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Sydney Supercars: Mostert leads Waters in incident-packed FP2
Chaz Mostert topped second practice for the opening round of the 2022 Supercars season at Sydney Motorsport Park, leading Cam Waters.
Rachit Thukral
Edited: Mar 4, 2022, 3:00 PM
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The 40-minute session got underway on a damp circuit following rain showers earlier in the day, but the majority of the field went out on slick tyres straight out of the box.
Anton de Pasquale and Andre Heimgartner traded the top spot on the timesheets early on, before Waters moved in front with a 1m34.383s flyer - still over a second slower than the time with which de Pasquale topped the opening practice of the weekend.
However, before de Pasquale’s benchmark could be beaten, the session was red-flagged when Jack Smith went off at Turn 2 on a track that was still far from dry, beaching his slick-shod Brad Jones Holden in the run-off area.
When the session resumed after a short interruption, Will Brown immediately broke the 1m34s barrier, going quickest with a time of 1m33.783s.
With less than 20 minutes left in the session, Will Davison set the fastest time of the weekend so far, lapping his Dick Johnson Racing Ford in 1m32.965s.
Mostert then managed to find even more time in the Walkinshaw Andretti United Holden, moving himself four tenths quicker than Davison with a 1m32.535s lap.
Several drivers tried to overhaul Mostert in the final 10 minutes of the session, with Waters coming within a tenth of the WAU driver’s benchmark with a late effort of 1m32.606s.
But a major incident for de Pasquale at Turn 1 with a minute to go in practice effectively ended any chance of Mostert being dethroned, with the race control electing not to restart the session.
That meant the 29-year-old ended the opening day at Sydney on top from Waters, with Brown a strong third for Erebus with his late effort of 1m32.664s.
Team 18’s Scott Pye ended up fourth ahead of David Reynolds, who survived a wild moment at Turn 9/10 sequence to end up fifth for Grove Racing.
Reigning champion Shane van Gisbergen completed just 11 laps in practice, jumping to sixth late on with a time of 1m32.800s.
DJR duo Davison and de Pasquale were seventh and eighth respectively, while Jack le Brocq and Lee Holdsworth completed the top 10.
Van Gisbergen’s Triple Eight teammate and Supercars rookie Broc Feeney ended up nine tenths off the pace in 14th.
Results:
Cla # Driver Car Time Gap 1 25 Chaz Mostert
Holden Commodore ZB 1'32.535 2 6 Cameron Waters
Ford Mustang GT 1'32.605 0.070 3 9 Will Brown
Holden Commodore ZB 1'32.664 0.128 4 20 Scott Pye
Holden Commodore ZB 1'32.734 0.198 5 26 David Reynolds
Ford Mustang GT 1'32.755 0.219 6 97 Shane van Gisbergen
Holden Commodore ZB 1'32.800 0.265 7 17 Will Davison
Ford Mustang GT 1'32.965 0.429 8 11 Anton De Pasquale
Ford Mustang GT 1'33.074 0.538 9 34 Jack Le Brocq
Holden Commodore ZB 1'33.103 0.568 10 10 Lee Holdsworth
Ford Mustang GT 1'33.112 0.576 11 8 Andre Heimgartner
Holden Commodore ZB 1'33.140 0.604 12 35 Todd Hazelwood
Holden Commodore ZB 1'33.158 0.622 13 99 Brodie Kostecki
Holden Commodore ZB 1'33.177 0.641 14 88 Broc Feeney
Holden Commodore ZB 1'33.448 0.913 15 14 Bryce Fullwood
Holden Commodore ZB 1'33.494 0.959 16 76 Garry Jacobson
Holden Commodore ZB 1'33.579 1.043 17 2 Nick Percat
Holden Commodore ZB 1'33.623 1.087 18 5 James Courtney
Ford Mustang GT 1'33.633 1.097 19 18 Mark Winterbottom
Holden Commodore ZB 1'33.701 1.165 20 3 Tim Slade
Ford Mustang GT 1'33.867 1.331 21 55 Thomas Randle
Ford Mustang GT 1'34.033 1.497 22 22 Chris Pither
Holden Commodore ZB 1'34.172 1.637 23 96 Macauley Jones
Holden Commodore ZB 1'34.311 1.776 24 4 Jack Smith
Holden Commodore ZB 1'34.348 1.812 25 56 Jake Kostecki
Ford Mustang GT 1'35.874 3.338 View full results
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