Nick Percat & Oliver Gavin lead morning warm-up at Bathurst
Dry conditions prevailed over the 20-minute morning warm-up for the 2015 Bathurst 1000, although showers are forecast for later today. In the session, it was the turn of former Bathurst winner Nick Percat, sharing with Britain’s Oliver Gavin in the LD Motorsports Holden, to lead the time sheets with a time of 2:07.1559, finishing the season ahead of Nissan’s Michael Caruso and DJR Team Penske’s Scott Pye in his Ford Falcon FG X.
Percat put in a late time of 2:07.2324 to go fastest and knock Pye down to second, before Caruso slotted the #23 Nissan Altima in-between them. Percat found even more time to finish the session with a time of 2:07.1559, less than a tenth of a second faster than Caruso around the Mount Panorama circuit.
Championship leader Mark Winterbottom was fifth fastest in the Prodrive Racing Australia Ford Falcon FG X, with pole-sitter David Reynolds sixth fastest.
The fastest of the Erebus Mercedes drivers was Will Davison in 11th overall, while the quickest of the two Volvos was Scott McLaughlin in 17th overall.
Of the Triple Eight cars, Jamie Whincup was tenth fastest, while Craig Lowndes finished 21st in the #888 car, while the Holden Racing Team cars were seventh (#2 Garth Tander/Warren Luff) and 22nd (#22 Jack Perkins/Russell Ingall) respectively.
The session was incident free, bar a mechanical black flag handed out to the #21 Britek Holden, with Brad Jones’ son Macauley behind the wheel at the time, due to a fuel leak.
The 1000km race is the next scheduled track activity for the field of 26 V8 Supercars, taking place at 11:00 AEDT (01:00 BST/02:00 CET).
