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Van Gisbergen, Van der Drift share pole positions for TRS openers

by Zane Shackleton
January 23, 2021
in New Zealand, News, Toyota Race Series
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Shane van Gisbergen has topped the first Castrol Toyota Racing Series qualifying session of the year, securing pole position for tomorrow morning’s race.

Pole for this afternoon’s season opener was awarded to Chris van der Drift, courtesy of his second-best lap time.

The reigning Bathurst 1000 winner waited until the dying moments of the 15-minute session to post his best effort, usurping provisional polesitter Chris van der Drift with a 1.30.231.

The unorthodox format of qualifying means the van Gisbergen will start on pole for tomorrow’s second race, the pre-cursor before the Grand Prix.

Van der Drift, meanwhile, will start from the front today, with van Gisbergen starting second.

“It’s pretty awesome,” van Gisbergen said.

“The boys have been chipping away all weekend getting closer. But I couldn’t quite nail the perfect lap. So, there is a still a fair bit left in it.”

Van der Drift looked certain to claim top honours. The Tasman Motorsport driver was comfortably the quickest among the 16-strong field for most of the session.

Sitting upwards of five-tenths faster than van Gisbergen as the clocked ticked over zero, it took a blazing lap by the Supercars regular to topple the timesheets. The margin dividing the two was only 0.067s.

Matthew Payne was the best of the youngsters in third. The New Zealand karting champion ended up two-tenths behind van der Drift. Kaleb Ngatoa will line-up fourth tomorrow in an all-rookie second row.

Brendon Leitch ended the session with the fifth-fastest time, but he found himself buried in the sand trap after a high-speed off on his final flying lap.

A mere 0.008s split billy Frazer and Peter Vodanovich in the battle for fifth and sixth.

Daniel Gaunt, Andre Heimgartner and Conrad Clarke rounded out the top-ten.

The first race of the weekend is slated to start at 4.30 pm.

Race 1 grid (second fastest times):

PosDriverTime
1Chris van der Drift1.30.416
2Shane van Gisbergen 1.30.519
3Matthew Payne1.30.665
4Kaleb Ngatoa1.30.933
5Brendon Leitch1.31.076
6Peter Vodanovich1.31.171
7Daniel Gaunt1.31.179
8Billy Frazer1.31.185
9Andre Heimgartner 1.31.324
10Tom Alexander 1.31.410
11Greg Murphy1.31.536
12Conrad Clark1.31.584
13Joshua Bethune1.32.035
14Damon Leitch1.32.262
15Chris Vlok1.32.601
16Ken Smith1.37.224

Race 2 grid (fastest times):

PosDriverTime
1Shane van Gisbergen1.30.231
2Chris van der Drift1.30.238
3Matthew Payne1.30.556
4Kaleb Ngatoa1.30.888
5Brendon Leitch1.30.958
6Billy Frazer1.31.089
7Peter Vodanovich1.31.097
8Daniel Gaunt1.31.133
9Andre Heimgartner 1.31.277
10Conrad Clarke 1.31.330
11Tom Alexander1.31.349
12Greg Murphy1.31.465
13Damon Leitch1.31.636
14Joshua Bethune1.31.846
15Chris Vlok1.31.960
16Ken SMith1.36.897

Comments 4

  1. David Harrison says:
    1 year ago

    While I have the utmost respect for Kenny Smith and I am in awe of all he has achieved in his long career, I just wonder if qualifying last some five seconds off the pace is this a signal to hang up the boots for the GP only.
    He is still the one to beat in F5000

    Reply
    • Malcolm says:
      1 year ago

      I think if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s his 50th start, then he probably wouldn’t be competing in it.
      However to be that close timewise, after competing in the sport for over half a century, is still pretty damn good!

      Reply
  2. Andy Bagnall says:
    1 year ago

    Will there be any live TV coverage this weekend?

    Reply
  3. Craig Corliss says:
    1 year ago

    Is there a link for live streaming

    Reply

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