Tander takes victory in race two

Tander takes victory in race two

October 24th, 2009

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Holden Racing Team’s Garth Tander broke Mark Winterbottom’s domination of the event so far with victory in race two of the Nikon SuperGP at Surfers Paradise.

Tander took the lead into the first chicane after Winterbottom decided not to fight, and from there on, Tander showed the way, beating Winterbottom by just over two seconds.

A second behind them came Tander’s team-mate Will Davison with Craig Lowndes on his bumper, as they had been since the pitstops, where Davison gained the place back he lost to Lowndes at the start.

Sprint Gas’s Greg Murphy was next ahead of Steven Richards, with Shane van Gisbergen in seventh in a race that was almost the complete opposite of the first one, with no safety car and little drama or action taking place, most of the front-runners finishing in almost the same place as they had earlier in the day.

In fact, eighth-placed Jamie Whincup was the first driver in the order to make up more than one place relative to their first race result, jumping up from 13th to eighth. Rick Kelly did similarly, moving from twelfth to 9th, with Jason Bargwanna completing the top ten.

Pos  Driver                Make                  Time

 1.  Garth Tander          Holden Commodore VE   1:04:08.7239

 2.  Mark Winterbottom     Ford Falcon FG        +     2.2626

 3.  Will Davison          Holden Commodore VE   +     3.1917

 4.  Craig Lowndes         Ford Falcon FG        +     3.4715

 5.  Greg Murphy           Holden Commodore VE   +    10.8922

 6.  Steven Richards       Ford Falcon FG        +    11.3837

 7.  Shane van Gisbergen   Ford Falcon FG        +    13.5759

 8.  Jamie Whincup         Ford Falcon FG        +    15.5056

 9.  Rick Kelly            Holden Commodore VE   +    16.2552

10.  Jason Bargwanna       Holden Commodore VE   +    30.9704

11.  Steven Johnson        Ford Falcon FG        +    31.3436

12.  Michael Caruso        Holden Commodore VE   +    31.7367

13.  Fabian Coulthard      Ford Falcon FG        +    36.1873

14.  Lee Holdsworth        Holden Commodore VE   +    44.4408

15.  Jack Perkins          Holden Commodore VE   +    46.1351

16.  James Courtney        Ford Falcon FG        +    49.6235

17.  Alex Davison          Ford Falcon FG        +    52.7830

18.  David Reynolds        Holden Commodore VE   +    53.2096

19.  Cameron McConville    Holden Commodore VE   +    53.6131

20.  Jason Bright          Ford Falcon FG        +    54.7141

21.  Tim Slade             Holden Commodore VE   +    56.4922

22.  Paul Dumbrell         Holden Commodore VE   +    56.8520

23.  Todd Kelly            Holden Commodore VE   +  1:03.3743

24.  Jason Richards        Holden Commodore VE   +  1:16.1674

25.  Tony D'Alberto        Holden Commodore VE   +  1:37.2169

26.  Michael Patrizi       Ford Falcon BF        +     1 lap

27.  Mark McNally          Holden Commodore VE   +     1 lap

28.  Dean Fiore            Holden Commodore VE   +     2 laps

Not classified/retirements:

     Driver                Make                  Laps

     Russell Ingall        Holden Commodore VE    11