Broc Feeney has continued his golden qualifying type by taking pole place within the first Supercars endurance race of the season, and the maiden 500km occasion to be held at The Bend Motorsport Park.
The Triple Eight Chevrolet Camaro star was simply ok to take his 14th pole of the season (and fifth in a row) within the Prime Ten Shoot Out, with a time of 1m48.6548s across the 5km Bend circuit.
“Stoked to try this. I knew it must be an enormous lap within the Shoot Out,” mentioned Feeney, who leads the championship.
“The observe acquired quicker and quicker because it acquired cooler and cooler. To seize one other pole is unbelievable.”
Feeney denied Cameron Hill the primary pole of his Supercars profession by 0.102s. The Matt Stone Racing driver made it an all-Chevrolet entrance row after a really sturdy efficiency sharing the automotive with co-driver Cameron McLeod.
“I used to be a bit bit nervous going into it however the second I got here out of Flip 3, it simply attached,” Hill mentioned.
Will Brown, Triple Eight Race Engineering Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
Picture by: Edge Photographics
Brodie Kostecki had an excellent Saturday to take third within the Dick Johnson Racing Ford Mustang, topping the common qualifying session and ending his single lap a mere 0.02s behind Hill, and alongside the 2023 champion on the grid would be the Cam Waters/Mark Winterbottom Tickford Racing Ford Mustang.
Waters simply edged out team-mate Thomas Randle for fourth, with Matt Payne (Grove Racing Ford) subsequent forward of Anton De Pasquale (Workforce 18 Chevrolet). Chaz Mostert was fifth quickest within the Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford, forward of Cooper Murray (Erebus Motorsport Chevrolet) and Ryan Wooden.
It was a case of what might need been for the younger New Zealander, who set the quickest time to the center of the lap earlier than operating off the street, and within the course of dropping the WAU Ford to tenth on the grid.
It was a troublesome Saturday for Will Brown. The defending Supercars Champion will begin from sixteenth after shedding some Follow time on Saturday morning when his automotive, with co-driver Scott Pye on the wheel, was taken out from behind by Feeney’s automotive, pushed on the time by co-driver Jamie Whincup.
The seven-time Supercars champion was fined A$1000 (US$665/£490) over the incident which, considerably paradoxically, occurred throughout a Security Automotive simulation, to permit co-drivers to familiarise themselves with the brand new Security Automotive laws in place for the endurance occasions.
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