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 250 kilometres (160 miles), 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 Cameron 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.

More information Season entries, Endurance entries ...

Season entries							Endurance entries
Manufacturer	Model	Team	No.	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[4]	1
				Steve Owen	2
				Dean Fiore	3–4
				Tim Blanchard	5
				Peter Rullo	6
			28	Morgan Haber[4]	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	Cameron Waters[13]	All
		Novocastrian Motorsport	58	Aaren Russell[3]	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[4]	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[16]	6–7
			98	Aaron Tebb[4]	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[4][26]	1
				Shane Price	2
			46	Jordan Ormsby	1–2
		GMJ Motorsport	48	Geoff Emery[27]	All
			50	Matt Hansen[27]	All
		Warrin Mining Racing	62	Adam Wallis	1, 3–4
		Formula Tech Racing	73	Brett Stewart	All
		McGill Motorsport	75	Aaron McGill	All

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The series comprised thirteen races at seven venues, with each race being a support race at an International V8 Supercars Championship event.

More information Series schedule, Results summary ...

Series schedule							Results summary
Rnd	Rce	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		Cameron 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	Cameron Waters
	13				7 December		Cameron Waters

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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]