Ingram shoots to Sports Sedans pole
Peter Ingram has started his pursuit of securing the Precision National Sports Sedan Series title at Bathurst the best way possible by taking pole position.
The championship leader dominated the early morning qualifying session by going 1.4s faster than the rest of the field.
Ingram’s Mazda RX7 was rapid, posting a 2:05.3096 on his sixth lap of the 20-minute session.
Geoff Taunton was the only driver remotely close to Ingram, being 1.4s off the pace in his Marc IRC GTSS.
The sister Marc entry of Steve Lacey was next best, but a distant 3s adrift having held off Brad Shiels’ Fiat 124 Coupe and Ashley Jarvis’ Holden Monaro.
Critically Matthew Ingram kept Steven Tamasi out of the top six.
Tamasi is Peter Ingram’s nearest rival in the fight for the Sports Sedans title being 103 points behind.
It was an early start for the 15-car field with the session kicking off at 7.15 AEDT and Hugh Zochling was the only one unable to post a lap time in his ex James Brock/Steve Owen V8 Supercar Holden Commodore VX that competed in the 2001 Bathurst 1000.
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Bathurst International Saturday schedule
| Start | Finish | Category | Duration | Session | |
| 7:00 | 7:10 | Commence Circuit Closure | 0:10:00 | ||
| 7:10 | 7:15 | Circuit Closed | 0:05:00 | ||
| 7:15 | 7:35 | Precision National Sports Sedans | 0:20:00 | Qualifying | |
| 7:40 | 7:50 | Monochrome GT4 Australia | 0:10:00 | Qualifying 1 | |
| 8:00 | 8:10 | Monochrome GT4 Australia | 0:10:00 | Qualifying 2 | |
| 8:15 | 8:35 | Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia | 0:20:00 | Qualifying 1 | |
| 8:40 | 9:00 | Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia | 0:20:00 | Qualifying 2 | |
| 9:10 | 9:25 | Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series | 0:15:00 | Qualifying 1 | |
| 9:30 | 9:40 | Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series | 0:10:00 | Qualifying 2 | |
| 9:50* | 10:40 | First Focus Radical Cup Australia | 0:50:00 | 10:37 + 1 lap | Race 1 |
| 10:45 | 10:55 | Commence Circuit Opening | 0:10:00 | ||
| 10:55 | 11:35 | Residents Access | 0:40:00 | ||
| 11:35 | 11:45 | Commence Circuit Closure | 0:10:00 | ||
| 11:45 | 11:50 | Circuit Closed | 0:05:00 | ||
| 11:50* | 12:30 | Trico Trans Am Series | 0:40:00 | 12:27 + 1 lap | Race 1 |
| 12:45* | 13:45 | Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia | 1:00:00 | 13:42 + 1 lap | Race 1 |
| 14:05* | 14:35 | Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series | 0:30:00 | 14:32 + 1 lap | Race 1 |
| 14:45* | 15:05 | Precision National Sports Sedans | 0:20:00 | 15:02 + 1 lap | Race 1 |
| 15:10* | 15:50 | Trico Trans Am Series | 0:40:00 | 15:47 + 1 lap | Race 2 |
| 16:00* | 16:30 | Meguiar’s Australian Production Cars | 0:30:00 | 16:27 + 1 lap | Race 1 |
| 16:45* | 17:45 | Monochrome GT4 Australia | 1:00:00 | 17:42 + 1 lap | Race 1 |
| 17:50 | 18:00 | Commence Circuit Opening | 0:10:00 | ||
| 18:00 | Circuit Open |
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