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James Courtney and David Reynolds will start from pole position for this afternoon’s two respective 100-kilometres races that will bring down the curtain on the V8 Supercars SkyCity Triple Crown at Hidden Valley Raceway.
Courtney recorded a scorching lap of 1.08.54 around the 2.87-kilometre lap, just under one-tenth of a second faster than Ford Performance Racing’s Mark Winterbottom, who will join him on the front row of the grid.
Winterbottom set his lap in the dying seconds of the 15-minute session, one-hundredth of a second faster than his FPR stablemate Will Davison, who rounded out the top three. Yesterday’s winner, Jamie Whincup, will start from fifth on the grid behind Fabian Coulthard, who qualified well for Brad Jones Racing.
Tim Slade was the surprise of the opening qualifying session, reserving sixth place on the grid for his Erebus Motorsport-prepared AMG Mercedes. Other notable names in the top-ten include Shane van Gisbergen in ninth for Tekno Autosport, and Craig Lowndes for Red Bull Racing, who managed to scrape onto the fifth row of the grid by the narrowest of margins.
Jason Bright, Scott McLaughlin and Garth Tander all qualified further back, and will start the race from 11th, 14th and 15th respectively. Rick Kelly was also disappointing in the session, unable to back-up his impressive fifth place finish in the opening race yesterday. The factory Nissan pilot will start from 28th at the very back of the grid.
2013 V8 Supercars SkyCity Triple Crown – Race 2 Qualifying Results:
| Driver | Entry / Team | Result | ||
| 1. | James Courtney |  |
Holden Racing Team / TWR | 1:08.5384 |
| 2. | Mark Winterbottom |  |
Pepsi Max Crew / Ford Performance Racing | + 0.0912 |
| 3. | Will Davison | |
Pepsi Max Crew / Ford Performance Racing | + 0.0920 |
| 4. | Fabian Coulthard | |
Lockwood Racing / Brad Jones Racing | + 0.1034 |
| 5. | Jamie Whincup | |
Red Bull Racing AU / Triple 8 Engineering | + 0.1139 |
| 6. | Tim Slade |  |
Heavy Haulage Racing / Erebus Motorsport | + 0.1512 |
| 7. | Jonathon Webb | |
Darrell Lea Racing / Tekno Autosports | + 0.1538 |
| 8. | David Reynolds | |
Bottle-O Racing / Ford Performance Racing | + 0.1740 |
| 9. | Shane van Gisbergen | |
VIP Petfoods / Tekno Autosports | + 0.2220 |
| 10. | Craig Lowndes | |
Red Bull Racing AU / Triple 8 Engineering | + 0.3388 |
| 11. | Jason Bright | |
Team BOC / Brad Jones Racing | + 0.3405 |
| 12. | Todd Kelly |  |
Jack Daniel’s Racing / Nissan Motorsport | + 0.3474 |
| 13. | Chaz Mostert | |
Wilson Security Racing / Dick Johnson Racing | + 0.3535 |
| 14. | Scott McLaughlin | |
Fujitsu Racing / Garry Rogers Motorsport | + 0.4171 |
| 15. | Garth Tander | |
Holden Racing Team / TWR | + 0.4200 |
| 16. | David Wall | |
Wilson Security Racing / Brad Jones Racing | + 0.4406 |
| 17. | Dean Fiore | |
Dodo Insurance / Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport | + 0.4847 |
| 18. | Maro Engel | |
SP Tools Racing / Erebus Motorsport | + 0.6448 |
| 19. | Alexandre Prémat | |
Fujitsu Racing / Garry Rogers Motorsport | + 0.6497 |
| 20. | Lee Holdsworth | |
IRWIN Racing / Erebus Motorsport | + 0.6806 |
| 21. | Tony D’Alberto | |
Team HIFLEX / Tony D’Alberto Racing | + 0.7278 |
| 22. | Michael Caruso | |
Norton 360 Racing / Nissan Motorsport | + 0.7352 |
| 23. | Russell Ingall | |
SuperCheap Auto Racing / TWR | + 0.7405 |
| 24. | James Moffat | |
Norton 360 Racing / Nissan Motorsport | + 0.7832 |
| 25. | Scott Pye | |
EKOL Racing / Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport | + 0.8248 |
| 26. | Tim Blanchard | |
Wilson Security Racing / Dick Johnson Racing | + 0.8323 |
| 27. | Alex Davison | |
Jeld-Wen Racing / Ford Performance Racing | + 0.8515 |
| 28. | Rick Kelly | |
Jack Daniel’s Racing / Nissan Motorsport | + 0.9016 |
After a short 10 minute break qualifying for Sunday’s second race kicked off, and David Reynolds put a disappointing Saturday race behind him to secure pole position for the final race of the SKYCITY Triple Crown. The Bottle-O Racing pilot set a 1.08.2, the fastest qualifying time of the weekend in the dying minutes of the session.
