Erebus Motorsport's Will Davison has denied Craig Lowndes a 100th V8 Supercars victory ♋during the closing stages of a dramatic race three at Perth.

The Mercedes E63 driver - who started from seventh on the grid - produced a magnificent late race charge, which culminated in Davis🐼on overturning a near three-𝓀second gap to Lowndes at the front of the pack before slipping past the Red Bull Commodore with just a handful of laps to go.

Lowndes had looked to be sitting in the pound se🦹at but his dream of clinching a 100th victory at his mos𓆏t successful circuit faded away when his soft Dunlop rubber couldn't match the pace of Davison on the hard tyre.

Behind the top two, Freightli🏅ner Racing's Fabian Coulthard put his qualifying woes firmly behind and produced a scintillating fight back through the order to claim t♛he final step on the podium ahead of pole sitter Chaz Mostert in fourth.

The two HRT Commodores of James Courtney and Garth Tander a🍃rrived home in formation to finish fifth and sixth after Courtney demoted his team mate after carving his way back through the field fro🦄m starting eleventh.

Nissan's James Moffat was able to consolidate his top-ten starting slot with a season best finish of seventh position ahead of the equally impressive effort of Nick Percat, who was eighth in theꦛ LD Motorsport Holden.

David Reynolds was ninth aboard ✃The Bottle-O Falcon FG X while Michael Caruso made it two Nissan's ๊to finish in the top ten in tenth.