Tasmania Supercars: Van Gisbergen tops second practice

The Kiwi book-ended the session with fastest times, a 50.657s on his opening run leaving him on top of the times.

That was until he was pipped by Practice 1 pacesetter Will Davison on the nine-minute mark, right before the session was stopped to recover Jake Kostecki's stranded Tickford Falcon.

When running resume there was little in the away of changes at the top until the final few minutes.

It was at that point that van Gisbergen went for a two-lap run on a brand new set of super softs, the first of which yielded a 50.447s.

Van Gisbergen was left a little surprised not to improve on his second lap, although it didn't matter as closest challenger Andre Heimgartner fell 0.02s short.

"It's alright," he said. "We had our second go on these new super softs and I did [the time] on Lap 1, which is not normal around here. But there's a lot of sun.

"My first part of the lap was pretty weak, but the second half was good. And then I tried a second lap and had no grip. It's just trying to understand these new [tyres]."

Todd Hazelwood was an impressive third in his Matt Stone Racing entry while Davison failed to improve on his early time and was shuffled back to fourth.

David Reynolds popped up in fifth place ahead of Anton De Pasquale, while Mark Winterbottom make big gains at the flag to end up seventh fastest.

Broc Feeney continued a solid start to his first visit to Symmons Plains with the eighth fastest time ahead of series leader Chaz Mostert and Tim Slade.

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	50.447
2	8	Andre Heimgartner	Holden Commodore ZB	50.467	0.020	0.020
3	35	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	50.605	0.158	0.138
4	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	50.642	0.195	0.037
5	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	50.669	0.221	0.026
6	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	50.680	0.232	0.011
7	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	50.686	0.239	0.006
8	88	Broc Feeney	Holden Commodore ZB	50.717	0.270	0.030
9	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	50.739	0.291	0.021
10	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	50.766	0.319	0.027
11	14	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	50.798	0.350	0.031
12	2	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	50.798	0.351	0.000
13	34	Jack Le Brocq	Holden Commodore ZB	50.810	0.362	0.011
14	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	50.876	0.429	0.066
15	5	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	50.880	0.433	0.004
16	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	50.890	0.443	0.010
17	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	50.911	0.464	0.021
18	10	Lee Holdsworth	Ford Mustang GT	50.959	0.511	0.047
19	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	50.975	0.527	0.015
20	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	51.010	0.562	0.035
21	55	Thomas Randle	Ford Mustang GT	51.041	0.594	0.031
22	76	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	51.060	0.612	0.018
23	22	Chris Pither	Holden Commodore ZB	51.066	0.619	0.006
24	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	51.197	0.750	0.130
25	56	Jake Kostecki	Ford Mustang GT	51.675	1.228	0.478
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