Townsville Supercars: Van Gisbergen sets Friday pace

There were a number of pacesetter across the 40 minutes, Will Brown the first to spent time on top thanks to an early 1m13.049s.

He was shuffled back by both Chaz Mostert and Anton De Pasquale at around 15 minutes as times dipped into the late 1m12s.

At the half-way mark van Gisbergen jumped to the top with a 1m12.516s, that time only lasting two minutes before being beaten by Cam Waters' 1m12.516s.

But van Gisbergen was able to hit back right on the flag with a 1m12.381s that even he wasn't expecting to do.

"It didn't feel that good, but the car is obviously good," said the Kiwi.

"Obviously everyone is struggling with some things. The track was super slippery this morning, but it's all good.

"We had a bad session one, but these three-day weekends are really good. You can take your time and be thorough. We loaded in Jamie's set-up, basically, and straight away the car was much better."

Will Davison ended up second for the second session in a row, the gap to van Gisbergen just over a tenth, while Waters was shuffled back to third.

Jack Le Brocq jumped up to fourth at the flag, the Tickford driver edging Nick Percat and Jamie Whincup.

De Pasquale dropped back seventh by the finish, followed by Brown, Practice 1 pacesetter David Reynolds and Mostert.

The Townsville 500 continues tomorrow with qualifying, a Top 10 Shootout and the first of two 250-kilometre races.

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.381
2	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.504	0.122	0.122
3	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.516	0.134	0.012
4	5	Jack Le Brocq	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.544	0.162	0.028
5	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.577	0.195	0.032
6	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.578	0.196	0.000
7	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.610	0.229	0.032
8	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.635	0.253	0.024
9	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.711	0.329	0.076
10	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.768	0.386	0.057
11	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.775	0.393	0.006
12	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.836	0.455	0.061
13	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.939	0.557	0.102
14	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.940	0.558	0.000
15	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.980	0.599	0.040
16	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.025	0.643	0.044
17	35	Zane Goddard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.041	0.659	0.016
18	44	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.111	0.729	0.069
19	7	Andre Heimgartner	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.135	0.754	0.024
20	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.224	0.842	0.088
21	2	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.247	0.865	0.023
22	34	Jake Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.285	0.903	0.037
23	19	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.338	0.956	0.053
24	22	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.483	1.102	0.145
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