Supercars news: Cameron McLeod takes first Super2 Series pole

Cameron McLeod has taken his first Super2 Series pole position at Sydney Motorsport Park, repeating the efforts of his father two-and-a-half decades ago.

McLeod follows in father’s footsteps with Super2 pole — Cameron McLeod at Sydney Motorsport Park. Image: InSyde Media

Cameron McLeod at Sydney Motorsport Park. Image: InSyde Media

In 2000, Ryan McLeod claimed the first ever Super2 Series pole position (then Konica V8 Lites) at the same circuit in a K-Mart Holden VS Commodore.

Saturday’s effort at Eastern Creek was especially impressive after McLeod shot from last to first with his solitary competitive lap.

The Kelly Racing driver clocked a 1:31.8086s in his Ford Mustang, setting the pole-winning time in the dying minutes.

McLeod pipped New Zealand’s Ayrton Hodson for pole position. The Anderson Motorsport driver wound up just 0.0395s adrift.

Tickford Autosport’s Rylan Gray made it a Ford one-two-three while Image Racing’s Jobe Stewart came home fourth fastest as the best Holden ZB Commodore entry.

Last year’s champion Zach Bates was fifth for Eggleston Motorsport.

Jackson Walls (Triple Eight), Nash Morris (Tickford Autosport), Ben Gomersall (Triple Eight), Jordyn Sinni (Eggleston), and Cody Burcher (Eggleston) completed the top 10.

Burcher looked like he might take pole position until he exceeded track limits at Turn 10.

Race 1 of the Super2 Series at Sydney Motorsport Park gets underway at 5:55pm AEDT.

Results: Dunlop Super2 Series Sydney 500, Qualifying for Race 1

Pos	Num	Driver	Time	Diff	Gap
1	92	Cameron McLeod	1:31.8086
2	28	Ayrton Hodson	1:31.8481	0.0395	0.0395
3	55	Rylan Gray	1:31.8757	0.0671	0.0276
4	99	Jobe Stewart	1:31.8964	0.0878	0.0207
5	1	Zach Bates	1:31.9569	0.1483	0.0605
6	11	Jackson Walls	1:31.9648	0.1562	0.0079
7	222	Nash Morris	1:32.0132	0.2046	0.0484
8	35	Ben Gomersall	1:32.0696	0.261	0.0564
9	54	Jordyn Sinni	1:32.1863	0.3777	0.1167
10	36	Cody Burcher	1:32.2080	0.3994	0.0217
11	33	Bailey Sweeny	1:32.2112	0.4026	0.0032
12	6	Lochie Dalton	1:32.2224	0.4138	0.0112
13	118	Jarrod Hughes	1:32.2253	0.4167	0.0029
14	53	Max Geoghegan	1:32.2309	0.4223	0.0056
15	2	Campbell Logan	1:32.2871	0.4785	0.0562
16	25	Matt Hillyer	1:32.3361	0.5275	0.049
17	5	Reuben Goodall	1:32.3684	0.5598	0.0323
18	22	Mason Kelly	1:32.5362	0.7276	0.1678
19	17	Ryan Tomsett	1:32.5678	0.7592	0.0316
20	80	Brad Vaughan	1:32.5891	0.7805	0.0213
21	38	Elliott Cleary	1:32.5927	0.7841	0.0036
22	88	Bradi Owen	1:32.6063	0.7977	0.0136
23	9	Cody Gillis	1:32.7704	0.9618	0.1641