Sydney Supercars: De Pasquale edges Brown in final practice
In-form drivers Anton De Pasquale and Will Brown led the way in the final Supercars practice session at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Photo by: Mark Horsburgh, Edge Photographics
De Pasquale was consistently quick across the half-hour session, setting the early pace with a 1m30.695s.
Around a third of the way through the session his teammate Will Davison enjoyed a brief stint at the top courtesy of a 1m30.514s, before Jamie Whincup lowered the benchmark to 1m30.351s.
With 11 minutes to go Shane van Gisbergen had his first crack on a green tyre for the weekend, the Kiwi rocketing to first with a 1m30.095s.
De Pasquale responded with a green tyre run of his own, pipping van Gisbergen's time by seven-hundredths.
Brown then dipped into the 1m29s for the first time in the session with a 1m29.953s, only to be edged by a final De Pasquale, the margin between the two a tenth of a second.
Those final laps came right as rain started to fall at the Eastern Creek circuit.
Van Gisbergen's time held on for third ahead of Tim Slade and Brodie Kostecki.
Davison jumped back ahead of Whincup, the pair sixth and seventh respectively, followed by Chaz Mostert, Scott Pye and Jack Le Brocq.
Cla | # | Driver | Car | Laps | Time | Gap | Interval |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 11 |
Anton De Pasquale
|
Ford Mustang GT | 12 | 1'29.851 | ||
2 | 9 |
Will Brown
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 11 | 1'29.953 | 0.102 | 0.102 |
3 | 97 |
Shane van Gisbergen
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 11 | 1'30.038 | 0.187 | 0.085 |
4 | 3 |
Tim Slade
|
Ford Mustang GT | 10 | 1'30.071 | 0.219 | 0.032 |
5 | 99 |
Brodie Kostecki
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 10 | 1'30.116 | 0.264 | 0.044 |
6 | 17 |
Will Davison
|
Ford Mustang GT | 10 | 1'30.191 | 0.340 | 0.075 |
7 | 88 |
Jamie Whincup
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 11 | 1'30.199 | 0.348 | 0.008 |
8 | 25 |
Chaz Mostert
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 12 | 1'30.293 | 0.441 | 0.093 |
9 | 20 |
Scott Pye
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 12 | 1'30.381 | 0.530 | 0.088 |
10 | 5 |
Jack Le Brocq
|
Ford Mustang GT | 13 | 1'30.468 | 0.617 | 0.086 |
11 | 8 |
Nick Percat
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 10 | 1'30.479 | 0.627 | 0.010 |
12 | 18 |
Mark Winterbottom
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 11 | 1'30.526 | 0.675 | 0.047 |
13 | 35 |
Zane Goddard
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 12 | 1'30.532 | 0.680 | 0.005 |
14 | 2 |
Bryce Fullwood
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 9 | 1'30.606 | 0.754 | 0.074 |
15 | 7 |
Andre Heimgartner
|
Ford Mustang GT | 11 | 1'30.620 | 0.768 | 0.014 |
16 | 6 |
Cameron Waters
|
Ford Mustang GT | 11 | 1'30.744 | 0.893 | 0.124 |
17 | 22 |
Garry Jacobson
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 11 | 1'30.839 | 0.988 | 0.095 |
18 | 14 |
Todd Hazelwood
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 11 | 1'30.991 | 1.140 | 0.152 |
19 | 44 |
James Courtney
|
Ford Mustang GT | 8 | 1'31.078 | 1.227 | 0.087 |
20 | 34 |
Jake Kostecki
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 11 | 1'31.436 | 1.585 | 0.358 |
21 | 4 |
Jack Smith
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 12 | 1'31.463 | 1.612 | 0.026 |
22 | 19 |
Fabian Coulthard
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 11 | 1'31.530 | 1.678 | 0.066 |
23 | 96 |
Macauley Jones
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 9 | 1'31.558 | 1.706 | 0.028 |
24 | 26 |
David Reynolds
|
Ford Mustang GT | 9 | 1'31.769 | 1.918 | 0.211 |
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