Shane van Gisbergen
Shane van Gisbergen will start from first position in Race 2 at the Superloop Adelaide 500 after an untidy run into the parklands for provisional pole-sitting team-mate Jamie Whincup.
Van Gisbergen was fifth before the Top 10 Shootout but set a 1:19.8101s with a committed lap in the #97 Red Bull Holden Racing Team ZB Commodore, and will be joined by Shell V-Power Racing Team’s Scott McLaughlin on the front row.
Row 2 will be an all-Tickford affair with Cameron Waters third in the #6 Monster Energy Mustang and Will Davison (#23 Milwaukee Mustang) fourth, while Whincup was only seventh.
Chaz Mostert was fastest when van Gisbergen started his lap, and the Triple Eight Race Engineering driver took a decent touch of a kerb at the Turn 8 Sweeper on a lap which temporarily put him three tenths up on the field.
McLaughlin was less than two hundredths quicker than van Gisbergen to the second sector but the #17 Mustang driver came up 0.0383s short of #97 at the control line.
Van Gisbergen said on his cool down lap, “It’s pretty good, happy with that.
“I made a meal of my Shootout yesterday but I think it was the oil for us last three runners so I was pretty happy to be in the front half of the Shootout there so my car was still warm. It felt pretty good.”
A slightly untidy landing at Senna Chicane set Waters back before he completed a 1:19.9502s lap which leaves him one position away from where he provisionally qualified.
Davison had immediately followed van Gisbergen and bettered the Kiwi by just over a tenth to the second sector but pinched the inside-front at the last corner and ultimately set a 1:20.0336s in the 23Red Racing entry.
Mostert is set to start from fifth having set a 1:20.1131s in the #25 Mobil 1 Appliances Online ZB Commodore, while Fabian Coulthard had almost nothing left on exit of Turn 11 as he drove the #12 Shell V-Power Mustang to a 1:20.1322s which leaves him sixth.
Whincup was more than a tenth faster than van Gisbergen to the second sector but grabbed too much kerb at Turn 11, which picked up the inside wheels of the #88 Red Bull HRT ZB Commodore and carted him wide.
He will start alongside Lee Holdsworth, who was a dropped a row from a provisional sixth courtesy of a 1:20.3071s in the #5 Truck Assist Mustang.
Rick Kelly is due to start from ninth in the #15 Castrol Mustang after all but matching his provisional qualifying time in setting a 1:20.3655s in the one-lap dash.
Anton De Pasquale was first onto the track for the Shootout and went slightly wide at Turn 14 before breaking the beam at 1:20.5161s in the #99 Penrite ZB Commodore.
Qualifying for Race 2
Whincup put himself on provisional pole with a 1:19.8363s after the chequered flag had been unfurled for Qualifying Part 2, edging Waters by 0.0436s.
Jack Le Brocq will start from 11th in the #55 Supercheap Auto Mustang having been knocked out of the Shootout at the last possible moment by Tickford Racing team-mate Holdsworth, who had escaped a brush with the Turn 8 wall minutes earlier.
Mark Winterbottom was already vulnerable when he committed a kerb hop on his final lap and ended up 12th in the #18 Irwin Tools ZB Commodore, while David Reynolds failed to set a time in the second 10-minute stanza with the #9 Penrite ZB Commodore suspected to have dropped a cylinder.
The first part of the session went red flag before a majority of the 14 starters could set a lap due to Jack Smith finding the wall at the Turn 8 Sweeper.
Smith struck the kerb on his way through the corner, which unsettled the rear of the Brad Jones Racing-run SCT Logistics ZB Commodore and ultimately saw both left-hand corners of Car #4 take a significant hit.
Holdsworth was fast throughout and ended up on top with a 1:10.4348s, while Le Brocq’s late improvement consigned Todd Hazelwood to 15th on the grid in the #14 Plus Fitness ZB Commodore.
The new Brad Jones Racing driver will start next to Scott Pye (#20 DeWalt ZB Commodore), with Team Sydney’s James Courtney (#19 Boost Mobile ZB Commodore) and Chris Pither (#22 Coca-Cola ZB Commodore) qualifying 22nd and 23rd respectively.
Race 2, again scheduled for 78 laps, is set to start at 15:20 local time/15:50 AEDT.
