Randle sends pre-qualifying statement
By Thomas Miles
Date posted: 11 July 2025
The stage is set for qualifying in Townsville after Thomas Randle topped the second and final Supercars practice by an entire tenth.
The session was clean as teams were tyre limited, which meant the fight for fastest did not erupt until the final two minutes.
After a host of cars laid down times, Randle emerged on top with a 1:13.0460.
He enjoyed a tenth over Broc Feeney and Tickford teammate Cam Waters, while Brodie Kostecki and Matt Payne as the Mustangs controlled the session.
“Awesome to top the session but only practice,” Randle said.
“We will see what everyone does now, and only have an hour and a half before qualifying.
“It was a tricky Darwin for us, but the car feels really good, and hopefully we can keep it there for qualifying.
“Confidence is everything in these cars, and Cam is up there as well so we will keep calm and see what we can do.”
After “torching the left front” in opening practice, Brown watched the first half of the session from the garage to maintain his tyre allocation.
Despite the limited running, he ended up ninth.
It was an important session, being the second and final practice before Race 20 Qualifying.
The Mustangs bolted out of the gates top six, with Mostert leading the charge as the only driver in the 1m13s window over the first five minutes.
Mostert led the way by a slender 0.0434s over Waters, with Randle and Allen also on the pace.
That advantage shrank to 0.0525s when Reynolds put a Camaro up to second and joined Mostert in the 1m13s club.
However, Le Brocq had more speed and hit the top of the timesheets with a 1:13.9210.
The likes of Reynolds and Heimgartner also posted purple sectors, but could not quite string those laps together and settled into third and fourth, respectively.
Although Waters made an immediate leap forward from a tough opening practice, there were still plenty of changes being made to the Monster Mustang.
The second half of the session was brought to life by rookie Cameron, who shot the CoolDrive Mustang to the top.
His impressive 1:13.6204 shot him from 17th to first and three tenths clear of the rest on fresh tyres.
Another rookie on the pace was Murray as he shot to second to displace De Pasquale and come within 0.0186s of first.
Both Heimgartner and Murray got caught out at Turn 7 and toured the grass run-off.
It was not until the final three minutes that drivers started to make moves on fresh tyres.
Davison was the first, rising up 17 spots to fourth before going even faster on his next push lap to hit the lead with a 1:13.5833.
This benchmark did not last for long with Randle, Feeney, Waters, Kostecki, Payne and Allen all clearing it as the #18 tumbled outside the top 10 in an instant.
Things step up when Race 20 Qualifying takes place at 13.20 AEST.
Supercars Townsville 500 Practice 2 results
1: Thomas Randle 1:13.0460
2: Broc Feeney +0.1079
3: Cameron Waters +0.1547
4: Brodie Kostecki +0.1919
5: Matt Payne +0.1975
6: Anton De Pasquale +0.2123
7: James Courtney +0.3802
8: David Reynolds +0.3830
9: Will Brown +0.4828
10: Macauley Jones +0.4942
11: Kai Allen +0.4968
12: Nick Percat +0.5191
13: Andre Heimgartner +0.5347
14: Cameron Hill +0.5348
15: Will Davison +0.5373
16: Aaron Cameron +0.5744
17: Cooper Murray +0.5930
18: Ryan Wood +0.6461
19: Jaxon Evans +0.8233
20: Jack Le Brocq +0.8750
21: Richie Stanaway +0.8975
22: Chaz Mostert +0.9275
23: James Golding +1.0367
24: Bryce Fullwood +1.1003
Image: DMAC Photography
2025 Townsville 500
FRIDAY 11th July
9:20am – 9:50am: Supercars Practice 1
11:10am – 11:40am: Supercars Practice 2
1:20pm – 1:50pm: Qualifying, Race 20 (Fox only)
3:40pm: Race 20 (35 laps/100kms) (Fox only)
SATURDAY 12th July
10:00am – 10:30am: Qualifying, Race 21 (Fox only)
12:05pm – 12:40pm: Top Ten Shootout, Race 21 (Fox/Seven)
3:00pm: Race 21 (70 laps/200kms) (Fox/Seven)
SUNDAY 13th July
10:00am – 10:30am: Qualifying, Race 22 (Fox only)
12:05pm – 12:40pm: Top Ten Shootout, Race 22 (Fox/Seven)
3:00pm: Race 22 (70 laps/200kms)(Fox/Seven)
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