Greg Murphy sets the pace at Hidden Valley

Pepsi Max Crew’s Greg Murphy has set the early pace at Hidden Valley Raceway, topping the time sheets in the first practice session.

The four-time Bathurst winner set a time of 1m09.8860s, more than 0.3s faster than the next best.

As expected, 23-cars turned laps of the Darwin circuit – with today’s opening two 30 minute practice sessions set aside for the bottom 50% of the championship runners, as well as the Phillip Island and Bathurst co-drivers.

Second fastest was Craig Baird, driving the #61 Walkinshaw Racing Commodore VE. Baird will leave directly from Darwin, bound for Germany to compete in the Porsche Carrera World Cup.

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Team BOC’s Jason Richards was third in Jason Bright’s race-winning Commodore, ahead of Paul Dumbrell (The Bottle-O Racing), Tim Slade (Lucky 7 Racing) and David Reynolds (Stratco Racing).

TeamVodafone’s endurance racer Mark Skaife was seventh ahead of Russell Ingall (Supercheap Auto Racing), Cameron McConville (Toll HRT) and Karl Reindler (Fair Dinkum Sheds).

The second practice session will be held at 12pm.

See below for the full Practice 1 result

1	Pepsi Max Crew	Greg Murphy	Holden Commodore VE2	1:09.8850
2	Bundaberg Racing	Craig Baird	Holden Commodore VE2	1:10.1926	0:00.3076
3	Team Boc	Jason Richards	Holden Commodore VE2	1:10.2040	0:00.3190
4	The Bottle-O Racing Team	Paul Dumbrell	Ford Falcon FG	1:10.2699	0:00.3849
5	Lucky 7 Racing	Tim Slade	Ford Falcon FG	1:10.4613	0:00.5763
6	Stratco Racing	David Reynolds	Holden Commodore VE2	1:10.4703	0:00.5853
7	TeamVodafone	Mark Skaife	Holden Commodore VE2	1:10.6235	0:00.7385
8	Supercheap Auto Racing	Russell Ingall	Holden Commodore VE2	1:10.7036	0:00.8186
9	Toll Holden Racing Team	Cameron McConville	Holden Commodore VE2	1:10.8912	0:01.0062
10	Fair Dinkum Sheds Racing	Karl Reindler	Holden Commodore VE2	1:11.0018	0:01.1168
11	Jana Living Racing	Jason Bargwanna	Holden Commodore VE2	1:11.1800	0:01.2950
12	Fujitsu Racing GRM	Marcus Marshall	Holden Commodore VE2	1:11.3496	0:01.4646
13	Jack Daniel’s Racing	Todd Kelly	Holden Commodore VE2	1:11.3621	0:01.4771
14	Trading Post FPR Falcon	Luke Youlden	Ford Falcon FG	1:11.5005	0:01.6155
15	Orrcon Steel FPR Falcon	Steven Richards	Ford Falcon FG	1:11.5389	0:01.6539
16	Wilson Security Racing	T.D’Alberto/D.Wood	Holden Commodore VE2	1:11.6471	0:01.7621
17	Toll Holden Racing Team	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore VE2	1:11.6946	0:01.8096
18	Triple F Racing	Dean Fiore	Ford Falcon FG	1:11.7866	0:01.9016
19	VIP Petfoods	Paul Morris	Holden Commodore VE2	1:11.8104	0:01.9254
20	Gulf Western Oil Racing	Warren Luff	Holden Commodore VE2	1:11.8269	0:01.9419
21	Jim Beam Racing	James Moffat	Ford Falcon FG	1:11.9281	0:02.0431
22	Jack Daniel’s Racing	Owen Kelly	Holden Commodore VE2	1:12.8055	0:02.9205
23	Mother Energy Racing Team	J.Webb/R.Lyons	Ford Falcon FG	1:13.0470	0:03.1620

See below for Speedcafe.com’s Hidden Valley Race Guide