Anton De Pasquale qualified 21st for Sunday’s race at the Gold Coast 500. Image: InSyde Media
Jack Le Brocq (Matt Stone Racing), Anton De Pasquale (Team 18) and Kai Allen (Grove Racing) all failed to advance from Q1 to Q2.
Allen was the worst of them in 22nd, De Pasquale was 21st, while Le Brocq was 20th.
De Pasquale comes into the season-defining race sixth in the standings, just ahead of Tickford Racing’s Cameron Waters.
“It felt really good,” said De Pasquale.
“We were one of the fastest cars for the first two laps and then the track gets faster and we got slower.
“Obviously just missed the window with pressures. That’s how it goes.”
Provisional pole position was won by Broc Feeney who led Triple Eight teammate Will Brown.
Brodie Kostecki was third for Dick Johnson Racing while Chaz Mostert (Walkinshaw TWG) and Cameron Hill (Brad Jones Racing) completed the top five.
The other Top 10 Shootout qualifiers included Cooper Murray (PremiAir Racing), Aaron Cameron (Blanchard Racing Team), Jarrod Hughes (Erebus Motorsport), Cameron Waters (Tickford Racing) and Ryan Wood (Walkinshaw TWG).
Notably, points leader Matt Payne of Grove Racing failed to make the shootout. He was 12th, just behind Matt Stone Racing’s Zach Bates.
The three-part qualifying featured several incidents in tricky conditions.
Q1 was red-flagged less than two minutes into the session when Jackson Walls spun his Triple Eight Ford Mustang at the Beach Chicane and backed his car into the tyre bundle.
Zach Bates spun during Q2 off the Turn 3 kerb, but quickly got his Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet Camaro pointing in the right direction.
Brad Jones Racing driver Cameron Hill grazed the tyre barrier at the Beach Chicane. Despite that moment, he improved his own benchmark to make the shootout.
David Reynolds also wiped the nose of his Team 18 Chevrolet Camaro on the Turn 3 tyre bundle.
The Top 10 Shootout gets underway at 12:05pm local time/AEST.
Results: Repco Supercars Championship Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500, Qualifying Race 1
Pos
Num
Driver
Team
Car
Lap
Diff
Gap
1
88
Broc Feeney
Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang
1:15.7818
2
888
Will brown
Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang
1:15.8294
0.0476
0.0476
3
17
Brodie Kostecki
Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang
1:15.8660
0.0842
0.0366
4
1
Chaz Mostert
Walkinshaw TWG Racing
Toyota Supra
1:15.9232
0.1414
0.0572
5
14
Cameron Hill
Brad Jones Racing
Toyota Supra
1:16.0728
0.291
0.1496
6
36
Cooper Murray
PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro
1:16.0819
0.3001
0.0091
7
3
Aaron Cameron
Blanchard Racing Team
Ford Mustang
1:16.0859
0.3041
0.0040
8
99
Jarrod Hughes
Erebus Motorsport
Chevrolet Camaro
1:16.1593
0.3775
0.0734
9
6
Cameron Waters
Tickford Racing
Ford Mustang
1:16.2241
0.4423
0.0648
10
2
Ryan Wood
Walkinshaw TWG Racing
Toyota Supra
1:16.2830
0.5012
0.0589
11
10
Zach Bates
Matt Stone Racing
Chevrolet Camaro
1:16.3066
0.5248
0.0236
12
19
Matt Payne
Grove Racing
Ford Mustang
1:16.4159
0.6341
0.1093
13
96
Macauley Jones
Brad Jones Racing
Toyota Supra
1:16.4583
0.6765
0.0424
14
48
David Reynolds
Team 18
Chevrolet Camaro
1:16.4978
0.7160
0.0395
15
7
James Golding
Blanchard Racing Team
Ford Mustang
1:16.5206
0.7388
0.0228
16
8
Andre Heimgartner
Brad Jones Racing
Toyota Supra
1:16.5680
0.7862
0.0474
17
31
Jayden Ojeda
PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro
1:16.6052
0.8234
0.0372
18
9
Jobe Stewart
Erebus Motorsport
Chevrolet Camaro
1:16.8709
1.0891
0.2657
19
55
Thomas Randle
Tickford Racing
Ford Mustang
1:16.9851
1.2033
0.1142
20
4
Jack Le Brocq
Matt Stone Racing
Chevrolet Camaro
1:16.9920
1.2102
0.0069
21
18
Anton De Pasquale
Team 18
Chevrolet Camaro
1:17.0262
1.2444
0.0342
22
26
Kai Allen
Grove Racing
Ford Mustang
1:17.2083
1.4265
0.1821
23
38
Rylan Gray
Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang
1:17.6535
1.8717
0.4452
24
11
Jackson Walls
Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang
1:17.7980
2.0162
0.1445