Townsville Supercars: Whincup, Waters split Sunday poles

Whincup will start the first of two races today from pole after getting the best of difficult conditions for the opening 10-minute session.

Oil left behind by a support category competitor meant the track evolution was significant, Whincup's 1m13.218s proving just good enough to edge teammate Shane van Gisbergen by 0.06s.

Chaz Mostert was third quickest ahead of Will Davison and David Reynolds, while Waters went purple in Sector 1 on his final run but couldn't do better than sixth.

Anton De Pasquale was the big surprise of the first session, yesterday's polesitter mistiming his final run and ending up 14th on the grid.

Waters then made good on the glimpses of pace in the first session by grabbing pole in the second session.

Once again the margins were tight and once again it was van Gisbergen that just missed out, the gap between him and Waters just 0.016s.

"We turned the car on its head and it's a totally different race car this weekend," said Waters. "I didn't do a good enough job in Q1 this morning, but we tuned her up for Q2 and managed to get the pole."

De Pasquale was third ahead of Davison and Todd Hazelwood, while Whincup could only manage sixth.

Reynolds capped off a solid morning with seventh in the second session while Mostert went backwards and qualified just 12th.

Qualifying Race 2

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.218
2	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.287	0.069	0.069
3	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.406	0.187	0.118
4	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.511	0.292	0.105
5	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.555	0.337	0.044
6	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.604	0.385	0.048
7	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.648	0.429	0.044
8	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.655	0.437	0.007
9	2	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.665	0.446	0.009
10	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.706	0.488	0.041
11	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.764	0.545	0.057
12	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.779	0.560	0.014
13	35	Zane Goddard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.832	0.614	0.053
14	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.863	0.645	0.030
15	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.913	0.695	0.050
16	7	Andre Heimgartner	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.918	0.700	0.004
17	22	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.939	0.721	0.021
18	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.978	0.759	0.038
19	19	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'14.045	0.826	0.066
20	34	Jake Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'14.046	0.827	0.001
21	44	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	1'14.091	0.873	0.045
22	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	1'14.128	0.910	0.036
23	5	Jack Le Brocq	Ford Mustang GT	1'14.236	1.017	0.107
	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT
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Qualifying Race 3

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.814
2	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	1'12.830	0.016	0.016
3	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.933	0.118	0.102
4	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.937	0.122	0.004
5	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.010	0.196	0.073
6	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.024	0.209	0.013
7	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.081	0.266	0.057
8	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.149	0.334	0.068
9	44	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.160	0.345	0.010
10	2	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.163	0.349	0.003
11	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.184	0.369	0.020
12	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.205	0.390	0.021
13	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.258	0.444	0.053
14	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.285	0.471	0.027
15	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.298	0.483	0.012
16	5	Jack Le Brocq	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.363	0.548	0.064
17	22	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.527	0.712	0.164
18	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.557	0.742	0.030
19	7	Andre Heimgartner	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.563	0.749	0.006
20	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.582	0.768	0.018
21	35	Zane Goddard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.597	0.782	0.014
22	34	Jake Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.660	0.845	0.062
23	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.792	0.977	0.132
24	19	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'14.019	1.204	0.226
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