After a disaster in race one of the Gold Coast 600, Ford Performance Racing bounced back in emphatic style, taking a clean sweep of the front row for race two.
Having been unable to show his strong weekend pace in yesterday's race, Mark Winterbottom showed that he's the man to beat at Surfers Paradise with an amazing effort of 1m12.0389s, a whopping 0.3sec ahead of a field in which a second covered the top 19.
FPR delight was doubled in the final seconds of the session when Steven Richards stitched together a great effort to nick into second, knocking James Courtney off the front row by just 0.02sec.
Jamie Whincup was the top Holden in fourth, while another great late effort lifted Jason Bright into sixth. But it was a poor session for yesterday's winner Garth Tander, who picked up damage in his HRT Holden and ended up way back in 15th.
Pos Drivers Car Time
1. Winterbottom/Youlden Ford Falcon FG 1m12.0389s
2. S Richards/Power Ford Falcon FG 1m12.3944s +0.3555s
3. Courtney/Luff Ford Falcon FG 1m12.4122s +0.3733s
4. Whincup/Owen Holden Commodore VE 1m12.4846s +0.4457s
5. Bright/Menu Holden Commodore VE 1m12.5381s +0.4992s
6. Van Gisbergen/McIntyre Ford Falcon FG 1m12.5608s +0.5219s
7. Holdsworth/Ritter Holden Commodore VE 1m12.5680s +0.5291s
8. Dumbrell/Villeneuve Ford Falcon FG 1m12.5869s +0.5480s
9. J Richards/Jones Holden Commodore VE 1m12.5888s +0.5499s
10. R Kelly/O Kelly Holden Commodore VE 1m12.7159s +0.6770s
11. Lowndes/Priaulx Holden Commodore VE 1m12.7633s +0.7244s
12. Johnson/Franchitti Ford Falcon FG 1m12.7989s +0.7600s
13. Murphy/Muller Holden Commodore VE 1m12.8713s +0.8324s
14. Caruso/Long Holden Commodore VE 1m12.8845s +0.8456s
15. Tander/McConville Holden Commodore VE 1m12.9575s +0.9186s
16. T Kelly/Dixon Holden Commodore VE 1m12.9736s +0.9347s
17. A Davison/Brabham Ford Falcon FG 1m12.9858s +0.9469s
18. D'Alberto/Monteiro Holden Commodore VE 1m12.9926s +0.9537s
19. Webb/Bourdais Ford Falcon FG 1m13.0249s +0.9860s
20. Thompson/Salo Holden Commodore VE 1m13.0873s +1.0484s
21. W Davison/Briscoe Holden Commodore VE 1m13.1018s +1.0629s
22. Bargwanna/Tagliani Holden Commodore VE 1m13.1477s +1.1088s
23. Slade/Castroneves Ford Falcon FG 1m13.2287s +1.1898s
24. Coulthard/Reynolds Holden Commodore VE 1m13.2389s +1.2000s
25. Ingall/Perkins Holden Commodore VE 1m13.2447s +1.2058s
26. Reindler/Giovanardi Holden Commodore VE 1m13.5509s +1.5120s
27. Fiore/Morbidelli Ford Falcon FG 1m13.6985s +1.6596s
28. Ricciardello/Wood Holden Commodore VE 1m14.5809s +2.5420s
29. Pretty/Pruett Holden Commodore VE 1m14.6728s +2.6339s