Defending winner Brodie Kostecki will begin from pole place for Sunday’s Supercars Bathurst 1000 after snatching the quickest time within the Prime 10 Shoot Out on Saturday.
Kostecki headlined a Ford lockout of the primary two rows, when he steered his Dick Johnson Racing Mustang across the observe in 2m04.0413s, simply 0.01s down on the time he set in Friday’s qualifying session, through which he additionally topped the instances.
In taking pole he wrote his identify alongside that of Peter Brock and Allan Moffat as the one drivers to take three consecutive poles for the race.
“Fairly particular second, three in a row with some individuals I actually seemed as much as,” stated the emotional Kostecki.
“That in-lap was one thing particular. There are a variety of Ford followers on the market. Not many vehicles win from pole however final 12 months, I proved that mistaken. Trying ahead to making an attempt to do this once more tomorrow.”
Kostecki was 0.1760s away from Cam Waters, who was second within the Tickford Racing Ford. Waters, who was the fourth driver to take to the observe, vaulted over 4 of the drivers who adopted him, however fell simply wanting taking his third pole within the 1000km enduro.
“I knew the place my lap was actually good and the place it was not so good. I used to be out early after which the observe was not at its greatest,” he stated.
On the second row of the grid would be the two Walkinshaw Andretti United Fords, Chaz Mostert simply away from his team-mate Ryan Wooden, who was in his first Bathurst Shoot Out.
Brodie Kostecki, Dick Johnson Racing Ford Mustang GT
Photograph by: Edge Photographics
It was the primary 1-2-3-4 qualifying outcome at Bathurst for Ford since 1990, when the Sierra RS500 Cosworth racers dominated the Group A period of Touring Automobile racing.
The primary of the Chevrolet Camaros was the Triple Eight instance of Broc Feeney. After 14 poles by way of the season, many anticipated that he could be the quickest of the breed however few would have predicted that he could be 0.55s down on pole, after what he admitted was a ragged lap.
Cooper Murray was sixth within the Erebus Chevrolet, the automotive that Kostecki vacated after profitable the race final 12 months, and he’ll begin alongside the opposite Tickford entry. Thomas Randle was the primary man out within the Shoot Out and gaining 4 locations offers his workforce two vehicles near the entrance of the grid.
Matt Stone Racing put each its Chevrolets within the Shoot Out, Cam Hill taking eighth in his first such session, two locations forward of team-mate Nick Percat, who’s making his closing Bathurst begin as a full-time driver.
The pair have been break up by Anton De Pasquale, whose Staff 18 Chevrolet underwent a late-night rebuild after a Apply crash on Thursday. ‘ADP’ misplaced slightly time on the first nook however at the least completed with a automotive able to race.
Sunday’s Supercars programme is because of begin at 8:30am, Australian Japanese Daylight Financial savings Time, with the standard 20-minute warmup.
The Bathurst 1000, the outcomes of which can decide the ten drivers who will vie for the title within the first-ever Supercars Finals collection, will begin at 11:45am (the most recent time in its historical past) and is because of run over 161 laps.
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