HARRI JONES and Rodney Jane claimed the winning honours in the opening Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship race at Mount Panorama, Bathurst as Jackson Walls sealed the first silverware of the season.

While chaos unfolded in a 40-minute race - one that saw three restarts and several laps behind the Safety Car - Porsche Centre Melbourne's Harri Jones and Sonic Motor Racing's Rodney Jane kept their composure to claim the Equity-One Pro and SP Tools Pro-Am wins in race one.

Meanwhile, Walls' sealed the Michelin Junior championship with a solid fifth-placed finish aboard his Objective Racing Porsche from McElrea Racing, the Sydneysider now enjoying an unassailable lead in the prestigious Junior title race.

The 40-minute timed raced commenced with Jones getting the jump on the field to lead into turn one, while behind David Russell's TekworkX entry was able to jump Dale Wood for second in the run up to turn two.

The field didn't have long to race, however, as the Safety Car was called quickly following a hefty impact for Harrison Goodman at Reid Park, the True Grid Sonic entry touching the inside wall before making heavier contact with the outside concrete as the field took evasive action.

Following that recovery the field returned to racing only for the leading Pro-Am protagonists, Sam Shahin and Adrian Flack, to come together at turn two. While Sam was able to recover and continue onwards, Flack's car was briefly stranded on the inside kerb which forced the Safety Car deployment.

That brief Safety Car then set up another restart, Jones once again fending off Russell to hold on to his lead, while Wood, Bayley Hall - who had passed Jackson Walls on the opening lap - and Walls all battled for position behind.

Jones was able to manage his position ahead of the field to clear his Hastings Deering Porsche of any attack from behind, while Wood defended his spot on the podium from a feisty Hall in fourth.

The third and final Safety Car was deployed within the final five minutes of the race when Marcos Flack spun his Bob Jane T-Marts Sonic entry at the final corner, making heavy contact with the inside wall.

Flack and teammate Angelo Mouzouris had earlier in the lap traded paint as they ran side by side on the run through turn three to the Cutting while battling for 11th position.

The final Safety Car was a brief one, setting up a sprint to the flag over one final lap with Jones doing enough to claim the victory - the 16th of his career - over David Russell and Dale Wood.

Bayley Hall was fourth but couldn't do anything about fellow Porsche Michelin Junior Jackson Walls, who finished right behind his closest title rival and sealed the Michelin Junior title.

David Wall gained ground early to finish sixth, Dylan O'Keeffe was seventh and Glen Wood eighth, while Fabian Coulthard and Nash Morris rounded out the top-10.

In SP Tools Pro-Am, Rodney Jane survived the drama to claim his 34th career victory and first since the opening race of the season at the Australian Grand Prix.

Matt Slavin finished second to equal his best ever Carrera Cup race result while Sam Shahin recovered to third following the earlier incident.

The Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia field returns for a second race at 3:25pm AEDT on Saturday, with the final race of the weekend to run Sunday morning as the curtain-raiser to the Repco Bathurst 1000 on Sunday morning.