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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRyan Wood during the ITM Christchurch Super440 at Ruapuna. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRyan Wood during the ITM Christchurch Super440 at Ruapuna. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n
Wood clocked the fastest time in part one of qualifying with one run, giving him a green set of tyres for part two.<\/p>\n
He set the pace at the start of part two on a 1:21.2129s that he then improved to a 1:21.0946s in the #2 Toyota Supra.<\/p>\n
Grove Racing\u2019s Matt Payne was second, 0.2771s adrift, for an all-Kiwi front row.<\/p>\n
Race 2 pole position winner Brodie Kostecki was third for Dick Johnson Racing and will line up alongside Race 1 winner Kai Allen of Grove Racing.<\/p>\n
Anton De Pasquale made a marked session-on-session improvement to qualify fifth as the best Chevrolet Camaro driver for Team 18.<\/p>\n
Broc Feeney (Triple Eight Race Engineering), James Golding (Blanchard Racing Team), Aaron Cameron (Blanchard Racing Team), Jack Le Brocq (Matt Stone Racing), and Jayden Ojeda (PremiAir Racing) completed the top 10.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like I made a meal of the soft tyre quali and went back to the container, refocused and we had a plan to do that,\u201d said Wood of the tyre strategy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, it was touch-and-go if we would do it or not, and we did. I\u2019m happy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe car seemed really, really strong on the super soft. Another pole position, which is really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
With new parc ferme rules meaning teams cannot tweak car set-up between qualifying and the race, the team elected to put the race set-up in for Wood\u2019s final run. Despite that, he was able to go even faster.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was race car set-up, so a lot of confidence and the car stuck well,\u201d Wood said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really, really happy. Some fast boys and we\u2019ve got to do the best we can and we\u2019ve got to salvage a good day today starting from sixth in the first one is going to be tough. We\u2019ll do our best.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a case of deja vu for Tickford Racing\u2019s Cameron Waters and Walkinshaw TWG Racing driver Chaz Mostert.<\/p>\n
After qualifying 11th in the preceding qualifying session, Waters was only 12th and Mostert not far behind in 15th.<\/p>\n
However, the biggest shock was Will Brown down in 16th who said he made a mistake.<\/p>\n
\u201cI locked up at Turn 2 but didn\u2019t feel like I really over-pushed it, but obvious made a mistake there,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce you do that on the super soft [compound tyre] you\u2019re not getting a second lap. We pushed for one but didn\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n
\u201cEnded up 16th, it\u2019s tough. We felt like we lost a bit of performance then and everyone did the same time. I felt pretty good on the soft, just working on the super soft.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tough when you qualify bad around here because it\u2019s not very easy to pass.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a bit of a goat\u2019s trail at the end of the day, so we\u2019ll have to see what we can do in the race to try and get up there a little bit more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Race 2 of the ITM Christchurch Super440 gets underway at 10:45am AEST.<\/p>\n
Results: Repco Supercars Championship ITM Christchurch Super440, Qualifying Race 3<\/p>\n
Pos
\nNum
\nDriver
\nTeam
\nCar
\nLap
\nDiff
\nGap<\/p>\n
1
\n2
\nRyan Wood
\nWalkinshaw TWG Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n1:21.2129<\/p>\n
2
\n19
\nMatthew Payne
\nGrove Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:21.3211
\n0.1082
\n0.1082<\/p>\n
3
\n88
\nBroc Feeney
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:21.3758
\n0.1629
\n0.0547<\/p>\n
4
\n18
\nAnton De Pasquale
\nTeam 18
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:21.3805
\n0.1676
\n0.0047<\/p>\n
5
\n26
\nKai Allen
\nGrove Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:21.4769
\n0.264
\n0.0964<\/p>\n
6
\n7
\nJames Golding
\nBlanchard Racing Team
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:21.4804
\n0.2675
\n0.0035<\/p>\n
7
\n17
\nBrodie Kostecki
\nDick Johnson Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:21.5151
\n0.3022
\n0.0347<\/p>\n
8
\n3
\nAaron Cameron
\nBlanchard Racing Team
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:21.5404
\n0.3275
\n0.0253<\/p>\n
9
\n4
\nJack Le Brocq
\nMatt Stone Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:21.5963
\n0.3834
\n0.0559<\/p>\n
10
\n31
\nJayden Ojeda
\nPremiAir Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:21.5977
\n0.3848
\n0.0014<\/p>\n
11
\n8
\nAndre Heimgartner
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n1:21.6604
\n0.4475
\n0.0627<\/p>\n
12
\n6
\nCameron Waters
\nTickford Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:21.6775
\n0.4646
\n0.0171<\/p>\n
13
\n38
\nRylan Gray
\nDick Johnson Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:21.7054
\n0.4925
\n0.0279<\/p>\n
14
\n9
\nJobe Stewart
\nErebus Motorsport
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:21.8698
\n0.6569
\n0.1644<\/p>\n
15
\n1
\nChaz Mostert
\nWalkinshaw TWG Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n1:21.8718
\n0.6589
\n0.002<\/p>\n
16
\n888
\nWilliam Brown
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:21.8792
\n0.6663
\n0.0074<\/p>\n
17
\n10
\nZach Bates
\nMatt Stone Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:21.9169
\n0.704
\n0.0377<\/p>\n
18
\n99
\nCooper Murray
\nErebus Motorsport
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:21.9235
\n0.7106
\n0.0066<\/p>\n
19
\n777
\nDeclan Fraser
\nPremiAir Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:21.9643
\n0.7514
\n0.0408<\/p>\n
20
\n14
\nCameron Hill
\nMatt Stone Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n1:22.0465
\n0.8336
\n0.0822<\/p>\n
21
\n55
\nThomas Randle
\nTickford Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:22.0800
\n0.8671
\n0.0335<\/p>\n
22
\n96
\nMacauley Jones
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n1:22.1823
\n0.9694
\n0.1023<\/p>\n
23
\n20
\nDavid Reynolds
\nTeam 18
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:22.1899
\n0.977
\n0.0076<\/p>\n
24
\n11
\nJackson Walls
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:22.3888
\n1.1759
\n0.1989<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Wood during the ITM Christchurch Super440 at Ruapuna. Image: InSyde Media Wood clocked the fastest time in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,9910,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-614086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-slot2","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614086","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=614086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}