{"id":748062,"date":"2026-06-20T03:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748062\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:44:21","slug":"supercars-news-disastrous-darwin-qualifying-for-de-pasquale-kostecki-fastest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748062\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Disastrous Darwin qualifying for De Pasquale, Kostecki fastest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Disastrous
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnton De Pasquale during the Darwin Triple Crown.<\/p>\n

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Kostecki led Tickford Racing\u2019s Cameron Waters by 0.0402s ahead of Matt Payne (Grove Racing), Thomas Randle (Tickford Racing), and Kai Allen (Grove Racing).<\/p>\n

Chaz Mostert was the best of the Toyota drivers in sixth for Walkinshaw TWG. However, the same couldn\u2019t be said for his teammate Ryan Wood, who was a high-profile omission from the Top 10 Shootout. <\/p>\n

He went off at Turn 5 on his final flying lap and again at Turn 1 after the chequered flag, bemoaning brake dramas.<\/p>\n

Matt Stone Racing duo Jack Le Brocq and Zach Bates were standouts for Chevrolet in seventh and ninth respectively.<\/p>\n

Between them, Triple Eight\u2019s Broc Feeney was eighth while Blanchard Racing Team driver James Golding rounded out the top 10.<\/p>\n

Will Brown\u2019s qualifying torment continued. He narrowly missed out on the Top 10 Shootout in 11th.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made a bit of a mistake, but we\u2019re not at the front right now,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re probably around where Broc is, that eighth position car. It\u2019s quite hard out there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is what it is. We were trying to save a set of greens for the shootout. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe just didn\u2019t get through. At the end of the day, we\u2019ll work hard in the race and try move up again. That\u2019s pretty much all we can do.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anton De Pasquale had a horror Q1, only qualifying 20th. Teammate David Reynolds just scraped into Q2 and went on to qualify 18th.<\/p>\n

That was in stark contrast to Friday\u2019s efforts in cooler conditions when De Pasquale qualified second alongside Kostecki.<\/p>\n

De Pasquale said he felt like he was a long way out of the set-up window and had no balance.<\/p>\n

Asked what went wrong, he replied \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDifferent tyre today obviously. Where we\u2019ve been trending obviously didn\u2019t like this tyre,\u201d De Pasquale explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I think we missed the window with pressures and stuff. We tried some things for the second run and it was no good.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s all right, it\u2019s all part of the learnings. Well have a good race car and try to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Top 10 Shootout gets underway at 12:05pm AEST.<\/p>\n

Results: Repco Supercars Championship betr Darwin Triple Crown, Race 2 Qualifying<\/p>\n

Pos
\nNum
\nDriver
\nTeam
\nCar
\nLap
\nDiff
\nGap<\/p>\n

1
\n17
\nBrodie Kostecki
\nDick Johnson Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:06.0531<\/p>\n

2
\n6
\nCameron Waters
\nTickford Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:06.0933
\n0.0402
\n0.0402<\/p>\n

3
\n19
\nMatthew Payne
\nGrove Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:06.1981
\n0.145
\n0.1048<\/p>\n

4
\n55
\nThomas Randle
\nTickford Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:06.2194
\n0.1663
\n0.0213<\/p>\n

5
\n26
\nKai Allen
\nGrove Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:06.2507
\n0.1976
\n0.0313<\/p>\n

6
\n1
\nChaz Mostert
\nWalkinshaw TWG Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n1:06.2655
\n0.2124
\n0.0148<\/p>\n

7
\n4
\nJack Le Brocq
\nMatt Stone Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:06.3122
\n0.2591
\n0.0467<\/p>\n

8
\n88
\nBroc Feeney
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:06.3257
\n0.2726
\n0.0135<\/p>\n

9
\n10
\nZach Bates
\nMatt Stone Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:06.3878
\n0.3347
\n0.0621<\/p>\n

10
\n7
\nJames Golding
\nBlanchard Racing Team
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:06.4116
\n0.3585
\n0.0238<\/p>\n

Q2<\/p>\n

11
\n888
\nWilliam Brown
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:06.4323
\n0.3792
\n0.0207<\/p>\n

12
\n777
\nDeclan Fraser
\nPremiAir Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:06.4560
\n0.4029
\n0.0237<\/p>\n

13
\n99
\nCooper Murray
\nErebus Motorsport
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:06.4733
\n0.4202
\n0.0173<\/p>\n

14
\n31
\nJayden Ojeda
\nPremiAir Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:06.4742
\n0.4211
\n0.0009<\/p>\n

15
\n8
\nAndre Heimgartner
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n1:06.4978
\n0.4447
\n0.0236<\/p>\n

16
\n3
\nAaron Cameron
\nBlanchard Racing Team
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:06.5555
\n0.5024
\n0.0577<\/p>\n

17
\n2
\nRyan Wood
\nWalkinshaw TWG Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n1:06.5986
\n0.5455
\n0.0431<\/p>\n

Q1<\/p>\n

19
\n38
\nRylan Gray
\nDick Johnson Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:06.5218
\n0.4687<\/p>\n

18
\n20
\nDavid Reynolds
\nTeam 18
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:06.7105
\n0.6574
\n0.1119<\/p>\n

20
\n18
\nAnton De Pasquale
\nTeam 18
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:06.5263
\n0.4732
\n0.0045<\/p>\n

21
\n14
\nCameron Hill
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n1:06.5455
\n0.4924
\n0.0192<\/p>\n

22
\n11
\nJackson Walls
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1:06.6417
\n0.5886
\n0.0962<\/p>\n

23
\n9
\nJobe Stewart
\nErebus Motorsport
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n1:06.7521
\n0.699
\n0.1104<\/p>\n

24
\n96
\nMacauley Jones
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n1:06.7823
\n0.7292
\n0.0302<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anton De Pasquale during the Darwin Triple Crown. Kostecki led Tickford Racing\u2019s Cameron Waters by 0.0402s ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,7499,85],"class_list":["post-748062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-slot4","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748062","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=748062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}