Bathurst 1000: Waters pips Mostert in Practice 1

It took just five minutes for the red flag to make its first appearance of the weekend, prompted by Macauley Jones' smoking Holden rolling to a stop at The Cutting.

The initial theory was that the car had lunched its engine, however further inspections back in the garage revealed it was a power steering issue.

When the session got going again times quickly dipped into the low 2m06s, Mostert and Brodie Kostecki leading the way with a 2m06.006s and 2m06.079s respectively.

Those same two drivers led the charge in to the fives as well, Kostecki taking over top spot with a 2m05.555s, Mostert just 0.0007s behind.

The next improvements came with 12 minutes to go, Cam Waters jumping to the top with a 2m05.492s.

The Tickford driver's first stint at the top was short-lived, Mostert immediately lowering the benchmark to a 2m05.107s.

But Waters had one more green tyre run left, landing the hammer blow – a 2m05.023s – with a little over a minute to go.

Remarkably, that time is identical to the thousandth to the one that Waters set to top Practice 1 for the 2020 Bathurst 1000.

Mostert finished the session second while Will Davison popped into third place, just over a tenth off the pace, on his final run.

James Courtney capped off a promising session for Tickford in fourth, while a late lap from Mark Winterbottom left him as the second-best placed Holden in fifth.

Tim Slade was sixth fastest ahead of Shane van Gisbergen, who went off at The Chase late in the session.

Nick Percat was ninth as Kostecki slipped back to 10th after not improving on his early time.

Practice continues with a dedicated co-driver session at 4:25pm local time today.

Bathurst 1000 Practice 1 results

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	6	Cameron Waters James Moffat	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.023
2	25	Chaz Mostert Lee Holdsworth	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.107	0.084	0.084
3	17	Will Davison Alex Davison	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.139	0.115	0.031
4	44	James Courtney Thomas Randle	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.368	0.345	0.229
5	18	Mark Winterbottom Michael Caruso	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.398	0.374	0.029
6	3	Tim Slade Tim Blanchard	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.411	0.388	0.013
7	888	Shane van Gisbergen Garth Tander	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.475	0.452	0.064
8	14	Todd Hazelwood Dean Fiore	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.538	0.514	0.062
9	8	Nick Percat Dale Wood	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.548	0.525	0.010
10	99	Brodie Kostecki David Russell	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.555	0.532	0.006
11	88	Jamie Whincup Craig Lowndes	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.583	0.560	0.027
12	9	Will Brown Jack Perkins	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.616	0.593	0.033
13	26	David Reynolds Luke Youlden	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.689	0.666	0.073
14	2	Bryce Fullwood Warren Luff	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.772	0.749	0.082
15	11	Anton De Pasquale Tony D’Alberto	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.798	0.775	0.025
16	20	Scott Pye James Golding	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.895	0.871	0.096
17	39	Broc Feeney Russell Ingall	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.907	0.884	0.012
18	5	Jack Le Brocq Zak Best	Ford Mustang GT	2'06.082	1.059	0.175
19	7	Andre Heimgartner Matt Campbell	Ford Mustang GT	2'06.236	1.213	0.153
20	22	Garry Jacobson Dylan O’Keeffe	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.301	1.278	0.065
21	19	Fabian Coulthard Jonathon Webb	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.371	1.348	0.069
22	4	Jack Smith David Wall	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.698	1.675	0.327
23	96	Macauley Jones Chris Pither	Holden Commodore ZB	2'07.545	2.522	0.846
24	35	Zane Goddard Jayden Ojeda	Holden Commodore ZB	2'08.054	3.030	0.508
25	34	Jake Kostecki Kurt Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	2'08.218	3.194	0.164
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