The 2005 Betta Electrical 500 was the ninth round of the
2005 V8 Supercar Championship Series
The 2005 V8 Supercar Championship Series was a motor racing championship for V8 Supercars. The series, which was the seventh V8 Supercar Championship Series, began on 18 March 2005 in Adelaide and ended on 27 November at Phillip Island Grand ...
. It was held on the weekend of the 9 to 11 September at
Sandown Raceway
Sandown International Raceway is a motor racing circuit in the suburb of Springvale in Melbourne, Victoria, approximately south east of the city centre. Sandown is considered a power circuit with its " drag strip" front and back straights b ...
in
Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India
* Victoria (state), a state of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital
* Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...
.
It was the 38th "
Sandown 500
The Sandown 500 (commercially titled Penrite, Penrite Oil Sandown 500) is an annual endurance racing (motorsport), endurance Auto racing, motor race which is staged at the Sandown Raceway, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia from 1964. The even ...
" endurance race.
Top ten shootout
Race results
Statistics
* Provisional pole position - #1 Marcos Ambrose - 1:10.6715
* Pole Position - #16 Garth Tander - 1:10.8917
* Fastest Lap - #888 Craig Lowndes - 1:11.7940
* Average Speed - 142 km/h
References
External links
Official race results at www.natsoft.com.au
2005 Betta Electrical 500 from the Official V8 Supercar website - www.v8supercar.com.au via web.archive.orgRetrieved from www.v8fans.com on 19 December 2008
{{ATCC rounds 2000–2009
Motorsport at Sandown
Betta Electrical 500
Pre-Bathurst 500