The Bend Supercars: De Pasquale scores both Sunday poles

Dick Johnson Racing's new recruit scored his first career pole in the first of two sessions in South Australia, leading an all-DJR front row ahead of Will Davison.

He then doubled his poles tally in the second session a few minutes later, his margin over Jamie Whincup a dominant three-tenths of a second.

“We’ve been working hard all year trying to catch [Triple Eight] and everyone else," he said.

"We’ve been a bit down on overall speed so it’s good to come here with a fast car and we’ll try to obviously make it count in the race. It’s good to get the first two [poles].

“We’re getting better and better and I think all year we’ll do that. It’s always hard to come into someone else’s home and make it yours, so we’re working at it but this is a good track, we had a good base here last year for the team so we rolled out very similar to that and the car is good."

Davison couldn't back up his own front row heroics in the second session, fifth the best he could do as he battled with a gear shift issue.

Triple Eight, meanwhile, was inconsistent across the sessions, Shane van Gisbergen and Whincup just 13th and 16th in qualifying for the first race.

Whincup was then second and van Gisbergen fourth in the second session.

It was a promising morning for Tim Slade, the Blanchard Racing Team driver third fastest in the first session. He had a scare in the second session when he almost got bogged in the gravel after a spin, but got going and went on to qualifying eighth.

Yesterday's race winner Andre Heimgartner was fourth fastest in the first session but has a lot to do in the second race after being just 14th fastest in the second session.

Qualifying Race 2

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	1'48.676
2	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	1'48.867	0.191	0.191
3	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	1'49.043	0.366	0.175
4	7	Andre Heimgartner	Ford Mustang GT	1'49.153	0.476	0.110
5	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	1'49.211	0.534	0.057
6	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.276	0.599	0.065
7	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.284	0.607	0.008
8	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	1'49.292	0.616	0.008
9	44	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	1'49.368	0.692	0.076
10	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.388	0.711	0.019
11	2	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.429	0.753	0.041
12	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.450	0.774	0.021
13	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.480	0.804	0.030
14	55	Thomas Randle	Ford Mustang GT	1'49.515	0.839	0.034
15	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.538	0.862	0.023
16	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.595	0.919	0.057
17	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.612	0.935	0.016
18	5	Jack Le Brocq	Ford Mustang GT	1'49.851	1.175	0.239
19	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.904	1.227	0.052
20	34	Jake Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'50.158	1.482	0.254
21	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'50.182	1.505	0.023
22	22	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	1'50.305	1.629	0.123
23	35	Zane Goddard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'50.582	1.906	0.276
24	27	Kurt Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'50.669	1.992	0.086
25	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	1'50.843	2.167	0.174
26	19	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'50.907	2.230	0.063
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Qualifying Race 3

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	1'48.185
2	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	1'48.486	0.300	0.300
3	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	1'48.547	0.361	0.061
4	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	1'48.599	0.413	0.052
5	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	1'48.604	0.418	0.004
6	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	1'48.642	0.456	0.038
7	2	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'48.733	0.547	0.090
8	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	1'48.768	0.583	0.035
9	5	Jack Le Brocq	Ford Mustang GT	1'48.775	0.589	0.006
10	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	1'48.788	0.602	0.013
11	44	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	1'48.845	0.659	0.056
12	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	1'48.879	0.694	0.034
13	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	1'48.880	0.694	0.000
14	7	Andre Heimgartner	Ford Mustang GT	1'48.907	0.721	0.027
15	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	1'48.918	0.732	0.011
16	55	Thomas Randle	Ford Mustang GT	1'49.007	0.821	0.088
17	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.116	0.931	0.109
18	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.182	0.997	0.066
19	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.216	1.030	0.033
20	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	1'49.236	1.050	0.019
21	34	Jake Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.456	1.270	0.220
22	35	Zane Goddard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.489	1.303	0.033
23	22	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.601	1.415	0.111
24	19	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'49.711	1.525	0.110
25	27	Kurt Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'50.104	1.919	0.393
26	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	1'50.190	2.004	0.085
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