Brodie Kostecki scores third straight Bathurst pole

Brodie Kostecki will start his defence of the Bathurst 1000 from the front of the grid after scoring pole at the Mountain for the third successive season.

Running last in the top-ten shootout, the DJR driver failed to match the record-breaking lap he had set in first qualifying on Friday but was still able to prevent Cam Waters from grabbing top spot as he lapped a tenth of a second quicker.

The pair headed a 1-2-3-4 on the grid for Ford, with Chaz Mostert and Ryan Wood locking out row two.

“It’s just amazing honestly, that in lap was something special seeing all the fans, and getting all the cheers over the fence,” Kostecki said.

“We’re starting off the best possible spot we can, so can’t wait to share the car with Toddy [Hazelwood, co-driver] tomorrow.”

Waters had looked good for pole having gone fourth in the shootout as those drivers still to come kept falling short of his benchmark time.

Mostert and Wood both went close, as did points leader Broc Feeney before an increasingly ragged lap fell just short.

It left Kostecki as the only person who could get ahead and his lap was enough to see him join Allan Moffat and Peter Brock as the third driver to score three poles in a row for the race.

Fenney would end up as best Chevrolet driver in fifth alongside Cooper Murray, with Tom Randle, Cameron Hill, Anton De Pasquale and Nick Percat rounding out the top ten.

Percat was the only driver not within a second of Kostecki’s time after a lock-up into Murray’s Corner.