The 2014 Dunlop Series was an Australian motor racing competition for V8 Supercars. It was the fifteenth running of the V8 Supercar Development Series, a support series to the International V8 Supercars Championship. The 2014 season featured a new format for the Dunlop Series weekends. Each round of the series – with the exception of Bathurst – featured two forty-minute races, rather than a range of two-race and three-race weekends. The Bathurst round was a single-race event, held over an endurance distance of 250km (160miles), and allowing for optional driver changes.[1]
2002 series winner Paul Dumbrell became the third driver to clinch a second title, after winning six races (and three rounds) during the season; this included four consecutive wins at Queensland Raceway, the Bathurst endurance race and the first race at Sydney Olympic Park. Despite missing the second Barbagallo race due to business commitments,[2] Eggleston Motorsport's Dumbrell won the series by 247 points ahead of Ford Performance Racing driver Cam Waters. Waters won two races at Winton and the second Sydney Olympic Park race, where he also took the round win to move ahead of Ashley Walsh, who had held the runner-up spot for Matt Stone Racing prior to the event. Walsh won three races and two rounds in the early part of the series, but faded towards the end of the season. The series top five was rounded out by New Zealand's Chris Pither (Brad Jones Racing) and Andre Heimgartner (MW Motorsport), who won races at Townsville and Barbagallo respectively. Pither also won the round at Townsville, his first in the series.
The following teams and drivers competed in the 2014 series.
| Season entries | Endurance entries | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Model | Team | Driver | Rounds | Co-driver | ||
| Ford | Falcon FG | Image Racing | 10 |  Taz Douglas[3] | 1–2, 7 | ||
| Jack Le Brocq[4] | 3–5 | ||||||
| 49 | 1–2, 6 | ||||||
| MW Motorsport | 26 |  Andre Heimgartner[5] | All | Steve Owen[6] | |||
| 27 | Ryan Simpson | 1 | |||||
| Steve Owen | 2 | ||||||
| Dean Fiore | 3–4 | ||||||
| Tim Blanchard | 5 | ||||||
| Peter Rullo | 6 | ||||||
| 28 | Morgan Haber | 1–6 | |||||
| Kurt Kostecki | 7 | ||||||
| Matt Stone Racing | 35 | Todd Hazelwood[7] | All | ||||
| 60 | Michael Hector[8] | 1–6 | |||||
| Shae Davies | 7 | ||||||
| 87 | Ashley Walsh[9] | All | |||||
| 158 | Ryal Harris[10] | 6 | |||||
| 170 | Steven Johnson[11] | 4–5 | |||||
| GMJ Motorsport | 51 | Jim Pollicina[12] | All | ||||
| Ford Performance Racing | 56 | Cam Waters[13] | All | ||||
| Novocastrian Motorsport | 58 | Aaren Russell | All | ||||
| Paul Morris Motorsport | 67 | Paul Morris | All | ||||
| Action Racing[14] | 71 | Marcus Zukanovic | All | ||||
| Holden | Commodore VE | Team Kean Racing | 3 | Josh Kean[15] | 2–7 | Tony D'Alberto[16] | |
| 32 | 1 | ||||||
| RSport Engineering | 11 | Joshua Hunter | 1 | ||||
| Garth Walden | 2 | ||||||
| Ben Porter | 3 | ||||||
| Paul McKinnon | 4, 7 | ||||||
| Phil Woodbury | 5 | ||||||
| 44 |  Fredrik Lestrup[17] | 1–4 | |||||
| Brett Hobson | 5–7 | ||||||
| 77 | Tim Macrow | 6–7 | |||||
| 98 | Aaron Tebb | 1–2, 4–6 | Fredrik Lestrup[18] | ||||
| Brad Jones Racing | 12 | Macauley Jones[19] | 4–7 | ||||
| 20 | Andrew Jones | All | |||||
| 42 | Chris Pither | All | |||||
| Dragon Motor Racing | 13 | Kristian Lindbom[20] | 5 | ||||
| James Golding | 7 | ||||||
| 24 | Tim Macrow[21] | 2, 4 | |||||
| Ben Schoots[22] | 5 | ||||||
| Dan Day Racing | 25 | Dan Day | All | ||||
| Eggleston Motorsport | 38 | Ant Pedersen[23] | All | ||||
| 54 | Garry Jacobson[24] | All | |||||
| 88 | Paul Dumbrell[25] | All | |||||
| THR Developments | 45 | Jay Verdnik[26] | 1 | ||||
| Shane Price | 2 | ||||||
| 46 | Jordan Ormsby | 1–2 | |||||
| GMJ Motorsport | 48 | Geoff Emery[27] | All | ||||
| 50 | Matt Hansen | All | |||||
| Warrin Mining Racing | 62 | Adam Wallis | 1, 3–4 | ||||
| Formula Tech Racing | 73 | Brett Stewart | All | ||||
| McGill Motorsport | 75 | Aaron McGill | All | ||||
The series comprised thirteen races at seven venues, with each race being a support race at an International V8 Supercars Championship event.
| Series schedule | Results summary | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | Circuit | Location | Date | Winning driver | Round winner | |||
| 1 | 1 | Clipsal 500 Adelaide | Adelaide Street Circuit | Adelaide, South Australia | 28 February | Ashley Walsh | Paul Dumbrell | |
| 2 | 1 March | Paul Dumbrell | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | Winton 400 | Winton Motor Raceway | Benalla, Victoria | 5 April | Cam Waters | Ashley Walsh | |
| 4 | 6 April | Ashley Walsh | ||||||
| 3 | 5 | Perth 400 | Barbagallo Raceway | Perth, Western Australia | 16 May | Paul Dumbrell | Ashley Walsh | |
| 6 | 17 May | Andre Heimgartner | ||||||
| 4 | 7 | Castrol Townsville 400 | Townsville Street Circuit | Townsville, Queensland | 4 July | Chris Pither | Chris Pither | |
| 8 | 5 July | Ashley Walsh | ||||||
| 5 | 9 | Coates Hire Ipswich 400 | Queensland Raceway | Ipswich, Queensland | 2 August | Paul Dumbrell | Paul Dumbrell | |
| 10 | 3 August | Paul Dumbrell | ||||||
| 6 | 11 | Bathurst 250 | Mount Panorama Circuit | Bathurst, New South Wales | 11 October | Paul Dumbrell | Paul Dumbrell | |
| 7 | 12 | Sydney NRMA 500 | Homebush Street Circuit | Sydney, New South Wales | 6 December | Paul Dumbrell | Cam Waters | |
| 13 | 7 December | Cam Waters | ||||||
Points were awarded for each race at each two-race round on the following basis.[28]
Note: Double points were awarded for the single race at Mount Panorama.[29]
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