Tander, Skaife to start on pole position

AAP - Reigning V8 Supercar champion Garth Tander and his five-time Bathurst winning teammate Mark Skaife will start on pole for Sunda's Bathurst 1000.

Holden hotshot Tander, who leads the V8 Supercar championship, set a time of
2mins:07.2963 seconds in Saturday's top ten shootout to hold off his fancied Ford
rivals.
Joining them on the front of the grid will be Ford Performance Racing's Mark
Winterbottom and Steven Richards, Winterbottom's time just over one-tenth slower.
The second row will be made up of Ford's James Courtney and David Besnard and the
Holden of Paul Dumbrell and Rick Kelly.
Dumbrell and Kelly have come together as a pairing courtesy of a Paul Radisich crash
in practice Saturday morning.
Defending champions Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes will start from fifth for Ford
as they attempt an historic third straight title, which would make them only the
fourth and fifth men to ever achieve the feat.
"It's not the smoothest lap I've done around Mout Panorama. Hopefully Lowndesy's
happy with that," Whincup said.
Holden's Jason Richards and Greg Murphy qualified sixth.
It was a disappointing result for the all-Kiwi pairing considering Richards clocked
an incredible 2:06.9076 to top the practice charts in the morning session.
The time was the second fastest ever around the mountain, Richards' teammate Murphy
setting the lap record of 2:06.8594 in 2003.