Red Bull Racing Australia and Brad Jones Racing locked out the top four places in Practice 2 at Symmons Plains, the first full-field V8 Supercars session of the weekend.
Red Bull duo Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes monopolised the number one position across the 30 minutes, with Whincup eventually emerging fastest with a 51.5974s effort.
Fabian Coulthard’s best had the Lockwood Holden 0.0026s adrift in second, with Lowndes and Jason Bright just fractions further back in third and fourth respectively.
Bright was the only one of the quartet to improve on his final run, bumping Practice 1 pace-setter Mark Winterbottom to fifth in the process.
James Courtney, Garth Tander, Jonathon Webb, Russell Ingall and Shane van Gisbergen completed the top 10.
The session was punctuated by two red flag periods, both called for dramas with the Erebus Mercedes E63s.
The first stoppage came at the eight minute mark and allowed officials to retrieve Tim Slade’s #47 entry from the Turn 4 gravel.
An off from team-mate Lee Holdsworth, still struggling with the electric power steering issues he encountered in Practice 1, brought a second brief halt to proceedings at the halfway mark.
See below for the full Practice 2 result
| 1 | Red Bull Racing Australia | Jamie Whincup | Holden Commodore VF | 0:51.5974 | |
| 2 | Lockwood Racing | Fabian Coulthard | Holden Commodore VF | 0:51.6000 | 0:00.0026 |
| 3 | Red Bull Racing Australia | Craig Lowndes | Holden Commodore VF | 0:51.6333 | 0:00.0359 |
| 4 | Team BOC | Jason Bright | Holden Commodore VF | 0:51.7464 | 0:00.1490 |
| 5 | Pepsi Max Crew FPR Ford | Mark Winterbottom | Ford Falcon FG | 0:51.7771 | 0:00.1797 |
| 6 | Holden Racing Team | James Courtney | Holden Commodore VF | 0:51.8833 | 0:00.2859 |
| 7 | Holden Racing Team | Garth Tander | Holden Commodore VF | 0:51.9064 | 0:00.3090 |
| 8 | Tekno Autosports | Jonathon Webb | Holden Commodore VF | 0:51.9220 | 0:00.3246 |
| 9 | Supercheap Auto Racing | Russell Ingall | Holden Commodore VF | 0:51.9282 | 0:00.3308 |
| 10 | TEKNO Team VIP | Shane Van Gisbergen | Holden Commodore VF | 0:51.9703 | 0:00.3729 |
| 11 | Dodo Insurance Racing | Dean Fiore | Holden Commodore VF | 0:52.0389 | 0:00.4415 |
| 12 | Wilson Security Racing | David Wall | Holden Commodore VF | 0:52.1092 | 0:00.5118 |
| 13 | ekol Racing | Scott Pye | Holden Commodore VF | 0:52.1753 | 0:00.5779 |
| 14 | Fujitsu Racing GRM | Scott McLaughlin | Holden Commodore VF | 0:52.2526 | 0:00.6552 |
| 15 | The Bottle-O FPR Ford | David Reynolds | Ford Falcon FG | 0:52.4507 | 0:00.8533 |
| 16 | Fujitsu Racing GRM | Alexandre Premat | Holden Commodore VF | 0:52.4769 | 0:00.8795 |
| 17 | Norton 360 Racing | Michael Caruso | Nissan Altima | 0:52.6070 | 0:01.0096 |
| 18 | Pepsi Max Crew FPR Ford | Will Davison | Ford Falcon FG | 0:52.6368 | 0:01.0394 |
| 19 | Team HIFLEX | Tony D’Alberto | Holden Commodore VF | 0:52.6860 | 0:01.0886 |
| 20 | Jeld-wen FPR Ford | Alex Davison | Ford Falcon FG | 0:52.7137 | 0:01.1163 |
| 21 | Jack Daniel’s Racing | Todd Kelly | Nissan Altima | 0:52.7214 | 0:01.1240 |
| 22 | Irwin Racing | Lee Holdsworth | Mercedes E63 AMG | 0:52.7566 | 0:01.1592 |
| 23 | Norton 360 Racing | James Moffat | Nissan Altima | 0:52.8496 | 0:01.2522 |
| 24 | Wilson Security Racing | Tim Blanchard | Ford Falcon FG | 0:52.9411 | 0:01.3437 |
| 25 | Jack Daniel’s Racing | Rick Kelly | Nissan Altima | 0:52.9688 | 0:01.3714 |
| 26 | SP Tools Racing | Maro Engel | Mercedes E63 AMG | 0:53.0272 | 0:01.4298 |
| 27 | Heavy Haulage Racing | Tim Slade | Mercedes E63 AMG | 0:53.2539 | 0:01.6565 |
| 28 | Wilson Security Racing | Jonny Reid | Ford Falcon FG | 0:53.5015 | 0:01.9041 |
