# 2012 Dick Smith Sandown 500

The 2012 Dick Smith Sandown 500 was a motor race for the Australian sedan-based V8 Supercars. It was the tenth event of the 2012 International V8 Supercars Championship. It was held on the weekend of 14–16 September at the Sandown Raceway, in Melbourne, Victoria.
It was the 42nd event to be held in the history of the Sandown 500 and the first to be held for V8 Supercars since 2007.
Craig Lowndes won his fifth Sandown 500, while co-driver Warren Luff broke through for his first victory in V8 Supercars, with the duo taking their Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden Commodore to the win over the Ford Performance Racing pair of Mark Winterbottom and Steven Richards.
This was the first endurance race held at the Sandown circuit to have a race average speed above 150 km/h. The 2012 record was finally broken in 2018.

## Results
### Sandown 500
#### Race

| Pos. | No. | Name | Car | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
| 1 | 888 | Craig Lowndes Warren Luff | Holden VE Commodore | Triple Eight Race Engineering | 161 | 3:19:14.8927 | 6 | 200 |
| 2 | 5 | Mark Winterbottom Steven Richards | Ford FG Falcon | Ford Performance Racing | 161 | + 1.6 s | 16 | 184 |
| 3 | 1 | Jamie Whincup Paul Dumbrell | Holden VE Commodore | Triple Eight Race Engineering | 161 | + 4.7 s | 19 | 172 |
| 4 | 2 | Garth Tander Nick Percat | Holden VE Commodore | Holden Racing Team | 161 | + 10.5 s | 3 | 160 |
| 5 | 9 | Shane van Gisbergen Luke Youlden | Ford FG Falcon | Stone Brothers Racing | 161 | + 13.8 s | 1 | 148 |
| 6 | 55 | David Reynolds Dean Canto | Ford FG Falcon | Rod Nash Racing | 161 | + 18.6 s | 2 | 136 |
| 7 | 47 | Tim Slade Andrew Thompson | Ford FG Falcon | James Rosenberg Racing | 161 | + 19.0 s | 9 | 128 |
| 8 | 4 | Lee Holdsworth Craig Baird | Ford FG Falcon | Stone Brothers Racing | 161 | + 24.7 s | 13 | 120 |
| 9 | 22 | James Courtney Cameron McConville | Holden VE Commodore | Holden Racing Team | 161 | + 29.3 s | 7 | 112 |
| 10 | 19 | Jonathon Webb Scott McLaughlin | Holden VE Commodore | Tekno Autosports | 161 | + 31.3 s | 8 | 104 |
| 11 | 66 | Russell Ingall Christian Klien | Holden VE Commodore | Walkinshaw Racing | 161 | + 31.8 s | 15 | 96 |
| 12 | 15 | Rick Kelly David Russell | Holden VE Commodore | Kelly Racing | 161 | + 37.7 s | 5 | 92 |
| 13 | 8 | Jason Bright Andrew Jones | Holden VE Commodore | Brad Jones Racing | 161 | + 47.7 s | 10 | 88 |
| 14 | 34 | Michael Caruso Greg Ritter | Holden VE Commodore | Garry Rogers Motorsport | 161 | + 52.3 s | 4 | 84 |
| 15 | 14 | Fabian Coulthard David Besnard | Holden VE Commodore | Brad Jones Racing | 161 | + 54.2 s | 18 | 80 |
| 16 | 12 | Dean Fiore Matt Halliday | Ford FG Falcon | Triple F Racing | 161 | + 1:02.0 | 21 | 76 |
| 17 | 6 | Will Davison John McIntyre | Ford FG Falcon | Ford Performance Racing | 161 | + 1:06.4 | 27 | 72 |
| 18 | 7 | Todd Kelly Tim Blanchard | Holden VE Commodore | Kelly Racing | 160 | + 1 lap | 17 | 68 |
| 19 | 33 | Alexandre Prémat Jack Perkins | Holden VE Commodore | Garry Rogers Motorsport | 160 | + 1 lap | 23 | 64 |
| 20 | 11 | Karl Reindler Daniel Gaunt | Holden VE Commodore | Kelly Racing | 160 | + 1 lap | 25 | 60 |
| 21 | 17 | Steven Johnson Allan Simonsen | Ford FG Falcon | Dick Johnson Racing | 160 | + 1 lap | 12 | 56 |
| 22 | 21 | David Wall Chris Pither | Holden VE Commodore | Britek Motorsport | 159 | + 2 laps | 20 | 52 |
| 23 | 3 | Tony D'Alberto Dale Wood | Ford FG Falcon | Tony D'Alberto Racing | 159 | + 2 laps | 14 | 48 |
| 24 | 30 | Taz Douglas Scott Pye | Holden VE Commodore | Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport | 159 | + 2 laps | 28 | 44 |
| 25 | 49 | Steve Owen Paul Morris | Ford FG Falcon | Paul Morris Motorsport | 159 | + 2 laps | 22 | 40 |
| 26 | 18 | James Moffat Alex Davison | Ford FG Falcon | Dick Johnson Racing | 158 | + 3 laps | 11 | 36 |
| 27 | 51 | Greg Murphy Owen Kelly | Holden VE Commodore | Kelly Racing | 132 | + 29 laps | 26 | 32 |
| Ret | 91 | Michael Patrizi Jonny Reid | Holden VE Commodore | Tekno Autosports | 83 | Accident | 24 | |
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## Standings

* After 20 of 30 races.
| Pos | No | Name | Team | Points |
| 1 | 1 | Jamie Whincup | Triple Eight Race Engineering | 2472 |
| 2 | 5 | Mark Winterbottom | Ford Performance Racing | 2440 |
| 3 | 888 | Craig Lowndes | Triple Eight Race Engineering | 2353 |
| 4 | 6 | Will Davison | Ford Performance Racing | 2236 |
| 5 | 9 | Shane van Gisbergen | Stone Brothers Racing | 1882 |