Will Davison wins and reclaims championship lead

Will Davison bounced back from yesterday’s crash and won the second V8 Supercars race at Philip Island, reclaiming the lead of the championship from Jamie Whincup who finished fifth in this race. Davison started third but quickly made his way in to the lead as pole man Craig Lowndes stalled his Holden at the start.

Lowndes dropped several positions in the start and had to fight his way back. The Triple Eight driver was fastest of the field and climbed back up to second. He closed in on leading Davison on the final couple of laps, but didn’t get close enough and finished second with a margin of 0.5 seconds.

“When I saw Lowndes get by Bright I was pretty nervous. I was down last night, I didn’t enjoy yesterday. I’m stoked with this one today,” said Davison.

“I have to stop doing those Mark Skaife starts! It was a hell of a day for us. We had such a disappointing race yesterday but had to bounce back after my bad start. If I had another 10 laps I would have had a chance with Will but he kept the gap constant,” said Lowndes.

Jason Bright made his way to third in the race, partly thanks to only doing one pitstop, with Shane van Gisbergen in fourth and Whincup in fifth.

Previous race winner Mark Winterbottom finished sixth ahead of Jonathon Webb. David Reynolds, Lee Holdsworth and Garth Tander rounded off the top ten.

The stewards decided ahead of the race that yesterday’s crash between Davison and Whincup was not to be penalized.