Sydney Supercars: De Pasquale takes provisional pole

Having clean swept Friday practice, the Dick Johnson Racing driver kept the party going by comfortably topping the 15-minute qualifying session

He was quickest on his first run with a 1m28.714s, that time momentarily beaten by DJR teammate Will Davison on the second run before De Pasquale sealed provisional pole with a 1m28.558s.

That left the gap between the DJR pair at 0.14s.

"It's never easy, I'll give you the hot tip," said De Pasquale of his impressive form so far this weekend.

"Our cars are in the window day-on-day which is good, because the weather has changed and the wind has changed. So it's good to back up.

"Now I've got to do a Shootout lap, but so far, so good."

Shane van Gisbergen was best of the non-DJR cars, the series leader the best part of three-tenths adrift of De Pasquale.

Nick Percat ended up fourth quickest, while Will Brown, who was second after the first runs, led the way for Erebus with fifth on the grid.

Cam Waters and Brodie Kostecki were next, while Jamie Whincup felt lucky to make the Shootout at all after an untidy lap.

"We were pretty lucky to get through in that one," he said. "The car isn't flash, understeer, oversteer, all those sorts of things. I finished a lap and it wasn't pretty, and I said, 'we'll be lucky to get through here'."

Chaz Mostert and Tim Slade rounded out the drivers who qualified for the single-lap dash.

Sydney Supercars qualifying results

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval
1	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	5	1'28.558
2	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	5	1'28.701	0.142	0.142
3	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	6	1'28.857	0.298	0.155
4	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	4	1'29.021	0.462	0.164
5	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	5	1'29.040	0.481	0.019
6	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	5	1'29.333	0.774	0.293
7	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	4	1'29.412	0.853	0.078
8	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	6	1'29.415	0.856	0.002
9	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	4	1'29.486	0.927	0.071
10	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	7	1'29.487	0.928	0.000
11	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	4	1'29.567	1.008	0.080
12	7	Andre Heimgartner	Ford Mustang GT	4	1'29.582	1.023	0.015
13	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	4	1'29.640	1.081	0.057
14	19	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	4	1'29.679	1.120	0.039
15	5	Jack Le Brocq	Ford Mustang GT	6	1'29.721	1.162	0.042
16	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	4	1'29.835	1.276	0.113
17	2	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	4	1'29.868	1.309	0.033
18	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	5	1'29.899	1.340	0.030
19	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	4	1'29.974	1.415	0.075
20	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	4	1'30.039	1.480	0.064
21	22	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	5	1'30.158	1.599	0.119
22	34	Jake Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	4	1'30.179	1.620	0.021
23	44	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	5	1'30.366	1.807	0.186
24	35	Zane Goddard	Holden Commodore ZB	5	1'30.453	1.894	0.087
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