news: Love fastest on Friday in Carrera Cup despite injury

Jordan Love was fastest in Friday practice for Porsche Payce Carrera Cup Australia at the Watpac Townsville 400 despite driving with an injury.

Love is recovering from a broken left hand following a nasty crash at the last round in Darwin, but that did not prevent the Sonic driver from setting the fastest lap in Practice 2 at the Reid Park circuit.

Dale Wood held sway at the head of the field for much of the 25-minute session, banking in an early 1:14.410s.

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As a dry line appeared in the final five minutes, sector improvements started to fly in, although the overall lap time didn’t improve dramatically.

Love punched in a 1:14.179s to go from seventh to the top, before improving slightly on the following lap.

Wood held onto second spot, 0.09s behind Love, while David Wall was third quickest.

Cameron Hill and Cooper Murray completed the top five for the session.

Pro-Am was headed by Anthony Gilbertson in both practice sessions.

Thomas Maxwell topped Practice 1 with a late 1:14.613s lap that put him 0.02s ahead of Michael Almond, and fourth for the day combined.

Porsche Carrera Cup Australia returns to the track for Qualifying on Saturday at 0850 AEST.

Results: Combined Practice

Pos	Num	Team/Sponsor	Driver	Cls	Sess.	Fastest lap	Split
1	777	Sonic / Bob Jane T-Marts/SRG	Jordan Love	P	P2	1:14.1518
2	100	Sonic/Polyflor	Dale Wood	P	P2	1:14.2423	0:00.0905
3	38	PAYCE	David Wall	P	P2	1:14.3554	0:00.2036
4	5	Sonic	Thomas Maxwell	P	P1	1:14.6134	0:00.4616
5	111	Seears Workwear	Cameron Hill	P	P2	1:14.6818	0:00.5300
6	77	Sonic/Bob Jane T-Marts/PSA Aus	Michael Almond	P	P1	1:14.7085	0:00.5567
7	36	Lodge Brothers	Cooper Murray	P	P2	1:14.7105	0:00.5587
8	7	MEGA/No Second Chance	Warren Luff	P	P1	1:14.7547	0:00.6029
9	8	Porsche Centre Melbourne	Nick McBride	P	P1	1:14.9422	0:00.7904
10	19	Hallmark Homes	Anthony Gilbertson	A	P2	1:15.0249	0:00.8731
11	12	O’Brien Electrical & Plumbing	Steve Richards	P	P1	1:15.1330	0:00.9812
12	20	Agas National	Adrian Flack	A	P2	1:15.2875	0:01.1357
13	23	Dayco / Lago Cold Stores	Roger Lago	A	P2	1:15.3311	0:01.1793
14	34	Hyundai Forklifts Australia	Duvashen Padayachee	P	P2	1:15.5882	0:01.4364
15	222	Scott Taylor Motorsport	Scott Taylor	A	P2	1:15.9810	0:01.8292
16	22	BMF	Dean Cook	A	P2	1:15.9969	0:01.8451
17	13	The Bend Motorsport Park/HTFU	Sam Shahin	A	P1	1:16.0105	0:01.8587
18	27	Wash It	Liam Talbot	A	P1	1:16.1153	0:01.9635
19	6	Garage 1	Tim Miles	A	P2	1:16.1457	0:01.9939
20	9	Hallmarc	Michael Loccisano	A	P1	1:17.4988	0:03.3470
21	35	Hyundai Forklifts Australia	Indiran Padayachee	A	P2	1:17.7543	0:03.6025

Love fastest on Friday in Carrera Cup despite injury