Battling Championship contender Will Davison was the highlight of Fabian Coulthard's race in Darwin today as he brought home another strong points haul.
The Lockwood Racing driver qualified seventh and drove a solid race, including several side-by-side crowd pleasers with Davo, to bring the Commodore home in fifth.
That result consolidates his ninth-place in the championship as V8 Supercars head to Townsville for races 14 and 15 from 6th-8th July.
Fabian Coulthard
Lockwood Racing
"We had a good battle with Will Davison for the first two stints. We were side-by-side for three corners and didn't touch. That's what I call good, clean racing; respect for one another.
"We had pretty good pace on the soft tyre. The control tyre, not so much but we knew we were going to spend most of our time on the softs so we tuned the car for that.
"The big thing for us was to consolidate after yesterday's bad result and get a good accumulation of points and we achieved that. We could have gone for the risky strategy but from where we started it wasn't worth the gamble. We're still in single figures in the championship, which is the aim."
2012 Skycity Triple Crown-V8Supercar Championship Race 12&13
HIDDEN VALLEY RACEWAY
Race 13 Qualifying
01 Will Davison, Trading Post FPR Ford, 1:08.5004
02 Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Ford, +0.1681
03 David Reynolds, The Bottle-O Racing Team, +0.3450
04 Jamie Whincup, TeamVodafone, +0.3616
05 Michael Caruso, Fujitsu Racing, +0.4837
06 Craig Lowndes, TeamVodafone, +0.5269
07 Fabian Coulthard, Lockwood Racing, +0.5927
08 Jason Bright, Team BOC, +0.6239
09 Michael Patrizi, Tekno Autosports, +0.6789
10 James Courtney, Holden Racing Team, +0.6929
2012 Skycity Triple Crown-V8Supercar Championship Race 12&13
HIDDEN VALLEY RACEWAY
Race 13
01 Craig Lowndes, TeamVodafone
02 Jamie Whincup, TeamVodafone
03 Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Ford
04 Michael Caruso, Fujitsu Racing
05 Fabian Coulthard, Lockwood Racing
06 Will Davison, Trading Post FPR Ford
07 Shane Van Gisbergen, SP Tools Racing
08 David Reynolds, The Bottle-O Racing Team
09 Garth Tander, Holden Racing Team
10 Tim Slade, Lucky 7 Racing
V8 SUPERCARS - SERIES POINTS REPORT
01 Jamie Whincup, 1494
02 Will Davison, 1456
03 Mark Winterbottom, 1445
04 Craig Lowndes, 1247
05 Shane Van Gisbergen, 1145
06 Lee Holdsworth, 1079
07 Tim Slade, 1059
08 Garth Tander, 990
09 Fabian Coulthard , 910
10 Jason Bright, 804
