Supercars title contenders Shane van Gisbergen and Brodie Kostecki will share the front row for the opening race in Perth. RepcoSC
It was a clinical performance for the Kiwi, who matched his times – to a ten thousandth of a second – in Q2 and Q3 in the knock-out session.
The time was only good enough for fifth in Q2, but a decision to run early in Q3 to combat rising ambient temperature proved critical as a 54.3625s became good enough for pole. "It was pretty good," said van Gisbergen."Thanks to [engineer] Andrew [Edwards] for loading the hot doc in the thing. We really struggled yesterday and today it came alive.
"I feel like I'm wobbling, I can't drive the thing. I just drive around and do what it does, it's all on the team, so thanks to them." Series leader Kostecki fell 0.02s short of van Gisbergen to qualifying second and set up a juicy front row for the opening race.
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