SHORT AND QUICK QUALIFIER 29/11/2009 at 3:33:46 AM It took just one session and two fast laps for John Goodacre to secure pole position for the first of three races at Sandown today for the seventh and final round of the Australian Saloon Car Series today. The South Australian at the wheel of his Avery/GaP Holden Commodore VT left his qualifying run to the final minutes of session one to reel off a rapid 1 minutes 24.9809 second flyer before putting the car away and missing the second qualifier all together. “There were a lot of cars out there and I thought it would be better to go out later when there might have been a bit of clear road out there – even then it was hard to get a clear lap,” Goodace said. The man he gazumped was Queensland Kris Walton and his Talbrace Ford Falcon AU who also found it difficult to get clear track space. “I tried to back every one up until there was nothing ahead of me, then went for it – but there was a group at the end of the back warming tyres,” he said. Victorians Tim Rowse (Commodore) and Andrew Nowland (Falcon) were third and fourth respectively, and then followed South Aussie Sam Milton in his Ford and British born Victorian Simon Tabinor in a Holden. Falcons took the next five positions with five times champ Bruce Heinrich in Justin Garnett’s AU ahead of the similar cars of David Heath, David Rogers, Tony Evangelou and Dan Gate. The next three which covered positions twelve to fourteen were the Commodores of Matt Davidson, Tony James and Paul Pennisi while the series champion for 2009 Shawn Jamieson had already packed up his VT and headed home to Adelaide having blown an engine in qualifying.