Davison fastest in wet Bathurst Warm Up

The Shell V-Power Racing Team’s Will Davison has set the pace in a wet Warm Up for the Repco Bathurst 1000 with his final lap of the session.

Davison denied James Golding morning bragging rights at Mount Panorama with a 2:22.4594s after the chequered flag, before Lee Holdsworth moved to second on a 2:23.1357s in the #10 Penrite Racing Mustang which he qualified on the front row.

PremiAir Racing’s Golding (#31 Subway ZB Commodore) ended up third, from Tickford Racing’s James Courtney (#5 Snowy River Caravans Mustang) and Triple Eight Race Engineering’s Garth Tander (#97 Red Bull Ampol ZB Commodore), with pole-sitter Cameron Waters eighth in Tickford’s #6 Monster Energy Mustang.

It was a relatively trouble-free session although Aaron Seton drove back into the garage early in the piece in the #34 Truck Assist ZB Commodore which was back on-track for the first time since his Practice 5 crash, but he and primary driver Jack Le Brocq both got subsequent mileage.

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After his run-in with Macauley Jones (#96 Wet & Forget ZB Commodore) at The Esses in Qualifying, Shane van Gisbergen (#97 ZB Commodore) was seen getting impatient with Chris Pither (#22 Coca-Cola ZB Commodore) as they ran down the hill in the latter half of the session, although they did not make contact.

Warren Luff had a tour up the Murray’s Corner run-off area in Nick Percat’s #2 Mobil 1 NTI ZB Commodore, but that was an innocuous incident.

As usual, teams conducted pit stop practice, including rotor changes and driver changes, with a notable initiative being the laying down of towels, mats, or the like to keep the incoming driver’s boots from getting too wet.

While there was no rain, the track had been quite wet for a slightly late session start of 08:10 local time, and 2020 race winner van Gisbergen set the early pace.

His 2:25.9368s was the fastest first flyer and his 2:23.9341s was the fastest second flyer, before Golding took over top spot with a 2:23.1853s in the 13th minute.

That was still the quickest lap when the chequered flag came out, before Davison and Holdsworth were among those to jump up.

Will Brown (#9 Boost Mobile ZB Commodore) had been second when the 20 minutes elapsed but ended up sixth, from Craig Lowndes (#888 Supercheap Auto ZB Commodore), Waters, Bryce Fullwood (#14 Middy’s ZB Commodore), and 2021 race winner Chaz Mostert (#25 Mobil 1 Optus ZB Commodore).

All that remains now is the race itself, with the start of the 161-lapper officially scheduled for 11:15 local time/AEDT.

Results: Warm Up

Pos	Num	Team/Sponsor	Driver(s)	Car	Fastest lap	Split
1	17	Shell V-Power Racing Team	W.Davison/A.Davison	Ford Mustang GT	2:22.4594
2	10	Penrite Racing	L.Holdsworth/M.Payne	Ford Mustang GT	2:23.1357	0:00.6763
3	31	Subway PremiAir Racing	J.Golding/D.O’Keeffe	Holden Commodore ZB	2:23.1853	0:00.7259
4	5	Snowy River Racing	J.Courtney/Z.Goddard	Ford Mustang GT	2:23.5409	0:01.0815
5	97	Red Bull Ampol Racing	S.van Gisbergen/G.Tander	Holden Commodore ZB	2:23.5654	0:01.1060
6	9	Boost Mobile Racing by Erebus	W.Brown/J.Perkins	Holden Commodore ZB	2:23.7380	0:01.2786
7	888	Supercheap Auto Racing	C.Lowndes/D.Fraser	Holden Commodore ZB	2:23.7751	0:01.3157
8	6	Monster Energy Racing	C.Waters/J.Moffat	Ford Mustang GT	2:24.2124	0:01.7530
9	14	Middy’s Electrical Racing	B.Fullwood/D.Fiore	Holden Commodore ZB	2:24.2506	0:01.7912
10	25	Mobil 1 Optus Racing	C.Mostert/F.Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	2:24.3887	0:01.9293
11	88	Red Bull Ampol Racing	B.Feeney/J.Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	2:24.4559	0:01.9965
12	26	Penrite Racing	D.Reynolds/M.Campbell	Ford Mustang GT	2:24.4890	0:02.0296
13	55	Castrol Racing	T.Randle/Z.Best	Ford Mustang GT	2:24.7500	0:02.2906
14	99	Boost Mobile Racing by Erebus	B.Kostecki/D.Russell	Holden Commodore ZB	2:24.7735	0:02.3141
15	96	Kubota	M.Jones/J.Boys	Holden Commodore ZB	2:24.8669	0:02.4075
16	35	Truck Assist Racing	T.Hazelwood/J.Ojeda	Holden Commodore ZB	2:24.9309	0:02.4715
17	8	R&J Batteries Racing	A.Heimgartner/D.Wood	Holden Commodore ZB	2:25.1494	0:02.6900
18	4	SCT Racing	J.Smith/J.Evans	Holden Commodore ZB	2:25.4264	0:02.9670
19	20	Alspec Racing	S.Pye/T.Everingham	Holden Commodore ZB	2:25.4296	0:02.9702
20	2	Mobil 1 NTI Racing	N.Percat/W.Luff	Holden Commodore ZB	2:25.5186	0:03.0592
21	100	Shell V-Power Racing Team	A.De Pasquale/T.D’Alberto	Ford Mustang GT	2:25.5520	0:03.0926
22	22	PremiAir Coca Cola Racing	C.Pither/C.Hill	Holden Commodore ZB	2:25.6680	0:03.2086
23	3	CoolDrive Auto Parts	T.Slade/T.Blanchard	Ford Mustang GT	2:25.8115	0:03.3521
24	118	Caltex Young Stars	M.Chahda/J.Robotham	Holden Commodore ZB	2:26.2724	0:03.8130
25	51	Boost Mobile Racing 51	R.Stanaway/G.Murphy	Holden Commodore ZB	2:27.3136	0:04.8542
26	18	IRWIN Racing	M.Winterbottom/M.Caruso	Holden Commodore ZB	2:27.7337	0:05.2743
27	34	Truck Assist Racing	J.Le Brocq/A.Seton	Holden Commodore ZB	2:28.5173	0:06.0579
28	56	Tradie Racing	J.Kostecki/K.Kostecki	Ford Mustang GT