Feeney fastest in rain-affected Super2 Practice 1

Broc Feeney has gone fastest in a rain-affected opening practice session for Round 2 of the Dunlop Super2 Series at the NTI Townsville 500.

The Triple Eight Race Engineering driver wound up on top from two drivers in Triple Eight-built cars, namely Eggleston Motorsport’s Tim Blanchard and Matt Stone Racing’s Aaron Seton.

Drizzle at the start of the 40-minute session caught out Super2 rookie Jaylyn Robotham (#999 Image Racing VF Commodore), who found the wall at Turn 8.

That drew a red flag in the seventh minute, at which time Feeney (#888 VF Commodore) held sway on a 1:17.3565s after three complete laps.

The precipitation ceased during that halt in track activity, leaving a dry albeit very green Reid Park Street Circuit when the session went green flag again in the 13th minute.

Feeney immediately lowered the benchmark to a 1:15.2700s while Blanchard (#88 VF Commodore), back in Super2 this weekend as preparation for the Bathurst 1000, started his second run with a next-best 1:15.6196s.

Another shower with around 15 minutes remaining in the session caught out a handful of big-name drivers, although none came to serious harm.

Feeney came close to setting an even faster lap inside the final five minutes, going quickest to the second sector but ultimately breaking the beam at a time of 1:15.3814s.

Blanchard remained second at 0.3496s adrift, with Seton almost that much further off the pace thanks to a 1:15.9498s during his second run in the #30 VF Commodore.

Jordan Boys (#49 Image Racing VF Commodore) ended up fourth, ahead of Tyler Everingham (#27 MW Motorsport Nissan Altima) and Matt Chahda (#18 Matt Chahda Motorsport FGX Falcon).

Triple Eight’s Angelo Mouzouris (#6 VF Commodore) had an innocuous off at Turn 11 on his way to seventh, Josh Fife (#28 MWM Nissan Altima) was eighth, and Jayden Ojeda (#31 MWM Nissan Altima) finished ninth having had a big lock-up at Turn 1 during the second rain shower.

Super2 Series leader Zak Best (#78 Tickford Racing FGX Falcon) rounded out the top 10 and Michael Anderson (#5 Anderson Motorsport FG Falcon) was best of the Super3 class in 16th outright on a 1:18.0391s.

Practice 2, another 40-minute session, starts this afternoon at 13:35 local time/AEST.

Results: Practice 1

Pos	Num	Team/Sponsor	Driver	Car	Cls	Fastest lap	Split
1	888	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Broc Feeney	Holden Commodore VF	S2	1:15.2700
2	88	Eggleston Motorsport	Tim Blanchard	Holden Commodore VF	S2	1:15.6196	0:00.3496
3	30	Matt Stone Racing	Aaron Seton	Holden Commodore VF	S2	1:15.9498	0:00.6798
4	49	Joss Group / Image Racing	Jordan Boys	Holden Commodore VF	S2	1:15.9677	0:00.6977
5	27	Blue Ribbon Legal / MWM	Tyler Everingham	Nissan Altima	S2	1:16.1346	0:00.8646
6	18	Adventure Kings	Matthew Chahda	Ford Falcon FG/X	S2	1:16.1456	0:00.8756
7	6	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Angelo Mouzouris	Holden Commodore VF	S2	1:16.1741	0:00.9041
8	28	Natural Gas and Water / MWM	Josh Fife	Nissan Altima	S2	1:16.2077	0:00.9377
9	31	Jayco / MWM	Jayden Ojeda	Nissan Altima	S2	1:16.3102	0:01.0402
10	78	Best Leisure Industries	Zak Best	Ford Falcon FG/X	S2	1:16.4305	0:01.1605
11	777	Red Hot Couriers / MWM	Declan Fraser	Nissan Altima	S2	1:16.5193	0:01.2493
12	11	Brema Group Racing	Zane Morse	Holden Commodore VF	S2	1:16.5588	0:01.2888
13	54	Eggleston Motorsport	Matthew McLean	Holden Commodore VF	S2	1:16.6606	0:01.3906
14	69	Dial Before You Dig	Jon McCorkindale	Holden Commodore VF	S2	1:17.2660	0:01.9960
15	38	Eggleston Motorsport	Jack Sipp	Holden Commodore VF	S2	1:17.8074	0:02.5374
16	5	Anderson Motorsport	Michael Anderson	Ford Falcon FG	SC3	1:18.0391	0:02.7691
17	67	Flash Bush Motorsport	Nash Morris	Ford Falcon FG	CH	1:18.2010	0:02.9310
18	35	Unit Racing	Jason Gomersall	Ford Falcon FG	SC3	1:18.3310	0:03.0610
19	77	Mr HDT Race Cars	Blake Fardell	Holden Commodore VE	CH	1:18.8111	0:03.5411
20	61	Image Racing	Reef McCarthy	Ford Falcon FG	CH	1:19.3358	0:04.0658
21	75	Linc Scaffolding	Brendan Strong	Holden Commodore VE	SC3	1:20.0308	0:04.7608
22	24	North West Recycling	David Murphy	Ford Falcon FG	SC3	1:20.7881	0:05.5181
23	39	Vectra Group	Chris Smerdon	Ford Falcon FG	SC3	1:21.2453	0:05.9753
24	999	Rare Spares / Image Racing	Jaylyn Robotham	Holden Commodore VF	S2	1:21.5323	0:06.2623
25	2	Page Bros Jayco	Steven Page	Holden Commodore VE2	SC3	1:21.7104	0:06.4404
26	96	Collins Racing	Gary Collins	Holden Commodore VE2	SC3	1:25.9016	0:10.6316