{"id":205037,"date":"2025-10-11T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205037\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:47:08","slug":"brodie-kostecki-claims-third-straight-bathurst-1000-pole-after-dominating-top-10-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/205037\/","title":{"rendered":"Brodie Kostecki claims third straight Bathurst 1000 pole after dominating Top-10 Shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Brodie Kostecki will start at the top of the Bathurst 1000 grid for the third year in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Kostecki becomes the third driver in Supercars history to win three straight pole positions at Mount Panorama after taking out Saturday&#8217;s Top-10 Shootout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was near-flawless as the final driver out on the circuit, setting a lap time of 2 minutes and 4.0413 seconds to claim pole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Last year&#8217;s Bathurst 1000 winner alongside co-driver Todd Hazelwood, Kostecki joins legendary duo Peter Brock and Allan Moffat as the only drivers to have completed the feat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He pipped second-fastest Cam Waters by 0.176 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brodie Kostecki driving at Mount Panorama ahead of the Bathurst 1000.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/a4cfc252b160cab6bc9be7f963a5cb3d\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Brodie Kostecki is chasing a second consecutive Bathurst 1000 crown. (Getty images: Robert Cianflone)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Chaz Mostert was third and will share the second row with teammate Ryan Wood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Supercars championship leader Broc Feeney struggled to replicate his extraordinary qualifying form and finished fifth after losing time at the top of the mountain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Cooper Murray impressed in his first Top-10 Shootout at the Bathurst 1000 to qualify sixth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-10-10\/bathurst-1000-qualifying-brodie-kostecki-sets-record\/105879396\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kostecki sets Bathurst record<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Brodie Kostecki was the fastest in Friday&#8217;s qualifying session as he attempts to defend his Bathurst 1000 championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Nick Percat, who will retire from full-time driving at the end of the season, was 10th after running wide at the final corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Percat won the Bathurst 1000 in 2011 on his first attempt, co-driving for Garth Tander.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Feeney&#8217;s teammate, Will Brown, who will start 12th on the grid, survived a late scare during practice earlier on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The defending Supercars champion almost suffered a day-ending crash when rival Mostert veered into his path down pit straight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mostert had done so in a bid to avoid Thomas Randle, forcing Brown to take evasive action into the grass at the first turn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mostert confronted Randle in the garages before apologising to Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Kostecki will start at the top of the Bathurst 1000 grid for the third year in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,12356,2497,127384,806,805,803,804,86310,127383,16280,85,126272],"class_list":["post-205037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bathurst-1000","tag-brodie-kostecki","tag-great-race","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-mount-panorama","tag-pole","tag-pole-position","tag-sports","tag-top-10-shootout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}