Bathurst 1000: Mostert fastest in final practice, more damage for BJR

The hour-long session got underway in the driest conditions seen since the third session on Friday morning.

There were no Hollywood times out the gate, though, as teams focussed on pitstop practice with driver and brake changes.

Boys set the first representative time with a 2m11.770s a few minutes in before Alex Davison took over with a 2m10.340s.

David Reynolds then dipped into the nines and then eights with a 2m08.562s right before he out-braked himself at The Chase and went off.

Dale Wood edged Reynolds' time at the 12-minute mark, only for Chaz Mostert to come out a few minutes later and set a 2m07.204s.

On 20 minutes the times shifted into the sixes when Will Davison, who had taken over the #17 DJR Ford from his brother, set a 2m06.804s.

Times continued to improve as the session neared the midway point, Shane van Gisbergen lapping in 2m06.406s as Anton De Pasquale dropped into second with a 2m06.667s.

The next improvement came from Mostert with a 2m06.165s right on half an hour, which remained the benchmark until the Shootout simulations started later in the session.

Those qualifying sims started with around 10 minutes to go when Davison jumped to the top with a 2m05.630s. At the same time DJR teammate Anton De Pasquale went second fastest with a 2m06.032s.

With two minutes to go van Gisbergen edged Davison with a 2m05.613s only for Mostert to go quicker again with a 2m05.510s.

That was as quick as anyone went thanks to a red flag that cut the session short in the final minute.

The culprit was Boys who swiped the wall at the metal grate and damaged the Brad Jones Racing Holden that the team stayed up late repairing after its qualifying run-in with van Gisbergen yesterday.

That left Mostert in first place ahead of van Gisbergen and Davison, who was on a lap when the red flag came out.

"It's never perfect, you know us race car drivers, we always like to keep tuning it," said Mostert. "But for me that session was the happiest I've been all weekend, wet, dry or whatever.

"We've been tuning the car and getting it a bit closer to the window we need for this weekend."

Provisional pole-sitter Cam Waters was fourth fastest ahead of Reynolds, De Pasquale and Brodie Kostecki.

Mark Winterbottom, Lee Holdsworth and Scott Pye rounded out the Top 10.

The Blanchard Racing Team Mustang, which will start tomorrow's raced from last place, didn't turn a single lap in the session.

That was thanks to an issue with the drop jacks that damaged the car as it went to leave the garage for its first run.

The first five rows of the grid will be determined by the Top 10 Shootout which kicks off at 5:05pm local time.

Cla	Driver	Car	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Chaz Mostert Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	16	2'05.5105
2	Shane van Gisbergen Garth Tander	Holden Commodore ZB	16	2'05.6137	0.1032
3	Will Davison Alex Davison	Ford Mustang GT	20	2'05.6305	0.1200
4	Cameron Waters James Moffat	Ford Mustang GT	17	2'05.9821	0.4716
5	David Reynolds Matt Campbell	Ford Mustang GT	17	2'06.0179	0.5074
6	Anton De Pasquale Tony D'Alberto	Ford Mustang GT	22	2'06.0324	0.5219
7	Brodie Kostecki David Russell	Holden Commodore ZB	18	2'06.2106	0.7001
8	Mark Winterbottom Michael Caruso	Holden Commodore ZB	18	2'06.2106	0.7001
9	Lee Holdsworth Matthew Payne	Ford Mustang GT	20	2'06.3342	0.8237
10	Scott Pye Tyler Everingham	Holden Commodore ZB	19	2'06.3477	0.8372
11	Andre Heimgartner Dale Wood	Holden Commodore ZB	24	2'06.3737	0.8632
12	James Courtney Zane Goddard	Ford Mustang GT	20	2'06.5292	1.0187
13	Richie Stanaway Greg Murphy	Holden Commodore ZB	19	2'06.6016	1.0911
14	Will Brown Jack Perkins	Holden Commodore ZB	16	2'06.6643	1.1538
15	James Golding Dylan O'Keeffe	Holden Commodore ZB	22	2'06.8406	1.3301
16	Broc Feeney Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	20	2'06.8456	1.3351
17	Bryce Fullwood Dean Fiore	Holden Commodore ZB	25	2'06.9435	1.4330
18	Todd Hazelwood Jayden Ojeda	Holden Commodore ZB	21	2'07.0420	1.5315
19	Nick Percat Warren Luff	Holden Commodore ZB	17	2'07.0438	1.5333
20	Chris Pither Cameron Hill	Holden Commodore ZB	23	2'07.1388	1.6283
21	Macauley Jones Jordan Boys	Holden Commodore ZB	23	2'07.1641	1.6536
22	Thomas Randle Zak Best	Ford Mustang GT	25	2'07.5682	2.0577
23	Craig Lowndes Declan Fraser	Holden Commodore ZB	23	2'07.5797	2.0692
24	Jake Kostecki Kurt Kostecki	Ford Mustang GT	24	2'07.7394	2.2289
25	Jack Smith Jaxon Evans	Holden Commodore ZB	25	2'07.8430	2.3325
26	Matt Chahda Jaylyn Robotham	Holden Commodore ZB	21	2'08.1829	2.6724
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