Townsville Supercars: Percat, Hazelwood score shock poles

The Holden squad was dominant across the two 10-minute sessions, four-time race winner Percat kicking things off by edging Scott McLaughlin by 0.08s in the first to bag the first pole of his career.

Percat then looked set to double his tally in the second session, going quickest on his very last lap. But there was a surprise coming from teammate Hazelwood, who pipped Percat by 0.02s just moments later.

That was after the third-year driver was a solid seventh fastest in the first session.

"Unbelievable. I think I lost my voice on the in-lap, I was cheering so hard," said Hazelwood. "It's a huge turnaround for BJR, we had our dramas yesterday but we knew we'd come back swinging today and we certainly proved that.

Percat added: "It's amazing. It's a massive Father's Day present for my engineer [Andrew Edwards] and my dad back in Adelaide.

"That first lap, to have a bit of margin to the field, I went into the next one thinking 'don't do anything silly, just replicate the lap'. I went a little bit quicker, but for Todd to sneak in there and grab us by 0.02s, it's mega to have a front-row lock-out for Brad and everyone at BJR."

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After being pipped by Percat in the first session, McLaughlin's day took a turn for the worse in the second. The points leader came across a slow-moving Garry Jacobson at the end of his flying lap, the pair even making light contact on the exit of the final corner.

He estimated the scuffle cost him around three-tenths, McLaughlin left 10th on the grid for this afternoon's final heat.

Cam Waters was third and sixth in the two sessions, while Chaz Mostert recovered from a disappointing 13th in the first session to grab third in the second.

Jamie Whincup will start both races from fifth, teammate Shane van Gisbergen less consistent with a fourth and a 12th.

Qualifying Race 2 results

Cla	#	Driver	Time	Gap	Interval
1	8	Nick Percat	1'12.262
2	17	Scott McLaughlin	1'12.342	0.079	0.079
3	6	Cameron Waters	1'12.429	0.166	0.086
4	97	Shane van Gisbergen	1'12.472	0.210	0.043
5	88	Jamie Whincup	1'12.553	0.291	0.081
6	55	Jack Le Brocq	1'12.603	0.341	0.049
7	14	Todd Hazelwood	1'12.655	0.392	0.051
8	2	Bryce Fullwood	1'12.669	0.407	0.014
9	9	David Reynolds	1'12.737	0.475	0.067
10	5	Lee Holdsworth	1'12.743	0.481	0.006
11	20	Scott Pye	1'12.745	0.483	0.002
12	3	Macauley Jones	1'12.761	0.498	0.015
13	25	Chaz Mostert	1'12.775	0.513	0.014
14	35	Garry Jacobson	1'12.819	0.557	0.043
15	44	James Courtney	1'12.837	0.575	0.018
16	12	Fabian Coulthard	1'12.876	0.614	0.038
17	19	Alex Davison	1'12.968	0.706	0.092
18	15	Rick Kelly	1'13.015	0.753	0.047
19	18	Mark Winterbottom	1'13.035	0.773	0.019
20	22	Chris Pither	1'13.194	0.932	0.159
21	4	Jack Smith	1'13.210	0.948	0.016
22	34	Jake Kostecki	1'13.283	1.021	0.072
23	99	Anton De Pasquale
24	7	Andre Heimgartner
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Qualifying Race 3 results

Cla	#	Driver	Time	Gap	Interval
1	14	Todd Hazelwood	1'12.154
2	8	Nick Percat	1'12.176	0.022	0.022
3	25	Chaz Mostert	1'12.244	0.090	0.068
4	99	Anton De Pasquale	1'12.305	0.151	0.060
5	88	Jamie Whincup	1'12.337	0.182	0.031
6	6	Cameron Waters	1'12.338	0.184	0.001
7	5	Lee Holdsworth	1'12.407	0.253	0.069
8	55	Jack Le Brocq	1'12.437	0.283	0.030
9	44	James Courtney	1'12.442	0.288	0.004
10	17	Scott McLaughlin	1'12.459	0.305	0.017
11	2	Bryce Fullwood	1'12.498	0.344	0.038
12	97	Shane van Gisbergen	1'12.501	0.347	0.003
13	19	Alex Davison	1'12.521	0.367	0.019
14	12	Fabian Coulthard	1'12.580	0.426	0.058
15	18	Mark Winterbottom	1'12.660	0.506	0.080
16	3	Macauley Jones	1'12.666	0.512	0.005
17	20	Scott Pye	1'12.755	0.600	0.088
18	7	Andre Heimgartner	1'12.763	0.608	0.008
19	9	David Reynolds	1'12.779	0.625	0.016
20	15	Rick Kelly	1'12.816	0.662	0.037
21	22	Chris Pither	1'12.837	0.683	0.021
22	34	Jake Kostecki	1'12.920	0.766	0.082
23	4	Jack Smith	1'13.164	1.010	0.244
24	35	Garry Jacobson	1'13.191	1.037	0.026
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