Whincup claims pole for race two

Whincup went to the top of the times with two minutes remaining in the session, taking pole position ahead of Ford Performance Racing's Mark Winterbottom who had set the previous benchmark a couple of minutes earlier.

Holden Racing Team fills the second row, Garth Tander ahead of Will Davison with Rick Kelly just fractions of a second slower. Wilson Security's Fabian Coulthard did a much better job than yesterday to qualify sixth, exactly one-thousandth of a second faster than yesterday's pole man Craig Lowndes.

Completing the top ten are the two Jim Beam Racing cars of James Courtney and Steven Johnson and the Fujitsu Racing Falcon of Jason Bright.

After Rick Kelly just missed the top ten for race one, today it was Todd Kelly's turn, qualifying in 13th position, just behind Sprint Gas's Greg Murphy and the second FPR car of Steven Richards.

Two places behind Todd Kelly is the first of the Garry Rogers cars of Lee Holdsworth in 15th, his team-mate Michael Caruso way back on the grid in 27th, where he is joined by Jason Richards who had another disastrous qualifying and will start 28th, second last on the grid.

Another driver who qualified a surprisingly long way down the field is Shane van Gisbergen in 21st, four places behind his team-mate Alex Davison.

Pos  Driver                Car                   Time
 1.  Jamie Whincup         Ford Falcon FG        0:57.1146 
 2.  Mark Winterbottom     Ford Falcon FG        0:57.2379  + 0.1233
 3.  Garth Tander          Holden Commodore VE   0:57.3237  + 0.2091
 4.  Will Davison          Holden Commodore VE   0:57.3660  + 0.2514
 5.  Rick Kelly            Holden Commodore VE   0:57.3715  + 0.2569
 6.  Fabian Coulthard      Ford Falcon FG        0:57.4135  + 0.2989
 7.  Craig Lowndes         Ford Falcon FG        0:57.4145  + 0.2999
 8.  James Courtney        Ford Falcon FG        0:57.4283  + 0.3137
 9.  Steven Johnson        Ford Falcon FG        0:57.4450  + 0.3304
10.  Jason Bright          Ford Falcon FG        0:57.5321  + 0.4175
11.  Greg Murphy           Holden Commodore VE   0:57.5809  + 0.4663
12.  Steven Richards       Ford Falcon FG        0:57.5987  + 0.4841
13.  Todd Kelly            Holden Commodore VE   0:57.6077  + 0.4931
14.  Russell Ingall        Holden Commodore VE   0:57.6388  + 0.5242
15.  Lee Holdsworth        Holden Commodore VE   0:57.6451  + 0.5305
16.  Paul Dumbrell         Holden Commodore VE   0:57.6549  + 0.5403
17.  Alex Davison          Ford Falcon FG        0:57.6588  + 0.5442
18.  Jack Perkins          Holden Commodore VE   0:57.6729  + 0.5583
19.  Tim Slade             Holden Commodore VE   0:57.6846  + 0.5700
20.  Jason Bargwanna       Holden Commodore VE   0:57.7078  + 0.5932
21.  Cameron McConville    Holden Commodore VE   0:57.7839  + 0.6693
22.  Shane Van Gisbergen   Ford Falcon FG        0:57.7908  + 0.6762
23.  Michael Patrizi       Ford Falcon BF        0:57.8004  + 0.6858
24.  David Reynolds        Holden Commodore VE   0:57.8771  + 0.7625
25.  Tony D'Alberto        Holden Commodore VE   0:57.8982  + 0.7836
26.  Dean Fiore            Holden Commodore VE   0:57.9055  + 0.7909
27.  Michael Caruso        Holden Commodore VE   0:57.9463  + 0.8317
28.  Jason Richards        Holden Commodore VE   0:58.1023  + 0.9877
29.  Mark McNally          Holden Commodore VE   0:58.4412  + 1.3266