Qualifying report
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Prodrive locks out V8 front row
Prodrive Racing Australia locked out the front row for this afternoon’s V8 Supercars feature race at Queensland Raceway, with Chaz Mostert leading Mark Winterbottom in qualifying.
Andrew van Leeuwen
Edited: Aug 4, 2015, 5:06 AM
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Both Mostert and Winterbottom got the job done on their first lap on green tyres, Mostert edging out Winterbottom by just over 0.07s.
It is Mostert’s second pole for the weekend, and his eighth for the season.
“Fantastic effort by the guys,” he said.
“The ‘hard’ car is amazing, hopefully it can transfer to the ‘soft’ car for the race. I’m super pumped.”
Today’s 200-kilometre race could boil down to a straight PRA versus Triple Eight battle, with Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup qualifying third and fourth respectively, ahead of David Reynolds and Jason Bright.
Will Davison was a late improver, making 18 spots on his second green lap to qualify seventh, while James Moffat led Nissan’s charge in eighth.
Nick Percat and Michael Caruso rounded out the fifth row.
Fabian Coulthard had an improved session, but could still manage just P11, while Scott McLaughlin lost his Saturday form and slipped back to 13th on the grid.
“We just tuned the car a little worse on the tyres we had at the start of qualifying,” he explained.
“It’s a long race today, we’ll fight back. The car is good, we just went the wrong way with the qualifying set-up.”
Shane van Gisbergen had another tough qualifying session, managing just 23rd in the Tekno Commodore.
Pos Driver Car Time Gap 1 Chaz Mostert Ford 1'09.7326 2 M.Winterbottom Ford 1'09.8361 0.1035 3 Craig Lowndes Holden 1'09.9087 0.1761 4 Jamie Whincup Holden 1'10.0157 0.2831 5 David Reynolds Ford 1'10.0294 0.2968 6 Jason Bright Holden 1'10.0834 0.3508 7 Will Davison Mercedes 1'10.0986 0.3660 8 James Moffat Nissan 1'10.1464 0.4138 9 Nick Percat Holden 1'10.1489 0.4163 10 Michael Caruso Nissan 1'10.1958 0.4632 11 Fabian Coulthard Holden 1'10.2021 0.4695 12 A.Heimgartner Ford 1'10.2075 0.4749 13 Scott McLaughlin Volvo 1'10.2086 0.4760 14 Garth Tander Holden 1'10.2117 0.4791 15 James Courtney Holden 1'10.2125 0.4799 16 Rick Kelly Nissan 1'10.2508 0.5182 17 Todd Kelly Nissan 1'10.2658 0.5332 18 Scott Pye Ford 1'10.3011 0.5685 19 Lee Holdsworth Holden 1'10.3435 0.6109 20 Ashley Walsh Mercedes 1'10.4035 0.6709 21 Dale Wood Holden 1'10.4304 0.6978 22 David Wall Volvo 1'10.5201 0.7875 23 S.van Gisbergen Holden 1'10.5337 0.8011 24 Tim Blanchard Holden 1'10.5544 0.8218 25 Tim Slade Holden 1'10.6035 0.8709
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