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Wildcard Zak Best has secured a shock ARMOR ALL Position for the OTR SuperSprint opener. Best, 20, held on to clinch pole by just 0.02s from series leader ...

Can’t see the blog? Follow all the action below! Van Gisbergen loomed to snatch the fairytale away, but fell a scant 0.02s short of a fifth pole in 2022. All the while, Best chipped away and set a strong pace, running in the top 10 in Q1 and Q2. Come Q3, and the #78 Mustang put a number on the field to the tune of 1:47.816s. De Pasquale led the way in Q1 on a 1:48.269s, with van Gisbergen second on a 1:48.487s.

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would they go and visit and photograph themselves in a [Supercheap Auto] store?" "I wish the teams and the drivers well for the future. I want to thank the fans for being the best fans in any sport.

Supercars wildcard Zak Best took a sensational pole position in his plain black Mustang at The Bend Motorsport Park.

"Racing is a completely different thing. "We did the best we could. I didn't think I'd be on pole this afternoon.

Zak Best has been left almost speechless after qualifying on pole position for Race 21 of the Repco Supercars Championship at The Bend.

“It’s just so surreal; I don’t know what to say really.” “Just got to get it off the line first thing and then just try and stay out of trouble, it will all sort itself out. “I wasn’t expecting this; I don’t really know what to say,” remarked Best.

A different tyre batch for the wildcard entries in the Supercars field has raised eyebrows at The Bend.

"Even if there was some difference there, the reality is that he still drove the lap. There may be a difference but that's just speculation. "We don't know what we don't know," he said.

Tickford Racing wildcard Zak Best has qualified on pole position for Race 21 at The Bend in just his second solo event start in the Repco Supercars ...

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A different manufactured date of tyres for the two Supercars wildcards has caused controversy in the Supercars paddock at The Bend Motorsport Park.

A monster first stint has propelled Shane van Gisbergen to victory at the OTR SuperSprint. Van Gisbergen's Race 21 win, his 12th of the season, ...

Van Gisbergen flexed his muscle with a fastest lap on the 24th and final tour. This is a modal window. Van Gisbergen set the fastest lap of the race as Best peeled in from second on lap 12. Van Gisbergen was brought in on lap 20, and emerged 1.2s ahead of Davison. "The car was magic," van Gisbergen said. Van Gisbergen took home the maximum 105 points, having set the fastest lap on the final tour.

Ford wildcard Zak Best has pipped Supercars championship leader Shane van Gisbergen to secure pole position for Saturday's race at Tailem Bend. The Tickford Racing driver, competing in a Supercars championship event for just the second time, ...

"Racing is a completely different thing. Ominously for Best, he'll start with van Gisbergen's Red Bull Ampol Racing Commodore on the outside of the front row. Series leader van Gisbergen fell just 0.02 seconds short of Best with his flying lap as the 20-year-old claimed the first pole position of his Supercars career.

Initially it was Brodie Kostecki that led the way courtesy of a 1m49.059s on his first run. He was then displaced by Cam Waters mid-way through the session ...

Still, his earlier time was good enough to leave the Kiwi just over a tenth clear of title rival Anton De Pasquale in the final times. Inside the last 10 minutes van Gisbergen made his move, pulling clear of the field with a 1m48.260s. Initially it was Brodie Kostecki that led the way courtesy of a 1m49.059s on his first run.

Shane van Gisbergen has confirmed his dominance in the Supercars championship, flying past rookie pole-sitter Zak Best for his 12th win of the season.

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De Pasquale later lost a position to Brodie Kostecki as he attacked Zak Best. Chaz Mostert rejoined between Waters and Best when he stopped on lap 14. A heavy ...

This is a modal window. “I was lucky to get to the end there.” “Just need to be up a little bit further on him,” De Pasquale said of Waters. “I couldn’t turn anywhere, I thought it was going to blow a tyre. “I wasn’t sure if there was something on the road, or I broke on the line,” he said. “I had a massive flat spot after that, the car was shaking crazy.

It was the lead Tickford cars that got the best of the start, shock polesitter Zak Best holding onto the lead as Cam Waters snuck under van Gisbergen at ...

"I had a great battle at the start with Cam and Zak, he was driving really well as well. Just hard to drive, but racing under the limit it was fine. As Best continued to lead across the first stint there was a change of position behind on lap seven when van Gisbergen dived inside Waters at Turn 1 to claim second.

Supercars is set to address the tyre scandal that rocked the opening day of racing at The Bend Motorsport Park.

The Bend Supercars: Van Gisbergen cruises to victory He went on to finish the race fifth. The two wildcard entries for Zak Best and Jordan Boys were running on a different batch of the soft compound Dunlop rubber due to production issue.

