Bathurst 1000: Holdsworth dominates Practice 5

The Walkinshaw Andretti United driver was consistently fastest across the hour-long session, after dipping into the fives with a 2m05.920s on his first run.

He then improved to a 2m05.707s right before the midway point in the session, before lowering the benchmark to a 2m05.642s.

That was good enough to leave him 0.39s clear of the rest of the field led by Team 18's James Golding.

"The car has been great since we rolled it out of the truck and we continue to improve," said Holdsworth.

"We worked on a race car [in that session], you need scope for the race [and] balance changes. We're just trying to find some tools for that."

Warren Luff capped off a good session for WAU, putting the #2 Holden third right at the flag.

That bumped Tickford pacesetter Thomas Randle down to fourth ahead of Dale Wood in he #8 Brad Jones Racing entry.

Bathurst 1000 winner Jono Webb was sixth fastest in the lead Team Sydney car followed by Tim Blanchard (Blanchard Racing Team) and Zak Best (Tickford).

Craig Lowndes ended up ninth fastest in what was a difficult session that included troubleshooting a vibration and a mid-session off at The Chase.

He wasn't alone in having a moment at the end of Conrod, a suspected suspension issue for the #99 Erebus Holden sending David Russell into the sand.

But the hardest hit in the session was for Kelly Grove Racing driver Matt Campbell, who was responsible for the sole red flag.

The Porsche factory star clipped the wall on the way out of The Cutting around 10 minutes in before trying to limp the #7 Mustang back to the pits.

He managed to get the car across the top of the mountain and down most of Conrod Straight, before his left-front gave way at low speed on the way into The Chase and he was sent into the wall again.

"Coming down the Mountain something started to break," explained Campbell.

"It started to veer to the right, from the crash it sheered a brake line or something.

"As I got to the brake pedal it's gone to the floor more or less. And at the same time the pedal box has accelerated too. I couldn't stop. There was nothing I could do."

2021 Bathurst 1000 Practice 5 results

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	25	Chaz Mostert Lee Holdsworth	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.642
2	20	Scott Pye James Golding	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.038	0.396	0.396
3	2	Bryce Fullwood Warren Luff	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.095	0.453	0.057
4	44	James Courtney Thomas Randle	Ford Mustang GT	2'06.183	0.541	0.087
5	8	Nick Percat Dale Wood	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.191	0.549	0.007
6	19	Fabian Coulthard Jonathon Webb	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.276	0.634	0.085
7	3	Tim Slade Tim Blanchard	Ford Mustang GT	2'06.281	0.639	0.004
8	5	Jack Le Brocq Zak Best	Ford Mustang GT	2'06.341	0.699	0.060
9	88	Jamie Whincup Craig Lowndes	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.346	0.704	0.004
10	11	Anton De Pasquale Tony D’Alberto	Ford Mustang GT	2'06.492	0.849	0.145
11	888	Shane van Gisbergen Garth Tander	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.498	0.856	0.006
12	99	Brodie Kostecki David Russell	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.553	0.911	0.055
13	6	Cameron Waters James Moffat	Ford Mustang GT	2'06.601	0.959	0.047
14	14	Todd Hazelwood Dean Fiore	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.602	0.960	0.001
15	18	Mark Winterbottom Michael Caruso	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.632	0.990	0.029
16	26	David Reynolds Luke Youlden	Ford Mustang GT	2'06.733	1.091	0.101
17	22	Garry Jacobson Dylan O’Keeffe	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.746	1.104	0.012
18	17	Will Davison Alex Davison	Ford Mustang GT	2'06.801	1.159	0.055
19	35	Zane Goddard Jayden Ojeda	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.866	1.224	0.065
20	4	Jack Smith David Wall	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.882	1.240	0.016
21	9	Will Brown Jack Perkins	Holden Commodore ZB	2'07.242	1.600	0.359
22	39	Broc Feeney Russell Ingall	Holden Commodore ZB	2'07.388	1.746	0.146
23	34	Jake Kostecki Kurt Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	2'07.471	1.829	0.082
24	7	Andre Heimgartner Matt Campbell	Ford Mustang GT	2'07.582	1.940	0.111
25	96	Macauley Jones Chris Pither	Holden Commodore ZB	2'08.061	2.419	0.479
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