Townsville Supercars: Whincup dominates Shootout

The seven-time champion turned the tables on teammate Shane van Gisbergen compared to yesterday, Whincup a healthy three-tenths clear of the field over the single-lap dash.

It's his first pole position since the second Townsville event last September.

"It was good, I put it on the line," said Whincup. "I had a much smoother lap [than on Saturday].

"It's a big credit to the engineers; they could have played it safe and run yesterday's set-up, but they had a crack and I got the cookies for them.

"[Van Gisbergen] did us by seven seconds [in yesterday's race], so I'll try and improve today. All I'm trying to do is keep the pressure on him. If we can fight against each other we should make ourselves better."

Van Gisbergen will start from the outside of the front row after pipping Todd Hazelwood by just 0.04s.

Hazelwood, meanwhile, was the star of the Shootout, improving six spots compared to qualifying despite running roaded tyres.

He'll share the second row with Brad Jones Racing teammate Nick Percat.

Anton De Pasquale and Cam Waters were fifth and sixth fastest, the latter losing three spots compared to qualifying, followed by Will Brown, Will Davison and Tim Slade.

David Reynolds was the biggest loser from the Shootout, dumping four spots as he slumped to 10th.

"I just couldn't get the tyres up [to pressure] and had a lot of understeer and oversteer," he said. "I had no pace whatsoever."

Today's 250-kilometre race starts at 12:45pm local time.

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.310
2	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.655	0.344	0.344
3	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.697	0.387	0.042
4	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.713	0.402	0.015
5	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.725	0.414	0.012
6	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.876	0.565	0.150
7	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.972	0.661	0.096
8	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.982	0.671	0.009
9	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.460	1.149	0.478
10	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.494	1.184	0.034
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