Winterbottom takes Bathurst pole

In a remarkably incident-free shootout, Winterbottom was the seventh car to hit the track and like four of the six cars before him, set the fastest time of the session, recording a 2m07.5377s.

But the three cars which had gone faster than him in yesterday's qualifying session were unable to do so today, though the Team Vodafone cars of Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup got close and were about a tenth and two tenths slower respectively than Winterbottom as they qualified second and third.

Fourth fastest was Lee Holdsworth, just a few hundredths slower than Whincup, with the two Holden Racing Team cars of Garth Tander and Will Davison next up in fifth and sixth, Tander moving up three places and Davison up one.

Championship leader James Courtney will line up seventh in his Jim Beam Racing Falcon, one place ahead of the fastest man in yesterday's qualfying session Jason Bright, who just could not find the grip he had yesterday, falling seven places as he was 0.86 seconds off pole with a time 1.4s slower than Friday's effort.

The only moment of note happened at the last turn for Greg Murphy, but he gathered it up to qualify ninth, with first man out on the track Paul Dumbrell maintaining his 10th position on the grid with the slowest time of the shootout.

Pos  Drivers                  Make                 Time
 1.  Winterbottom/Youlden     Ford Falcon FG       2m07.5377s 
 2.  Lowndes/Skaife           Holden Commodore VE  2m07.6201s  + 0.0824s
 3.  Whincup/Owen             Holden Commodore VE  2m07.7226s  + 0.1849s
 4.  Holdsworth/Besnard       Holden Commodore VE  2m07.7674s  + 0.2297s
 5.  Tander/McConville        Holden Commodore VE  2m07.8489s  + 0.3112s
 6.  W Davison/Reynolds       Holden Commodore VE  2m08.0379s  + 0.5002s
 7.  Courtney/Luff            Ford Falcon FG       2m08.1665s  + 0.6288s
 8.  Bright/Halliday          Holden Commodore VE  2m08.3979s  + 0.8602s
 9.  Murphy/Simonsen          Holden Commodore VE  2m08.7361s  + 1.1984s
10.  Dumbrell/Canto           Ford Falcon FG       2m08.9597s  + 1.4220s
11.  Johnson/Marshall         Ford Falcon FG       2m07.9635s  + 0.4258s
12.  R Kelly/O Kelly          Holden Commodore VE  2m08.0556s  + 0.5179s
13.  Van Gisbergen/McIntyre   Ford Falcon FG       2m08.0656s  + 0.5279s
14.  S Richards/Moffat        Ford Falcon FG       2m08.1161s  + 0.5784s
15.  Caruso/Ritter            Holden Commodore VE  2m08.2907s  + 0.7530s
16.  Ingall/Morris            Holden Commodore VE  2m08.3541s  + 0.8164s
17.  Webb/Russell             Ford Falcon FG       2m08.3753s  + 0.8376s
18.  A Davison/Brabham        Ford Falcon FG       2m08.4052s  + 0.8675s
19.  Bargwanna/Seton          Holden Commodore VE  2m08.4550s  + 0.9173s
20.  D'Alberto/Price          Holden Commodore VE  2m08.5508s  + 1.0131s
21.  Coulthard/Baird          Holden Commodore VE  2m08.6359s  + 1.0982s
22.  Reindler/Wall            Holden Commodore VE  2m08.8156s  + 1.2779s
23.  Fiore/Patrizi            Ford Falcon FG       2m08.8886s  + 1.3509s
24.  Thompson/Briscoe         Holden Commodore VE  2m09.0272s  + 1.4895s
25.  Slade/Perkins            Ford Falcon FG       2m09.0784s  + 1.5407s
26.  Pretty/Noske             Holden Commodore VE  2m09.1773s  + 1.6396s
27.  T Kelly/Wood             Holden Commodore VE  2m09.3223s  + 1.7846s
28.  Ricciardello/Douglas     Holden Commodore VE  2m10.4957s  + 2.9580s
29.  Emery/Zukanovic          Holden Commodore VE  2m11.5023s  + 3.9646s

Excluded:
     Assaillit/Pedersen       Ford Falcon BF

Did not take part in qualifying:
     J Richards/A Jones       Holden Commodore VE