Mostert heads Ford front-row for Race 11

Prodrive’s Chaz Mostert narrowly defeated DJR Team Penske’s Fabian Coulthard for the Race 11 Armor All Pole Award at Winton.

Mostert was the class of the field during the 20 minutes, sitting atop the order with a 1:18.80s ahead of the final green tyre runs.

The Supercheap Ford then went quicker again in the dying seconds, improving the qualifying record to 1:18.76s.

Mostert and Coulthard are both aiming to become the season’s 10th winner from 11 races this year.

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“This one goes to my engineer,” said Mostert of his third pole of the season and the 13th of his career.

“We were a little bit behind the eight-ball in practice but he stuck to his guns and gave us a really fast car

“I’m looking forward to the race. Yesterday we had good race pace so it’s nice to be starting further forward.”

Coulthard was fourth ahead of the final runs before improving to second, just 0.0058s adrift of his Ford rival.

“It’s a good turnaround from yesterday,” said Coulthard, who qualified just 15th for Race 10.

“We should have done a reasonable lap but I made an error through the sweeper and you just can’t afford to do that.

“Hopefully today we can turn it around.”

Holden drivers Craig Lowndes and Tim Slade will share the second row ahead of Michael Caruso in the fastest Nissan.

Scott McLaughlin, Rick Kelly, Jamie Whincup, Will Davison and Mark Winterbottom complete the top 10.

Whincup and Winterbottom were third and sixth respectively before both failing to improve on their second runs.

Shane van Gisbergen was just 12th in the second Red Bull entry after making a mistake at the end of what would have been his fastest lap.

It was another disastrous session for the Holden Racing Team, whose drivers Garth Tander and James Courtney were 19th and 20th respectively.

The 200km Race 11 will get underway at 1345 local time.

Result: Virgin Australia Supercars Championship Woodstock Winton Super Sprint Race 11 Qualifying

1	Supercheap Auto Racing	Chaz Mostert	Ford Falcon FG/X	1:18.7603RS
2	DJR Team Penske	Fabian Coulthard	Ford Falcon FG/X	1:18.7661rS	0:00.0058
3	TeamVortex	Craig Lowndes	Holden Commodore VF	1:18.8225rS	0:00.0622
4	Freightliner Racing	Tim Slade	Holden Commodore VF	1:18.8982rS	0:00.1379
5	Nissan Motorsport	Michael Caruso	Nissan Altima	1:18.9365rS	0:00.1762
6	Wilson Security Racing GRM	Scott McLaughlin	Volvo S60	1:18.9440rS	0:00.1837
7	Sengled Motorsport	Rick Kelly	Nissan Altima	1:18.9924rS	0:00.2321
8	Red Bull Racing Australia	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore VF	1:19.0386rS	0:00.2783
9	Team Darrell Lea STIX	Will Davison	Holden Commodore VF	1:19.1516 S	0:00.3913
10	The Bottle-O Racing Team	Mark Winterbottom	Ford Falcon FG/X	1:19.1549 S	0:00.3946
11	Monster Energy Racing	Cameron Waters	Ford Falcon FG/X	1:19.1560 S	0:00.3957
12	Red Bull Racing Australia	Shane Van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore VF	1:19.1586 S	0:00.3983
13	DJR Team Penske	Scott Pye	Ford Falcon FG/X	1:19.1819 S	0:00.4216
14	Preston Hire Racing	Lee Holdsworth	Holden Commodore VF	1:19.1899 S	0:00.4296
15	Super Black Racing	Chris Pither	Ford Falcon FG/X	1:19.1950 S	0:00.4347
16	Team Cooldrive	Tim Blanchard	Holden Commodore VF	1:19.2150 S	0:00.4547
17	Erebus Motorsport Penrite	David Reynolds	Holden Commodore VF	1:19.2152 S	0:00.4549
18	Team BOC	Jason Bright	Holden Commodore VF	1:19.2371 S	0:00.4768
19	Holden Racing Team	Garth Tander	Holden Commodore VF	1:19.2963 S	0:00.5360
20	Holden Racing Team	James Courtney	Holden Commodore VF	1:19.3312 S	0:00.5709
21	GB Galvanizing Racing	Dale Wood	Nissan Altima	1:19.4252 S	0:00.6649
22	carsales Racing	Todd Kelly	Nissan Altima	1:19.4410 S	0:00.6807
23	Wilson Security Racing GRM	James Moffat	Volvo S60	1:19.5526 S	0:00.7923
24	ABRO/Repair Management Aust	Andre Heimgartner	Holden Commodore VF	1:19.6145 S	0:00.8542
25	ABRO/Repair Management Aust	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore VF	1:19.7329 S	0:00.9726
26	Plus Fitness Racing	Aaren Russell	Holden Commodore VF	1:19.7631 S	0:01.0028