 was held on Sunday, 22 March.

Pos	No	Name	Team	Laps	Time/retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Jamie Whincup	Triple Eight Race Engineering	78	1:59:06.5279	1	150
2	33	Lee Holdsworth	Garry Rogers Motorsport	78	+14.0s	10	138
3	22	Will Davison	Holden Racing Team	78	+26.1s	7	129
4	17	Steven Johnson	Dick Johnson Racing	78	+28.9s	14	120
5	8	Jason Richards	Brad Jones Racing	78	+30.5s	8	111
6	9	Shane van Gisbergen	Stone Brothers Racing	78	+35.9s	12	102
7	7	Todd Kelly	Jack Daniels Racing	78	+36.3s	24	96
8	39	Russell Ingall	Paul Morris Motorsport	78	+41.5s	16	90
9	14	Cameron McConville	Brad Jones Racing	78	+43.2s	29	84
10	15	Rick Kelly	Jack Daniels Racing	78	+47.6s	17	78
11	111	Fabian Coulthard	Paul Cruickshank Racing	78	+48.7s	5	72
12	25	Jason Bright	Stone Brothers Racing	78	+53.0s	13	69
13	24	David Reynolds	Walkinshaw Racing	78	+1m7.6s	22	66
14	16	Dale Wood	Kelly Racing	78	+1m14.7s	30	63
15	4	Alex Davison	Stone Brothers Racing	77	+ 1 lap	26	60
16	021	Dean Fiore	Team Kiwi Racing	76	+ 2 laps	28	57
17	10	Paul Dumbrell	Walkinshaw Racing	76	+ 2 laps	6	54
18	5	Mark Winterbottom	Ford Performance Racing	76	+ 2 laps	9	51
19	888	Craig Lowndes	Triple Eight Race Engineering	75	+ 3 laps	2	48
20	18	James Courtney	Dick Johnson Racing	70	+ 8 laps	4	45
DNF	2	Garth Tander	Holden Racing Team	67	Power steering	3
DNF	6	Steven Richards	Ford Performance Racing	65		11
DNF	3	Jason Bargwanna	Tasman Motorsport	65		23
DNF	77	Marcus Marshall	Team IntaRacing	54		21
DNF	67	Tim Slade	Paul Morris Motorsport	48		19
DNF	51	Greg Murphy	Tasman Motorsport	34		18
DNF	11	Jack Perkins	Kelly Racing	27		25
DNF	333	Michael Patrizi	Paul Cruickshank Racing	12		27
DNF	34	Michael Caruso	Garry Rogers Motorsport	7	Accident	15
DNF	55	Tony D'Alberto	Rod Nash Racing	0		20	-

Pos	No	Name	Team	Laps	Time/retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Jamie Whincup	Triple Eight Race Engineering	78	2:00:39.5887	1	150
2	22	Will Davison	Holden Racing Team	78	+0.7s	7	138
3	2	Garth Tander	Holden Racing Team	78	+4.4s	3	129
4	888	Craig Lowndes	Triple Eight Race Engineering	78	+4.9s	2	120
5	33	Lee Holdsworth	Garry Rogers Motorsport	78	+6.9s	10	111
6	17	Steven Johnson	Dick Johnson Racing	78	+8.7s	14	102
7	8	Jason Richards	Brad Jones Racing	78	+14.8s	8	96
8	51	Greg Murphy	Tasman Motorsport	78	+15.6s	29	90
9	6	Steven Richards	Ford Performance Racing	78	+16.2s	12	84
10	15	Rick Kelly	Jack Daniels Racing	78	+21.2s	17	78
11	25	Jason Bright	Stone Brothers Racing	78	+21.8s	13	72
12	111	Fabian Coulthard	Paul Cruickshank Racing	78	+22.3s	5	69
13	9	Shane van Gisbergen	Stone Brothers Racing	78	+24.3s	12	66
14	77	Marcus Marshall	Team IntaRacing	78	+24.9s	20	63
15	39	Russell Ingall	Paul Morris Motorsport	78	+26.5s	16	60
16	34	Michael Caruso	Garry Rogers Motorsport	78	+28.0s	15	57
17	10	Paul Dumbrell	Walkinshaw Racing	78	+43.9s	6	54
18	021	Dean Fiore	Team Kiwi Racing	78	+53.5s	27	51
19	333	Michael Patrizi	Paul Cruickshank Racing	78	+1:06.0s	26	48
20	3	Jason Bargwanna	Tasman Motorsport	76	+ 2 laps	22	45
21	14	Cameron McConville	Brad Jones Racing	76	+ 2 laps	28	42
22	5	Mark Winterbottom	Ford Performance Racing	68	+ 10 laps	9	39
23	55	Tony D'Alberto	Rod Nash Racing	67	+ 11 laps	19	36
24	18	James Courtney	Dick Johnson Racing	63	+ 15 laps	4	33
25	4	Alex Davison	Stone Brothers Racing	62	+ 16 laps	25	30
DNF	7	Todd Kelly	Jack Daniels Racing	69		23
DNF	24	David Reynolds	Walkinshaw Racing	68		21
DNF	16	Dale Wood	Kelly Racing	57		30
DNF	67	Tim Slade	Paul Morris Motorsport	22		18
DNF	11	Jack Perkins	Kelly Racing	0		24

Russell Ingall and James Courtney were given ten-point deductions after the weekend for careless driving.

Pos	No	Name	Team	Points
1	1	Jamie Whincup	Triple Eight Race Engineering	300
2	22	Will Davison	Toll Holden Racing Team	267
3	33	Lee Holdsworth	Garry Rogers Motorsport	249
4	17	Steven Johnson	Jim Beam Racing	222
5	8	Jason Richards	Brad Jones Racing	207

The 2009 Clipsal 500 had five support categories.