Golding leads S5000 practice at Phillip Island

James Golding was unbeaten in Friday practice for Round 2 of the VHT S5000 Australian Drivers’ Championship at Phillip Island.

The S5000 field took to the track for a pair of 25-minute practice sessions ahead of Round 2 at the Victorian circuit.

Having topped Practice 1 Golding continued his form into the afternoon session, again leading the way.

The Team Valvoline GRM driver’s Practice 1-leading time, a 1:26.082s, was in fact quicker than his best effort which saw him top Practice 2 in similar sunny conditions.

Nathan Herne finished Practice 1 in second position but fell to fourth in the afternoon, while Tim Macrow jumped to the runner-up slot in Practice 2 from a seventh-place result in Practice 1.

Series leader Thomas Randle banked third in both sessions aboard the Castrol Racing-backed entry.

The two sessions were incident-free as teams ran through their practice programmes for the day.

Cars will return to the circuit for qualifying on Saturday at 09:30 local time/AEDT.

Results: Practice 1

Pos	Num	Team/Sponsor	Driver	Fastest lap	Split
1	31	Team Valvoline GRM	James Golding	1:26.0823
2	29	Team Valvoline GRM	Nathan Herne	1:26.2724	0:00.1901
3	49	Castrol Team ALABAR /Form700	Thomas Randle	1:26.3903	0:00.3080
4	27	ALABAR/FORM700 Team BRM	Joey Mawson	1:26.4807	0:00.3984
5	96	Garry Rogers Motorsport	Luis Leeds	1:27.1753	0:01.0930
6	92	Modena Engineering	Ricky Capo	1:27.2363	0:01.1540
7	23	UCS Group Racing TMR	Tim Macrow	1:27.3165	0:01.2342
8	88	ACMFinance.com Racing	Cooper Webster	1:27.3470	0:01.2647
9	39	Yellow Tail Astuti Motorsport	Antonio Astuti	1:28.7564	0:02.6741
10	89	Willmington Racing	Braydan Willmington	1:28.9135	0:02.8312

Results: Practice 2

Pos	Num	Team/Sponsor	Driver	Fastest lap	Split
1	31	Team Valvoline GRM	James Golding	1:26.3672
2	23	UCS Group Racing TMR	Tim Macrow	1:26.8183	0:00.4511
3	49	Castrol Team ALABAR /Form700	Thomas Randle	1:27.2247	0:00.8575
4	29	Team Valvoline GRM	Nathan Herne	1:27.2837	0:00.9165
5	92	Modena Engineering	Ricky Capo	1:27.6763	0:01.3091
6	96	Garry Rogers Motorsport	Luis Leeds	1:27.7171	0:01.3499
7	27	ALABAR/FORM700 Team BRM	Joey Mawson	1:27.9657	0:01.5985
8	88	ACMFinance.com Racing	Cooper Webster	1:28.2301	0:01.8629
9	39	Yellow Tail Astuti Motorsport	Antonio Astuti	1:28.6646	0:02.2974
10	89	Willmington Racing	Braydan Willmington	1:29.9636	0:03.5964