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Bathurst 1000: Hinchcliffe hits the wall as practice continues
IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe got his first taste of the Mount Panorama concrete in the sixth practice session for the 2019 Bathurst 1000.
Andrew van Leeuwen
Edited: Oct 11, 2019, 11:49 PM
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Hinchcliffe backed the Walkinshaw Andretti United Holden into the wall at The Cutting with five minutes to go, forcing the wildcard entry out of the remainder of the session.
It was the second mishap for the NAPA-backed car, after Alex Rossi beached himself at Hell Corner yesterday.
The damage from the Hinchcliffe shunt appears to be mostly cosmetic, the car likely to return for the day's second half-hour practice session at 12:10pm.
"I got into the wall a little bit in The Cutting just trying to find the limit," explained Hinchcliffe.
"I’m actually getting a lot more comfortable in the car, Alex and I both. Every night you get to sleep on it, let it sit and marinate overnight. You come back and feel a lot more at home and comfortable in the car.
"[I'm] just starting to push in places we hadn’t felt comfortable pushing before this point and it obviously just got away from me there and tagged the wall.
"I hate to lose the track time for both of us, but I think it’s relatively cosmetic stuff and we’ll get it fixed up for this afternoon."
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There were no Hollywood lap times from the opening hit-out, crews mostly focussed on race runs and driver change practice.
Will and Alex Davison led the way with a 2m04.754s, edging Fabian Coulthard/Tony D'Alberto by 0.005s.
Tim Slade was third quickest after running a set of green tyres, followed by Brad Jones Racing teammate Nick Percat and Alex Premat in the #17 Penske Ford.
There were more issues for the #6 Tickford Mustang, a stuck throttle forcing a lengthy stint in the pits in the first third of the session.
That follows a sensor drama in qualifying yesterday that almost cost Cam Waters a shot at the Top 10 Shootout.
He and Michael Caruso finished today's session in 17th after finally getting on track.
Cla # Driver Car Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 23 
Will Davison
Alex Davison Ford Mustang GT 12 2'04.7544 179.286 2 12 
Fabian Coulthard
Tony D'Alberto Ford Mustang GT 11 2'04.7595 0.0051 0.0051 179.279 3 14 Tim Slade Holden Commodore ZB 11 2'04.9764 0.2220 0.2169 178.968 4 8 Nick Percat
Tim Blanchard Holden Commodore ZB 7 2'05.2599 0.5055 0.2835 178.563 5 17 Scott McLaughlin
Alexandre Prémat Ford Mustang GT 13 2'05.2806 0.5262 0.0207 178.533 6 97 Shane van Gisbergen
Garth Tander Holden Commodore ZB 12 2'05.3015 0.5471 0.0209 178.503 7 55 Chaz Mostert
James Moffat Ford Mustang GT 12 2'05.3061 0.5517 0.0046 178.497 8 35 Todd Hazelwood
Jack Smith Holden Commodore ZB 11 2'05.4128 0.6584 0.1067 178.345 9 9 David Reynolds
Luke Youlden Holden Commodore ZB 12 2'05.5985 0.8441 0.1857 178.081 10 18 Mark Winterbottom
Steven Richards Holden Commodore ZB 11 2'05.8142 1.0598 0.2157 177.776 11 5 Lee Holdsworth
Thomas Randle Ford Mustang GT 12 2'05.8388 1.0844 0.0246 177.741 12 99 Anton De Pasquale
Will Brown Holden Commodore ZB 13 2'05.9672 1.2128 0.1284 177.560 13 3 Garry Jacobson
Dean Fiore Nissan Altima 11 2'06.0172 1.2628 0.050 177.490 14 22 James Courtney
Jack Perkins Holden Commodore ZB 13 2'06.0758 1.3214 0.0586 177.407 15 7 Andre Heimgartner
Bryce Fullwood Nissan Altima 11 2'06.0816 1.3272 0.0058 177.399 16 21 Macauley Jones
Dean Canto Holden Commodore ZB 11 2'06.1618 1.4074 0.0802 177.286 17 6 Cameron Waters
Michael Caruso Ford Mustang GT 10 2'06.1943 1.4399 0.0325 177.240 18 19 Jack Le Brocq
Jonathon Webb Holden Commodore ZB 11 2'06.2664 1.5120 0.0721 177.139 19 15 Rick Kelly
Dale Wood Nissan Altima 12 2'06.3265 1.5721 0.0601 177.055 20 888 Jamie Whincup
Craig Lowndes Holden Commodore ZB 11 2'06.3437 1.5893 0.0172 177.031 21 56 Brodie Kostecki
Jake Kostecki Holden Commodore ZB 12 2'06.4342 1.6798 0.0905 176.904 22 2 Scott Pye
Warren Luff Holden Commodore ZB 12 2'06.4396 1.6852 0.0054 176.897 23 33 Richie Stanaway
Chris Pither Holden Commodore ZB 12 2'07.1617 2.4073 0.7221 175.892 24 78 
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Alex Rullo Nissan Altima 12 2'07.2711 2.5167 0.1094 175.741 25 34 James Golding
Richard Muscat Holden Commodore ZB 12 2'07.3152 2.5608 0.0441 175.680 26 27 Alexander Rossi
James Hinchcliffe Holden Commodore ZB 7 2'08.0356 3.2812 0.7204 174.692
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