Owner of The Bend Motorsport Park, Sam Shahin, is confident the circuit has a place on the 2023 Supercars calendar. UPDATE: Speedcafe.com understands Shahin ...

“I hope we do engage more meaningfully over the coming weeks, of course with the lead up to the 2023 calendar which, with a blink of an eye, will have to be cemented.” “I’ll have the wonderful support of the South Australian Government and the premier personally who took it as one of his first initiatives to announce the return of the Adelaide 500. “I am very confident that The Bend will be a long-term and permanent fixture on the Supercars calendar for many years to come. However, with the return of Newcastle and earmarked revival of a round at Queensland Raceway, the 2023 schedule is expected to swell. Owner of The Bend Motorsport Park, Sam Shahin, is confident the circuit has a place on the 2023 Supercars calendar. Parts of next year’s Repco Supercars Championship are starting to fall into place, which will signal a new era for the category with the introduction of Gen3.

Davison raced from sixth to second in Saturday's OTR SuperSprint opener. The Shell V-Power Racing Team veteran's 10th podium of 2022 was perhaps his most ...

This is a modal window. Davison responded with one of his best drives of the season, and he duly paid tribute to his team. “It was sort of just get off the line and see where we’re at, what the pace and balance is like with the car. "It was a last-minute decision to come in from behind Chaz,” he said. This is a modal window. Davison was off the pace all day, and loomed to be knocked out of qualifying twice.

Shane van Gisbergen has confirmed his dominance in the Supercars championship, flying past rookie pole-sitter Zak Best for his 12th win of the season.

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Sunday's two races in South Australia will feature Ford lockouts at the front, with Waters joined by Thomas Randle for race 22, and Anton De Pasquale for race ...

We just have to tune up a few little things ... and translate it into the race," he said. Scott Pye will make his 300th race start on Sunday afternoon but faces a battle to made it to a podium, qualifying 21st and 22nd in the 27-car field. The 27-year-old, who claimed a race win at Tailem Bend last year, said he wanted to convert the single-lap speed into race wins.

Tickford Racing's Cameron Waters has qualified on pole position for both of today's Repco Supercars Championship races at The Bend.

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Broc Feeney and Mark Winterbottom were next, while Bryce Fullwood and Lee Holdsworth were ninth and 10th. The surprise of the first session was an in-form Will ...

"It's awesome," said Waters. "The car is really, really nice today. In the second session most of the fast times came on the first run, Waters sealing pole with a 1m48.337s straight out of the gate. The surprise of the first session was an in-form Will Davison, who ended up just 23rd on the grid after locking up on his final run.

Cam Waters is in the box seat to add to his two Tailem Bend wins after scoring a Sunday pole double. Waters claimed his sixth and seventh ARMOR ALL Pole ...

This is a modal window. Van Gisbergen set the early pace in the first session on a 1:48.776s. This is a modal window. "The guys did a great job overnight." It was a difficult morning for Davison, who qualified 23rd and 10th for the two races. Cam Waters is in the box seat to add to his two Tailem Bend wins after scoring a Sunday pole double.

Supercars has made changes to tyre allocation at The Bend Motorsport Park following Saturday's controversy around the sets given to the two wildcards.

In effect, each entry will now have a mismatching set of softs, with one tyre from what has been described to Speedcafe.com by one team as a “special” set. The wildcards have subsequently been re-allocated tyres from the more common batch in order to complete the weekend. The Dunlop Soft compound batch issued to the wildcards of Zak Best and Jordan Boys is understood to have been manufactured on a different date to the batch the rest of the field were issued for the event.

Van Gisbergen again ran long to secure victory at the OTR SuperSprint. The points leader trailed Chaz Mostert and James Courtney in the opening laps. Courtney ...

It came after Mostert vaulted from sixth to first by the first corner after the second standing start. This is a modal window. “We were planning to do the undercut then, but they did it and we got clear air. After the race, the reigning champion was surprised by Mostert and Courtney’s early stops. Courtney stopped on lap 5, and Mostert on the following lap. Van Gisbergen again ran long to secure victory at the OTR SuperSprint.

Thomas Randle and Andre Heimgartner have walked away from a high-speed crash as Shane van Gisbergen won again in Supercars action at Tailem Bend.

In an eventful race, Lee Holdsworth also caused a crash, taking off from a pit stop without looking and straight into the door of Scott Pye's Commodore. It worked really well." Van Gisbergen said he changed his race strategy after seeing Mostert and Courtney - who led for the early laps - pit ahead of him.

Shane van Gisbergen won a second Supercars race at The Bend that was marred by a nasty start line crash.

Jordan Boys was the best of the wildcards in a credible 11th while Will Davison recovered from 23rd on the grid, and a spin on the restart lap, to finish 13th. We were planning to do the undercut then, but they did it an we got clear air. I couldn't believe it when this guys pitted and I got clear air.