JAMIE WHINCUP/No.88 Team Vodafone Holden took away the provisional pole position from GARTH TANDER/No.2 Toll Holden Racing Team Holden after the Top Ten Shootout Saturday morning, with a record time of 1:11.7184. That record time was even faster than Tander’s original record qualifying lap. Whincup’s Guest International driver is SEBASTIEN BOURDAIS of France, who won twice at Surfers in the CART series.
The entire Top Ten positions changed for the race.
The weather also changed … again … for the shootout with the sun out and bright, between the parting clouds.
The V8 Supercar series gained a whole lot of converts in the United States after the recent live seven-hour+ airing of the Bathurst 1000 on SPEED TV. A whole contingent of SPEED talent came over for the Bathurst race, including LEE DIFFEY, CALVIN FISH, MIKE JOY, MARSHALL PRUETT and DARRELL WALTRIP. They’re all back again for this weekend.
The second of the two Gold Coast rounds will air live on SPEED TV Saturday 22 October 2011 at 11 ET/8PT.
The lineup for Round 21
1. JAMIE WHINCUP & SEBASTIEN BOURDAIS – Holden
2. GARTH TANDER & RYAN BRISCOE – Holden
3. WILL DAVISON & MIKA SALO – Ford
4. STEVE OWEN & BORIS SAID – Holden
5. ALEX DAVISON & MARC LIEB – Ford
6. JAMES MOFFAT & JOEY HAND – Ford
7. LEE HOLDSWORTH & SIMON PAGENAUD – Holden
8. RICK KELLY & JORG BERGMEISTER- Holden
9. SHANE VAN GISBERGEN & EMANUELE PIRRO – Ford
10. JAMES COURTNEY & DARREN TURNER – Holden
11. FABIAN COULTHARD & PATRICK LONG- Holden
12. DAVID REYNOLDS & ALEX TAGLIANI- Holden
13. RUSSELL INGALL & JAN MAGNUSSEN- Holden
14. MICHAEL CARUSO & AUGUSTO FARFUS Jr- Holden
15. CRAIG LOWNDES & ANDY PRIAULX- Holden
16. JONATHAN WEBB & GIL de FERRAN – Ford
17. MARK WINTERBOTTOM & RICHARD LYONS – Ford
18. GREG MURPHY & OLIVER GAVIN- Holden
19. WARREN LUFF & MARINO FRANCHITTI- Holden
20. STEVEN JOHNSON & DIRK MUELLER – Ford
21. KARL REINDLER & FABRIZO GIOVANARDI- Holden
22. TODD KELLY & RICHARD WESTBROOK- Holden
23. PAUL DUMBRELL & CHRISTIAN KLIEN – Ford
24. TIM SLADE & HELIO CASTRONEVES – Ford
25. TONY D’ALBERTO & VITANTONIO LIUZZI – Ford
26. JASON BARGWANNA & ALAN SIMONSEN- Holden
27. DEAN FIORE & GIANNI MORBIDELLI – Ford
28. JASON BRIGHT & STEPHANE SARRAZIN- Holden