Ryan Wood topped the warm-up at The Bend. Image: InSyde Media
The 20-minute session was mostly about pit stop and driver change practice with cars consistently cycling through the lane.
Amid all of that Ryan Wood jumped to the top before the midway point with a 1m50.596s that would never be bested.
The driver that got closest was Lochie Dalton with a 1m50.832s – although it wasn’t all smooth sailing for the Tickford wildcard driver.
At one point he survived a close call with Tony D’Alberto, the DJR Ford driver arriving at Turn 1 at speed as Dalton came out of the pits.
It forced D’Alberto to take evasive action to avoid a collision, although race control opted not to investigate the incident.
David Reynolds was third fastest ahead of Chaz Mostert and Tickford pair Thomas Randle and Cam Waters.
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The warm-up also included a final rehearsal of the controversial slow zones procedure, with race control trialling a new dash configuration designed at giving drivers more information and easing reliance on radio communications.
According to highly-experienced co-driver Garth Tander, however, the new system didn’t work as planned.
“It sort of didn’t work,” he told Fox Sports.
“We were meant to do a slow zone simulation on the out-lap effectively, exit of turn 6 to exit of turn 10. We got the call on the out-lap that they’d aborted it, so started to get into it, warm the car, get ready to do a run. Then they said, ‘right, okay, now we’re going to do a slow zone test’.
“They are trying to give the drivers more information via the dash, but none of the configs work, it didn’t work. At least we did run that before for the race so that they’re not relying on that config going into the race.”
The Bend 500 kicks off at 1:45pm ACST.
Results: Repco Supercars Championship AirTouch 500 at The Bend, Warm-up
Pos
Num
Driver
Team
Car
Lap
Diff
Gap
1
2
Ryan Wood/Jayden Ojeda
Walkinshaw Andretti United
Ford Mustang GT
1:50.5964
2
5
Rylan Gray/Lochie Dalton
Tickford Racing
Ford Mustang GT
1:50.8320
0.2356
0.2356
3
20
David Reynolds/Lee Holdsworth
Team 18
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:50.8965
0.3001
0.0645
4
25
Chaz Mostert/Fabian Coulthard
Walkinshaw Andretti United
Ford Mustang GT
1:50.9488
0.3524
0.0523
5
55
Thomas Randle/James Moffat
Tickford Racing
Ford Mustang GT
1:50.9699
0.3735
0.0211
6
6
Cameron Waters/Mark Winterbottom
Tickford Racing
Ford Mustang GT
1:51.1417
0.5453
0.1718
7
1
William Brown/Scott Pye
Triple Eight Race Engineering
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:51.1430
0.5466
0.0013
8
19
Matthew Payne/Garth Tander
Grove Racing
Ford Mustang GT
1:51.1587
0.5623
0.0157
9
10
Nick Percat/Tim Slade
Matt Stone Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:51.2673
0.6709
0.1086
10
62
Richie Stanaway/Nash Morris
PremiAir Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:51.2833
0.6869
0.016
11
38
Brodie Kostecki/Todd Hazelwood
Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang GT
1:51.3931
0.7967
0.1098
12
26
Kai Allen/Dale Wood
Grove Racing
Ford Mustang GT
1:51.4075
0.8111
0.0144
13
14
Bryce Fullwood/Brad Vaughan
Brad Jones Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:51.4460
0.8496
0.0385
14
8
Andre Heimgartner/Declan Fraser
Brad Jones Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:51.4942
0.8978
0.0482
15
9
Jack Le Brocq/Jarrod Hughes
Erebus Motorsport
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:51.4983
0.9019
0.0041
16
31
James Golding/David Russell
PremiAir Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:51.5262
0.9298
0.0279
17
17
Will Davison/Tony D’Alberto
Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang GT
1:51.5783
0.9819
0.0521
18
3
Aaron Cameron/Zak Best
Blanchard Racing Team
Ford Mustang GT
1:51.7408
1.1444
0.1625
19
35
Cameron Crick/Aaron Seton
Matt Stone Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:51.8012
1.2048
0.0604
20
18
Anton De Pasquale/Harri Jones
Team 18
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:51.8047
1.2083
0.0035
21
888
Craig Lowndes/Zach Bates
Triple Eight Race Engineering
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:51.8233
1.2269
0.0186
22
88
Jamie Whincup/Broc Feeney
Triple Eight Race Engineering
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:51.8260
1.2296
0.0027
23
7
James Courtney/Jack Perkins
Blanchard Racing Team
Ford Mustang GT
1:51.8488
1.2524
0.0228
24
12
Jaxon Evans/Jack Smith
Brad Jones Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:51.8860
1.2896
0.0372
25
4
Cam Hill/Cameron McLeod
Matt Stone Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:51.9974
1.401
0.1114
26
96
Macauley Jones/Jordan Boys
Brad Jones Racing
Chev Camaro ZL1
1:52.4570
1.8606
0.4596
27
99
Cooper Murray/Jobe Stewart
Erebus Motorsport
Chev Camaro ZL1