Brodie Kostecki is eyeing a slice of Australian motorsport historical past after nabbing provisional pole on the Bathurst 1000.
Kostecki set a qualifying file at Mount Panorama, placing down a lap time of two minutes and 4.030 seconds on Friday.
It’s the quickest qualifying time on the circuit within the Gen3 period, with Kostecki breaking his 2023 file by 0.241 seconds.
Brodie Kostecki is seeking to win back-to-back Bathurst 1000 races. (Getty Photographs: Robert Cianflone)
Kostecki, final yr’s Bathurst 1000 winner with co-driver Todd Hazelwood, can have an opportunity to safe pole for Sunday’s race within the top-10 shootout, which will probably be staged on Saturday.
He has began on the prime of the Bathurst 1000 grid since 2023 and can be a part of legendary duo Allan Moffat and Peter Brock within the historical past books if he claims a 3rd consecutive pole place for the race.
“It is a fairly unimaginable feeling to have this place to your self, leaving nothing on the desk [in the shootout],” Kostecki mentioned.
“I used to be fairly proud of my lap, however I nonetheless imagine we have rather a lot to search out.”
Supercars championship chief Broc Feeney trailed Kostecki by 0.006 seconds to be second-fastest on Friday, adopted by Ryan Wooden.
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Feeney will probably be chasing his fifteenth pole of the season as he seeks to get on prime of Kostecki on Saturday.
In the meantime, his teammate and defending Supercars champion Will Brown struggled to search out tempo and solely certified in twelfth place.
Wooden’s teammate Chaz Mostert bounced again from a horror begin to go quickest within the ultimate observe session on Friday earlier than ending sixth in qualifying.
Two-time Bathurst 1000 winner Mostert had slammed into the tyre barrier on the prime of Mountain Straight after locking up the entrance proper wheel of his Ford Mustang throughout Thursday’s opening observe.
Anton De Pasquale additionally made the shootout as fourth-fastest, adopted by rookie Cooper Murray.
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