Winton Supercars: Brown fastest in first practice

The Erebus driver spent much of the session sitting in third spot behind early pacesetters David Reynolds and Cam Waters.

He was then one of only a handful of drivers to run greens right at the end of the session, stopping the clock at 1m18.720s to top the session.

"The Boost Mobile Commodore was feeling fantastic," said Brown. "I rolled out for the first [run] and probably didn't put the best lap together, and [engineer] Tom [Moore] said we were third. So I was really happy with the overall set-up of the car.

"We had a great test day here only a week ago, so probably a bit of an advantage. But to end up P1 after a couple of tough rounds, it's great. Hopefully we can roll that through the weekend."

Reynolds finished second thanks to a 1m18.831s that he set early in the session. The Grove Racing driver is being touted as one of the favourites for the weekend based on his speed during the Winton test day last week.

Waters was third fastest and the only other driver to get under the 1m19s mark followed by Team 18 pair Mark Winterbottom and Scott Pye.

Brodie Kostecki capped off a good session for Erebus with the sixth fastest time, while Chaz Mostert was a promising seventh off the back of Walkinshaw Andretti United's nightmare in Perth last time out.

Macauley Jones led the way for Brad Jones Racing in eighth ahead of teammate Andre Heimgartner, while Lee Holdsworth rounded out the Top 10.

Triple Eight and Dick Johnson Racing both focussed on race runs rather than qualifying sims, points leader Shane van Gisbergen just 13th fastest on old tyres.

His T8 teammate Broc Feeney was just 23rd fastest while DJR pair Anton De Pasquale and Will Davison were 20th and 25th.

The two wildcards in the field, Jordan Boys and Jayden Ojeda, were an impressive 17th and 18th respectively.

Cla	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Interval
1	9	Will Brown	Holden Commodore ZB	1'18.720
2	26	David Reynolds	Ford Mustang GT	1'18.831	0.111	0.111
3	6	Cameron Waters	Ford Mustang GT	1'18.947	0.226	0.115
4	18	Mark Winterbottom	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.101	0.381	0.154
5	20	Scott Pye	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.166	0.445	0.064
6	99	Brodie Kostecki	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.209	0.488	0.042
7	25	Chaz Mostert	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.251	0.530	0.042
8	96	Macauley Jones	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.331	0.610	0.080
9	8	Andre Heimgartner	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.343	0.623	0.012
10	10	Lee Holdsworth	Ford Mustang GT	1'19.357	0.636	0.013
11	5	James Courtney	Ford Mustang GT	1'19.422	0.702	0.065
12	14	Bryce Fullwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.457	0.736	0.034
13	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.480	0.759	0.023
14	2	Nick Percat	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.484	0.763	0.004
15	55	Thomas Randle	Ford Mustang GT	1'19.496	0.776	0.012
16	56	Jake Kostecki	Ford Mustang GT	1'19.512	0.791	0.015
17	49	Jordan Boys	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.518	0.797	0.005
18	27	Jayden Ojeda	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.528	0.807	0.010
19	3	Tim Slade	Ford Mustang GT	1'19.560	0.839	0.032
20	11	Anton De Pasquale	Ford Mustang GT	1'19.561	0.840	0.001
21	4	Jack Smith	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.700	0.980	0.139
22	34	Jack Le Brocq	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.737	1.017	0.037
23	88	Broc Feeney	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.842	1.122	0.104
24	35	Todd Hazelwood	Holden Commodore ZB	1'19.870	1.150	0.028
25	17	Will Davison	Ford Mustang GT	1'19.917	1.197	0.047
26	76	Garry Jacobson	Holden Commodore ZB	1'20.178	1.457	0.260
27	22	Chris Pither	Holden Commodore ZB	1'20.346	1.625	0.168
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