Will Davison dominates race two

With fresh sprint tyres, Davison took the lead before the end of lap one despite starting fifth and never came under serious threat throughout the race.

The only car that came even close to Davison was Team Vodafone's Craig Lowndes, who, like Davison, failed to finish race one and had fresh sprint tyres for race two and used them well, their DNFs in race one appearing to benefit their performances in race two.

Third was taken by Russell Ingall, just a couple of seconds behind Lowndes, who charged home in the closing laps on sprint tyres, moving from ninth to third in the final 22 laps.

Mark Winterbottom held on to fourth place, the best of the frontrunners from race one, though he immediately pulled off after taking the chequered flag having been leaking oil in the closing laps.

Less than two seconds behind him in fifth was Paul Dumbrell, who like Ingall used sprint tyres in the closing laps to vault up from 20th to 5th in the final 24 laps.

Michael Caruso, Steven Richards, James Courtney and Jason Bright did their best to maintain position, just surviving the charge of another driver on sprint tyres, Rick Kelly, Kelly moving from 21st to 10th in the last 23 laps.

After winning race one, race two was not so good for Jamie Whincup. A lock-up on lap one at turn three, a bump with Steven Richards soon after and a group of cars on sprint tyres passing him in the early laps meant that he did not have a good result, finishing 13th, one place ahead of Garth Tander who had a lap one off of his own.

The weekend's results has seen the title race become even more focused on the championship-leading duo of Jamie Whincup and Will Davison, Whincup extending his lead over Davison though not by as much as one may have expected, the margin now 183 points between them.

Third-placed Tander is 528 points behind Whincup, with Lowndes just one point behind him, and Steven Johnson and Mark Winterbottom have closed to within 150 points of Tander.

Pos  Driver                Make                  Time
 1.  Will Davison          Holden Commodore VE   1:20:30.0744
 2.  Craig Lowndes         Ford Falcon FG        +    14.0716
 3.  Russell Ingall        Holden Commodore VE   +    16.7888
 4.  Mark Winterbottom     Ford Falcon FG        +    25.7896
 5.  Paul Dumbrell         Holden Commodore VE   +    28.3643
 6.  Michael Caruso        Holden Commodore VE   +    31.3178
 7.  Steven Richards       Ford Falcon FG        +    35.6612
 8.  James Courtney        Ford Falcon FG        +    36.4442
 9.  Jason Bright          Ford Falcon FG        +    38.8292
10.  Rick Kelly            Holden Commodore VE   +    39.0609
11.  Cameron McConville    Holden Commodore VE   +    48.7824
12.  Shane Van Gisbergen   Ford Falcon FG        +    51.7248
13.  Jamie Whincup         Ford Falcon FG        +    53.2169
14.  Garth Tander          Holden Commodore VE   +    54.7812
15.  Steven Johnson        Ford Falcon FG        +    56.2493
16.  Lee Holdsworth        Holden Commodore VE   +    57.1410
17.  Jason Richards        Holden Commodore VE   +    57.3734
18.  Todd Kelly            Holden Commodore VE   +  1:02.7751
19.  Alex Davison          Ford Falcon FG        +  1:07.0723
20.  David Reynolds        Holden Commodore VE   +  1:07.3450
21.  Dean Fiore            Holden Commodore VE   +     1 lap
22.  Tim Slade             Holden Commodore VE   +     1 lap
23.  Fabian Coulthard      Ford Falcon FG        +     1 lap
24.  Michael Patrizi       Ford Falcon BF        +     1 lap
25.  Jason Bargwanna       Holden Commodore VE   +     1 lap
26.  Jack Perkins          Holden Commodore VE   +     1 lap
27.  Mark McNally          Holden Commodore VE   +     2 laps

Not classified/retirements:

     Driver                Make                  Laps
     Tony D'Alberto        Holden Commodore VE    63
     Greg Murphy           Holden Commodore VE    58