
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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