Anton De Pasquale during the Darwin Triple Crown.
Kostecki led Tickford Racing’s Cameron Waters by 0.0402s ahead of Matt Payne (Grove Racing), Thomas Randle (Tickford Racing), and Kai Allen (Grove Racing).
Chaz Mostert was the best of the Toyota drivers in sixth for Walkinshaw TWG. However, the same couldn’t be said for his teammate Ryan Wood, who was a high-profile omission from the Top 10 Shootout.
He went off at Turn 5 on his final flying lap and again at Turn 1 after the chequered flag, bemoaning brake dramas.
Matt Stone Racing duo Jack Le Brocq and Zach Bates were standouts for Chevrolet in seventh and ninth respectively.
Between them, Triple Eight’s Broc Feeney was eighth while Blanchard Racing Team driver James Golding rounded out the top 10.
Will Brown’s qualifying torment continued. He narrowly missed out on the Top 10 Shootout in 11th.
“I made a bit of a mistake, but we’re not at the front right now,” said Brown.
“We’re probably around where Broc is, that eighth position car. It’s quite hard out there.
“It is what it is. We were trying to save a set of greens for the shootout.
“We just didn’t get through. At the end of the day, we’ll work hard in the race and try move up again. That’s pretty much all we can do.
“It’s disappointing, that’s for sure.”
Anton De Pasquale had a horror Q1, only qualifying 20th. Teammate David Reynolds just scraped into Q2 and went on to qualify 18th.
That was in stark contrast to Friday’s efforts in cooler conditions when De Pasquale qualified second alongside Kostecki.
De Pasquale said he felt like he was a long way out of the set-up window and had no balance.
Asked what went wrong, he replied “I don’t know.”
“Different tyre today obviously. Where we’ve been trending obviously didn’t like this tyre,” De Pasquale explained.
“Then I think we missed the window with pressures and stuff. We tried some things for the second run and it was no good.
“That’s all right, it’s all part of the learnings. Well have a good race car and try to move forward.”
The Top 10 Shootout gets underway at 12:05pm AEST.
Results: Repco Supercars Championship betr Darwin Triple Crown, Race 2 Qualifying
Pos
Num
Driver
Team
Car
Lap
Diff
Gap
1
17
Brodie Kostecki
Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang GT
1:06.0531
2
6
Cameron Waters
Tickford Racing
Ford Mustang GT
1:06.0933
0.0402
0.0402
3
19
Matthew Payne
Grove Racing
Ford Mustang GT
1:06.1981
0.145
0.1048
4
55
Thomas Randle
Tickford Racing
Ford Mustang GT
1:06.2194
0.1663
0.0213
5
26
Kai Allen
Grove Racing
Ford Mustang GT
1:06.2507
0.1976
0.0313
6
1
Chaz Mostert
Walkinshaw TWG Racing
Toyota GR Supra A90
1:06.2655
0.2124
0.0148
7
4
Jack Le Brocq
Matt Stone Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:06.3122
0.2591
0.0467
8
88
Broc Feeney
Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang GT
1:06.3257
0.2726
0.0135
9
10
Zach Bates
Matt Stone Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:06.3878
0.3347
0.0621
10
7
James Golding
Blanchard Racing Team
Ford Mustang GT
1:06.4116
0.3585
0.0238
Q2
11
888
William Brown
Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang GT
1:06.4323
0.3792
0.0207
12
777
Declan Fraser
PremiAir Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:06.4560
0.4029
0.0237
13
99
Cooper Murray
Erebus Motorsport
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:06.4733
0.4202
0.0173
14
31
Jayden Ojeda
PremiAir Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:06.4742
0.4211
0.0009
15
8
Andre Heimgartner
Brad Jones Racing
Toyota GR Supra A90
1:06.4978
0.4447
0.0236
16
3
Aaron Cameron
Blanchard Racing Team
Ford Mustang GT
1:06.5555
0.5024
0.0577
17
2
Ryan Wood
Walkinshaw TWG Racing
Toyota GR Supra A90
1:06.5986
0.5455
0.0431
Q1
19
38
Rylan Gray
Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang GT
1:06.5218
0.4687
18
20
David Reynolds
Team 18
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:06.7105
0.6574
0.1119
20
18
Anton De Pasquale
Team 18
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:06.5263
0.4732
0.0045
21
14
Cameron Hill
Brad Jones Racing
Toyota GR Supra A90
1:06.5455
0.4924
0.0192
22
11
Jackson Walls
Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang GT
1:06.6417
0.5886
0.0962
23
9
Jobe Stewart
Erebus Motorsport
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:06.7521
0.699
0.1104
24
96
Macauley Jones
Brad Jones Racing
Toyota GR Supra A90
1:06.7823
0.7292
0.0302