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Broc Feeney has gone fastest in a rain-affected opening practice session for Round 2 of the Dunlop Super2 Series at the NTI Townsville 500.
The Triple Eight Race Engineering driver wound up on top from two drivers in Triple Eight-built cars, namely Eggleston Motorsport’s Tim Blanchard and Matt Stone Racing’s Aaron Seton.
Drizzle at the start of the 40-minute session caught out Super2 rookie Jaylyn Robotham (#999 Image Racing VF Commodore), who found the wall at Turn 8.
That drew a red flag in the seventh minute, at which time Feeney (#888 VF Commodore) held sway on a 1:17.3565s after three complete laps.
The precipitation ceased during that halt in track activity, leaving a dry albeit very green Reid Park Street Circuit when the session went green flag again in the 13th minute.
Feeney immediately lowered the benchmark to a 1:15.2700s while Blanchard (#88 VF Commodore), back in Super2 this weekend as preparation for the Bathurst 1000, started his second run with a next-best 1:15.6196s.
Another shower with around 15 minutes remaining in the session caught out a handful of big-name drivers, although none came to serious harm.
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Feeney came close to setting an even faster lap inside the final five minutes, going quickest to the second sector but ultimately breaking the beam at a time of 1:15.3814s.
Blanchard remained second at 0.3496s adrift, with Seton almost that much further off the pace thanks to a 1:15.9498s during his second run in the #30 VF Commodore.
Jordan Boys (#49 Image Racing VF Commodore) ended up fourth, ahead of Tyler Everingham (#27 MW Motorsport Nissan Altima) and Matt Chahda (#18 Matt Chahda Motorsport FGX Falcon).
Triple Eight’s Angelo Mouzouris (#6 VF Commodore) had an innocuous off at Turn 11 on his way to seventh, Josh Fife (#28 MWM Nissan Altima) was eighth, and Jayden Ojeda (#31 MWM Nissan Altima) finished ninth having had a big lock-up at Turn 1 during the second rain shower.
Super2 Series leader Zak Best (#78 Tickford Racing FGX Falcon) rounded out the top 10 and Michael Anderson (#5 Anderson Motorsport FG Falcon) was best of the Super3 class in 16th outright on a 1:18.0391s.
Practice 2, another 40-minute session, starts this afternoon at 13:35 local time/AEST.
Results: Practice 1
Pos | Num | Team/Sponsor | Driver | Car | Cls | Fastest lap | Split |
1 | 888 | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Broc Feeney | Holden Commodore VF | S2 | 1:15.2700 | |
2 | 88 | Eggleston Motorsport | Tim Blanchard | Holden Commodore VF | S2 | 1:15.6196 | 0:00.3496 |
3 | 30 | Matt Stone Racing | Aaron Seton | Holden Commodore VF | S2 | 1:15.9498 | 0:00.6798 |
4 | 49 | Joss Group / Image Racing | Jordan Boys | Holden Commodore VF | S2 | 1:15.9677 | 0:00.6977 |
5 | 27 | Blue Ribbon Legal / MWM | Tyler Everingham | Nissan Altima | S2 | 1:16.1346 | 0:00.8646 |
6 | 18 | Adventure Kings | Matthew Chahda | Ford Falcon FG/X | S2 | 1:16.1456 | 0:00.8756 |
7 | 6 | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Angelo Mouzouris | Holden Commodore VF | S2 | 1:16.1741 | 0:00.9041 |
8 | 28 | Natural Gas and Water / MWM | Josh Fife | Nissan Altima | S2 | 1:16.2077 | 0:00.9377 |
9 | 31 | Jayco / MWM | Jayden Ojeda | Nissan Altima | S2 | 1:16.3102 | 0:01.0402 |
10 | 78 | Best Leisure Industries | Zak Best | Ford Falcon FG/X | S2 | 1:16.4305 | 0:01.1605 |
11 | 777 | Red Hot Couriers / MWM | Declan Fraser | Nissan Altima | S2 | 1:16.5193 | 0:01.2493 |
12 | 11 | Brema Group Racing | Zane Morse | Holden Commodore VF | S2 | 1:16.5588 | 0:01.2888 |
13 | 54 | Eggleston Motorsport | Matthew McLean | Holden Commodore VF | S2 | 1:16.6606 | 0:01.3906 |
14 | 69 | Dial Before You Dig | Jon McCorkindale | Holden Commodore VF | S2 | 1:17.2660 | 0:01.9960 |
15 | 38 | Eggleston Motorsport | Jack Sipp | Holden Commodore VF | S2 | 1:17.8074 | 0:02.5374 |
16 | 5 | Anderson Motorsport | Michael Anderson | Ford Falcon FG | SC3 | 1:18.0391 | 0:02.7691 |
17 | 67 | Flash Bush Motorsport | Nash Morris | Ford Falcon FG | CH | 1:18.2010 | 0:02.9310 |
18 | 35 | Unit Racing | Jason Gomersall | Ford Falcon FG | SC3 | 1:18.3310 | 0:03.0610 |
19 | 77 | Mr HDT Race Cars | Blake Fardell | Holden Commodore VE | CH | 1:18.8111 | 0:03.5411 |
20 | 61 | Image Racing | Reef McCarthy | Ford Falcon FG | CH | 1:19.3358 | 0:04.0658 |
21 | 75 | Linc Scaffolding | Brendan Strong | Holden Commodore VE | SC3 | 1:20.0308 | 0:04.7608 |
22 | 24 | North West Recycling | David Murphy | Ford Falcon FG | SC3 | 1:20.7881 | 0:05.5181 |
23 | 39 | Vectra Group | Chris Smerdon | Ford Falcon FG | SC3 | 1:21.2453 | 0:05.9753 |
24 | 999 | Rare Spares / Image Racing | Jaylyn Robotham | Holden Commodore VF | S2 | 1:21.5323 | 0:06.2623 |
25 | 2 | Page Bros Jayco | Steven Page | Holden Commodore VE2 | SC3 | 1:21.7104 | 0:06.4404 |
26 | 96 | Collins Racing | Gary Collins | Holden Commodore VE2 | SC3 | 1:25.9016 | 0:10.6316 |