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Practice report

Sandown Supercars: Waters pips Winterbottom in second practice

Cam Waters pipped Mark Winterbottom in a close-run second Supercars practice session at Sandown.

Cameron Waters, Tickford Racing

Cameron Waters, Tickford Racing

Mark Horsburgh, Edge Photographics

It was Winterbottom that led the way for much of the half-hour session, the veteran going quickest on the 12-minute mark with a 1m08.166s.

He was still fastest when he lowered the benchmark to a 1m07.917s in the closing stages of the session.

It wasn't quite good enough to score P1, though, Winterbottom's former teammate Waters going 0.004s faster right at the flag.

Not that Winterbottom was overly concerned, the 2015 series champ excited by the braking performance of his Team 18 Holden.

"From the get-go [the car has] felt really nice, particularity under brakes," he said. "These cars are quite heavy so if you can pull it up, you're half a crack at the corner. I'm really confident under brakes, I feel good. We can still tweak her up a bit."

Anton De Pasquale bounced back from a quiet showing in the first session with the third fastest time, two-tenths off the pace. That was despite some mind games from Triple Eight's Shane van Gisbergen, who gave him a nudge on the bumper at pit exit early in the session.

Chaz Mostert was another driver to turn his Practice 1 fortunes around in the second session, the Walkinshaw driver slotting into fourth, while van Gisbergen braved his broken collarbone to finish fifth fastest.

Tickford pair James Courtney and Jack Le Brocq backed up their Practice 1 pace in sixth and seventh respectively, ahead of Holden drivers Scott Pye, Nick Percat and Macauley Jones.

Will Davison missed out on the Top 10 again, the Dick Johnson Racing just 12th quickest, as Tim Slade and Jamie Whincup, who were both near the front in the first session, slumped to 13th and 14th.

Cla # Driver Car Time Gap Interval
1 6 Australia Cameron Waters
Ford Mustang GT 1'07.912
2 18 Australia Mark Winterbottom
Holden Commodore ZB 1'07.917 0.004 0.004
3 11 Australia Anton De Pasquale
Ford Mustang GT 1'08.139 0.226 0.222
4 25 Australia Chaz Mostert
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.147 0.235 0.008
5 97 New Zealand Shane van Gisbergen
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.182 0.270 0.035
6 44 Australia James Courtney
Ford Mustang GT 1'08.216 0.303 0.033
7 5 Australia Jack Le Brocq
Ford Mustang GT 1'08.230 0.318 0.014
8 20 Australia Scott Pye
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.244 0.332 0.014
9 8 Australia Nick Percat
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.284 0.371 0.039
10 96 Australia Macauley Jones
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.348 0.436 0.064
11 9 Australia Will Brown
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.349 0.437 0.000
12 17 Australia Will Davison
Ford Mustang GT 1'08.366 0.454 0.017
13 3 Australia Tim Slade
Ford Mustang GT 1'08.526 0.614 0.160
14 88 Australia Jamie Whincup
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.543 0.631 0.016
15 35 Australia Zane Goddard
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.578 0.666 0.034
16 7 New Zealand Andre Heimgartner
Ford Mustang GT 1'08.591 0.679 0.013
17 2 Australia Bryce Fullwood
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.614 0.702 0.023
18 14 Australia Todd Hazelwood
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.660 0.748 0.046
19 26 Australia David Reynolds
Ford Mustang GT 1'08.667 0.755 0.006
20 34 Australia Jake Kostecki
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.705 0.792 0.037
21 19 New Zealand Fabian Coulthard
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.734 0.822 0.029
22 22 Australia Garry Jacobson
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.758 0.846 0.024
23 99 Brodie Kostecki
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.896 0.984 0.137
24 4 Australia Jack Smith
Holden Commodore ZB 1'08.906 0.994 0.010

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