Tasmania Supercars: Waters sweeps Sunday poles

The Tickford driver emerged on top of what was effectively a quartet of qualifying sessions under the confusing Group A/B system.

He set a 50.764s in his eight-minute heat for the Race 2 grid, which put him on top of Group A.

Nobody in Group B was able to run it down either, Jamie Whincup going closest with a 50.866s.

For the Race 3 grid it was an all-Group A battle at the front, Waters going up against former teammate and fierce rival Chaz Mostert.

The pair were separated by just 0.01s at the end of the five-minute session as Waters took a second-straight pole with a 50.562s.

Speaking post-session Waters said he was surprised by the pole sweep, and that there's still question marks over his tyre life for the races.

"The car has improved a little but over night," he said. "In the first session I didn't get everything out of it, then I did a much better job in the second one. I'm a little bit surprised to get both poles.

"A bit of tyre life would be awesome. We're really good over one lap, we have been all year. But as soon as we get in the races, the other cars look after their tyres better than what ours can.

"We've done a few things overnight, hopefully we've gone in the right direction."

Group B runner Anton De Pasquale was third in both sessions, while fourth threw up a surprise for each race. Erebus rookie Will Brown will start from the outside of the second row for Race 2, while Zane Goddard will do likewise in Race 3.

Whincup added to his second for Race 2 with a sixth for Race 3, however his teammate Shane van Gisbergen was uncharacteristically quiet. The Kiwi will have to come from sixth on the grid if he's going to take an eighth-straight Supercars win in today's first race, while he'll start out of P7 for the second race.

The first of today's two races starts at 1:35pm local time.

Qualifying – Race 2

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	50.763
2	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	50.866	0.102	0.102
3	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	50.896	0.133	0.030
4	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	50.899	0.136	0.002
5	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	50.906	0.143	0.007
6	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	50.909	0.145	0.002
7	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	50.913	0.149	0.004
8	5	Jack Le Brocq	Ford Mustang GT	50.933	0.170	0.020
9	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	50.962	0.198	0.028
10	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	50.984	0.221	0.022
11	19	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	51.054	0.290	0.069
12	7	Andre Heimgartner	Ford Mustang GT	51.085	0.321	0.031
13	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	51.094	0.331	0.009
14	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	51.095	0.331	0.000
15	35	Zane Goddard	Holden Commodore ZB	51.141	0.378	0.046
16	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	51.157	0.394	0.015
17	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	51.166	0.402	0.008
18	2	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	51.178	0.414	0.012
19	44	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	51.180	0.417	0.002
20	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	51.188	0.425	0.007
21	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	51.220	0.456	0.031
22	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	51.245	0.482	0.025
23	34	Jake Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	51.348	0.585	0.102
24	22	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	51.404	0.640	0.055
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Qualifying – Race 3

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	50.562
2	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	50.580	0.018	0.018
3	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	50.670	0.107	0.089
4	35	Zane Goddard	Holden Commodore ZB	50.693	0.131	0.023
5	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	50.694	0.132	0.000
6	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	50.714	0.152	0.020
7	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	50.716	0.154	0.002
8	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	50.832	0.270	0.116
9	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	50.845	0.283	0.012
10	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	50.873	0.310	0.027
11	44	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	50.883	0.321	0.010
12	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	50.891	0.329	0.007
13	19	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	50.915	0.353	0.024
14	5	Jack Le Brocq	Ford Mustang GT	50.945	0.383	0.029
15	34	Jake Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	50.965	0.402	0.019
16	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	50.981	0.419	0.016
17	7	Andre Heimgartner	Ford Mustang GT	51.020	0.458	0.039
18	2	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	51.024	0.462	0.003
19	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	51.028	0.466	0.004
20	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	51.033	0.471	0.005
21	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	51.136	0.574	0.103
22	22	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	51.191	0.629	0.054
23	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	51.213	0.651	0.022
24	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	51.234	0.672	0.020
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