» V8s: Davison secures Race 1 pole at Sydney

Will Davison has claimed his third pole position of the season ahead of today’s penultimate race of the V8 Supercars championship at the Homebush street circuit. Championship rivals Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes will start from fifth and tenth place respectively.

Championship leader Whincup had continued his strong practice form to go quickest in the first qualifying session, which determined the ten-quickest drivers who would proceed to the subsequent one-lap Top-10 Shootout.

But the team Vodafone driver fluffed the first sector on his only flying lap, managing to recover enough lap-time to finish up fifth quickest.

Whincup managed a better job than team-mate Lowndes, who spun at Turn 9 on his flying lap; he will start from tenth place.

Davison managed to claim pole position in his Ford Performance Racing entry, edging out provisional pole-sitter and Homebush specialist Lee Holdsworth (GRM Holden), who will start alongside him from the front row.

Today’s 74-lap race starts at 3pm local time.

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V8 Supercars Sydney Telstra 500 Qualifying Results (Race 1):

	Driver	Entry / Team	Q1	Top-10
1.	Will Davison	Trading Post / Ford Performance Racing	1:27.604	1:28.116
2.	Lee Holdsworth	Fujitsu Racing / Garry Rogers Motorsport	1:28.100	1:28.485
3.	Mark Winterbottom	Orrcon Steel / Ford Performance Racing	1:28.090	1:28.522
4.	Shane van Gisbergen	SP Tools / Stone Brothers Racing	1:28.147	1:28.552
5.	Jamie Whincup	Team Vodafone / Triple 8 Racing	1:27.495	1:28.613
6.	Jonathon Webb	Mother Energy Racing Team / Tekno	1:28.189	1:28.839
7.	Tim Slade	Lucky 7 Racing / Stone Brothers Racing	1:28.100	1:28.965
8.	Rick Kelly	Jack Daniel’s / Kelly Racing	1:28.301	1:29.118
9.	Michael Caruso	Fujitsu Racing / Garry Rogers Motorsport	1:28.219	1:29.186
10.	Craig Lowndes	Team Vodafone / Triple 8 Racing	1:28.231	1:47.932
11.	Garth Tander	TOLL / Holden Racing Team	1:28.319
12.	Tony D’Alberto	Wilson Security / Tony D’Alberto Racing	1:28.348
13.	James Courtney	TOLL / Holden Racing Team	1:28.467
14.	Russell Ingall	Supercheap Auto / Paul Morris M’sport	1:28.505
15.	James Moffat	Jim Beam Racing / Dick Johnson Racing	1:28.528
16.	Jason Bargwanna	Jana Living Racing / Brad Jones Racing	1:28.637
17.	Todd Kelly	Jack Daniel’s / Kelly Racing	1:28.669
18.	Greg Murphy	Pepsi Max Crew / Kelly Racing	1:28.680
19.	Paul Dumbrell	The Bottle-O Racing Team / Rod Nash	1:28.683
20.	Dean Fiore	Westrac Racing / Triple F Racing	1:28.703
21.	Steven Johnson	Jim Beam Racing / Dick Johnson Racing	1:28.716
22.	Steve Owen	VIP Petfoods / Paul Morris Motorsport	1:28.811
23.	Fabian Coulthard	Bundaberg Racing / Walkinshaw Racing	1:28.895
24.	Warren Luff	Gulf Western Oil / Lucas Dumbrell	1:28.902
25.	David Reynolds	Stratco Racing / Kelly Racing	1:28.904
26.	Jason Bright	Team BOC / Brad Jones Racing	1:28.946
27.	Alex Davison	Irwin / Stone Brothers Racing	1:28.958
28.	Karl Reindler	Fair Dinkum Sheds / Brad Jones Racing	1:29.074