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After a frustrating day in the rain, the Supercars field will return to Mount Panorama for practice and qualifying on Friday ahead of the Bathurst 1000. Join The Roar for live coverage from 8:30am (AEST).
Wet weather made it tough for the teams to get an understanding of where they were at yesterday ahead of qualifying, and it could make the pursuit of a top-ten start high risk, high reward this afternoon.
While the weather today is looking ordinary for the morning, it’s probably going to dry up by the time qualifying rolls around, which means teams will be working with very little idea on balance or pace. What they are aiming for in terms of lap times will be a mystery, so car setup won’t be a straightforward issue.
That all being said, it could throw up some surprises for qualifying, whether raining or not.
While qualifying for a 1000-kilometre race doesn’t see all that important, it’s universally acknowledged that being up front during the early laps while the field sorts itself out is important, with teams wanting to stay out of trouble.
It hasn’t been as much of a problem in the last two years, given neither race has had a crash in the first 90 laps, but that’s all the more reason to be up front this time around, with Bathurst being overdue for an incident-filled start on Sunday.
If it is dry, times from yesterday become almost redundant, however, the two DJR Team Penske teams showed good pace all day, with Scott McLaughlin and Chaz Mostert (and their teammates Alexandre Premat and Tony D’Alberto) up the right end of the pecking order.
It’ll be co-drivers only first up, and Premat was the best of them yesterday, while Rick Kelly’s teammate, Gary Jacobson in the Nissan showed good pace.
The surprise packets were Will Davison, who topped the charts in Session 1, and Richie Stanaway, who did the same in Session 3.
While it was hard to get a read due to minimal laps being completed, none of the Triple Eight racing cars – those belonging to favourites Jamie Whincup and Shane Van Gisbergen or retiree Craig Lowndes – seemed to go around well in the wet which could create a potential story to follow across the day.
Elsewhere on track today, we will also see the Super2 series in their final practice run and qualifying, while the Super Utes, Porsche Carrera Cup and Touring Car Masters also have their first race of the weekend.
Be sure to join The Roar for live coverage of every Supercars and Series 2 session as well as all the support race on Friday at the mountain from 8:30am (AEST) and don’t forget to get involved and drop your comments below.
7:25am – 7:45am: Super Utes qualifying
7:55am – 8:15am: Toyota 86 Racing Series qualifying
8:30am – 9:30am: Supercars practice 4 (co-drivers only)
10:20am – 11am: Dunlop Super2 Series practice 2
11:15am – 12:15am: Supercars Practice 5
1:35pm – 1:55pm: Super Utes Race 1 (6 laps)
2:05pm – 2:50pm: Porsche Carrera Cup Race 1 (16 laps)
3:05pm – 3:35pm: Super2 Series qualifying
3:50pm – 4:30pm: Supercars qualifying
4:45pm – 5:05pm: Touring Car Masters Race 1 (6 laps)
* – Live on The Roar.
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