Will Brown in the #888 Red Bull Ampol Racing Ford Mustang.
The 2026 Supercars field hit the track for four hours on Wednesday, tackling the shorter, Druitt loop between 8:30am and 12:30pm ahead of a night session on the full layout Thursday.
Brown ended the session on top with a 1:00.3458s best, 0.1622s clear of Grove Racing Ford driver Matt Payne, while Matt Stone Racing rookie Zach Bates flew the flag for Chevrolet in third.
It was a slow start for the five Toyotas, with Walkinshaw TWG Racing’s reigning champion Chaz Mostert the top Supra driver in 16th.
Teammate Ryan Wood ended up 19th, while the Brad Jones Racing entries of Macauley Jones, Andre Heimgartner and Cam Hill were 20th, 22nd and 24th respectively.
Heimgartner’s #8 R&J entry completed just 28 laps – the least of any car – after lengthy stints in the garage early while the team traced an electrical issue.
Mostert’s 46 laps was the most for any Supra – a long way shy of the 89 recorded by Broc Feeney, who ended up 15th fastest.
While the Toyota performances were notable, there can be little taken from the overall leaderboard given a mix of tyres, drivers and questions over track limits in the short circuit’s link road chicane.
Although some teams elected to give their co-drivers laps, the timing board credited all laps to primary drivers.
The four-hour hitout was punctuated by three red flag periods, each called to clear debris from the circuit, while a portion of the running was also reserved for practice starts.
The second segment of the two-part test will get underway at 5:30pm, running into the night ahead of a 9:30pm finish.
Results: Repco Supercars Championship Destination New South Wales Sydney Test Day
Pos
Num
Driver
Team
Car
Laps
Lap
Diff
Gap
1
888
Will Brown
Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang
76
1:00.3458
2
19
Matthew Payne
Grove Racing
Ford Mustang GT
82
1:00.5080
0.1622
0.1622
3
10
Zach Bates
Matt Stone Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
83
1:00.6041
0.2583
0.0961
4
7
James Golding
Blanchard Racing Team
Ford Mustang GT
65
1:00.6348
0.289
0.0307
5
31
Jayden Ojeda
PremiAir Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
70
1:00.6566
0.3108
0.0218
6
18
Anton De Pasquale
Team 18
Chev Camaro ZL1
67
1:00.7197
0.3739
0.0631
7
3
Aaron Cameron
Blanchard Racing Team
Ford Mustang GT
64
1:00.7644
0.4186
0.0447
8
777
Declan Fraser
PremiAir Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
75
1:00.8611
0.5153
0.0967
9
17
Brodie Kostecki
Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang GT
59
1:00.9132
0.5674
0.0521
10
55
Thomas Randle
Tickford Racing
Ford Mustang GT
55
1:00.9422
0.5964
0.029
11
26
Kai Allen
Grove Racing
Ford Mustang GT
54
1:00.9635
0.6177
0.0213
12
6
Cameron Waters
TIckford Racing
Ford Mustang GT
67
1:00.9745
0.6287
0.011
13
20
David Reynolds
Team 18
Chev Camaro ZL1
65
1:01.0515
0.7057
0.077
14
99
Cooper Murray
Erebus Motorsport
Chev Camaro ZL1
58
1:01.0769
0.7311
0.0254
15
88
Broc Feeney
Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang
89
1:01.1078
0.762
0.0309
16
1
Chaz Mostert
Walkinshaw TWG Racing
Toyota GR Supra A90
46
1:01.1100
0.7642
0.0022
17
4
Jack Le Brocq
Matt Stone Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
67
1:01.1359
0.7901
0.0259
18
38
Rylan Gray
Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang GT
79
1:01.1725
0.8267
0.0366
19
2
Ryan Wood
Walkinshaw TWG Racing
Toyota GR Supra A90
34
1:01.2783
0.9325
0.1058
20
11
Jackson Walls
Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang GT
65
1:01.3670
1.0212
0.0887
21
96
Macauley Jones
Brad Jones Racing
Toyota GR Supra A90
40
1:01.3701
1.0243
0.0031
22
8
Andre Heimgartner
Brad Jones Racing
Toyota GR Supra A90
28
1:01.4710
1.1252
0.1009
23
9
Jobe Stewart
Erebus Motorsport
Chev Camaro ZL1
59
1:01.5257
1.1799
0.0547
24
14
Cameron Hill
Brad Jones Racing
Toyota GR Supra A90
39
1:01.7021
1.3563
0.1764
