The Bend Supercars: Winterbottom fastest in damp practice

Overnight rain made for a wet start to Saturday's action in South Australia, conditions improving across the first half-hour session without the track full drying out.

That meant there was a flurry of late times, Winterbottom the best of them with a 1m50.494s on his final run.

That was good enough to put the Team 18 driver three-hundredths clear of series leader Shane van Gisbergen, who was a consistent front-runner throughout the session.

Winner of the last race Chaz Mostert was third fastest while James Courtney was best of the Fords in fourth. That was despite the Tickford driver prompting a short stoppage after beaching his Mustang at Turn 6.

Anton De Pasquale, Cam Waters and Will Davison were next as Will Brown, Scott Pye and Tim Slade rounded out the Top 10.

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	1'50.494
2	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	1'50.533	0.039	0.039
3	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	1'50.602	0.108	0.069
4	44	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	1'50.607	0.113	0.005
5	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	1'50.826	0.332	0.219
6	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	1'50.855	0.361	0.029
7	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	1'50.927	0.432	0.071
8	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	1'51.065	0.571	0.138
9	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	1'51.112	0.618	0.046
10	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	1'51.139	0.645	0.027
11	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	1'51.230	0.736	0.091
12	5	Jack Le Brocq	Ford Mustang GT	1'51.353	0.858	0.122
13	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	1'51.509	1.015	0.156
14	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	1'51.585	1.090	0.075
15	55	Thomas Randle	Ford Mustang GT	1'51.733	1.238	0.148
16	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'51.872	1.377	0.138
17	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'51.898	1.404	0.026
18	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	1'52.056	1.561	0.157
19	7	Andre Heimgartner	Ford Mustang GT	1'52.255	1.761	0.199
20	19	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'52.440	1.945	0.184
21	35	Zane Goddard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'52.519	2.025	0.079
22	2	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'53.063	2.569	0.544
23	34	Jake Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'53.648	3.153	0.584
24	27	Kurt Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'53.725	3.231	0.077
25	22	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	1'54.178	3.683	0.452
26	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	1'57.759	7.265	3.581
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