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Andrew van Leeuwen

Darwin Supercars: Van Gisbergen tops Practice 2

The Kiwi stormed to the top early in the session with a 1m05.420s, the best time of the weekend so far.

It proved to be unbeatable even in the end-of-session happy hour, Andre Heimgartner going closest to knocking van Gisbergen off, but falling four-hundredths short.

"We put new tyres on and had a go," said van Gisbergen. "We ended up pretty fast, but the last run I didn't improve, so we de-tuned it a little bit and I drove bad. We can tune that up."

Anton De Pasquale was third fastest ahead of Dick Johnson Racing teammate Will Davison, just two hundredths separating the Shell Ford pair.

Mark Winterbottom led the way for Team 18 with the fifth fastest time followed by Practice 1 pacesetter Chaz Mostert and Triple Eight rookie Broc Feeney.

Cam Waters was the best Tickford car in eighth from David Reynolds and Brodie Kostecki.

James Courtney gave his crew some evening work by clobbering the wall at Turn 10 midway through the session. The veteran locked his inside front tyre on the way into the corner, bounced over the gravel and into the barrier.

"I just snagged the front left corner," he said. "It's very unforgiving, not a lot of run-off there. It's disappointing. There's a bit of work for the guys tonight now."

The Darwin Triple Crown continues with qualifying at 11:45am local time tomorrow.

Cla # Driver Car Time Gap Interval
1 97 New Zealand Shane van Gisbergen Holden Commodore ZB 1'05.4203    
2 8 New Zealand Andre Heimgartner Holden Commodore ZB 1'05.4635 0.0432 0.0432
3 11 Australia Anton De Pasquale Ford Mustang GT 1'05.5085 0.0882 0.0450
4 17 Australia Will Davison Ford Mustang GT 1'05.5211 0.1008 0.0126
5 18 Australia Mark Winterbottom Holden Commodore ZB 1'05.5958 0.1755 0.0747
6 25 Australia Chaz Mostert Holden Commodore ZB 1'05.6660 0.2457 0.0702
7 88 Broc Feeney Holden Commodore ZB 1'05.7165 0.2962 0.0505
8 6 Australia Cameron Waters Ford Mustang GT 1'05.7433 0.3230 0.0268
9 26 Australia David Reynolds Ford Mustang GT 1'05.7802 0.3599 0.0369
10 99 Brodie Kostecki Holden Commodore ZB 1'05.8158 0.3955 0.0356
11 10 Australia Lee Holdsworth Ford Mustang GT 1'05.8240 0.4037 0.0082
12 34 Australia Jack Le Brocq Holden Commodore ZB 1'05.8757 0.4554 0.0517
13 76 Australia Garry Jacobson Holden Commodore ZB 1'05.8811 0.4608 0.0054
14 22 New Zealand Chris Pither Holden Commodore ZB 1'05.9119 0.4916 0.0308
15 4 Australia Jack Smith Holden Commodore ZB 1'05.9134 0.4931 0.0015
16 35 Australia Todd Hazelwood Holden Commodore ZB 1'05.9254 0.5051 0.0120
17 14 Australia Bryce Fullwood Holden Commodore ZB 1'05.9377 0.5174 0.0123
18 9 Australia Will Brown Holden Commodore ZB 1'05.9826 0.5623 0.0449
19 2 Australia Nick Percat Holden Commodore ZB 1'06.0047 0.5844 0.0221
20 27 Jayden Ojeda Holden Commodore ZB 1'06.0162 0.5959 0.0115
21 56 Australia Jake Kostecki Ford Mustang GT 1'06.0517 0.6314 0.0355
22 20 Australia Scott Pye Holden Commodore ZB 1'06.0575 0.6372 0.0058
23 96 Australia Macauley Jones Holden Commodore ZB 1'06.1249 0.7046 0.0674
24 5 Australia James Courtney Ford Mustang GT 1'06.1745 0.7542 0.0496
25 3 Australia Tim Slade Ford Mustang GT 1'06.1808 0.7605 0.0063
26 55 Australia Thomas Randle Ford Mustang GT 1'06.4381 1.0178 0.2573
27 78 Zak Best Ford Mustang GT 1'06.6366 1.2163 0.1985
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