Bathurst Supercars: Provisional pole for van Gisbergen

Yesterday's race winner came out one top of a tight battle for provisional pole against Chaz Mostert and Cam Waters.

All three had their moment on top as times tumbled into the 2m04s, van Gisbergen landing the hammer blow at the flag with a 2m04.576s.

That left him 0.08s clear of Mostert and 0.09s ahead of Waters to set up what should be an intriguing single-lap dash for pole.

Anton De Pasquale, who crashed out of his debut race for Dick Johnson Racing yesterday, recovered well to edge teammate Will Davison for fourth.

Mark Winterbottom was sixth quickest, as James Courtney booked his first Shootout slot of the weekend with the seventh-best time.

It was a wild end to the session for Jamie Whincup, who was bundled out of the Top 10 in the closing stages of the session only to sneak back in right at the flag.

However he was still perplexed by the seven-tenths gap to teammate van Gisbergen.

"I started the last lap knowing my time wasn't good enough, so I had to go hard on the last lap – which I did," he said.

"I think we de-tuned the car today, it's not as good. I was pushing hard over the top to get the most out of it, but seven-tenths, it's not good enough."

Kelly Grove Racing pair David Reynolds and Andre Heimgartner rounded out the Shootout field in ninth and 10th respectively.

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	2'04.576
2	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	2'04.662	0.086	0.086
3	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	2'04.675	0.098	0.012
4	100	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	2'04.792	0.216	0.117
5	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	2'04.849	0.272	0.056
6	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.226	0.649	0.377
7	44	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.278	0.701	0.052
8	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.314	0.737	0.035
9	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.375	0.798	0.060
10	7	Andre Heimgartner	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.426	0.849	0.051
11	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.502	0.925	0.075
12	2	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.522	0.945	0.020
13	5	Jack Le Brocq	Ford Mustang GT	2'05.528	0.951	0.005
14	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.532	0.955	0.004
15	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.533	0.957	0.001
16	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	2'05.854	1.277	0.320
17	35	Zane Goddard	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.049	1.472	0.195
18	34	Jake Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.377	1.800	0.327
19	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.381	1.804	0.004
20	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.508	1.931	0.126
21	22	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.518	1.941	0.010
22	19	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	2'06.862	2.285	0.344
23	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	2'07.164	2.587	0.301
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