Scott McLaughlin has celebrated the Polestar Volvo Racing team’s announcement of a title sponsorship deal by putting his S60 racer on pole position for the second and final race of this weekend’s Gold Coast 600.
The New Zealander pumped out a superb time of 1:11.0273 on his final flying lap to snatch top spot from reigning championship Jamie Whincup by 0.125 seconds; the result moved the popular youngster from fourth on the timesheets to top spot.
Whincup’s Red Bull Racing teammate Craig Lowndes will share Row 2 of the starting grid with yesterday’s pole- and race-winner, Shane van Gisbergen, in the TEKNO Holden.
Will Davison qualified an excellent fifth-fastest in his Erebus Motorsport AMG Mercedes, ahead of former teammate David Reynolds in the extensively rebuilt Bottle-O Racing Ford Falcon.
James Moffat was seventh-fastest in his Norton Nissan, ensuring all five manufacturers were represented on the first four rows of the grid. Tim Slade, Chaz Mostert – despite a wild crash at Turn 2 – and James Courtney rounded out the top ten.
Championship hopeful Mark Winterbottom once again had a poor qualifying session and will start from thirteenth place in his FPR Falcon, behind Garth Tander and Michael Caruso.
Today’s 300-kilometre race over 102 laps kicks off at 1:55pm local time (GMT +10).
2014 V8 Supercars Gold Coast 600 – Race 2 Qualifying Results:
| Top-10 Shootout | Team / Entry | Result | ||
| 1. | Scott McLaughlin / Alexandre Premat |  |
Valvoline Racing Polestar GRM | 1:11.0273 |
| 2. | Jamie Whincup / Paul Dumbrell |  |
Red Bull Racing Australia | + 0.1250 |
| 3. | Craig Lowndes / Steven Richards | |
Red Bull Racing Australia | + 0.2449 |
| 4. | Shane van Gisbergen / Jonathon Webb | |
Team TEKNO VIP Petfoods | + 0.2741 |
| 5. | Will Davison / Alex Davison |  |
Erebus Motorsport V8 | + 0.3922 |
| 6. | David Reynolds / Dean Canto |  |
The Bottle-O Racing Team | + 0.4444 |
| 7. | James Moffat / Taz Douglas |  |
Norton Hornets | + 0.4959 |
| 8. | Tim Slade / Tony D’Alberto | |
SuperCheap Auto Racing | + 0.5019 |
| 9. | Chaz Mostert / Paul Morris | |
Pepsi Max Crew Ford Performance Racing | + 0.5329 |
| 10. | James Courtney / Greg Murphy | |
Holden Racing Team | + 0.5613 |
| 11. | Garth Tander / Warren Luff | |
Holden Racing Team | + 0.5689 |
| 12. | Michael Caruso / Dean Fiore | |
Norton Hornets | + 0.5855 |
| 13. | Mark Winterbottom / Steve Owen | |
Pepsi Max Crew Ford Performance Racing | + 0.6028 |
| 14. | Todd Kelly / Alex Buncombe | |
Jack Daniel’s Racing | + 0.6656 |
| 15. | Lee Holdsworth / Craig Baird | |
Erebus Motorsport V8 | + 0.7468 |
| 16. | Nick Percat / Oliver Gavin | |
HHA Racing | + 0.7483 |
| 17. | Fabian Coulthard / Luke Youlden | |
Lockwood Racing | + 0.8139 |
| 18. | Robert Dahlgren / Greg Ritter | |
Valvoline Racing Polestar GRM | + 0.8939 |
| 19. | Jack Perkins / Cameron Waters | |
Team Jeld-Wen | + 0.9061 |
| 20. | Rick Kelly / David Russell | |
Jack Daniel’s Racing | + 0.9271 |
| 21. | Scott Pye / Ashley Walsh | |
Wilson Security Racing | + 0.9677 |
| 22. | David Wall / Steven Johnson | |
Wilson Security Racing | + 1.0651 |
| 23. | Russell Ingall / Tim Blanchard | |
Repair Management Australia Racing | + 1.1345 |
| 24. | Jason Bright / Andrew Jones | |
Team BOC | + 1.2541 |
| 25. | Dale Wood / Chris Pither | |
Team ADVAM / GB | + 1.5148 |
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