Townsville Supercars: Le Brocq tops Friday running

The Matt Stone Racing driver, on a high after a second career win in Darwin last time out, gapped the field by two-tenths in the second and final practice session in Townsville.

His 1m13.432s came as part of a qualifying sim right at the flag and left him a healthy two-tenths clear of the chasing field.

The session-topping effort followed a subdued practice 1 where Le Brocq was just 18th fastest.

"[It was] just tyres; we didn't use any [greens] in the first session so what we started with wasn't the best," explained Le Brocq.

"It's good. We had a few changes we wanted to get through, we had a bit of a swing at it from practice 1 to practice 2.

"I had no time on my dash, so I had not idea what time I had done. It's awesome, but it's early days. We'll see if we can back it up tomorrow."

Until Le Brocq's late heroics the benchmark was Bryce Fullwood, the Brad Jones Racing driver setting a 1m13.679s inside the first 10 minutes.

That time was still good enough for second as the likes of Cam Waters and Shane van Gisbergen fell short at the flag.

Waters ended up third and best of the drivers in the revised Ford Mustang. There were still only three Fords in the top 10, though, with Matt Payne in eighth and James Courtney in 10th.

NASCAR sensation van Gisbergen was fourth ahead of fellow Kiwi Andre Heimgartner and title contender Will Brown.

Scott Pye was seventh while Broc Feeney slotted in between Payne and Courtney in ninth.

Points leader Brodie Kostecki had another quiet session, the Erebus driver just 14th fastest.

He had been on for a big improvement at the flag, going purple in sector 1, only to end up down an escape road in the middle sector.

The next time Supercars hits the track will be for qualifying at 10:15am local time on Saturday.

Townsville 500 Practice 2 results

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap
1	34	Jack Le Brocq	Chevrolet	1'13.4320
2	14	Bryce Fullwood	Chevrolet	1'13.6790	0.2470
3	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.7641	0.3321
4	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Chevrolet	1'13.7642	0.3322
5	8	Andre Heimgartner	Chevrolet	1'13.7691	0.3371
6	9	Will Brown	Chevrolet	1'13.7950	0.3630
7	20	Scott Pye	Chevrolet	1'13.8127	0.3807
8	19	Matthew Payne	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.8143	0.3823
9	88	Broc Feeney	Chevrolet	1'13.8452	0.4132
10	5	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.9008	0.4688
11	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.9320	0.5000
12	55	Thomas Randle	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.9483	0.5163
13	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.9669	0.5349
14	99	Brodie Kostecki	Chevrolet	1'14.0258	0.5938
15	25	Chaz Mostert	Ford Mustang GT	1'14.0657	0.6337
16	23	Tim Slade	Chevrolet	1'14.0969	0.6649
17	35	Cameron Hill	Chevrolet	1'14.1179	0.6859
18	18	Mark Winterbottom	Chevrolet	1'14.1531	0.7211
19	2	Nick Percat	Ford Mustang GT	1'14.1767	0.7447
20	3	Todd Hazelwood	Ford Mustang GT	1'14.2110	0.7790
21	31	James Golding	Chevrolet	1'14.2524	0.8204
22	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	1'14.2581	0.8261
23	4	Jack Smith	Chevrolet	1'14.3201	0.8881
24	777	Declan Fraser	Ford Mustang GT	1'14.4466	1.0146
25	96	Macauley Jones	Chevrolet	1'14.7520	1.3200
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