Erebus Motorsport’s Tim Slade/Andrew Thompson Mercedes and Dick Johnson Racing’s Chaz Mostert/Dale Wood Ford both returned to the track in Saturday morning’s final practice at Bathurst.
The two teams worked through the night to have the cars repaired from their heavy accidents on Thursday and Friday respectively.
Both cars spent the opening half of the 50 minutes ducking in and out of the pits, with Slade eventually putting down a best of 2:11.51s before handing over to Thompson.
The DJR Ford required longer spells in its garage during the session, with its eventual 2:13.38s best coming on its final lap with Wood at the wheel.
At the front, an early Top 10 Shootout simulation run from David Reynolds saw The Bottle-O Ford sit atop the order for all but the opening minutes.
Jamie Whincup drew closest as the time wound down, eventually falling just 0.07s short of Reynolds’ 2:08.68s effort despite complaining of oil on the circuit at Griffin’s Bend.
Fabian Coulthard, Shane van Gisbergen and Will Davison completed the top five.
Teams cycled their primary and co-drivers through the cars during the final practice, with IRWIN Racing’s Craig Baird the only one of the 58 drivers not to turn a lap.
Top 10 Shootout runner Scott McLaughlin spent most of the session at the bottom of the time sheets due to a broken front splitter on the #33 Holden causing a front-end vibration.
All 50 minutes were run under green flag conditions.
See below for the full Practice 6 result
| 1 | The Bottle-O FPR Ford | D.Reynolds/D.Canto | Ford Falcon FG | 2:08.6838* | |
| 2 | Red Bull Racing Australia | J.Whincup/P.Dumbrell | Holden Commodore VF | 02:08.76 | 00:00.07 |
| 3 | Lockwood Racing | F.Coulthard/L.Youlden | Holden Commodore VF | 02:09.05 | 00:00.37 |
| 4 | TEKNO Team VIP Petfoods | S.Van Gisbergen/J.Bleekemolen | Holden Commodore VF | 02:09.10 | 00:00.41 |
| 5 | Pepsi Max Crew FPR Ford | W.Davison/S.Owen | Ford Falcon FG | 02:09.15 | 00:00.46 |
| 6 | Pepsi Max Crew FPR Ford | M.Winterbottom/S.Richards | Ford Falcon FG | 02:09.34 | 00:00.65 |
| 7 | Irwin Racing | Lee Holdsworth | Mercedes E63 AMG | 02:09.38 | 00:00.69 |
| 8 | Red Bull Racing Australia | C.Lowndes/W.Luff | Holden Commodore VF | 02:09.77 | 00:01.09 |
| 9 | TEKNO Team Darrell Lea | J.Webb/M.Lieb | Holden Commodore VF | 02:09.84 | 00:01.15 |
| 10 | Fujitsu Racing GRM | A.Premat/G.Ritter | Holden Commodore VF | 02:09.97 | 00:01.29 |
| 11 | Team HIFLEX | T.D’Alberto/J.Reid | Holden Commodore VF | 02:09.99 | 00:01.30 |
| 12 | Wilson Security Racing | D.Wall/C.Pither | Holden Commodore VF | 02:10.04 | 00:01.36 |
| 13 | Sargent Security Racing | S.Pye/P.Morris | Holden Commodore VF | 02:10.10 | 00:01.42 |
| 14 | Norton Hornets | M.Caruso/D.Gaunt | Nissan Altima | 02:10.23 | 00:01.55 |
| 15 | Jack Daniel’s Racing | T.Kelly/D.Russell | Nissan Altima | 02:10.26 | 00:01.57 |
| 16 | Team BOC | J.Bright/A.Jones | Holden Commodore VF | 02:10.34 | 00:01.65 |
| 17 | SP Tools Racing | M.Engel/S.Johnson | Mercedes E63 AMG | 02:10.38 | 00:01.70 |
| 18 | Supercheap Auto Racing | R.Ingall/R.Briscoe | Holden Commodore VF | 02:10.41 | 00:01.73 |
| 19 | Wilson Security Racing | T.Blanchard/A.Walsh | Ford Falcon FG | 02:10.49 | 00:01.80 |
| 20 | Jeld-wen FPR Ford | A.Davison/J.McIntyre | Ford Falcon FG | 02:10.49 | 00:01.81 |
| 21 | Holden Racing Team | G.Tander/N.Percat | Holden Commodore VF | 02:10.62 | 00:01.93 |
| 22 | XBOX ONE Racing | A.Priaulx/M.Ekstrom | Holden Commodore VF | 02:10.70 | 00:02.02 |
| 23 | Heavy Haulage Australia Racing | Tim Slade/A.Thompson | Mercedes E63 AMG | 02:10.74 | 00:02.06 |
| 24 | Dodo Insurance Racing | D.Fiore/M.Halliday | Holden Commodore VF | 02:10.77 | 00:02.09 |
| 25 | Holden Racing Team | J.Courtney/G.Murphy | Holden Commodore VF | 02:10.81 | 00:02.13 |
| 26 | Fujitsu Racing GRM | S.McLaughlin/J.Perkins | Holden Commodore VF | 02:11.00 | 00:02.32 |
| 27 | Jack Daniel’s Racing | R.Kelly/K.Reindler | Nissan Altima | 02:11.15 | 00:02.47 |
| 28 | Norton Hornets | J.Moffat/T.Douglas | Nissan Altima | 02:11.46 | 00:02.78 |
| 29 | Wilson Security Racing | C.Mostert/D.Wood | Ford Falcon FG | 02:13.38 | 00:04.70 |
