Tasmania Supercars: Whincup fastest as Holden dominates practice

The two Red Bulls set the pace early, Shane van Gisbergen going quickest with a 50.961s on the four-minute mark, only to be immediately knocked off by Whincup's 50.912s.

Seconds later Simona de Silvestro staged the most dramatic moment of the session, dropping a right rear coming onto the main straight and looping her Nissan Altima a full 180 degrees without hitting anything.

Chaz Mostert briefly moved into second around the 10-minute mark, before van Gisbergen improved to a 50.923s to restore the Red Bull one-two.

At the midway point Scott McLaughlin took over at the top thanks to a 50.886s, which lasted five minutes until Scott Pye went quickest with a 50.813s.

Mark Winterbottom enjoyed a brief spell at the top inside the last five minutes thanks to a 50.690s, which was topped by van Gisbergen's 50.654s with two minutes to go.

Whincup wasn't done there, though, hitting back with 90s to go with a 50.508s that broke his own unofficial lap record to top the session.

"The car is good. [Engineer David] Cauchi made a couple of gains then in P2, we're there or thereabouts," said Whincup.

"Here the last couple of years have been really good, with the dual springs you can get the best of everything. Whereas maybe I'm asking  for a bit too much, it's nowhere near as good as what it was on the 'dualies'."

Van Gisbergen ended up second, moving to within 0.01s of his teammate on his last lap, followed by David Reynolds and Winterbottom.

James Courtney capped off the Commodore top five, with Mostert leading the Mustang charge back in sixth.

Penske pair Scott McLaughlin and Fabian Coulthard were next, Todd Hazelwood banked himself a Q2 spot with ninth, while Will Davison rounded out the first 10.

Nick Percat was the unlucky driver on the Q1/Q2 bubble, the Brad Jones Racing driver missing out by a hundredth.

Despite being fastest with 10 minutes to go Pye will have to go through Q1 after being shuffled back to 12th, while Mustang drivers Lee Holdsworth and Cam Waters will have to go the long way too after finishing up just 14th and 20th respectively.

All four Nissans will have to go through Q1 as well, Andre Heimgartner the best of the Altimas in 13th.

FP2 results:

la	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap
1	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	50.5084
2	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	50.5271	0.0187
3	9	David Reynolds	Holden Commodore ZB	50.5858	0.0774
4	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	50.6902	0.1818
5	22	James Courtney	Holden Commodore ZB	50.6923	0.1839
6	55	Chaz Mostert	Ford Mustang GT	50.6932	0.1848
7	17	Scott McLaughlin	Ford Mustang GT	50.6943	0.1859
8	12	Fabian Coulthard	Ford Mustang GT	50.7417	0.2333
9	35	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	50.7861	0.2777
10	23	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	50.8057	0.2973
11	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	50.8135	0.3051
12	2	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	50.8547	0.3463
13	7	Andre Heimgartner	Nissan Altima L33	50.8914	0.3830
14	5	Lee Holdsworth	Ford Mustang GT	50.8924	0.3840
15	15	Rick Kelly	Nissan Altima L33	50.9529	0.4445
16	14	Tim Slade	Holden Commodore ZB	50.9581	0.4497
17	99	Anton De Pasquale	Holden Commodore ZB	50.9837	0.4753
18	78	Simona de Silvestro	Nissan Altima L33	51.0339	0.5255
19	19	Jack Le Brocq	Holden Commodore ZB	51.0790	0.5706
20	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	51.1011	0.5927
21	21	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	51.2151	0.7067
22	33	Richie Stanaway	Holden Commodore ZB	51.2494	0.7410
23	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	51.2875	0.7791
24	34	James Golding	Holden Commodore ZB	51.4059	0.8975
25	3	Garry Jacobson	Nissan Altima L33	51.4918	0.9834