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Tasmania Supercars: Waters sweeps Sunday poles

Cam Waters bagged pole position for both of Sunday's sprint races at Symmons Plains.

Cameron Waters, Tickford Racing

Cameron Waters, Tickford Racing

Mark Horsburgh, Edge Photographics

The Tickford driver emerged on top of what was effectively a quartet of qualifying sessions under the confusing Group A/B system.

He set a 50.764s in his eight-minute heat for the Race 2 grid, which put him on top of Group A.

Nobody in Group B was able to run it down either, Jamie Whincup going closest with a 50.866s.

For the Race 3 grid it was an all-Group A battle at the front, Waters going up against former teammate and fierce rival Chaz Mostert.

The pair were separated by just 0.01s at the end of the five-minute session as Waters took a second-straight pole with a 50.562s.

Speaking post-session Waters said he was surprised by the pole sweep, and that there's still question marks over his tyre life for the races.

"The car has improved a little but over night," he said. "In the first session I didn't get everything out of it, then I did a much better job in the second one. I'm a little bit surprised to get both poles.

"A bit of tyre life would be awesome. We're really good over one lap, we have been all year. But as soon as we get in the races, the other cars look after their tyres better than what ours can.

"We've done a few things overnight, hopefully we've gone in the right direction."

Group B runner Anton De Pasquale was third in both sessions, while fourth threw up a surprise for each race. Erebus rookie Will Brown will start from the outside of the second row for Race 2, while Zane Goddard will do likewise in Race 3.

Whincup added to his second for Race 2 with a sixth for Race 3, however his teammate Shane van Gisbergen was uncharacteristically quiet. The Kiwi will have to come from sixth on the grid if he's going to take an eighth-straight Supercars win in today's first race, while he'll start out of P7 for the second race.

The first of today's two races starts at 1:35pm local time.

Qualifying – Race 2

Cla # Driver Car Time Gap Interval
1 6 Australia Cameron Waters
Ford Mustang GT 50.763
2 88 Australia Jamie Whincup
Holden Commodore ZB 50.866 0.102 0.102
3 11 Australia Anton De Pasquale
Ford Mustang GT 50.896 0.133 0.030
4 9 Australia Will Brown
Holden Commodore ZB 50.899 0.136 0.002
5 17 Australia Will Davison
Ford Mustang GT 50.906 0.143 0.007
6 97 New Zealand Shane van Gisbergen
Holden Commodore ZB 50.909 0.145 0.002
7 18 Australia Mark Winterbottom
Holden Commodore ZB 50.913 0.149 0.004
8 5 Australia Jack Le Brocq
Ford Mustang GT 50.933 0.170 0.020
9 20 Australia Scott Pye
Holden Commodore ZB 50.962 0.198 0.028
10 25 Australia Chaz Mostert
Holden Commodore ZB 50.984 0.221 0.022
11 19 New Zealand Fabian Coulthard
Holden Commodore ZB 51.054 0.290 0.069
12 7 New Zealand Andre Heimgartner
Ford Mustang GT 51.085 0.321 0.031
13 26 Australia David Reynolds
Ford Mustang GT 51.094 0.331 0.009
14 4 Australia Jack Smith
Holden Commodore ZB 51.095 0.331 0.000
15 35 Australia Zane Goddard
Holden Commodore ZB 51.141 0.378 0.046
16 3 Australia Tim Slade
Ford Mustang GT 51.157 0.394 0.015
17 96 Australia Macauley Jones
Holden Commodore ZB 51.166 0.402 0.008
18 2 Australia Bryce Fullwood
Holden Commodore ZB 51.178 0.414 0.012
19 44 Australia James Courtney
Ford Mustang GT 51.180 0.417 0.002
20 8 Australia Nick Percat
Holden Commodore ZB 51.188 0.425 0.007
21 14 Australia Todd Hazelwood
Holden Commodore ZB 51.220 0.456 0.031
22 99 Brodie Kostecki
Holden Commodore ZB 51.245 0.482 0.025
23 34 Australia Jake Kostecki
Holden Commodore ZB 51.348 0.585 0.102
24 22 Australia Garry Jacobson
Holden Commodore ZB 51.404 0.640 0.055

Qualifying – Race 3

Cla # Driver Car Time Gap Interval
1 6 Australia Cameron Waters
Ford Mustang GT 50.562
2 25 Australia Chaz Mostert
Holden Commodore ZB 50.580 0.018 0.018
3 11 Australia Anton De Pasquale
Ford Mustang GT 50.670 0.107 0.089
4 35 Australia Zane Goddard
Holden Commodore ZB 50.693 0.131 0.023
5 17 Australia Will Davison
Ford Mustang GT 50.694 0.132 0.000
6 88 Australia Jamie Whincup
Holden Commodore ZB 50.714 0.152 0.020
7 97 New Zealand Shane van Gisbergen
Holden Commodore ZB 50.716 0.154 0.002
8 26 Australia David Reynolds
Ford Mustang GT 50.832 0.270 0.116
9 18 Australia Mark Winterbottom
Holden Commodore ZB 50.845 0.283 0.012
10 9 Australia Will Brown
Holden Commodore ZB 50.873 0.310 0.027
11 44 Australia James Courtney
Ford Mustang GT 50.883 0.321 0.010
12 20 Australia Scott Pye
Holden Commodore ZB 50.891 0.329 0.007
13 19 New Zealand Fabian Coulthard
Holden Commodore ZB 50.915 0.353 0.024
14 5 Australia Jack Le Brocq
Ford Mustang GT 50.945 0.383 0.029
15 34 Australia Jake Kostecki
Holden Commodore ZB 50.965 0.402 0.019
16 3 Australia Tim Slade
Ford Mustang GT 50.981 0.419 0.016
17 7 New Zealand Andre Heimgartner
Ford Mustang GT 51.020 0.458 0.039
18 2 Australia Bryce Fullwood
Holden Commodore ZB 51.024 0.462 0.003
19 99 Brodie Kostecki
Holden Commodore ZB 51.028 0.466 0.004
20 8 Australia Nick Percat
Holden Commodore ZB 51.033 0.471 0.005
21 14 Australia Todd Hazelwood
Holden Commodore ZB 51.136 0.574 0.103
22 22 Australia Garry Jacobson
Holden Commodore ZB 51.191 0.629 0.054
23 4 Australia Jack Smith
Holden Commodore ZB 51.213 0.651 0.022
24 96 Australia Macauley Jones
Holden Commodore ZB 51.234 0.672 0.020

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