Bathurst 1000: Waters sets Practice 3 pace

The Tickford driver, who was fastest in yesterday's opening practice session, left his run late in this morning's all-driver hit-out.

Having taken over from co-driver James Moffat, who was in the car for the early running, Waters charged to the top with a 2m04.738s in his Monster Mustang.

That left him a quarter of a second ahead of Shane van Gisbergen, who had become the first driver into the fours for the weekend with a 2m04.982s in the final third of the session.

Chaz Mostert kept his strong run going with the third fastest time, the Walkinshaw ace also dipping into the fours with a 2m04.994s.

Jamie Whincup was fourth quickest in the #88 Holden while Anton De Pasquale, one of the pre-race favourites, showed his hand for the first time this weekend with a 2m05.041s.

James Courtney was sixth fastest ahead of early pacesetter Brodie Kostecki. The Erebus team basically ran out of sync with the #99, Kostecki in the car early in the session before handing over to co-driver David Russell towards the end.

Jack Le Brocq capped off a solid morning for Tickford with the eighth fastest time ahead of Will Davison and Tim Slade.

The #96 Brad Jones Racing entry, meanwhile, was back on track following its overnight rebuild after Chris Pither's Practice 2 crash.

Pither and Macauley Jones ended the session 26th and last.

There is a fourth hour-long practice session a 1:30pm local time today before qualifying takes place at 4:35pm.

Bathurst 1000 Practice 3 results

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	6	Cameron Waters James Moffat	Ford Mustang GT	2'04.738
2	888	Shane van Gisbergen Garth Tander	Holden Commodore ZB	2'04.982	0.243	0.243
3	25	Chaz Mostert Lee Holdsworth	Holden Commodore ZB	2'04.994	0.255	0.012
4	88	Jamie Whincup Craig Lowndes	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.010	0.272	0.016
5	11	Anton De Pasquale Tony D’Alberto	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.041	0.303	0.030
6	44	James Courtney Thomas Randle	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.099	0.361	0.057
7	99	Brodie Kostecki David Russell	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.135	0.397	0.036
8	5	Jack Le Brocq Zak Best	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.154	0.416	0.019
9	17	Will Davison Alex Davison	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.181	0.442	0.026
10	3	Tim Slade Tim Blanchard	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.248	0.510	0.067
11	39	Broc Feeney Russell Ingall	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.390	0.651	0.141
12	14	Todd Hazelwood Dean Fiore	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.782	1.044	0.392
13	22	Garry Jacobson Dylan O’Keeffe	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.858	1.119	0.075
14	7	Andre Heimgartner Matt Campbell	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.907	1.169	0.049
15	20	Scott Pye James Golding	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.925	1.186	0.017
16	26	David Reynolds Luke Youlden	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.941	1.203	0.016
17	34	Jake Kostecki Kurt Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.107	1.368	0.165
18	8	Nick Percat Dale Wood	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.163	1.424	0.056
19	19	Fabian Coulthard Jonathon Webb	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.172	1.433	0.008
20	2	Bryce Fullwood Warren Luff	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.314	1.575	0.142
21	35	Zane Goddard Jayden Ojeda	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.333	1.594	0.019
22	9	Will Brown Jack Perkins	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.427	1.688	0.093
23	4	Jack Smith David Wall	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.550	1.811	0.122
24	18	Mark Winterbottom Michael Caruso	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.648	1.910	0.098
25	96	Macauley Jones Chris Pither	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.698	1.959	0.049
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