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Bathurst 1000: Luff fastest in co-driver practice

Warren Luff topped the final dedicated co-driver session ahead of tomorrow's Bathurst 1000.

Andrew van Leeuwen

Published: Oct 16, 2020, 11:40 PM

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Chaz Mostert, Walkingshaw Andretti United Holden

The experienced co-driver spent the majority of the hour-long session working on race set-up in the #25 Walkinshaw Holden, hovering around the lead group as times dropped into the low sixes.

He then jumped long-time pacesetter Garth Tander with a late green tyre run that yielded an impressive 2m05.459s.

"We had a good programme so far this morning, we just kept chipping away from where Chaz [Mostert] ended up yesterday with the set-up of the car," said Luff.

"We just kept improving it. The car is really comfortable. We're still looking at more of a race car than a qualifying [car], he'll focus on the Shootout [in the] next [session], but I'm very happy."

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Brad Jones Racing's Thomas Randle was another late improver, sneaking into second with a 2m05.741s, while Tander slipped back to third with his 2m05.817s set with 25 minutes to go.

James Moffat was the best-placed Tickford driver in fourth, followed by David Russell (MSR Holden), Dale Wood (Kelly Ford), Will Davison (Tickford Ford) and Will Brown (Erebus Holden).

Zane Goddard made it two MSR cars in the Top 10 with the ninth quickest time, edging Bathurst rookie Jordan Boys (BJR Holden).

There was some speedy spanners in the DJR Team Penske garage, meanwhile, after a transaxle issue left Tony D'Alberto stopped at the last corner after 20 minutes.

Remarkably the crew managed to swap the faulty unit for a new one before the end of the session, D'Alberto returning to the track with a little over three minutes to go.

"I went to grab second corner at the final corner and it didn't allow me to," D'Alberto explained. "Then it felt like I had some neutrals, so I just decided to shut it off. It all sounded a bit funky to me.

"Before that, though, the car was really good. I was on full tanks, trying to a do a race run, and it felt really nice."

He ended up 16th fastest, directly behind teammate Tim Slade and Triple Eight's Craig Lowndes.

Cla # Driver Time Gap Interval 1 25 Australia Chaz Mostert
Warren Luff
2'05.459 2 8 Nick Percat
Thomas Randle
2'05.741 0.282 0.282 3 97 New Zealand Shane van Gisbergen
Garth Tander
2'05.817 0.357 0.075 4 55 Jack Le Brocq
James Moffat
2'05.845 0.385 0.027 5 35 Garry Jacobson
David Russell
2'06.068 0.608 0.223 6 15 Rick Kelly
Australia Dale Wood
2'06.087 0.627 0.018 7 6 Cameron Waters
Will Davison
2'06.088 0.628 0.001 8 9 David Reynolds
Will Brown
2'06.089 0.629 0.000 9 34 Jake Kostecki
Zane Goddard
2'06.107 0.647 0.018 10 14 Todd Hazelwood
Jordan Boys
2'06.213 0.753 0.105 11 5 Lee Holdsworth
Michael Caruso
2'06.365 0.905 0.152 12 44 Australia James Courtney
Broc Feeney
2'06.452 0.992 0.087 13 7 New Zealand Andre Heimgartner
Dylan O'Keeffe
2'06.522 1.062 0.069 14 17 Scott McLaughlin
Tim Slade
2'06.545 1.085 0.022 15 88 Jamie Whincup
Craig Lowndes
2'06.720 1.260 0.175 16 12 Fabian Coulthard
Tony D'Alberto
2'06.745 1.285 0.025 17 3 Australia Macauley Jones
Tim Blanchard
2'06.792 1.333 0.047 18 99 Anton De Pasquale
Brodie Kostecki
2'06.809 1.349 0.016 19 4 Jack Smith
Jack Perkins
2'06.890 1.430 0.081 20 18 Mark Winterbottom
James Golding
2'07.078 1.619 0.188 21 19 Alex Davison
Jonathon Webb
2'07.272 1.812 0.193 22 2 Australia Bryce Fullwood
Kurt Kostecki
2'07.492 2.032 0.220 23 20 Scott Pye
Dean Fiore
2'07.531 2.071 0.039 24 22 New Zealand Chris Pither
Steven Owen
2'07.774 2.315 0.243 25 40 Tyler Everingham
Jayden Ojeda
2'08.095 2.635 0.320 View full results

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