Phillip Island Supercars: Coulthard edges McLaughlin

McLaughlin held P1 for most of the session, but Coulthard’s 1min30.1873sec lap of the 4.445km track saw him edge ahead by 0.0141sec.

Cam Waters and Chaz Mostert of Tickford Racing were in the same tenth of a second in third and fourth.

GRM’s James Golding claimed unofficial honors of top Holden Commodore driver in fifth but that will be little consolation when he’s over four-tenths of a second slpwer than Coulthard.

James Courtney slotted his Walkinshaw Andretti United Holden into sixth, ahead of Will Davison’s 23Red Racing Ford.

The remaining drivers guaranteed a slot in the second part of qualifying are Erebus Motorsport’s Anton de Pasquale, Todd Hazelwood of Matt Stone Racing, and Nick Percat in his Brad Jones Racing Holden.

The Triple Eight Holdens of Jamie Whincup and Shane van Gisbergen were 12^th and 21^st fastest, over six-tenths and 1.3sec off top spot respectively.

Cla	#	Driver		Car	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	12	Fabian Coulthard		Ford Mustang GT	13	1'30.1873			177.430
2	17	Scott McLaughlin		Ford Mustang GT	12	1'30.2014	0.0141	0.0141	177.403
3	6	Cameron Waters		Ford Mustang GT	12	1'30.2103	0.0230	0.0089	177.385
4	55	Chaz Mostert		Ford Mustang GT	13	1'30.2341	0.0468	0.0238	177.338
5	34	James Golding		Holden Commodore ZB	12	1'30.6023	0.4150	0.3682	176.618
6	22	James Courtney		Holden Commodore ZB	11	1'30.6799	0.4926	0.0776	176.466
7	23	Will Davison		Ford Mustang GT	12	1'30.6988	0.5115	0.0189	176.430
8	99	Anton De Pasquale		Holden Commodore ZB	10	1'30.7328	0.5455	0.0340	176.364
9	35	Todd Hazelwood		Holden Commodore ZB	13	1'30.7705	0.5832	0.0377	176.290
10	8	Nick Percat		Holden Commodore ZB	12	1'30.7723	0.5850	0.0018	176.287
11	7	Andre Heimgartner		Nissan Altima L33	13	1'30.7813	0.5940	0.0090	176.269
12	88	Jamie Whincup		Holden Commodore ZB	11	1'30.8099	0.6226	0.0286	176.214
13	9	David Reynolds		Holden Commodore ZB	13	1'30.8283	0.6410	0.0184	176.178
14	18	Mark Winterbottom		Holden Commodore ZB	13	1'30.8586	0.6713	0.0303	176.119
15	200	Scott Pye		Holden Commodore ZB	9	1'30.9643	0.7770	0.1057	175.915
16	14	Tim Slade		Holden Commodore ZB	10	1'30.9730	0.7857	0.0087	175.898
17	15	Rick Kelly		Nissan Altima L33	12	1'30.9933	0.8060	0.0203	175.859
18	5	Lee Holdsworth		Ford Mustang GT	12	1'31.1580	0.9707	0.1647	175.541
19	78	Simona de Silvestro		Nissan Altima L33	14	1'31.2676	1.0803	0.1096	175.330
20	33	Richie Stanaway		Holden Commodore ZB	13	1'31.2867	1.0994	0.0191	175.293
21	97	Shane van Gisbergen		Holden Commodore ZB	11	1'31.4807	1.2934	0.1940	174.922
22	19	Jack Le Brocq		Holden Commodore ZB	14	1'31.6278	1.4405	0.1471	174.641
23	21	Macauley Jones		Holden Commodore ZB	11	1'31.9998	1.8125	0.3720	173.935
24	3	Garry Jacobson		Nissan Altima L33	13	1'32.1836	1.9963	0.1838	173.588