After the first session, Garth Tander was quickest from Todd Kelly and Jack Daniel's Racing’s Shane Price.

However some of the bigger names did not back the top 20 drivers to advance to the second part of qualifying including Greg Murphy and Russell Ingall.

After the session, Todd Kelly, Garth Tander and Jason Richards were the top three, with both Mark Skaife and Craig Lowndes missing out.

Following this incident, Todd Kelly then spun off the track on lap 6 at turn 11 and got stuck in the gravel trap, which caused the safety car to come out.

Once the compulsory pit stops had been completed, Jamie Whincup lead from Rick Kelly and Craig Lowndes.

This began a trend where the drivers lower down the field also changed to slick to try to take advantage of the drying track, while the leaders stayed on wet weather tyres.

On lap 14, Jason Richards spun off the track and crashed into the wall on slick tyres after driving off the dry race line.

The first safety car of the race occurred when Lee Holdsworth spun off the track and crashed heavily into the wall at turn 4.

During the safety car period, it started raining again and the drivers that changed to slicks had to go back to wet weather tyres.

The only safety car of the race was due to Paul Morris spinning off at turn 12 and becoming stuck in the sand trap.