Results: Top 10 Shootout for Race 2, Superloop Adelaide 500
| Pos | Num | Team/Sponsor | Driver | Car | Fastest lap | Split |
| 1 | 97 | Red Bull Holden Racing Team | Shane van Gisbergen | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:19.8101 | |
| 2 | 17 | Shell V-Power Racing Team | Scott McLaughlin | Ford Mustang GT | 1:19.8484 | 0:00.0383 |
| 3 | 6 | Monster Energy Racing | Cameron Waters | Ford Mustang GT | 1:19.9502 | 0:00.1401 |
| 4 | 23 | Milwaukee Racing | Will Davison | Ford Mustang GT | 1:20.0336 | 0:00.2235 |
| 5 | 25 | Mobil 1 TM Appliances Online | Chaz Mostert | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:20.1131 | 0:00.3030 |
| 6 | 12 | Shell V-Power Racing Team | Fabian Coulthard | Ford Mustang GT | 1:20.1322 | 0:00.3221 |
| 7 | 88 | Red Bull Holden Racing Team | Jamie Whincup | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:20.2372 | 0:00.4271 |
| 8 | 5 | Truck Assist Racing | Lee Holdsworth | Ford Mustang GT | 1:20.3071 | 0:00.4970 |
| 9 | 15 | Castrol Racing | Rick Kelly | Ford Mustang GT | 1:20.3655 | 0:00.5554 |
| 10 | 99 | Penrite Racing | Anton De Pasquale | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:20.5161 | 0:00.7060 |
Results: Qualifying for Race 2, Superloop Adelaide 500
| Pos | Num | Team/Sponsor | Driver | Car | Fastest lap | Split |
| 1 | 88 | Red Bull Holden Racing Team | Jamie Whincup | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:19.8363 | |
| 2 | 6 | Monster Energy Racing | Cameron Waters | Ford Mustang GT | 1:19.8799 | 0:00.0436 |
| 3 | 17 | Shell V-Power Racing Team | Scott McLaughlin | Ford Mustang GT | 1:19.9649 | 0:00.1286 |
| 4 | 23 | Milwaukee Racing | Will Davison | Ford Mustang GT | 1:19.9929 | 0:00.1566 |
| 5 | 97 | Red Bull Holden Racing Team | Shane van Gisbergen | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:20.0054 | 0:00.1691 |
| 6 | 5 | Truck Assist Racing | Lee Holdsworth | Ford Mustang GT | 1:20.0938 | 0:00.2575 |
| 7 | 25 | Mobil 1 TM Appliances Online | Chaz Mostert | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:20.1343 | 0:00.2980 |
| 8 | 12 | Shell V-Power Racing Team | Fabian Coulthard | Ford Mustang GT | 1:20.2517 | 0:00.4154 |
| 9 | 15 | Castrol Racing | Rick Kelly | Ford Mustang GT | 1:20.3394 | 0:00.5031 |
| 10 | 99 | Penrite Racing | Anton De Pasquale | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:20.4356 | 0:00.5993 |
| 11 | 55 | Supercheap Auto Racing | Jack Le Brocq | Ford Mustang GT | 1:20.7792 | 0:00.9429 |
| 12 | 18 | IRWIN Racing | Mark Winterbottom | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:20.8027 | 0:00.9664 |
| 13 | 8 | X Convenience Mobil Racing | Nick Percat | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:20.8803 | 0:01.0440 |
| 14 | 9 | Penrite Racing | David Reynolds | Holden Commodore ZB | ||
| 15 | 14 | Plus Fitness Racing | Todd Hazelwood | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:20.6711 | Part 1 |
| 16 | 20 | DEWALT Racing | Scott Pye | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:20.7009 | Part 1 |
| 17 | 2 | Mobil 1 TM Middy’s Racing | Bryce Fullwood | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:20.9251 | Part 1 |
| 18 | 3 | Team Cooldrive | Macauley Jones | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:21.0040 | Part 1 |
| 19 | 7 | NED Racing | Andre Heimgartner | Ford Mustang GT | 1:21.0949 | Part 1 |
| 20 | 35 | Yellow Cover Racing | Garry Jacobson | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:21.0986 | Part 1 |
| 21 | 34 | UNIT Racing | Zane Goddard | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:21.1765 | Part 1 |
| 22 | 19 | Boost Mobile Racing | James Courtney | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:21.3262 | Part 1 |
| 23 | 22 | Team SYDNEY | Chris Pither | Holden Commodore ZB | 1:21.6569 | Part 1 |
| 24 | 4 | SCT Motor Sports | Jack Smith | Holden Commodore ZB | Part 1 |
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