Whincup leads tight test
By Thomas Miles
Date posted: 12 August 2025
The first four hours of the Supercars mid-year test is complete and Jamie Whincup is back in the hot seat and back on top, but only just.
Whincup’s 1:09.1161 was the benchmark set in the back end of the session on his 80th of 104 laps.
However, the margins are close with Anton De Pasquale coming within 0.0282s.
The Team 18 driver led the majority of the session until Whincup set a hot pace towards the finish.
Meanwhile, James Courtney, Andre Heimgartner and Ryan Wood rounded out the top five, being just over a tenth away.
Whincup has spent the year as Triple Eight’s managing director and would be thrilled to jump back into the hot seat with speed straight away.
With the Sprint Cup out of the way and the enduros on the horizon, a major focus of the morning was getting laps into co-drivers with new combinations being gelled.
Teams performed regular driver changes and ensured the co-drivers enjoyed significant seat time.
The Broc Feeney/Whincup #88, Macauley Jones/Jordan Boys #96, Will Brown/Scott Pye #1, Bryce Fullwood/Brad Vaughan #14, Kai Allen/Dale Wood #26, Nick Percat/Tim Slade #10 and Aaron Cameron/Zak Best #3 entries all raised a century of laps within the four hours.
The most was 110 set by Fullwood and Vaughan.
It was a mostly clean session with the only red flag caused by Best after a lock up at Turn 3 got him stuck in the gravel.
Supercars Test Morning 1 results
1 Brown/Whincup 1:09.1161
2 De Pasquale/Jones +0.0282
3 Courtney/Perkins +0.1141
4 Heimgartner/Fraser +0.1331
5 Wood/Ojeda +0.1427
6 Jones/Boys +0.1855
7 Brown/Pye +0.2214
8 Mostert/Coulthard +0.2563
9 Fullwood/Vaughan +0.2662
10 Reynolds/Holdsworth +0.2753
11 Golding/Russell +0.2864
12 Murray/Stewart +0.3378
13 Randle/Moffat +0.3438
14 Waters/Winterbottom +0.3439
15 Stanaway/Morris +0.3547
16 Lowndes/Bates +0.3553
17 Evans/Smith +0.3678
18 Hill/McLeod +0.4307
19 Gray/Dalton +0.4623
20 Allen/Wood +0.4799
21 Kostecki/Hazelwood +0.4824
22 Le Brocq/Hughes +0.5147
23 Percat/Slade +0.5316
24 Cameron/Best +0.5465
25 Davison/D’Alberto +0.5836
26 Crick/Seton +0.6212
27 Payne/Tander +0.6472
2025 Ipswich Super440 (All Times AEST)
Friday 8 August
Practice 1 – 1: Broc Feeney 1:09.2078 2: Anton De Pasquale +0.1965 3: Cameron Hill +0.2271
Practice 2 – 1: Will Brown 1:08.4927 2: Broc Feeney +0.1419 3: Ryan Wood +0.2088
Saturday 9 August
Qualifying Race 23: 1 Broc Feeney 1:08.1301 2 Will Brown +0.1119 3 Ryan Wood +0.1866
Qualifying Race 24: 1 Broc Feeney 1:19.8014 2 Ryan Wood +0.4782 3 Will Brown +0.9097
Race 23 – 39 laps 1 Broc Feeney 2 Kai Allen +0.4739 3 Ryan Wood +1.1230
Race 24 – 39 laps 1 Will Brown 49:05.3349 2 Broc Feeney +0.8842 3 Ryan Wood +9.8118
Sunday 10 August
Qualifying Race 25 1 Anton De Pasquale 1:08.1543 2 Broc Feeney +0.0347 3 Zach Bates +0.1115
Top Ten Shootout 1 Broc Feeney 1:08.3493 2 Ryan Wood +0.4629 3 Will Brown +0.4807
Race 25 1 Broc Feeney Triple Eight 63 01:22:42.6615 – 2 Cameron Waters Tickford 63 +8.8096 +17 3 Kai Allen Grove Racing 63 +10.9325 +19
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