Townsville Supercars: Provisional pole for Whincup
Jamie Whincup scored provisional pole on the streets of Townsville with some single-run heroics in qualifying.
The seven-time series champion set a formidable target on his opening run, his 1m12.019s the fastest lap of the weekend so far.
Knowing that was at least good enough to qualify for the Shootout, Whincup then opted to sit out the second run to save tyres.
Despite others improving on their second runs, Whincup was still able to cling on to provisional pole, the margin back to teammate Shane van Gisbergen just 0.005s.
"I'm certainly happy," said Whincup. "We made a little gain with the car and I got a clean lap in, which I didn't do yesterday. I got a bit of a tow off James Courtney as well.
"We were pretty confident we weren't going to go faster, so we sat [out] the last run."
Cam Waters was the best of the Fords, the Tickford driver promisingly close to the T8 Holdens with a 1m12.164s.
Rookie Will Brown booked his first ever Shootout spot with the fourth quickest time ahead of former enduro partner Anton De Pasquale.
David Reynolds continued his impressive weekend with sixth in qualifying, while Nick Percat left his run late, only banking his Shootout spot on his final lap. That came at the expense of Brad Jones Racing teammate Macauley Jones, who was bumped down to 11th courtesy of Percat's improvement.
Will Davison was eighth fastest as Todd Hazelwood and Tim Slade rounded out the Shootout qualifiers.
For the second day in a row Chaz Mostert was a surprise omission from the best 10, the Walkinshaw Andretti United driver set to start today's race from 12th.
Cla | # | Driver | Car | Time | Gap | Interval |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 88 |
Jamie Whincup
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.019 | ||
2 | 97 |
Shane van Gisbergen
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.025 | 0.005 | 0.005 |
3 | 6 |
Cameron Waters
|
Ford Mustang GT | 1'12.164 | 0.144 | 0.139 |
4 | 9 |
Will Brown
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.239 | 0.219 | 0.074 |
5 | 11 |
Anton De Pasquale
|
Ford Mustang GT | 1'12.250 | 0.230 | 0.011 |
6 | 26 |
David Reynolds
|
Ford Mustang GT | 1'12.272 | 0.253 | 0.022 |
7 | 8 |
Nick Percat
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.334 | 0.315 | 0.062 |
8 | 17 |
Will Davison
|
Ford Mustang GT | 1'12.351 | 0.331 | 0.016 |
9 | 14 |
Todd Hazelwood
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.363 | 0.344 | 0.012 |
10 | 3 |
Tim Slade
|
Ford Mustang GT | 1'12.373 | 0.353 | 0.009 |
11 | 96 |
Macauley Jones
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.428 | 0.408 | 0.054 |
12 | 25 |
Chaz Mostert
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.446 | 0.427 | 0.018 |
13 | 2 |
Bryce Fullwood
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.456 | 0.436 | 0.009 |
14 | 20 |
Scott Pye
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.462 | 0.443 | 0.006 |
15 | 5 |
Jack Le Brocq
|
Ford Mustang GT | 1'12.517 | 0.497 | 0.054 |
16 | 99 |
Brodie Kostecki
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.563 | 0.543 | 0.046 |
17 | 44 |
James Courtney
|
Ford Mustang GT | 1'12.632 | 0.613 | 0.069 |
18 | 7 |
Andre Heimgartner
|
Ford Mustang GT | 1'12.652 | 0.632 | 0.019 |
19 | 35 |
Zane Goddard
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.675 | 0.656 | 0.023 |
20 | 34 |
Jake Kostecki
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.727 | 0.707 | 0.051 |
21 | 18 |
Mark Winterbottom
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.727 | 0.708 | 0.000 |
22 | 19 |
Fabian Coulthard
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'12.978 | 0.958 | 0.250 |
23 | 22 |
Garry Jacobson
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'13.067 | 1.047 | 0.088 |
24 | 4 |
Jack Smith
|
Holden Commodore ZB | 1'13.261 | 1.241 | 0.194 |
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