Shane van Gisbergen wins final Melbourne V8 Supercars race

Ford Performance Racing driver Winterbottom had won the previous three races, but had to settle for fifth on Sunday following a poor start. That result was still enough to ensure he picked up the AUS$100,000 prize for the outright winner of the event.

Van Gisbergen claimed the race four victory for Stone Brothers with a late charge.

While many drivers made their compulsory pitstop on lap one and immediately switched from hards to softs, van Gisbergen waited until lap five before coming in, and found himself behind early stoppers Garth Tander (Holden Racing Team) and Fabian Coulthard (Brad Jones Racing Holden).

But van Gisbergen had the speed and slightly fresher rubber to catch and pass the two Holdens in the closing laps, and once Jason Bright, Dean Fiore and David Wall made very late pitstops from the front of the field, van Gisbergen emerged from that in the lead.

Will Davison (FPR) led most of the race after also deciding to start on softs and make a late tyre change, but could not build up enough of a gap and finished fourth behind Tander and Coulthard.

Series champion Jamie Whincup's tough weekend continued as he had to pit with brake problems on his Triple Eight Holden.

Results - 15 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team/Car                 Time/Gap
 1.  Shane van Gisbergen  Stone Brothers Ford   30m36.8057s
 2.  Garth Tander         HRT Holden             +  2.6394s
 3.  Fabian Coulthard     Brad Jones Holden      +  2.9450s
 4.  Will Davison         FPR Ford               +  3.6974s
 5.  Mark Winterbottom    FPR Ford               +  6.3185s
 6.  David Reynolds       Rod Nash/FPR Ford      + 12.1781s
 7.  Lee Holdsworth       Stone Brothers Ford    + 14.8582s
 8.  Craig Lowndes        Triple 8 Holden        + 17.5675s
 9.  Todd Kelly           Kelly Holden           + 17.9739s
10.  Rick Kelly           Kelly Holden           + 18.8300s
11.  Tim Slade            Rosenberg/SBR Ford     + 20.3480s
12.  James Moffat         Dick Johnson Ford      + 20.5407s
13.  Steven Johnson       Dick Johnson Ford      + 21.4472s
14.  Jason Bright         Brad Jones Holden      + 23.7629s
15.  Tony D'Alberto       D'Alberto Ford         + 25.2379s
16.  Steve Owen           Dick Johnson Ford      + 26.4468s
17.  Michael Caruso       Garry Rogers Holden    + 27.0262s
18.  Russell Ingall       Walkinshaw Holden      + 28.1745s
19.  Dean Fiore           Triple F Ford          + 30.4765s
20.  Greg Murphy          Kelly Holden           + 32.3839s
21.  Jonathon Webb        Tekno Holden           + 34.0203s
22.  Michael Patrizi      Tekno Holden           + 39.1293s
23.  Alexandre Premat     Garry Rogers Holden    + 51.9371s

Did not finish:

    David Wall           Britek/BJR Holden          14 laps
    Jamie Whincup        Triple 8 Holden             6 laps
    James Courtney       HRT Holden                  5 laps