Tasmania Supercars: Waters tops first practice

Less than a second separated the 24-car field across the half-hour session, 18 of those cars within half a second over the compact Symmons Plains lap.

Waters got the best of the late green tyre runs, the Tickford driver vaulting to the top with a 50.846s.

That was good enough to leave him 0.004s clear of Dick Johnson Racing's Will Davison, who had gone fastest seconds earlier.

"We got through most of what we were trying to achieve in that session," said Waters.

"We put a set of greens on at the end and cleaned up a lot of my issues. I'm not too sure what the other guys did, if they put tyres on or not. But the car is good over one lap, like it has been all year. We're just trying to work on our race car."

Chaz Mostert was the best-placed driver that didn't improve on his final run, his 50.906s coming at the mid-way point of the session.

Jack Le Brocq ended up fourth fastest thanks to a late flyer, while Shane van Gisbergen set the early pace but was shuffled back to fifth in the 'happy hour'.

David Reynolds was sixth followed by Tim Slade, who completed an impressive turnaround after a difficult start to the session. The BRT driver prompted an early red flag when his Mustang shed its right rear wheel and came to a stop at the last corner.

Will Brown was the best rookie in the field in eighth ahead of Anton De Pasquale and Jamie Whincup.

Practice continues with a second half-hours session at 11:25am local time.

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	50.846
2	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	50.851	0.004	0.004
3	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	50.906	0.059	0.055
4	5	Jack Le Brocq	Ford Mustang GT	50.911	0.065	0.005
5	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	50.964	0.117	0.052
6	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	50.965	0.118	0.001
7	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	51.008	0.161	0.042
8	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	51.018	0.172	0.010
9	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	51.056	0.210	0.038
10	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	51.057	0.211	0.001
11	19	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	51.082	0.235	0.024
12	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	51.099	0.252	0.016
13	7	Andre Heimgartner	Ford Mustang GT	51.111	0.264	0.012
14	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	51.143	0.296	0.032
15	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	51.147	0.301	0.004
16	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	51.159	0.312	0.011
17	34	Jake Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	51.189	0.342	0.029
18	44	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	51.251	0.404	0.061
19	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	51.366	0.519	0.115
20	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	51.485	0.639	0.119
21	35	Zane Goddard	Holden Commodore ZB	51.513	0.666	0.027
22	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	51.522	0.675	0.009
23	22	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	51.531	0.685	0.009
24	2	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	51.692	0.845	0.160
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