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Sandown V8s: Will Davison quickest in qualifying

Ford Performance Racing's Will Davison set the fastest time in qualifying for the first V8 Supercars endurance race of the 2012 season at Sandown

Under this year's format, the grid for Sunday's 500-kilometre main event will be set by the results of the second qualifying race later on Saturday.

Saturday morning's 20-minute qualifying session set the starting order for the first qualifying heat, in which the teams' endurance co-drivers will compete.

The result of that race forms the grid for the second heat, contested by the regular V8 drivers. The grid for the main event is produced from the heat two finishing order.

In a close-fought qualifying session, Davison edged out the resurgent Holden Racing Team Commodore of Garth Tander to take pole by 0.0072 seconds.

Tander's late lap demoted Stone Brothers Ford driver Shane van Gisbergen from the front row.

Triple Eight's highest-placed qualifier was Craig Lowndes in fourth. His championship-leading team-mate Jamie Whincup could only salvage 10th after a mistake on his penultimate flying lap.

Whincup's main title rival Mark Winterbottom qualified sixth for FPR.

Pos  Driver               Team/Car               Time        Gap
 1.  Will Davison         FPR Ford               1m09.3670s
 2.  Garth Tander         HRT Holden             1m09.3742s  + 0.0072s
 3.  Shane van Gisbergen  Stone Brothers Ford    1m09.4483s  + 0.0813s
 4.  Craig Lowndes        Triple 8 Holden        1m09.4619s  + 0.0949s
 5.  David Reynolds       Rod Nash/FPR Ford      1m09.4835s  + 0.1165s
 6.  Mark Winterbottom    FPR Ford               1m09.5427s  + 0.1757s
 7.  Steve Owen           Paul Morris/DJR Ford   1m09.5715s  + 0.2045s
 8.  Fabian Coulthard     Brad Jones Holden      1m09.6576s  + 0.2906s
 9.  Jonathon Webb        Tekno Holden           1m09.6804s  + 0.3134s
10.  Jamie Whincup        Triple 8 Holden        1m09.7159s  + 0.3489s
11.  James Moffat         Dick Johnson Ford      1m09.7183s  + 0.3513s
12.  Rick Kelly           Kelly Holden           1m09.7497s  + 0.3827s
13.  Tim Slade            Rosenberg/SBR Ford     1m09.7856s  + 0.4186s
14.  Jason Bright         Brad Jones Holden      1m09.8002s  + 0.4332s
15.  Michael Caruso       Garry Rogers Holden    1m09.8774s  + 0.5104s
16.  James Courtney       HRT Holden             1m09.8783s  + 0.5113s
17.  Dean Fiore           Triple F/DJR Ford      1m09.9049s  + 0.5379s
18.  Steven Johnson       Dick Johnson Ford      1m09.9206s  + 0.5536s
19.  Tony D'Alberto       D'Alberto Ford         1m09.9365s  + 0.5695s
20.  Lee Holdsworth       Stone Brothers Ford    1m09.9369s  + 0.5699s
21.  Russell Ingall       Walkinshaw/HRT Holden  1m10.0063s  + 0.6393s
22.  David Wall           Britek/BJR Holden      1m10.0147s  + 0.6477s
23.  Alexandre Premat     Garry Rogers Holden    1m10.0906s  + 0.7236s
24.  Todd Kelly           Kelly Holden           1m10.1432s  + 0.7762s
25.  Michael Patrizi      Tekno Holden           1m10.4180s  + 1.0510s
26.  Greg Murphy          Kelly Holden           1m10.5162s  + 1.1492s
27.  Karl Reindler        Kelly Holden           1m10.6428s  + 1.2758s
28.  Taz Douglas          Dumbrell Holden        1m10.7274s  + 1.3604s

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