Lap by Lap: Race 26

Team BOC's Jason Bright has qualified on ARMOR ALL Pole Position for the first race of the afternoon, with Team HIFLEX's Tony D'Alberto alongside, at Winton Raceway in Victoria. 

Bright finished third in yesterday's race and is currently tied on points for fifth in the V8 Supercars Championship, with teammate Fabian Coulthard. 

Cars are on the grid completing the warm up lap. 

Action off the start – great jump from Mark Winterbottom, into first ahead of Bright. Car 34 off the track, rejoins and there's a massive accident. Whincup, Alex Davison, and Russell Ingall invovled. Safety Car as Ingall's car is towed. Whincup's car looks as if all four wheels jumped off the ground.

Whincup's car in the garage. Looks as if Tander is also involved, car in pit lane. 

Lap 2 under Safety Car.

Top 10 currently Winterbottom, Bright, D'Alberto, Courtney, van Gisbergen, Reynolds, Will Davison, Mostert, Coulthard, McLaughlin.

Restart on lap 4 – Winterbottom has pulled away from Bright.

L6 Whincup's car out of the garage.

L7 big battle between Courtney and D'Alberto for third. Van Gisbergen and Reynolds have bought into the battle as well. 

Ingall says, "You lay with dogs, you get fleas – that's the price you pay for being back there." 

"It's a matter of going around and getting what points we can at the end of this ... the first thing I saw was Jamie up in the air," Roland Dane said. 

Caruso, who was second yesterday, also in the garage with broken lower control arm in the rear suspension. After Premat's rejoin, he said he was stuck on the outside and Tander tagged the back of him, though wasn't sure Tander could see him.

L11 Whincup back in pit lane for more work on the Red Bull Racing Australia Commodore. 

Winterbottom leads Bright, D'Alberto, Courtney, van Gisbergen, Reynolds, Will Davison, Mostert, Coulthard, McLaughlin. Lowndes 14.

L14 Winterbottom's lead is 2.0556sec. 

At the halfway point and Tander and Whincup, who were in the accident, are down in 24 and 25th. 

Webb with a sticking throttle. Looks like there will be changes in the Championship top 10 with many of those in the points having issues today. 

L19 Whincup in the pits again. 

Winterbottom's gap has closed to 0.2873sec, Bright looking strong. 

L22 Pit stop for Tander. 

Lowndes is up to 13th and is on the back of Todd Kelly 0.2965sec behind.  

Three BJR cars in the top 10 will David Wall running 10th, which would equal Wall's best finishing position this year. 

L26 Courtney moves up a spot to third, overtaking D'Alberto. 

L28 Whincup in the pits again – he's not going anywhere. 

Bad Sportsmanship flag for Blanchard for blocking. 

Two laps to go and it's still Winterbottom, Bright, Courtney, D'Alberto, van Gisbergen. Winterbottom's gap out to 0.9269. 

55 points between Whincup and Lowndes, in Lowndes' current position, and 62 points if Winterbottom stays in position. 

Winterbottom wins the race, his first time at the Winton circuit. Bright and Courtney follow to finish on the podium.

Van Gisbergen, Reynolds, Will Davison, Coulthard, McLaughlin and Wall make up the top 10.

Moffat, yesterday's winner from 25th up to 11th, Lowndes 12, Mostert 13, Tander 23, Webb 24, DNF Whincup, Caruso, Premat, Ingall. 

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"That was a tough race, Brighty pushed me all the way and it's great to have those battles with clean guys," Winterbottom said.

"Unfortunately 19th in the next one... such a changing Championshp."

Bright - "I fluffed the start completely... once I caught him I didn't have much to pass him." 

"Fantastic - would've liked first!" Courtney. 

D'Alberto - "It's really cool to be racing against them and giving them a bit of a hurry up at the time. I would've done anything for James to have stayed behind me – and I mean anything!"