 A tyre bundle was assembled beforehand to prevent drivers from short-cutting the chicane at turn one.Whincup took his second consecutive pole position and his sixth of the season with a time of 1 minute and 11.1077 seconds in the final five minutes of qualifying to repeat the achievement of clinching the pole position for both Gold Coast races for the second year in a row.He was joined on the grid's front row by Winterbottom whose best lap time was 0.1455 seconds slower and he had the pole position until Whincup's effort.