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Qualifying report

Bathurst Supercars: Provisional pole for van Gisbergen

Shane van Gisbergen will run last in Sunday's Top 10 Shootout at Bathurst after topping qualifying.

Shane van Gisbergen, Triple Eight Race Engineering

Shane van Gisbergen, Triple Eight Race Engineering

Mark Horsburgh, Edge Photographics

Yesterday's race winner came out one top of a tight battle for provisional pole against Chaz Mostert and Cam Waters.

All three had their moment on top as times tumbled into the 2m04s, van Gisbergen landing the hammer blow at the flag with a 2m04.576s.

That left him 0.08s clear of Mostert and 0.09s ahead of Waters to set up what should be an intriguing single-lap dash for pole.

Anton De Pasquale, who crashed out of his debut race for Dick Johnson Racing yesterday, recovered well to edge teammate Will Davison for fourth.

Mark Winterbottom was sixth quickest, as James Courtney booked his first Shootout slot of the weekend with the seventh-best time.

It was a wild end to the session for Jamie Whincup, who was bundled out of the Top 10 in the closing stages of the session only to sneak back in right at the flag.

However he was still perplexed by the seven-tenths gap to teammate van Gisbergen.

"I started the last lap knowing my time wasn't good enough, so I had to go hard on the last lap – which I did," he said.

"I think we de-tuned the car today, it's not as good. I was pushing hard over the top to get the most out of it, but seven-tenths, it's not good enough."

Kelly Grove Racing pair David Reynolds and Andre Heimgartner rounded out the Shootout field in ninth and 10th respectively.

Cla # Driver Car Time Gap Interval
1 97 New Zealand Shane van Gisbergen
Holden Commodore ZB 2'04.576
2 25 Australia Chaz Mostert
Holden Commodore ZB 2'04.662 0.086 0.086
3 6 Australia Cameron Waters
Ford Mustang GT 2'04.675 0.098 0.012
4 100 Australia Anton De Pasquale
Ford Mustang GT 2'04.792 0.216 0.117
5 17 Australia Will Davison
Ford Mustang GT 2'04.849 0.272 0.056
6 18 Australia Mark Winterbottom
Holden Commodore ZB 2'05.226 0.649 0.377
7 44 Australia James Courtney
Ford Mustang GT 2'05.278 0.701 0.052
8 88 Australia Jamie Whincup
Holden Commodore ZB 2'05.314 0.737 0.035
9 26 Australia David Reynolds
Ford Mustang GT 2'05.375 0.798 0.060
10 7 New Zealand Andre Heimgartner
Ford Mustang GT 2'05.426 0.849 0.051
11 20 Australia Scott Pye
Holden Commodore ZB 2'05.502 0.925 0.075
12 2 Australia Bryce Fullwood
Holden Commodore ZB 2'05.522 0.945 0.020
13 5 Australia Jack Le Brocq
Ford Mustang GT 2'05.528 0.951 0.005
14 8 Australia Nick Percat
Holden Commodore ZB 2'05.532 0.955 0.004
15 99 Brodie Kostecki
Holden Commodore ZB 2'05.533 0.957 0.001
16 9 Australia Will Brown
Holden Commodore ZB 2'05.854 1.277 0.320
17 35 Australia Zane Goddard
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.049 1.472 0.195
18 34 Australia Jake Kostecki
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.377 1.800 0.327
19 14 Australia Todd Hazelwood
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.381 1.804 0.004
20 96 Australia Macauley Jones
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.508 1.931 0.126
21 22 Australia Garry Jacobson
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.518 1.941 0.010
22 19 New Zealand Fabian Coulthard
Holden Commodore ZB 2'06.862 2.285 0.344
23 4 Australia Jack Smith
Holden Commodore ZB 2'07.164 2.587 0.301

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