Davison and Winterbottom to share Race 17 front-row

Sunday 5th August, 2012 1:28pm
Author: Stefan Bartholomaeus ©

Will Davison scored his fourth Armor All Pole Award of the season so far

Ford Performance Racing duo Will Davison and Mark Winterbottom have struck back in their fight against TeamVodafone by locking out the front-row of the grid for Race 17 of the V8 Supercars Championship at Queensland Raceway.

Davison set the pole time of 1:09.48s on his final lap of the 20 minute session to edge out his team-mate, with Winterbottom proving unable to better a 1:09.50s time set on his first set of new tyres. Remarkably, all four of Winterbottom’s green tyre laps were in the 1:09.5s bracket.

Increased track temperatures helped prevent any of the 28 runners approaching Craig Lowndes’ record breaking 1:09.22s lap from yesterday’s qualifying session.

The result marks Davison’s fourth Armor All Pole Award of the 2012 season.

Jamie Whincup took third after using just one new set of new rubber – leaping from 27th to a high of second with just 90 seconds remaining.

Lowndes also left his charge to the dying stages and will share the second row with his team-mate.

Russell Ingall continued his strong weekend in fifth, ahead of Jonathon Webb, Fabian Coulthard, Shane van Gisbergen, Michael Caruso and Tony D’Alberto.

Tough weekends for former series champions Rick Kelly and Garth Tander continued. The pair will start 23rd and 24th respectively.

Jacques Villeneuve meanwhile brought up the tail of the field, with his best time 1.4s slower than Davison’s and 0.46s adrift of fellow rear-of-grid starter David Wall.

The 200km Race 17 is scheduled to get underway at 1535 local time.

See below for the full qualifying result

1	Trading Post FPR Ford	Will Davison	Ford Falcon FG	1:09.4828
2	Orrcon Steel FPR Ford	Mark Winterbottom	Ford Falcon FG	1:09.5046	0:00.0218
3	TeamVodafone	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore VE2	1:09.5078	0:00.0250
4	TeamVodafone	Craig Lowndes	Holden Commodore VE2	1:09.5776	0:00.0948
5	Supercheap Auto Racing	Russell Ingall	Holden Commodore VE2	1:09.5861	0:00.1033
6	Tekno Autosports	Jonathon Webb	Holden Commodore VE2	1:09.6139	0:00.1311
7	Lockwood Racing	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore VE2	1:09.6441	0:00.1613
8	SP Tools Racing	Shane Van Gisbergen	Ford Falcon FG	1:09.6640	0:00.1812
9	Fujitsu Racing GRM	Michael Caruso	Holden Commodore VE2	1:09.6968	0:00.2140
10	Team Hiflex	Tony D’Alberto	Ford Falcon FG	1:09.7423	0:00.2595
11	Lucky 7 Racing	Tim Slade	Ford Falcon FG	1:09.7488	0:00.2660
12	Jim Beam Racing	Dean Fiore	Ford Falcon FG	1:09.7847	0:00.3019
13	The Bottle-O Racing Team	David Reynolds	Ford Falcon FG	1:09.7864	0:00.3036
14	Jim Beam Racing	Steven Johnson	Ford Falcon FG	1:09.7918	0:00.3090
15	VIP Petfoods	Steve Owen	Ford Falcon FG	1:09.8328	0:00.3500
16	Jack Daniel’s Racing	Todd Kelly	Holden Commodore VE2	1:09.8329	0:00.3501
17	Team BOC	Jason Bright	Holden Commodore VE2	1:09.8330	0:00.3502
18	Holden Racing Team	James Courtney	Holden Commodore VE2	1:09.8762	0:00.3934
19	Irwin Racing	Lee Holdsworth	Ford Falcon FG	1:09.8763	0:00.3935
20	Fujitsu Racing GRM	Alexandre Premat	Holden Commodore VE2	1:09.9130	0:00.4302
21	Team Norton DJR	James Moffat	Ford Falcon FG	1:09.9147	0:00.4319
22	Tekno Autosports	Michael Patrizi	Holden Commodore VE2	1:09.9310	0:00.4482
23	Jack Daniel’s Racing	Rick Kelly	Holden Commodore VE2	1:10.0122	0:00.5294
24	Holden Racing Team	Garth Tander	Holden Commodore VE2	1:10.0144	0:00.5316
25	Team iSelect	Taz Douglas	Holden Commodore VE2	1:10.1356	0:00.6528
26	Fair Dinkum Sheds Racing	Karl Reindler	Holden Commodore VE2	1:10.2665	0:00.7837
27	Wilson Security Racing	David Wall	Holden Commodore VE2	1:10.4098	0:00.9270
28	Pepsi Max Crew	Jaques Villeneuve	Holden Commodore VE2	1:10.8630	0:01.3802