Whincup Sweeps Saturday in Sydney

He might have already clinched the title but that did not stop Jamie Whincup on the final Saturday of the 2014 season. The Red Bull Racing Holden driver swept the two Saturday races with the second ending prematurely due to rain.

In race one, Mercedes driver Will Davison started on pole position, the first pole position for Erebus Motorsport but Whincup took the lead off the start. He would lead until the first safety car period for Mark Winterbottom after the Ford driver got into the barriers. Winterbottom would end up finishing 23rd, six laps down.

Walkinshaw Racing's Tim Slade took the lead after the pit cycle and led the field to the green. Slade would lead fifteen laps before Whincup would retake the point and never look back for his thirteenth victory of the season. Slade finished second position, his best finish of the year. David Reynolds rounded out the podium in the #55 Rod Nash Racing Ford. It was Reynolds' first podium of the season.

Volvo's Scott McLaughlin finished fourth with Nissan's Rick Kelly rounding out the top five. Shane Van Gisbergen ended up sixth with David Wall seventh. The Brad Jones Racing Holdens of Fabian Coulthard and Jason Bright finished eighth and ninth respectively. Garth Tander rounded out the top ten with his Holden Racing teammate James Courtney in tow. Nick Percat came home 12th with Red Bull Racing's Craig Lowndes ending up 13th after having to start 20th following an accident in qualifying. James Moffat and Bathurst winner Chaz Mostert rounded out the top fifteen.

Will Davison retired ten laps prior to the finish due to a power steering failure. His teammate Lee Holdsworth came home in 17th position. Marcos Ambrose finished 20th in his first V8SC race in over nine years.

Mother nature reeked havoc on race two from Sydney. The race started under dry conditions with Jason Bright on pole position however Whincup charged from fourth position to the lead by the end of the first lap.

Most drivers played it safe, getting wet weather tires well before the heavy rains came. When it started to pour, visibility became horrific and ultimately led to the race being put under safety car conditions and ultimately led to the race being red flagged. The race was called after 23 of a scheduled 37 laps were completed.

Whincup led 22 of 23 laps in race two on way to his fourteenth victory with Van Gisbergen making it a Holden 1-2. McLaughlin gave Volvo their first podium at Sydney with a third place finish. It is McLaughlin's and the Swedish manufactures' tenth podium of the season. Pole-sitter Bright came home in fourth and was the only other driver to lead a lap in race two. Winterbottom recovered from his accident in race one to round out the top five in race two.

Courtney finished sixth with Slade in seventh. Michael Caruso was the top Nissan driver in eighth. Scott Pye finished ninth and as in race one, Garth Tander rounded out the top ten. Fabian Coulthard came home 11th with David Reynolds in 12th, Will Davison the top Mercedes in 13th and Rick Kelly in 14th. For the second consecutive race, Chaz Mostert rounding out the top fifteen.

After missing qualifying for the second race, Craig Lowndes was only able to manage 20th. The Red Bull Racing Holden driver did have a coming together with Marcos Ambrose on the first lap but both drivers continued. Ambrose finished 21st in the second race. The only driver to retire from race two was David Wall who got caught out on slick and spun into the barrier on lap 16.

Heading into the final race of the 2014 season, Whincup has padded his championship lead to 529 points over Winterbottom. Van Gisbergen had jumped Lowndes for third as the Kiwi trails Winterbottom by 87 points. Lowndes is 26 points out of third. McLaughlin rounds out the top five with a 58-point cushion to Coulthard in sixth. Courtney is nine points back of Coulthard. Mostert is 19 points behind Courtney in eighth. Tander is ninth and will finish ninth as he can not catch Mostert nor be overtaken by anyone.

Five drivers are fighting for tenth in the championship, which is currently being held by Caruso. He has a 99-point cushion over Percat in 11th. Bright trails Percat by four points with Will Davison ten points behind Bright and Rick Kelly ten points behind Davison. Caruso has never finished in the top ten in the championship. His best finish is his previous six seasons is 11th on two occasions.

The final race of the 2014 V8 Supercars season will take place at 11:40 p.m. ET.