news: Moffat takes Carrera Cup pole in soggy conditions

James Moffat has qualified on pole for the penultimate round of Porsche Wilson Security Carrera Cup Australia in highly challenging conditions at Mount Panorama.

Moffat was fastest over Dale Wood by around a quarter of a second when the session was halted due to wild spin for Roger Lago.

While he ultimately did not need to, he braved the rain and low light to move nearly a second clear with a 2:28.9636s when proceedings resumed, perhaps mindful of the extension of the session following the red flag.

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Wood appeared to not have the pace to usurp the #18 Wall Racing entry in the latter minutes but in any event was held up across the top on his second-last lap then ran off at The Chase after the chequered flag in the #100 Sonic Motor Racing car, consigning himself to second.

Series leader Jaxon Evans, too, struck traffic in the form of Michael Almond as he descended towards Murray’s Corner at the very end.

Evans was personal best to the second sector but couldn’t elevate the #7 McElrea Racing entry when he reached the control line and was instead shuffled from seventh to ninth as the last cars completed their laps.

Row 2 will be another two Sonic Motor Racing entries in Car #777 of Jordan Love and Car #77 of Almond.

David Wall (#1 Wall Racing), third in the standings, qualified fifth-fastest while the man one above him in the title race, Dylan O’Keeffe (#88 Ashley Seward Motorsport) was eighth.

Glen Wood (#888 Ashley Seward Motorsport) and Peter Major (#14 Sonic Motor Racing) were sixth and seventh respectively while Cameron Hill (#111 Cameron Hill Racing) rounded out the top 10.

Adrian Flack set the pace in TAG Heuer Pro-Am in 12th outright.

Roger Lago spins at Hell Corner pic: Fox Sports

Fellow gentleman driver Roger Lago brought out the red flag when his car’s rear end snapped away at Hell Corner just before 20 of the scheduled 30 minutes had elapsed.

Car #23 scraped the pit wall as it spun before he came to rest against the tyre wall on exit.

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Lago nevertheless finished the session 15th-fastest and third in class.

Carrera Cup will be next on track tomorrow at 1405 local time/AEST for Race 1, a 16-lap affair which also serves as the second-last race of the series’ Endurance Cup.

Results: Qualifying

Pos	Num	Team/Sponsor	Driver	Class	Fastest lap	Split
1	18	Payce/Wilson Security/JBL	James Moffat	P	2:28.9636
2	100	Sonic/Polyflor	Dale Wood	P	2:29.8984	0:00.9348
3	777	Bob Jane T Marts	Jordan Love	P	2:30.4760	0:01.5124
4	77	Bob Jane T Marts/PSA	Michael Almond	P	2:31.1043	0:02.1407
5	1	PAYCE/Wilson Security	David Wall	P	2:31.2547	0:02.2911
6	888	Porsche Centre Brighton/Porsche	Glen Wood	P	2:31.8092	0:02.8456
7	14	Sonic/Totally 4×4	Peter Major	P	2:32.1336	0:03.1700
8	88	APB Group	Dylan O’Keeffe	P	2:32.2334	0:03.2698
9	7	Morris Finance	Jaxon Evans	P	2:32.2773	0:03.3137
10	111	Lifeline Canberra/Seears Workw	Cameron Hill	P	2:32.5175	0:03.5539
11	12	Garwood Motorsport	Adam Garwood	P	2:32.6042	0:03.6406
12	20	Agas National	Adrian Flack	A	2:35.1303	0:06.1667
13	4	Grove Group	Stephen Grove	A	2:35.4226	0:06.4590
14	8	Porsche Centre Melbourne	Nick McBride	P	2:35.7663	0:06.8027
15	23	JBS Australia	Roger Lago	A	2:36.3550	0:07.3914
16	19	Hallmark Homes	Anthony Gilbertson	A	2:36.5101	0:07.5465
17	6	Miles Advisory Partners/Garage	Tim Miles	A	2:36.7917	0:07.8281
18	13	The Bend/htfu	Sam Shahin	A	2:37.0229	0:08.0593
19	50	Wall Racing/Brennan IT	Dave Stevens	A	2:37.9826	0:09.0190
20	22	BMF/Pitman Racing	Dean Cook	A	2:39.7993	0:10.8357
21	35	Hyundai Forklifts Australia	Indiran Padayachee	A	2:40.2642	0:11.3006
22	15	LORY Construction	Josh Hunt	P	2:40.7495	0:11.7859
23	131	Harcourts Williams	Graham Williams	A	2:42.5729	0:13.6093
24	9	Hallmarc	Marc Cini	A	2:42.6347	0:13.6711