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McLaughlin nabs pole from Red Bulls

26 Oct 2014
Knocks Whincup off the top spot after the chequered flag with just 0.125sec the difference.
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Scott McLaughlin has held the Red Bulls off the front row with a spectacular lap recorded just after the qualifying chequered flag had been waved at the Castrol EDGE Gold Coast 600.

McLaughlin and Jamie Whincup have horns locked in the fight for the year's ARMOR ALL Pole Position award, both now tied on eight p1 starts for the season.

But it was Whincup (pairing with Paul Dumbrell) who came off second best in the session as the Volvo driver punched out the 1min11.0273 lap in the S60 he will share with Frenchman Alex Premat.

Craig Lowndes made amends for his error during yesterday's Top 10 Shootout by landing his Commodore he will share with Steve Richards third.

Yesterday's pole man and eventual race winner Shane van Gisbergen (Jonathon Webb) will start fourth.

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Will Davison (Alex Davison), the repaired Bottle-O Falcon of David Reynolds (and Dean Canto) bouncing back, James Moffat (Taz Douglas), Tim Slade (Tony D'Alberto), Chaz Mostert (Paul Morris) and James Courtney (Greg Murphy) completing the top 10.

Others to note include Garth Tander (Warren Luff) 11, Mark Winterbottom (Steve Owen) 13, Fabian Coulthard (Luke Youlden) 17, and the second Volvo - interestingly qualified by co-driver Greg Ritter rather than the Championship's Robert Dahlgren, landing 18th.

Click here for full results.

The final enduro kicks of at 1.55pm local time, with Whincup/Dumbrell leading the Pirtek Enduro Cup.

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