Townsville Supercars: Reynolds tops opening practice

The Kelly Grove Racing driver was the best of a number of late improvers at the end of the 40-minute session, a 1m12.797s leaving him two-tenths clear of the field.

It was a somewhat surprising result given KGR struggled for pace last time out in Darwin, Reynolds revealing that a more aggressive front-end set-up helped unlock some speed.

"That was a decent lap," said Reynolds.

"I ran a sat of tyres, most other people probably didn't. We changed a couple of things in our cars between Darwin and here, we've sped up the steering to try and give me some more feel and changed some front-end parts, and it's obviously working.

"The car is really good. We've just got to keep it there."

Dick Johnson Racing driver Will Davison was second quickest, edging Brad Jones Racing's Todd Hazelwood by a hundredth of a second.

Chaz Mostert was fourth quickest ahead of Will Brown, while Jamie Whincup, who led the way for the majority of the session, was shuffled back to sixth after not running greens at the end.

Fabian Coulthard was ninth fastest as points leader Shane van Gisbergen rounded out the Top 10.

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.797
2	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.998	0.201	0.201
3	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.007	0.210	0.009
4	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.025	0.228	0.017
5	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.087	0.290	0.061
6	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.180	0.383	0.093
7	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.263	0.466	0.083
8	19	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.269	0.471	0.005
9	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.319	0.522	0.050
10	35	Zane Goddard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.336	0.539	0.017
11	44	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.339	0.541	0.002
12	34	Jake Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.339	0.542	0.000
13	7	Andre Heimgartner	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.354	0.557	0.014
14	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.522	0.725	0.167
15	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.535	0.738	0.012
16	5	Jack Le Brocq	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.578	0.781	0.042
17	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.647	0.850	0.069
18	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.706	0.909	0.059
19	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.844	1.046	0.137
20	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.993	1.196	0.149
21	2	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'14.052	1.255	0.059
22	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	1'14.234	1.437	0.182
23	22	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	1'14.300	1.503	0.066
24	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	1'14.442	1.645	0.141
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