Also with reason to be pleased was the Blanchard Racing Team which got both its cars through to the Shootout.<\/p>\n
That was particularly miraculous given starter motor troubles looked set to resign James Golding<\/a> to a lowly grid slot, only for the CoolDrive Mustang to get out just in the nick of time and make it count.<\/p>\n BRT\u2019s success was all the more impressive given that the team it\u2019s a customer of, Triple Eight, again endured a poor qualifying.<\/p>\n Broc Feeney<\/a> will start way down in 18th, with Will Brown<\/a> 12th after a gamble to save tyres.<\/p>\n \u201cThe problem is you run another set of tyres and say we get in, you\u2019ve got no green tyres for the Shootout, so you\u2019re going to qualify eighth, ninth or 10th anyway and use up your tyres for the race,\u201d Brown said on the broadcast.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we took the chance that we might not get through but we\u2019ll have greens and all that. We were hoping to get through, that was the plan, but it didn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n \u201cNo matter what we\u2019re probably only three or four spots worse off than we were going to start if we ran in that last one. We\u2019ve got green tyres, we came through yesterday, we\u2019ll do it again today.\u201d<\/p>\n Also struggling was the entire Chevrolet contingent, with a grand total of zero Camaros making the top 10. That will make for the first Shootout in ATCC\/Supercars Championship history without GM representation.<\/p>\n Further down the list, debutant Reuben Goodall<\/a> did a nice job to nab 19th while Declan Fraser<\/a> had a troublesome run to 26th and last less than 24 hours after managing a qualifying career-best.<\/p>\n RESULTS: Qualifying for Race 21, 2026 Townsville 500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SATURDAY Supercars qualifying at the NTI Townsville 500 has provided some big cases of winners and losers. Among…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-792969","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792969","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=792969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/v8sleuth-subscription-05.jpg\"\/)
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