Will Brown took provisional pole position for Saturday's opening race of the Adelaide 500 in a dramatic qualifying session interrupted by a red flag after three crashes on the exit of Turn 8.
What was presupposed to be a brief 15-minute stanza to find out the 11-24 grid positions for Saturday's race was cut short after five minutes when David Reynolds and his Team18 Chevrolet were unable to get past the stationary Chevrolet of Cam Hill, who had already hit the wall, leaving each Camaros stranded in the course of the track.
As a result, the session was suspended after which announced, though many drivers had not yet set a representative lap time.
Brown set the lap time in his Triple Eight Chevrolet with a time of 1:19.4425 seconds, ahead of Tickford Racing's Cam Water and Tom Randle. Broc Feeney, the opposite driver competing for the title, was fourth in his Chevrolet Triple Eight.
The remainder of the highest ten was something of a surprise, with Blanchard Racing placing each of its Fords in fifth (James Courtney) and seventh (Aaron Love). Matt Payne was sixth for Grove Racing, ahead of the Love and Brad Jones Chevrolets of Jaxon Evans, Macauley Jones and Bryce Fullwood.
On the opposite hand, Chaz Mostert, who’s fighting for third place within the championship, was one in every of the drivers stuck within the race and can start the race in his Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford from twenty second position.
Reynolds, who won each practice sessions, didn't think the late afternoon shadows had a think about his crash.
“There was a bit of a yellow flag, I probably held the brakes too long and had an accident myself,” he said. “There are definitely some shadows on the opposite side [the track] but that's not my excuse in any respect.
Hill said his automobile will not be repaired in time for Saturday's race.
“It's quite cooked. The first push lap, there are loads of shadows there, but I won't say that's why I withdrew.
Another driver had already hit the wall in the identical place – Richie Stanaway had crashed his Grove Racing Ford into the concrete seconds earlier.
Bathurst winner Brodie Kostecki will take twelfth while the second Erebus Motorsport automobile, driven by Cooper Murray, who acquired the team for 2025 after current driver Jack Le Brocq rushed back to Melbourne on Friday morning on account of a birth her first child. Murray qualified in seventeenth position.
Brown enters the weekend with a 180-point lead over Feeney, the one driver competing for the title. A complete of 300 points may be scored in each races.
Supercars will return to motion on Saturday, with drivers taking to the track at 10am Central Australian Summer Time for a 30-minute rehearsal. The top 10 automobile shootout will begin at 12:35, and the twenty third race of the yr, covering 78 laps, is scheduled for 3:20 p.m.
