Davison bounces back in R2 at Queensland

Toll Holden Racing Team's Will Davi♔son went from zero to hero in less than 24 hours with a blitzkrieg of the field in the Queensland House and Land.com 300 today.

With a Lazarus type display Davison blasted the field by a massive 14 seconds following his devastating first race of the weekend th🍃at he failed♏ to finish.

It helped him return to the Championship hunt in making up ground on V8 Supercar Championship favourite Jamie ไWhincup, keeping him in touch before the endurance events at the 🐠L&H 500 and Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.

Will Davison, (aust), Toll HRT Commodore
Races 15 & 16 V8 Supercars
Qld House and Land.com300
Will Davison, (aust), Toll HRT Commodore Races 15 & 16 V8 Supercars Qld House and Land…
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Toll Holdಌen Racing Team's Will Davison went from zero to hero in less than 24 hours with a blitzkrieg of the♎ field in the Queensland House and Land.com 300 today.

With a Lazarus type display Da🥃vison blasted the field by a massive 14 seconds following his devastating first race of the weekend that he failed to finish.

It helped him return to the Championship🅷 hunt in making up ground on V8 Supercar Championship favourite Jamie Whincup, keeping him in touch before the endurance events at the L&H 500 and S𝔍upercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.

In today's race Davison was unstoppable from the start, beating Whincup's team-mate Craig Lowndes and Supercheap Auto Racing's Russell Ingall who ke൩pt his soft tyre option for today in a successful attemp꧙t for the 'champagne'.

Davison started third ไon the grid but was in front by the third corner with a cꦏracking start in extremely hot, oppressive conditions in and out of the car.

"I just went home last night, went toꦰ bed and came back a new person," Davison said. "Yesterday was as tough as it gets in motor 🌳racing with both cars stopping.

"All I could do today was to go oꦬn to win the race. There's lots more races like that to come yet."

Da🌄vison's day began with a cracking pass on Fujit🧜su Racing's Jason Bright who did a magnificent job in qualifying to grab the front row of the grid, before he also claimed Ford Performance Racing's Mark Winterbottom on the same lap.

His only hiccup was when he appeared to get caught up with Ingall's Supercheap Auto Racing team-mate Tim Slade, with Davison scr✱eaming to his pit cre♛w after passing that it was a 'complete joke' he felt he was being held up.

"It was a pretty long last 15 laps. I had a bit of door banging with Russell's team-mate. I expected it b𒁃ut it was all a bit of fun really."

That minor incident may have helped Lowndes and Ingall catch up to a degree b♏ut not enough to pull back the mas💎sive lead.

Ingall desperately needed a safety cꦅar for his strategy to work but not a single one appeared in the entire race.

"To go that far without a pace c𒀰ar was unbelievable," Ingall said. "With 60 laps, it seemed like 100, we would have never expected that. It (the strategy) would have worked but no-one crashed. That was the unfortunate part."

A fuel spill in his pit garage also had an effect and his team had to keep him out much longer than expected. Inga☂ll was on hiꦜs reserve tank when he came in.

"I was a bit surprised as we lost so much track position in the stop𒉰. That's life, these things happen. At the end of the day we might have had enou﷽gh to catch Craig but not Will."

Ingall did set a new track record along the way though as some consolation, breaking the old mark set by🐓 Garth Tander in 1999.

The Championship ꦏnow moves to the L&H 500 at Phillip Island for the first of the two co-driver races at Phillip Island in Victoria from September 11-13.

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