Tradingpost FPR’s Will Davison has topped the 20 minute qualifying session in the lead-up to Sunday’s first endurance race of the season V8 Supercar Championship at Sandown.
Davison clocked a qualifying lap record time of 1m09.3670s to put co-driver John McIntyre onto pole for the first 20-lap Qualifying Race, which then determines the grid for the second and decisive qualifying race of the Dick Smith Sandown 500.
Davison edged out Holden Racing Team’s Garth Tander to take the top spot by just 0.0072 seconds with SP Tools Racing’s Shane van Gisbergen, TeamVodafone’s Craig Lowndes and The Bottle-O Racing Team’s David Reynolds rounding out the top five.
Series leader Jamie Whincup could only manage 10th fastest, struggling on the slippery conditions and making a mistake at the start of his final run.
Full Qualifying session results below:
| 1 | Will Davison | Ford Falcon FG | 1:09.3670 | |
| 2 | Garth Tander | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:09.3742 | 0:00.0072 |
| 3 | Shane Van Gisbergen | Ford Falcon FG | 1:09.4483 | 0:00.0813 |
| 4 | Craig Lowndes | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:09.4619 | 0:00.0949 |
| 5 | David Reynolds | Ford Falcon FG | 1:09.4835 | 0:00.1165 |
| 6 | Mark Winterbottom | Ford Falcon FG | 1:09.5427 | 0:00.1757 |
| 7 | Steve Owen | Ford Falcon FG | 1:09.5715 | 0:00.2045 |
| 8 | Fabian Coulthard | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:09.6576 | 0:00.2906 |
| 9 | Jonathon Webb | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:09.6804 | 0:00.3134 |
| 10 | Jamie Whincup | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:09.7159 | 0:00.3489 |
| 11 | James Moffat | Ford Falcon FG | 1:09.7183 | 0:00.3513 |
| 12 | Rick Kelly | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:09.7497 | 0:00.3827 |
| 13 | Tim Slade | Ford Falcon FG | 1:09.7856 | 0:00.4186 |
| 14 | Jason Bright | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:09.8002 | 0:00.4332 |
| 15 | Michael Caruso | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:09.8774 | 0:00.5104 |
| 16 | James Courtney | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:09.8783 | 0:00.5113 |
| 17 | Dean Fiore | Ford Falcon FG | 1:09.9049 | 0:00.5379 |
| 18 | Steven Johnson | Ford Falcon FG | 1:09.9206 | 0:00.5536 |
| 19 | Tony D’Alberto | Ford Falcon FG | 1:09.9365 | 0:00.5695 |
| 20 | Lee Holdsworth | Ford Falcon FG | 1:09.9369 | 0:00.5699 |
| 21 | Russell Ingall | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:10.0063 | 0:00.6393 |
| 22 | David Wall | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:10.0147 | 0:00.6477 |
| 23 | Alexandre Premat | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:10.0906 | 0:00.7236 |
| 24 | Todd Kelly | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:10.1432 | 0:00.7762 |
| 25 | Michael Patrizi | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:10.4180 | 0:01.0510 |
| 26 | Greg Murphy | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:10.5162 | 0:01.1492 |
| 27 | Karl Reindler | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:10.6428 | 0:01.2758 |
| 28 | Taz Douglas | Holden Commodore VE2 | 1:10.7274 | 0:01.3604 |
