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Clipsal 500 Supercars: Whincup tops morning warm-up
Jamie Whincup topped this morning’s warm-up on the streets of Adelaide, beating teammate Shane van Gisbergen by a tenth of a second.
Andrew van Leeuwen
Edited: Mar 4, 2017, 1:24 AM
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The majority of the crews spent the 20-minute session working on race set-up, with times not dipping below 1m20s until Whincup switched to Shootout simulation mode with five minutes to go and put down a 1m19.764s.
Provisional polesitter van Gisbergen, who had been sitting second with a 1m20.352s, followed suit, dipping into the 19s himself with a 1m19.917.
Prodrive Racing’s Cam Waters did likewise, switching from a race set-up focus to a Shootout sim at the end to go third with a 1m19.940s.
“The start of [the session] was more of a race car to see what we’re going to be like on heavy tanks, and then we put greens on at the end,” said Waters. “Third is pretty good, if we can be around there in the Top 10 Shootout I’ll be rapt.”
Waters’s PRA teammates Mark Winterbottom and Chaz Mostert both popped up at the end to go fourth and fifth, in the low 1m20s, while James Moffat was an impressive sixth in the GRM Commodore.
David Reynolds, who was fastest with five minutes to go, ended up in seventh, ahead of Todd Kelly, Scott Pye, and Tim Slade.
While the Red Bull-backed Triple Eight cars were first and second, Craig Lowndes missed out on the Top 10 again in the Vortex T8 Commodore, finishing way down in 22nd.
He wasn’t concerned, though, explaining that his focus was purely on race set-up, as he won’t be part of the Top 10 Shootout.
“We’re looking for a race car,” he said. “The car is really good. We learnt a lot that session, and we’ll make the car better for the race. We’re fully focussed on full tanks, we don’t need to worry about a one-lapper.”
Cla# DriverCarLapsTimeGap 1 88 
Jamie Whincup Holden Commodore VF 8 1'19.7649 2 97 
Shane van Gisbergen Holden Commodore VF 10 1'19.9176 0.1527 3 6 Cameron Waters Ford Falcon FG-X 9 1'19.9400 0.1751 4 5 Mark Winterbottom Ford Falcon FG-X 9 1'20.0399 0.2750 5 55 Chaz Mostert Ford Falcon FG-X 12 1'20.1273 0.3624 6 34 James Moffat Holden Commodore VF 11 1'20.2964 0.5315 7 9 David Reynolds Holden Commodore VF 7 1'20.3432 0.5783 8 7 Todd Kelly Nissan Altima 9 1'20.4438 0.6789 9 2 Scott Pye Holden Commodore VF 9 1'20.5007 0.7358 10 14 Tim Slade Holden Commodore VF 10 1'20.5081 0.7432 11 17 Scott McLaughlin Ford Falcon FG-X 10 1'20.5378 0.7729 12 23 Michael Caruso Nissan Altima 9 1'20.5923 0.8274 13 8 Nick Percat Holden Commodore VF 10 1'20.6836 0.9187 14 19 Will Davison Holden Commodore VF 14 1'20.6950 0.9301 15 15 Rick Kelly Nissan Altima 11 1'20.7723 1.0074 16 22 James Courtney Holden Commodore VF 8 1'20.8130 1.0481 17 56 Jason Bright Ford Falcon FG-X 9 1'20.8651 1.1002 18 18 Lee Holdsworth Holden Commodore VF 8 1'20.9176 1.1527 19 33 Garth Tander Holden Commodore VF 11 1'20.9191 1.1542 20 12 Fabian Coulthard Ford Falcon FG-X 12 1'20.9684 1.2035 21 99 Dale Wood Holden Commodore VF 6 1'21.0127 1.2478 22 888 Craig Lowndes Holden Commodore VF 11 1'21.0424 1.2775 23 3 Taz Douglas Holden Commodore VF 10 1'21.1890 1.4241 24 21 Tim Blanchard Holden Commodore VF 10 1'21.3102 1.5453 25 78 
Simona de Silvestro Nissan Altima 12 1'22.3831 2.6182 26 62 Alex Rullo Holden Commodore VF 7 1'22.8960 3.1311
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