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Bathurst 1000: Holdsworth fastest as crash halts practice

Lee Holdsworth set the pace in a Thursday co-driver practice that was cut short by a nasty crash for Chris Pither.

Andrew van Leeuwen

Edited: Dec 2, 2021, 8:27 AM

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Chaz Mostert and Lee Holdsworth, Walkinshaw Andretti United Holden Commodore

Holdsworth (Walkinshaw Andretti United) was sitting just under four-tenths clear of the field with less than two minutes to go when Pither hit the wall at Forrest's Elbow.

The Coca-Cola-backed car tagged the inside wall before clattering into the concrete on the outside.

It was the second major issue for the #96 Brad Jones Racing entry today after the car was sidelined for nearly all of Practice 1 with a power steering issue.

The early phase of the day's second hour-long session saw Holdsworth and Tony D'Alberto (Dick Johnson Racing) trading fastest times.

D'Alberto led the way as the benchmark sat at a low 2m07s, before Holdsworth became the first driver into the sixes with a 2m06.906s.

The next run saw D'Alberto improve to a 2m06.858s, before Holdsworth went faster again on consecutive laps with a 2m06.771s followed by a 2m06.401s.

On the 25-minute mark Erebus driver David Russell took over at the top with a 2m06.357s, that time holding up for 10 minutes until Craig Lowndes (Triple Eight) jumped to the top with a 2m06.164s.

With a little under a quarter of an hour to go Garth Tander (Triple Eight) and Alex Davison (Dick Johnson Racing) both took turns on top with low 2m06s laps.

Then, with 10 minutes to go, James Moffat (Tickford) burst into the fives with a 2m05.603s.

That initially left him almost half a second clear of the field, before Moffat was bumped down to second by Holdsworth's 2m05.225 – a time only a tenth wide of primary driver Chaz Mostert's Practice 1 effort.

"It's nice. These guys had a really quick car at the start of the year here and Chazzy dialled it in a bit more this morning for me to jump in and have a little bit of fun around the Mountain," said Holdsworth.

"I'm driving a lot more like [Chaz] this year, just from the way I've learnt to drive his car. So everything that's working for me is working for him and vice versa.

"It's great, it's a great combination."

Moffat and Davison ended up second and third ahead of Tander, while a late effort from Dean Fiore left him fifth for Brad Jones Racing.

Lowndes slipped back to sixth ahead of Luke Youlden (Erebus Motorsport), Zak Best (Tickford) and D'Alberto.

Russell rounded out the Top 10.

High-profile co-driver Russell Ingall, making his comeback in the Supercheap Auto-backed T8 wildcard entry, was slowest in the session, 3.2 seconds off the pace.

Bathurst 1000 Practice 2 results

Cla # Driver Car Time Gap Interval 1 25 Australia Chaz Mostert
Lee Holdsworth
Holden Commodore ZB 2'05.225 2 6 Cameron Waters
James Moffat
Ford Mustang GT 2'05.603 0.377 0.377 3 17 Will Davison
Alex Davison
Ford Mustang GT 2'06.055 0.829 0.451 4 888 New Zealand Shane van Gisbergen
Garth Tander
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.094 0.868 0.039 5 14 Australia Todd Hazelwood
Dean Fiore
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.164 0.938 0.069 6 88 Jamie Whincup
Craig Lowndes
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.164 0.938 0.000 7 26 David Reynolds
Luke Youlden
Ford Mustang GT 2'06.277 1.051 0.113 8 5 Jack Le Brocq
Zak Best
Ford Mustang GT 2'06.332 1.107 0.055 9 11 Australia Anton De Pasquale
Tony D’Alberto
Ford Mustang GT 2'06.355 1.129 0.022 10 99 Brodie Kostecki
David Russell
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.357 1.131 0.001 11 7 New Zealand Andre Heimgartner
Matt Campbell
Ford Mustang GT 2'06.429 1.203 0.072 12 44 James Courtney
Thomas Randle
Ford Mustang GT 2'06.476 1.250 0.047 13 2 Australia Bryce Fullwood
Warren Luff
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.524 1.298 0.048 14 3 Tim Slade
Tim Blanchard
Ford Mustang GT 2'06.737 1.511 0.213 15 9 Will Brown
Jack Perkins
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.829 1.604 0.092 16 20 Scott Pye
James Golding
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.926 1.700 0.096 17 96 Australia Macauley Jones
New Zealand Chris Pither
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.926 1.700 0.000 18 8 Nick Percat
Dale Wood
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.963 1.738 0.037 19 4 Jack Smith
David Wall
Holden Commodore ZB 2'07.057 1.831 0.093 20 19 Fabian Coulthard
Jonathon Webb
Holden Commodore ZB 2'07.126 1.900 0.068 21 34 Australia Jake Kostecki
Kurt Kostecki
Holden Commodore ZB 2'07.208 1.982 0.082 22 18 Mark Winterbottom
Michael Caruso
Holden Commodore ZB 2'07.332 2.106 0.123 23 35 Zane Goddard
Jayden Ojeda
Holden Commodore ZB 2'07.389 2.163 0.056 24 22 Garry Jacobson
Dylan O’Keeffe
Holden Commodore ZB 2'08.030 2.804 0.641 25 39 Broc Feeney
United Kingdom Russell Ingall
Holden Commodore ZB 2'08.443 3.218 0.413 View full results

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