The final race in Round 5 of the 2011 Fujitsu Supercar Series was a wild affair today at Mt Panorama. Starting from sixth position on the grid, Tim Blanchard's race almost ended at the green light as he bogged the #27 Jayco / Cool Drive Falcon down, just managing not to stall. Importantly all the cars behind him managed to scramble around Blanchard as the field headed off.

Tim picked up speed but was back in position 15 as the cars headed up Mountain Straight. Chaos was not far away as a number of cars clashed at the The Chase including Tim who got across the sodden grass and back on track. The Safety Car was deployed and the cars ran another 3 laps before the restart. Blanchard was immediately on the move passing Geoff Emery into Turn 2 then set about gaining places as the race developed.

A storming drive with consistently fast laps saw Blanchard on the tail of David Wall with Mostret, Zukanovic & Jane battling in front of them for 7th place. Wall made a mistake at Reid Park clipping the wall and Blanchard pounced not without his own brush with the concrete a few metres further down the road. He then got past Jane & Mostret who were intent on putting each other off the road and into 6th position on Lap 10.

"The start was terrible! I was busy trying to get the car back up to  speed and obviously hoping not to get someone crashing into the rear of me!' a relieved Blanchard said after the race. "We had a great car today so I just had to go for every opportunity to make up for that start. Thankfully some of the guys I was battling with were determined to take each other out so I had to thread the needle and pounce. I was pleased for the team that we got back to 6th but a bit like yesterday it was a missed opportunity" Blanchard added.

After round 5 of the 2011 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series Tim Blanchard sits in 5th place overall with two rounds to run. The Bathurst round was won by Andrew Thompson from David Russell and Jack Perkins.

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