Garth Tander was third driving for the Holden Racing Team.

[1] The event was marred by a multi-car pile-up in the third race in the opening lap when Jamie Whincup spun in the middle of the pack after contact from James Courtney as the field negotiated turn 3.

Karl Reindler, Taz Douglas and Russell Ingall subsequently became involved.

There was a long delay as there was a fuel leak from Reindler's Holden Commodore which needed to be cleaned up.

[2] The race was restarted but drastically shortened so as to not delay qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix.