Townsville Supercars: De Pasquale beats Waters to pole

The three-part qualifying boiled down to an all-Mustang battle, with De Pasquale, Waters and Will Davison the only drivers to get under the 1m13s mark in the single-lap dash for pole.

The fastest sectors were shared between the three, but it was De Pasquale that was best across the whole lap, a 1m12.639s securing pole for today's opening sprint race.

"That was really cool," he said.

"It's tight, they're going to make us work for it this afternoon so I'm looking forward to it.

"I thought I threw it away because I hit the fence at the start of qualifying and it was a bit bent at the front, but it didn't make a difference."

Jamie Whincup and Chaz Mostert were the best of the Holdens in fourth and fifth, while runaway series leader Shane van Gisbergen was just sixth fastest. The Kiwi was left fuming over confusion on his out-lap after Zane Goddard hit the wall during his Shootout effort.

"It was shit," said van Gisbergen. "The guy crashed and there was no info from race control. I got told to pit, and then had no tyre temp, and got told to go. That's pretty confusing and not very good."

Brad Jones Racing pair Nick Percat and Todd Hazelwood qualified seventh and eighth ahead of James Courtney.

Goddard, meanwhile, put his Shootout crash down to driver error.

"At the last corner I went to grab the brake and just missed it and went straight onto the throttle," he explained. "By the time I got back onto the brake it was too late. Pretty embarrassing, but at least the car is fast."

He'll start today's race from 10th.

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.639
2	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.806	0.167	0.167
3	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	1'12.835	0.196	0.028
4	88	Jamie Whincup	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.035	0.395	0.199
5	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.118	0.479	0.083
6	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.245	0.605	0.126
7	8	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.383	0.743	0.138
8	14	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.398	0.759	0.015
9	44	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.652	1.012	0.253
10	35	Zane Goddard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.190	0.550
11	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.273	0.633	0.083
12	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.402	0.762	0.128
13	5	Jack Le Brocq	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.402	0.762	0.000
14	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.424	0.784	0.022
15	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.433	0.793	0.008
16	7	Andre Heimgartner	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.442	0.803	0.009
17	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.446	0.806	0.003
18	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.517	0.877	0.070
19	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	1'13.561	0.922	0.044
20	19	Fabian Coulthard	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.759	1.119	0.197
21	2	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.638	0.998
22	34	Jake Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.649	1.009	0.010
23	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.733	1.094	0.084
24	22	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	1'13.916	1.277	0.183
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