Sydney Supercars: De Pasquale edges Brown in final practice

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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