Brown puts car #1 in P1 ahead of Great Race
By Thomas Miles
Date posted: 12 October 2025
The stage is set for the Great Race after Will Brown snared morning warm-up honours from Kai Allen.
Having set the pace early, Allen had led the majority of the session, only for Brown to go 0.0267s clear with a 2:05.1698.
The likes of James Golding and Anton De Pasquale also showed speed.
The 20-minute session ran green the whole journey, allowing teams to practice their pit stop and race procedures.
BRT suffered the biggest scare of the morning when Zak Best surfed through the Skyline sand.
Sunny, but cool conditions greeted the field for the Sunday morning warm-up.
Most teams ran their co-drivers out in the early stages, while some stayed out and others performed pit stop practice.
Allen and De Pasquale were some of the few main drivers who stayed out to post a lap and just 0.0756s separated them.
The Grove Racing driver emerged ahead with a 2:06.5932, while Holdsworth snuck clear of Feeney.
Allen, Golding, De Pasquale, Holdsworth and Feeney extended their stints to fly into the “fives.”
Again the rookie found the most speed, setting a 2:05.1965, which was again 0.07s clear.
Kostecki again looked fast, setting a purple first sector before being one of the many to head into the lane.
Best was the first to suffer an off-track scare, spearing off at Skyline after clipping the inside wall.
The BRT driver was lucky to escape without any damage, narrowly avoiding the walls and carrying on.
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Wood had a close call, finding the wall ever so slightly at Sulman Park, while Mostert
Heimgartner and Jones showed some pace for BJR, getting them into the top six ahead of the closing minutes.
Brown 12th to third before finding more speed on his second push lap to go to the top.
He edged Allen’s benchmark by 0.0267s with a 2:05.1698.
Murray and Stewart did not set a flying lap in anger until the death, where the #99 rose to 17th.
All roads lead to the Great Race at 11.45 AEDT.
Bathurst 1000 Warm Up results
1: W.Brown/S.Pye 2:05.1698
2: K.Allen/D.Wood +0.0267
3: J.Golding/D.Russell +0.0985
4: A.De Pasquale/H.Jones +0.2763
5: Broc Feeney +0.2954
6: D.Reynolds/L.Holdsworth +0.3665
7: A.Heimgartner/D.Fraser +0.4183
8: C.Mostert/F.Coulthard +0.5110
9: M.Jones/J.Boys +0.5513
10: B.Fullwood/B.Vaughan +0.6573
11: J.Evans/J.Smith +0.7023
12: R.Wood/J.Ojeda +0.7089
13: M.Payne/G.Tander +0.8097
14: B.Kostecki/T.Hazelwood +0.9561
15: W.Davison/T.D’Alberto +1.0640
16: R.Stanaway/N.Morris +1.0857
17: C.Murray/J.Stewart +1.0901
18: T.Randle/J.Moffat +1.0917
19: C.Waters/M.Winterbottom +1.1441
20: R.Gray/L.Dalton +1.1476
21: J.Courtney/J.Perkins +1.2413
22: C.Hill/C.McLeod +1.2820
23: J.Le Brocq/J.Hughes +1.3022
24: N.Percat/T.Slade +1.3210
25: C.Crick/A.Seton +1.7110
26: C.Lowndes/Z.Bates +2.0005
27: A.Cameron/Z.Best +2.0112
Image: Peter Norton
2025 Bathurst 1000 schedule
Thursday, October 9
PRACTICE 1 1: R. Wood/J. Ojeda 2:05.1029 2: A. De Pasquale/H. Jones +0.4236 3: K. Allen/D. Wood +0.8132
PRACTICE 2 1: Scott Pye/W. Brown 2:06.8395 2: David Russell/J. Golding +0.1461 3: Tony D’Alberto/W. Davison +0.6345
Friday, October 10
PRACTICE 3 1: B.Feeney/J.Whincup 2:04.9763 2: R.Wood/J.Ojeda +0.0341 3: W.Brown/S.Pye +0.0784
PRACTICE 4 1: C. Mostert/F. Coulthard 2:04.6591 2: N. Percat/T. Slade +0.0754 3: B. Kostecki/T. Hazelwood +0.1210
QUALIFYING 1 Brodie Kostecki 2:04.0307 2 Broc Feeney +0.0064 3 Ryan Wood +0.0560
Saturday, October 11
PRACTICE 5 1: Scott Pye 2:05.6647 2: Jamie Whincup +0.0442 3: Mark Winterbottom +0.3516
PRACTICE 6 1: B.Feeney/J.Whincup 2:04.9698 2: C.Mostert/F.Coulthard +0.1463 3: C.Waters/M.Winterbottom +0.3354
TOP TEN SHOOTOUT 1 Brodie Kostecki 2:04.0413 2 Cameron Waters +0.1760 3 Chaz Mostert +0.3169
Bathurst Day, October 12
WARM UP 8:30 AM – 8:50 AM
THE GREAT RACE 11:45 AM (161 laps)
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