Jamie Whincup and Paul Dumbrell have recorded a second consecutive victory in the Wilson Security Sandown 500 on a dominant day for Holden.

The #1 Red Bull Commodore showed the way for the majority of the 161 laps, only briefly losing the lead in the first pitstop cycle.

The Holden Racing Team took out a double-podium with James Courtney/Greg Murphy second and Garth Tander/Warren Luff third.

Tander held out Craig Lowndes in a late battle for the final podium spot, while Scott Pye/Ash Walsh drove Dick Johnson Racing’s #16 Ford to a fine fifth.

The race included a major crash for Lee Holdsworth early in the final stint.

The Erebus driver was able to walk away from a heavily damaged Mercedes after a high-speed impact with the tyre wall at Turn 6.

The Holdsworth Safety Car saw Whincup’s near 12 second lead over Courtney evaporate ahead of a restart with 22 laps remaining.

Although potentially setting up a thrilling finish, the HRT Commodore had to fight its way through three lapped cars after the green flag and never appeared likely to truly challenge.

Behind the top five, Shane van Gisbergen drove his Tekno Holden to sixth despite a power steering fluid leak in the closing stages.

Co-driver Jonathon Webb ran second to Dumbrell for much of the early going before losing crucial pace late in his final stint before handing over to Van Gisbergen.

With co-drivers needing to complete 54 laps all cars, bar the David Reynolds/Dean Canto Ford, started with their part-timer behind the wheel.

A Safety Car to fix the apex cones at Turn 6 on lap 45 ensured the majority of co-drivers battled it out for longer than expected, as they then stayed in the car until able to make it home on just two more stops.

Reynolds and Canto were well in contention for a podium until a drive-through for the car’s rear-wheels spinning during their second driver change put them back in the pack.

A similar infringement also took care of Michael Caruso/Dean Fiore, who vaulted into the top 10 mix as the eventual result of an early first pitstop.

Chaz Mostert salvaged seventh from a trying weekend for Ford Performance Racing, barging Scott McLaughlin’s Volvo out of the way late in the going.

Mostert enjoyed fresher tyres than his rivals at the end after going off-sequence in order to take over from co-driver Paul Morris as early as possible.

McLaughlin and Alex Premat finished eighth despite losing signifiant ground during the pitstops on lap 45, where the Frenchman found himself stuck behind Oliver Gavin, who was in turn waiting for service behind team-mate Tony D’Alberto.

Reynolds finished ninth, ahead of stable-mate Mark Winterbottom, who never truly recovered from a spin by co-driver Steve Owen late in his final stint.

Joining Holdsworth on the retirements list were Jason Bright/Andrew Jones, whose day began with losing a door skin during a hectic opening lap, and ended courtesy of debris from the Mercedes crash.

Taz Douglas and James Moffat earlier saw their race over due to a dry-break fuel filler malfunction that saw the team unable to remove the fuel hose during the #360 Nissan’s maiden pitstop on lap 15.

The results see Whincup extend his championship lead out to 273 points over now second placed man Lowndes.

Winterbottom now sits third, a further four points adrift of the second Red Bull driver.

Result: Race 29 V8 Supercars, Sandown 500

1

Red Bull Racing Australia

J.Whincup/P.Dumbrell

Holden Commodore VF

161

03:22:44.31

2

Holden Racing Team

J.Courtney/G.Murphy

Holden Commodore VF

161

03:22:46.96

3

Holden Racing Team

G.Tander/W.Luff

Holden Commodore VF

161

03:22:49.52

4

Red Bull Racing Australia

C.Lowndes/S.Richards

Holden Commodore VF

161

03:22:49.98

5

Wilson Security Racing

S.Pye/A.Walsh

Ford Falcon FG

161

03:22:53.27

6

Team Tekno VIP Petfoods

S.Van Gisbergen/J.Webb

Holden Commodore VF

161

03:22:57.06

7

Ford Pepsi Max Crew

C.Mostert/P.Morris

Ford Falcon FG

161

03:22:57.54

8

Valvoline Racing GRM

S.McLaughlin/A.Premat

Volvo S60

161

03:22:59.45

9

The Bottle-O Racing Team

D.Reynolds/D.Canto

Ford Falcon FG

161

03:23:01.34

10

Ford Pepsi Max Crew

M.Winterbottom/S.Owen

Ford Falcon FG

161

03:23:05.37

11

Lockwood Racing

F.Coulthard/L.Youlden

Holden Commodore VF

161

03:23:06.52

12

Supercheap Auto Racing

T.Slade/T.D'Alberto

Holden Commodore VF

161

03:23:07.29

13

Jack Daniel's Racing

R.Kelly/D.Russell

Nissan Altima

161

03:23:07.58

14

Repair Management Aust Racing

R.Ingall/T.Blanchard

Holden Commodore VF

160

03:22:59.78

15

Team JELD-WEN

J.Perkins/C.Waters

Ford Falcon FG

160

03:23:00.95

16

Wilson Security Racing

D.Wall/S.Johnson

Ford Falcon FG

160

03:23:09.31

17

Valvoline Racing GRM

R.Dahlgren/G.Ritter

Volvo S60

160

03:23:11.13

18

Norton Hornets

M.Caruso/D.Fiore

Nissan Altima

160

03:23:11.38

19

Team Advam/GB

D.Wood/C.Pither

Holden Commodore VF

160

03:23:16.15

20

Jack Daniel's Racing

T.Kelly/A.Buncombe

Nissan Altima

160

03:23:34.89

21

Erebus Motorsport V8

W.Davison/A.Davison

Mercedes E63 AMG

159

03:23:16.68

22

Walkinshaw Racing

N.Percat/O.Gavin

Holden Commodore VF

127

03:23:33.81

DNF

Erebus Motorsport V8

L.Holdsworth/C.Baird

Mercedes E63 AMG

130

02:40:54.77

DNF

Team BOC

J.Bright/A.Jones

Holden Commodore VF

111

02:40:53.33

DNF

Norton Hornets

Taz Douglas

Nissan Altima

15

18:05.31

Championship points after Race 29

1

Jamie Whincup

2325

2

Craig Lowndes

2052

3

Mark Winterbottom

2046

4

Shane Van Gisbergen

1982

5

James Courtney

1964

6

Fabian Coulthard

1856

7

Chaz Mostert

1694

8

Scott McLaughlin

1677

9

Garth Tander

1662

10

David Reynolds

1402

11

Jason Bright

1329

12

Michael Caruso

1328

13

Scott Pye

1323

14

Will Davison

1302

15

Rick Kelly

1268

16

Nick Percat

1236

17

Russell Ingall

1188

18

James Moffat

1187

19

Lee Holdsworth

1117

20

David Wall

1094

21

Tim Slade

1074

22

Dale Wood

936

23

Jack Perkins

905

24

Todd Kelly

839

25

Robert Dahlgren

663

26

Paul Dumbrell

300

27

Greg Murphy

276

28

Warren Luff

258

29

Steven Richards

240

30

Ashley Walsh

222

31

Jonathon Webb

204

32

Paul Morris

192

33

Alexandre Premat

180

34

Dean Canto

168

35

Steve Owen

156

36

Luke Youlden

144

37

Tony D'Alberto

138

38

David Russell

132

39

Tim Blanchard

126

40

Cameron Waters

120

41

Steven Johnson

114

42

Greg Ritter

108

43

Dean Fiore

102

44

Chris Pither

96

45

Alex Buncombe

90

46

Alex Davison

84

47

Oliver Gavin

78

48

Taz Douglas

0

49

Craig Baird

0

50

Andrew Jones

0