Pukekohe Supercars: Whincup tops qualifying, Reynolds crashes

Whincup, who was stripped of a podium finish yesterday, came out firing in the 20-minute session, a 1m01.958s putting him on top after the first runs.

Having been briefly displaced by Chaz Mostert, Whincup returned to the top right with a 1m01.562s on his second run.

Only needing to finish in the Top 10, Whincup elected to sit out the final runs. However nobody was able to run down his time, Will Davison getting closest but still falling 0.02s short.

Chaz Mostert and Shane van Gisbergen were third and fourth fastest, followed by Lee Holdsworth.

Scott McLaughlin was sixth quickest, the points leader surviving a wild spin coming onto the front straight on his final run.

The high-speed off destroyed a foam advertising board, but McLaughlin did just enough to keep his Penske Ford out of the wall.

Nick Percat, Fabian Coulthard, Mark Winterbottom and Cam Waters will also take part in this afternoon's single-lap dash.

Reynolds, however, won't feature in the Shootout, the Erebus driver smacking the Turn 4 wall on his first green tyre run.

The crash led to a red flag, which cost him his fastest lap and ruled him out of the rest of the session.

He'll start today's 200-kilometre race from way down in 22nd.

Cla	#	Driver		Car	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	88	Jamie Whincup		Holden Commodore ZB	7	1'01.5620			170.169
2	23	Will Davison		Ford Mustang GT	11	1'01.5909	0.0289	0.0289	170.090
3	55	Chaz Mostert		Ford Mustang GT	11	1'01.6314	0.0694	0.0405	169.978
4	97	Shane van Gisbergen		Holden Commodore ZB	10	1'01.6593	0.0973	0.0279	169.901
5	5	Lee Holdsworth		Ford Mustang GT	12	1'01.7362	0.1742	0.0769	169.689
6	17	Scott McLaughlin		Ford Mustang GT	10	1'01.7414	0.1794	0.0052	169.675
7	8	Nick Percat		Holden Commodore ZB	9	1'01.7916	0.2296	0.0502	169.537
8	12	Fabian Coulthard		Ford Mustang GT	10	1'01.8654	0.3034	0.0738	169.335
9	18	Mark Winterbottom		Holden Commodore ZB	12	1'01.8762	0.3142	0.0108	169.305
10	6	Cameron Waters		Ford Mustang GT	10	1'01.9078	0.3458	0.0316	169.219
11	35	Todd Hazelwood		Holden Commodore ZB	10	1'01.9210	0.3590	0.0132	169.183
12	14	Tim Slade		Holden Commodore ZB	10	1'01.9465	0.3845	0.0255	169.113
13	7	Andre Heimgartner		Nissan Altima	12	1'01.9697	0.4077	0.0232	169.050
14	99	Anton De Pasquale		Holden Commodore ZB	12	1'02.0408	0.4788	0.0711	168.856
15	34	James Golding		Holden Commodore ZB	11	1'02.0437	0.4817	0.0029	168.848
16	33	Richie Stanaway		Holden Commodore ZB	10	1'02.0747	0.5127	0.0310	168.764
17	2	Scott Pye		Holden Commodore ZB	13	1'02.1329	0.5709	0.0582	168.606
18	22	James Courtney		Holden Commodore ZB	11	1'02.2171	0.6551	0.0842	168.378
19	21	Macauley Jones		Holden Commodore ZB	11	1'02.3003	0.7383	0.0832	168.153
20	15	Rick Kelly		Nissan Altima	11	1'02.3484	0.7864	0.0481	168.023
21	78	Simona de Silvestro		Nissan Altima	11	1'02.4197	0.8577	0.0713	167.831
22	9	David Reynolds		Holden Commodore ZB	8	1'02.4999	0.9379	0.0802	167.616
23	3	Garry Jacobson		Nissan Altima	12	1'02.5196	0.9576	0.0197	167.563
24	19	Jack Le Brocq		Holden Commodore ZB	10	1'02.6650	1.1030	0.1454	167.174