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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOil dripping from beneath Kai Allen’s Grove Racing Ford Mustang.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOil dripping from beneath Kai Allen’s Grove Racing Ford Mustang.<\/p>\n
Brown set a 54.4490s and was less than 0.02s away from progressing from part one to part two.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Triple Eight teammate Broc Feeney was eighth in part one and went on to take provisional pole position in part two.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot fast enough,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the end of the day. Nothing happened. We\u2019re just not quick enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll have a look at it again and go from there.<\/p>\n
\u201cPretty average. We\u2019re a tenth off down the straight just compared the Broc. That puts us in.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Brown didn\u2019t have the outright speed, it was a case of mechanical trouble that stopped Kai Allen from continuing his recent run of form.<\/p>\n
He suffered power steering problems halfway through the session.<\/p>\n
A suspected hose failure precluded him from a second run in the session.<\/p>\n
He was sixth fastest at that point but was bumped to 23rd as everyone but Matt Stone Racing driver Zach Bates improved.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so hard to tell. Obviously the power steering let go,\u201d said Allen.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was good for the first run but got for the second run and she let go.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s racing at the end of the day. It\u2019s just let go and it\u2019s unfortunate. Lucky it didn\u2019t happen in the race or we could have been in a bit of trouble.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one of those things. We\u2019ll regroup. We\u2019ll try get it fixed for the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so tight now. You can\u2019t get through to the top 18 on a used set of tyres and we ultimately didn\u2019t get the green run in and that\u2019s all she wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cCar felt really good. I was really happy. We made a big jump from yesterday, even that first lap.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very disappointing because I thought we were on for a good shot and obviously Matt is super fast.\u201d<\/p>\n
The other drivers who failed to make it into the second leg of qualifying were Jayden Ojeda, Jackson Walls, Declan Fraser, Allen and Bates.<\/p>\n
Matt Payne (Grove Racing) set the pace in part one of qualifying, but could not convert it into provisional pole.<\/p>\n
In part two, it was Feeney who topped the timesheets. He led an all-Ford top four, followed by Payne, Brodie Kostecki (Dick Johnson Racing) and Cameron Waters (Tickford Racing).<\/p>\n
The other drivers to progress to the Top 10 Shootout included Anton De Pasquale (Team 18), Thomas Randle (Tickford Racing), James Golding (Blanchard Racing Team), Ryan Wood (Walkinshaw TWG Racing), Aaron Cameron (Blanchard Racing Team) and David Reynolds (Team 18).<\/p>\n
The Top 10 Shootout for Race 3 begins at 11:45am AWST.<\/p>\n
Results: Repco Supercars Championship Bosch Power Tools Perth Super440, Qualifying Race 3<\/p>\n
Pos
\nNum
\nDriver
\nTeam
\nCar
\nLap
\nDiff
\nGap<\/p>\n
1
\n88
\nBroc Feeney
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n53.6455<\/p>\n
2
\n19
\nMatthew Payne
\nGrove Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n53.7011
\n0.0556
\n0.0556<\/p>\n
3
\n17
\nBrodie Kostecki
\nDick Johnson Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n53.7431
\n0.0976
\n0.0420<\/p>\n
4
\n6
\nCameron Waters
\nTickford Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n53.7681
\n0.1226
\n0.0250<\/p>\n
5
\n18
\nAnton De Pasquale
\nTeam 18
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n53.8219
\n0.1764
\n0.0538<\/p>\n
6
\n55
\nThomas Randle
\nTickford Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n53.8519
\n0.2064
\n0.0300<\/p>\n
7
\n7
\nJames Golding
\nBlanchard Racing Team
\nFord Mustang GT
\n53.9649
\n0.3194
\n0.1130<\/p>\n
8
\n2
\nRyan Wood
\nWalkinshaw TWG Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n54.0361
\n0.3906
\n0.0712<\/p>\n
9
\n3
\nAaron Cameron
\nBlanchard Racing Team
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.0453
\n0.3998
\n0.0092<\/p>\n
10
\n20
\nDavid Reynolds
\nTeam 18
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.0969
\n0.4514
\n0.0516<\/p>\n
Q2<\/p>\n
11
\n8
\nAndre Heimgartner
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n54.1134
\n0.4679
\n0.0165<\/p>\n
12
\n1
\nChaz Mostert
\nWalkinshaw TWG Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n54.1163
\n0.4708
\n0.0029<\/p>\n
13
\n4
\nJack Le Brocq
\nMatt Stone Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.1349
\n0.4894
\n0.0186<\/p>\n
14
\n14
\nCameron Hill
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n54.142
\n0.4965
\n0.0071<\/p>\n
15
\n96
\nMacauley Jones
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n54.1548
\n0.5093
\n0.0128<\/p>\n
16
\n38
\nRylan Gray
\nDick Johnson Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.1699
\n0.5244
\n0.0151<\/p>\n
17
\n99
\nCooper Murray
\nErebus Motorsport
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.2598
\n0.6143
\n0.0899<\/p>\n
18
\n9
\nJobe Stewart
\nErebus Motorsport
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.2772
\n0.6317
\n0.0174<\/p>\n
Q1<\/p>\n
19
\n888
\nWilliam Brown
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.449
\n0.8035
\n0.1718<\/p>\n
20
\n31
\nJayden Ojeda
\nPremiAir Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.4589
\n0.8134
\n0.0099<\/p>\n
21
\n11
\nJackson Walls
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.4829
\n0.8374
\n0.0240<\/p>\n
22
\n777
\nDeclan Fraser
\nPremiAir Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.5841
\n0.9386
\n0.1012<\/p>\n
23
\n26
\nKai Allen
\nGrove Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.7681
\n1.1226
\n0.1840<\/p>\n
24
\n10
\nZach Bates
\nMatt Stone Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.7756
\n1.1301
\n0.0075<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oil dripping from beneath Kai Allen’s Grove Racing Ford Mustang. Brown set a 54.4490s and was less than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,9335,213],"class_list":["post-555696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot2","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}