In what was his second pole position of the weekend, Reynolds narrowly upstaged Craig Lowndes by three-hundredths of a second, reminiscent of yesterday’s Top-10 shootout where he edged out the other Red Bull Racing pilot, Jamie Whincup, by a similar margin.
James Courtney backed up his unassailable pace in the earlier qualifying session, reserving third on the grid ahead of Scott McLaughlin and Mark Winterbottom, who rounded out the top 5 for Garry Rogers Motorsport and Ford Performance Racing respectively. Coulthard, Davison, Bright, Whincup and Slade (once again) made up the top-10.
It was another disappointing session for Garth Tander and Shane van Gisbergen, who both missed out and will start from 11th and 14th respectively. In what has become an extremely promising round for the Gold-Coast based Erebus Motorsport outfit, Maro Engel and Lee Holdsworth backed up Tim Slade’s impressive pace, and will start from 15th and 18th on the grid, well above the usual grid slots for the underpowered C63 AMGs.
The action kicks off at 1:15pm Central Standard Time for Race 18. The second, 100 kilometre sprint will follow shortly after to round out the SKYCITY Triple Crown.
2013 V8 Supercars SkyCity Triple Crown – Race 3 Qualifying Results:
| Driver | Entry / Team | Result | ||
| 1. | David Reynolds | |
Bottle-O Racing / Ford Performance Racing | 1:08.2382 |
| 2. | Craig Lowndes | |
Red Bull Racing AU / Triple 8 Engineering | + 0.0392 |
| 3. | James Courtney | |
Holden Racing Team / TWR | + 0.0803 |
| 4. | Scott McLaughlin | |
Fujitsu Racing / Garry Rogers Motorsport | + 0.1822 |
| 5. | Mark Winterbottom | |
Pepsi Max Crew / Ford Performance Racing | + 0.2148 |
| 6. | Fabian Coulthard | |
Lockwood Racing / Brad Jones Racing | + 0.2729 |
| 7. | Will Davison | |
Pepsi Max Crew / Ford Performance Racing | + 0.3222 |
| 8. | Jason Bright | |
Team BOC / Brad Jones Racing | + 0.3223 |
| 9. | Jamie Whincup | |
Red Bull Racing AU / Triple 8 Engineering | + 0.3257 |
| 10. | Tim Slade | |
Heavy Haulage Racing / Erebus Motorsport | + 0.3290 |
| 11. | Garth Tander | |
Holden Racing Team / TWR | + 0.3735 |
| 12. | Jonathon Webb | |
Darrell Lea Racing / Tekno Autosports | + 0.4521 |
| 13. | Todd Kelly | |
Jack Daniel’s Racing / Nissan Motorsport | + 0.4835 |
| 14. | Shane van Gisbergen | |
VIP Petfoods / Tekno Autosports | + 0.4954 |
| 15. | Maro Engel | |
SP Tools Racing / Erebus Motorsport | + 0.5044 |
| 16. | David Wall | |
Wilson Security Racing / Brad Jones Racing | + 0.5174 |
| 17. | Alex Davison | |
Jeld-Wen Racing / Ford Performance Racing | + 0.5352 |
| 18. | Lee Holdsworth | |
IRWIN Racing / Erebus Motorsport | + 0.5510 |
| 19. | Michael Caruso | |
Norton 360 Racing / Nissan Motorsport | + 0.5955 |
| 20. | Chaz Mostert | |
Wilson Security Racing / Dick Johnson Racing | + 0.5995 |
| 21. | Scott Pye | |
EKOL Racing / Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport | + 0.6615 |
| 22. | James Moffat | |
Norton 360 Racing / Nissan Motorsport | + 0.7356 |
| 23. | Tony D’Alberto | |
Team HIFLEX / Tony D’Alberto Racing | + 0.7634 |
| 24. | Dean Fiore | |
Dodo Insurance / Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport | + 0.7954 |
| 25. | Rick Kelly | |
Jack Daniel’s Racing / Nissan Motorsport | + 0.7151 |
| 26. | Russell Ingall | |
SuperCheap Auto Racing / TWR | + 0.9479 |
| 27. | Alexandre Prémat | |
Fujitsu Racing / Garry Rogers Motorsport | + 1.2246 |
| 28. | Tim Blanchard | |
Wilson Security Racing / Dick Johnson Racing | + 0.8542 |
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