Davison takes maiden win in race 2

Davison jumped into a clear lead at the start and despite Mark Winterbottom trailing him for most of the race, he was never under significant threat and eased away in the closing laps to take his first V8 Supercar win.

Winterbottom also made a good start to jump to third, moving up to second after the stops where he stayed to the flag, with Team Vodafone's Craig Lowndes five seconds further back in third place.

After qualifying 22nd, Russell Ingall looked like having a bad weekend at Eastern Creek. But a 12th in race one meant that a good start jumped him into sixth place by the end of lap one, and despite losing a place to Lowndes halfway through the race, finished just off the podium in fourth position.

However, Ingall seemed to benefit from the relaxed interpretation on allowable contact after making contact with the rear of Garth Tander's car when he passed him on lap 3, Ingall receiving a bad sportsmanship flag rather than a drivethrough penalty.

Just behind Ingall at the chequered flag was Jamie Whincup, who recovered well from a terrible start where he fell from third to tenth. But good work during the pit stop phase moved him up to before claiming fifth from Rick Kelly on lap 25 of 31.

Rick Kelly's sixth was a good result for him, but it could have been better. Second in the opening laps, a problem with the left rear wheel nut at his pit stop cost him about ten seconds, the same drama afflicting teammate Paul Dumbrell later in the race.

After qualifying 19th, and finishing race one 27th after spinning, Steven Richards might have felt like heading home. But by the end of lap one he was 21st, and he continued to move up well in the opening laps, 17th by lap five.

By not pitting until half-distance, he emerged from the pit stops in eighth place, passing Lee Holdsworth for seventh with six laps remaining.

After a perfect Saturday, Tander's Sunday has not started well. A poor start dropped him from first to fifth, before Ingall's contact droppped him another place.

Despite a couple of drivers ahead of him in the early laps having troubles during the race, Tander only just clung to the top ten, finishing ninth, two places worse than Steven Richards, despite Tander starting from pole and Richards starting from the final row

Pos  Driver                Make     Time
 1.  Will Davison          Ford     50:13.7164
 2.  Mark Winterbottom     Ford     +   2.6000
 3.  Craig Lowndes         Ford     +   7.7772
 4.  Russell Ingall        Holden   +  17.2869
 5.  Jamie Whincup         Ford     +  17.6198
 6.  Rick Kelly            Holden   +  22.2406
 7.  Steven Richards       Ford     +  22.8890
 8.  Lee Holdsworth        Holden   +  25.0556
 9.  Garth Tander          Holden   +  26.2420
10.  Paul Morris           Holden   +  28.6032
11.  Greg Murphy           Holden   +  40.2874
12.  Paul Dumbrell         Holden   +  41.4789
13.  Todd Kelly            Holden   +  45.0333
14.  Mark Skaife           Holden   +  46.1037
15.  James Courtney        Ford     +  47.8749
16.  Jason Richards        Holden   +  49.3702
17.  Fabian Coulthard      Ford     +  50.7429
18.  Cameron McConville    Holden   +  51.7547
19.  Steven Johnson        Ford     +  52.0178
20.  Tony D'Alberto        Holden   +  59.6094
21.  Shane Price           Holden   +1:00.4298
22.  Jason Bright          Ford     +1:03.3681
23.  Andrew Jones          Holden   +1:04.2745
24.  Andrew Thompson       Holden   +1:06.3343
25.  Chris Pither          Ford     +1:13.7157
26.  Michael Caruso        Holden   +1:51.9523
27.  Shane Van Gisbergen   Ford     +   5 laps

Not classified/retirements:

     Driver                Make     Laps
     Marcus Marshall       Ford      29