V8 Supercar teams will be reminded at a team manager’s briefing that any issue they want investigated needs an official request lodged.

The reminder follows allegations after yesterday’s race that tyres issued to the Commodore of TeamVodafone’s Craig Lowndes were used on teammate Jamie Whincup’s car.

Under V8 Supercar rules, no tyres can be transferred between cars or teams to stop any competitor from gaining an unfair advantage.

The rule is in place for instances where a driver in Championship contention swaps used tyres with green tyres from a driver outside of Championship contention.

But even if TeamVodafone had swapped Lowndes’ tyres with Whincup’s in the last pit stop on Saturday at the Clipsal 500 Adelaide, both sets were green so there was no unfair advantage for either driver.

V8 Supercars’ Director of Racing, Adam Perry, confirmed with BigPond Sport that teams had complained after the cars were released from parc ferme but an official incident report was not lodged.

“The suggestion is they (TeamVodafone) may have used the wrong tyres but we haven’t been able to prove that; the request came to us after the cars were released from parc ferme,” he said.

“We did do a very brief investigation after that but we couldn’t prove either way it was the case.

“We can only act on the information that the teams give us at the time and if it’s past parc ferme time it’s pretty hard for us to prove what’s happened and there was no official request for an investigation put forward by any team so from our point of view it’s been dealt with.”

The back-to-back pitstop rival teams have questioned was chaotic. The TeamVodafone crew forgot to put new front tyres on Whincup’s car as they hurried through his stop as Lowndes waited in pitlane for his pitstop to start.

And if TeamVodafone had made the mistake of using the wrong tyres, it is not in the position now to admit fault because that would result in a penalty.

Perry said if it could have been proven that TeamVodafone had bolted on the wrong set of tyres to Whincup’s car, the resulting penalty would have been minor because the rule breach was accidental rather than calculated.

 “We’re happy with what transpired; what we’re not happy with is the way that parc ferme is situated in the garages here,” he said.

“We would prefer to have it out in the fast lane as we do at most other circuits; that way we actually get a better opportunity to do those checks.”

Perry said the Fujitsu Series race, which takes place after the V8 Supercars race, prevents parc ferme taking place in the fast lane.

“We will definitely look at changing that for next year if that’s possible,” he said.

“I don’t think we can change the schedule, but if we can convince the officials that we can operate parc ferme (in the fast lane) with another race running and cope with any needs they need there we’ll do that.

“But this is just one of the limitations of this particular circuit that we have.”