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Sydney V8 Supercars: Will Davison dominates season finale

Will Davison dominated the final race of the current V8 Supercars era around Sydney's Homebush street circuit

The Ford Performance Racing driver produced a brave pass on polesitter Garth Tander into the fast Turn 5 on the second lap and then kept the field at arm's length to the finish.

Holden Racing Team still looked on course to fill the rest of the podium as Tander and team-mate James Courtney held second and third.

They swapped positions at the first pitstops, but then Tander had to come in again due to a puncture, relegating him to a 16th-place finish.

Courtney eventually lost second to Craig Lowndes. The Triple 8 Holden driver closed in and jumped ahead at the final pitstops.

That secured second in the championship for Lowndes as his rival Mark Winterbottom had a disastrous season finale.

Winterbottom was pushed into the barriers at the first corner by James Moffat, and later incurred a puncture and a pitlane penalty, leaving him 18th.

Champion Jamie Whincup battled through from 24th on the grid after his qualifying problems to finish fifth behind Tim Slade.

After Saturday's race-long carnage, Sunday's round featured just two early safety car periods, caused by Shane van Gisbergen parking on track in his farewell race, and Michael Patrizi and Greg Murphy colliding.

Alexandre Premat had to withdraw from race two after suffering heat exhaustion on Saturday. Development Series champion Scott McLaughlin deputised in the Garry Rogers Holden.

The series now switches to its new Car of the Future regulations for 2013, a change that has prompted the arrival of a works Nissan programme and a Mercedes effort from Stone Brothers/Erebus to join the traditional Ford versus Holden fight.

Results - 74 laps:

Pos  Driver               Team/Car                    Time/Gap
 1.  Will Davison         FPR Ford               1h57m50.5999s
 2.  Craig Lowndes        Triple 8 Holden            + 2.5831s
 3.  James Courtney       HRT Holden                 + 4.5880s
 4.  Tim Slade            Rosenberg/SBR Ford         + 8.1940s
 5.  Jamie Whincup        Triple 8 Holden           + 24.5296s
 6.  Jonathon Webb        Tekno Holden              + 28.2182s
 7.  David Reynolds       Rod Nash/FPR Ford         + 37.7028s
 8.  Steve Owen           Paul Morris/DJR Ford      + 46.2653s
 9.  Jason Bright         Brad Jones Holden         + 47.7089s
10.  Steven Johnson       Dick Johnson Ford         + 48.6611s
11.  Rick Kelly           Kelly Holden              + 50.0499s
12.  Lee Holdsworth       Stone Brothers  Ford      + 51.4782s
13.  Taz Douglas          Dumbrell Holden           + 55.7044s
14.  Karl Reindler        Kelly Holden              + 56.3773s
15.  Fabian Coulthard     Brad Jones Holden       + 2m07.7787s
16.  Garth Tander         HRT Holden                   + 1 lap
17.  Scott McLaughlin     Garry Rogers Holden          + 1 lap
18.  Mark Winterbottom    FPR Ford                     + 1 lap
19.  Michael Patrizi      Tekno Holden                 + 1 lap
20.  Tim Blanchard        Kelly Holden                + 2 laps
21.  Dean Fiore           Triple F/DJR Ford           + 5 laps
22.  James Moffat         Dick Johnson Ford           + 5 laps

Retirements:

     Michael Caruso       Garry Rogers Holden          72 laps
     Russell Ingall       Walkinshaw/HRT Holden        34 laps
     Tony D'Alberto       D'Alberto Ford               29 laps
     David Wall           Britek/BJR Holden            14 laps
     Greg Murphy          Kelly Holden                  5 laps
     Shane van Gisbergen  Stone Brothers Ford           0 laps

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