David Reynolds has dominated the Supercars qualifying narrative on Saturday morning however not in the best way he would have preferred.
The veteran’s nightmare Melbourne SuperSprint continued with the No.26 Penrite Mustang dominated out of each periods.
In eerily related circumstances to Friday’s race, Reynolds discovered himself within the gravel at flip one, bringing an early finish to the early qualifying session and catching the sphere out.
That handed Erebus a Race 5 front-row lockout with Brodie Kostecki and Will Brown banking the 2 quickest occasions earlier than Reynolds’ roll-off introduced out the purple flag.
Reynolds had barely gotten again to the storage earlier than the second qualifying stint was able to run – and he solely lasted half the session earlier than returning to the pits with a bent steering arm.
The second session ran to time and it led to a flurry, with Broc Feeney making amends for his disastrous Q1 – the place the purple flag left him stranded in P21 – to take pole for Sunday’s race forward of Chaz Mostert.
“Yeah man the highs and lows – twenty first after which first,” Feeney stated.
“I used to be fairly fired up between the periods.
“It’s about time (I bought pole), I’ve been so shut so many occasions. Credit score to the staff, the timing was fairly excellent. I almost caught it within the fence that final lap there, loopy situations.
“I used to be so fired up, I used to be screaming on the high of my lungs once I heard there was a purple flag (within the first qualifying session) and knew we might be on the again.
“it’s going to be a tough one this afternoon.”
Feeney’s teammate Shane van Gisbergen was not as lucky, with the reigning Supercars champion caught out in each periods.
In extremely uncommon circumstances, the Kiwi famous person did not characteristic within the top-10 in both qualifying session.
He took P11 and P12 for the Saturday and Sunday sprints respectively.
Walkinshaw Andretti United pulled an all-nighter to get Nick Percat’s automotive prepared for the second qualifying session, lower than 24 hours after his Mustang caught hearth throughout Friday’s dash race.
He sat out the primary session however managed to land in P16 for Sunday’s race, with staff proprietor Ryan Walkinshaw conceding there have been nonetheless some “gremlins” to be discovered within the hasty rebuild.
Saturday’s dash race begins at 5.30pm AEDT.
RACE 5 QUALIFYING
1. Brodie Kostecki
2. Will Brown
3. Bryce Fullwood
4. Anton de Pasquale
5. Matt Payne
6. Will Davison
7. James Golding
8. Andre Heimgartner
9. Mark Winterbottom
10. Chaz Mostert
RACE 6 QUALIFYING
1. Broc Feeney
2. Chaz Mostert
3. Will Brown
4. Andre Heimgartner
5. Bryce Fullwood
6. Jack Le Brocq
7. Will Davison
8. Matt Payne
9. Thomas Randle
10. Scott Pye
Initially printed as Supercars Australian Grand Prix reside: All of the Saturday race motion and qualifying outcomes
