Darwin Supercars: Van Gisbergen tops Practice 2

The Kiwi stormed to the top early in the session with a 1m05.420s, the best time of the weekend so far.

It proved to be unbeatable even in the end-of-session happy hour, Andre Heimgartner going closest to knocking van Gisbergen off, but falling four-hundredths short.

"We put new tyres on and had a go," said van Gisbergen. "We ended up pretty fast, but the last run I didn't improve, so we de-tuned it a little bit and I drove bad. We can tune that up."

Anton De Pasquale was third fastest ahead of Dick Johnson Racing teammate Will Davison, just two hundredths separating the Shell Ford pair.

Mark Winterbottom led the way for Team 18 with the fifth fastest time followed by Practice 1 pacesetter Chaz Mostert and Triple Eight rookie Broc Feeney.

Cam Waters was the best Tickford car in eighth from David Reynolds and Brodie Kostecki.

James Courtney gave his crew some evening work by clobbering the wall at Turn 10 midway through the session. The veteran locked his inside front tyre on the way into the corner, bounced over the gravel and into the barrier.

"I just snagged the front left corner," he said. "It's very unforgiving, not a lot of run-off there. It's disappointing. There's a bit of work for the guys tonight now."

The Darwin Triple Crown continues with qualifying at 11:45am local time tomorrow.

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	1'05.4203
2	8	Andre Heimgartner	Holden Commodore ZB	1'05.4635	0.0432	0.0432
3	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	1'05.5085	0.0882	0.0450
4	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	1'05.5211	0.1008	0.0126
5	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	1'05.5958	0.1755	0.0747
6	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	1'05.6660	0.2457	0.0702
7	88	Broc Feeney	Holden Commodore ZB	1'05.7165	0.2962	0.0505
8	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	1'05.7433	0.3230	0.0268
9	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	1'05.7802	0.3599	0.0369
10	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'05.8158	0.3955	0.0356
11	10	Lee Holdsworth	Ford Mustang GT	1'05.8240	0.4037	0.0082
12	34	Jack Le Brocq	Holden Commodore ZB	1'05.8757	0.4554	0.0517
13	76	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	1'05.8811	0.4608	0.0054
14	22	Chris Pither	Holden Commodore ZB	1'05.9119	0.4916	0.0308
15	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	1'05.9134	0.4931	0.0015
16	35	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'05.9254	0.5051	0.0120
17	14	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'05.9377	0.5174	0.0123
18	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	1'05.9826	0.5623	0.0449
19	2	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	1'06.0047	0.5844	0.0221
20	27	Jayden Ojeda	Holden Commodore ZB	1'06.0162	0.5959	0.0115
21	56	Jake Kostecki	Ford Mustang GT	1'06.0517	0.6314	0.0355
22	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	1'06.0575	0.6372	0.0058
23	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	1'06.1249	0.7046	0.0674
24	5	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	1'06.1745	0.7542	0.0496
25	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	1'06.1808	0.7605	0.0063
26	55	Thomas Randle	Ford Mustang GT	1'06.4381	1.0178	0.2573
27	78	Zak Best	Ford Mustang GT	1'06.6366	1.2163	0.1985
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