The resurgent Fabian Coulthard has delighted his hometown fans by winning pole position for today’s second V8 Supercars Championship race at Pukekohe Raceway.
The Brad Jones Racing driver hustled his Holden Commodore around the high-speed circuit to clock the session’s fastest time of 1:02.6310 to edge out Craig Lowndes by just four-hundredths of a second.
Increasingly cloudy conditions made track conditions perfect for a closely-fought qualifying session, with the fastest eight drivers all managing to post times under the 1m03s barrier.
Reigning champion Jamie Whincup was third-fastest ahead of the FPR Fords of Will Davison and Mark Winterbottom. Garth Tander, David Reynolds, Jason Bright, Scott McLaughlin and James Courtney rounded out the top-ten.
Rick Kelly finished up an impressive twelfth-fastest and the quickest of the Nissan Altima, one spot ahead of Lee Holdsworth, who was quickest of the Erebus Motorsport AMG entries.
2013 V8 Supercars ITM400 Auckland – Race 2 Qualifying Results:
| Driver | Entry / Team | Result | ||
| 1. | Fabian Coulthard |  |
Lockwood Racing / Brad Jones Racing | 1:02.6310 |
| 2. | Craig Lowndes | |
Red Bull Racing AU / Triple 8 Engineering | + 0.0464 |
| 3. | Jamie Whincup | |
Red Bull Racing AU / Triple 8 Engineering | + 0.0907 |
| 4. | Will Davison |  |
Pepsi Max Crew / Ford Performance Racing | + 0.2000 |
| 5. | Mark Winterbottom | |
Pepsi Max Crew / Ford Performance Racing | + 0.3164 |
| 6. | Garth Tander | |
Holden Racing Team / TWR | + 0.3380 |
| 7. | David Reynolds | |
Bottle-O Racing / Ford Performance Racing | + 0.3628 |
| 8. | Jason Bright | |
Team BOC / Brad Jones Racing | + 0.4041 |
| 9. | Scott McLaughlin | |
Fujitsu Racing / Garry Rogers Motorsport | + 0.4704 |
| 10. | James Courtney | |
Holden Racing Team / TWR | + 0.5188 |
| 11. | Shane van Gisbergen | |
VIP Petfoods / Tekno Autosports | + 0.5585 |
| 12. | Rick Kelly |  |
Jack Daniel’s Racing / Nissan Motorsport | + 0.5752 |
| 13. | Lee Holdsworth |  |
IRWIN Racing / Erebus Motorsport | + 0.5777 |
| 14. | Alexandre Prémat | |
Fujitsu Racing / Garry Rogers Motorsport | + 0.6048 |
| 15. | David Wall | |
Wilson Security Racing / Brad Jones Racing | + 0.6595 |
| 16. | Michael Caruso | |
Norton 360 Racing / Nissan Motorsport | + 0.6652 |
| 17. | James Moffat | |
Norton 360 Racing / Nissan Motorsport | + 0.7173 |
| 18. | Jonathon Webb | |
Tekno Autosports | + 0.7582 |
| 19. | Alex Davison | |
Jeld-Wen Racing / Ford Performance Racing | + 0.8105 |
| 20. | Russell Ingall | |
SuperCheap Auto Racing / TWR | + 0.8105 |
| 21. | Dean Fiore | |
Dodo Insurance / Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport | + 0.8492 |
| 22. | Tim Blanchard | |
Wilson Security Racing / Dick Johnson Racing | + 1.0734 |
| 23. | Maro Engel | |
SP Tools Racing / Erebus Motorsport | + 1.1884 |
| 24. | Tony D’Alberto | |
Team HIFLEX / Tony D’Alberto Racing | + 1.2185 |
| 25. | Todd Kelly | |
Jack Daniel’s Racing / Nissan Motorsport | + 1.3278 |
| 26. | Jonny Reid | |
Wilson Security Racing / Dick Johnson Racing | + 1.4473 |
| 27. | Tim Slade | |
Heavy Haulage Racing / Erebus Motorsport | no time |
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