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Waters sets the pace in first practice, van Gisbergen comes together with Slade

by Zane Shackleton
October 15, 2020
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Cam Waters has taken first blood at Mount Panorama, setting the pace in the opening free practice.

The Monster Energy Mustang set a 2.05.023 as drivers slowly got up to speed with the circuit and co-drivers got their first real taste of Supercars action of the year.

“Good start for the weekend, obviously,” said Waters, who set the fastest time on his final lap.

“Car was pretty good, wasn’t 100 percent happy with it, but obviously good to start the weekend P1 and have a straight car.”

Champion elect Scott McLaughlin initially set the pace, leading the first 45 minutes of the hour-long session before handing the wheel over to co-driver Tim Slade.

But Slade’s brief stint was disrupted by a clumsy incident with Shane van Gisbergen. The Kiwi dove into a closing gap at Forrest’s Elbow, tipping the #17 into a spin with ten minutes remaining.

Red Bull opted to bring van Gisbergen into the garage for the rest of the session while Slade resumed with minor superficial damage.

“I wasn’t even looking,” apologised Slade.

“It was my bad and we were just lucky that there was no damage and we were able to press on and get some laps in.”

Guys, it's only Practice 1 😅 Further angles of the Slade/SVG contact.#Bathurst1000 #VASC pic.twitter.com/aGwDmrOXFw

— Supercars (@supercars) October 14, 2020

The session remained green and barring the small coming together, ran relatively cleanly.

Behind pace-setter Waters, Jamie Whincup ended up two tenths back while James Courtney ensured there were two Tickford entries in the top-three with the third-fastest time.

Often the dark horses of the mountain, Penrite Racing got their Great Race preparation off to a strong start with David Reynolds ended the session fourth. Teammate Anton de Pasquale was tenth overall.

Lee Holdsworth, Bryce Fullwood and Todd Hazelwood made up the next trio of spots while Tim Slade ultimately shuffled the #17 back to eighth fastest.

The sister DJR Team Penske Mustang was only 17th quickest despite running as high as second after the opening flurry of laps.

Despite ending his session early, van Gisbergen’s best effort was only good enough for 20th fastest. He also racked up one of the lowest numbers of laps with just 15.

Today has two more practice sessions, the first of which is solely for co-drivers and gets underway from 2.45.

PosDriverGap
1Cameron Waters2:05.0233
2Jamie Whincup0:00.2659
3James Courtney0:00.4993
4David Reynolds0:00.5384
5Lee Holdsworth0:00.6297
6Bryce Fullwood0:00.7466
7Todd Hazelwood0:00.7946
8S.McLaughlin/T.Slade0:00.8482
9Jack Le Brocq0:00.8792
10Anton De Pasquale0:00.9004
11M.Winterbottom/J.Golding0:00.9123
12Rick Kelly0:00.9876
13A.Heimgartner/D.O’Keeffe0:01.2294
14C.Mostert/W.Luff0:01.2382
15Garry Jacobson0:01.2811
16S.Pye/D.Fiore0:01.2950
17Fabian Coulthard0:01.4260
18Alex Davison0:01.5960
19M.Jones/T.Blanchard0:01.6360
20Shane van Gisbergen0:01.7982
21Nick Percat0:02.1081
22J.Kostecki/Z.Goddard0:02.2445
23C.Pither/S.Owen0:03.3060
24J.Smith/J.Perkins0:03.5371
25Tyler Everingham0:03.7220

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