Feeney continues Triple Eight’s domination
By Thomas Miles
Date posted: 25 February 2024
Broc Feeney has extended Triple Eight’s faultless 2024 into Sunday by topping Sunday only just ahead of Will Brown.
Feeney only needed one run to record a 2:05.3317 and take provisional pole, while Brown had another run at the death and came within 0.06s.
Chaz Mostert was a tenth away in third, while Anton De Pasquale, David Reynolds, James Golding, Thomas Randle, Jack Le Brocq, Will Davison and Nick Percat are the full list of drivers who will feature in the shootout.
Rookie Ryan Wood fell an agonising 0.01s short of a maiden shootout and will start 11th.
Cam Waters had another tough session and had to settle for grid position 18 after going off at Murrays Corner.
Reynolds was particularly impressive having spent almost the entire session in the garage due to an engine misfire but delivered with his one and only lap.
Cool and overcast conditions meant the session was a competitive one not resolved until the end.
Andre Heimgartner first to the top with a 2:06.5500 out of the gates, two tenths ahead of Wood and Davison.
Mostert waited slightly longer to do his first push lap and went straight to the top.
But it only proved to be a matter of time before the Triple Eight charge arrived.
Feeney flew to P1 after nailing a 2:05.3317, while his teammate Brown restored the one-two three tenths away.
Whilst the podium finishers carried on their momentum, some others who had shown Saturday speed started Sunday on the back
An engine misfire for David Reynolds and a steering issue for Cam Hill kept both in the garage for the majority of the session until the final minutes.
James Golding got the tail out at Skyline clipping some dirt and Mark Winterbottom went even further off, finding the gravel.
Slightly further down the track all four BJR cars skipped the chicane at the Esses.
With seven minutes left the two DJR cars of Anton De Pasquale and Will Davison rose into the 10.
As leader Feeney stayed in the pits, the rest of the field put the foot down at the death with Payne sitting 10th, with BJR teammates Heimgartner, Macualey Jones, Bryce Fullwood and Cam Waters just in the drop zone.
Randle rose 19 spots to fourth while Hill’s first lap got him just into the 10.
But he was not there for long as former MSR driver Jack Le Brocq now at Erebus shot to sixth and Golding set the fastest first sector on his way to sixth.
Percat and Reynolds also improved with the latter securing a shootout berth from nowhere.
Waters tried his best but went off at Murrays Corner which meant he had to settle for 18th.
The Top 10 Shootout will take place at 12.05 AEDT.
Image: Peter Norton EPIC Sports photography
Supercars race 2 qualifying results
2024 Bathurst 500 Supercars schedule
Friday, February 23
Practice 1: 1: B. Feeney 2: N. Percat 3: W. Brown
Practice 2: 1: W. Brown 2: T. Hazelwood 3: B. Feeney
Saturday, February 24
Qualifying: 1: B. Feeney 2: W. Brown 3: D. Reynolds
Top 10 Shootout: 1: W. Brown 2: B. Feeney 3: C. Mostert
Race 1 (40 laps): 1: B. Feeney 2: W. Brown 3: C. Mostert
Sunday, February 25
Qualifying: 09.30
Top 10 Shootout: 12.05
Race 2 (40 laps): 15.05
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