Bathurst 1000: Waters tops Thursday practice

Cameron Waters (above), driving the Tickford Racing’s #6 entry, turned the fastest lap of Day 1 of the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 with a time of 2:04.1696s which saw him better Scott McLaughlin by almost three tenths of a second in Practice 3.

Co-driver Will Davison was also fourth-quickest in Practice 2, the co-driver hit-out which saw James Moffat prevail in the Supercheap Auto Tickford Mustang.

“It was great, obviously a good start to the weekend,” said Waters.

“The car was really good and Will fit it in quite well as well.

“(It was a) Productive day; the car is straight, which is the main thing. The only hiccup was running out of fuel.

“I was debating with my engineer (Sam Potter) that whole flying lap to try and let me finish it.

“He wanted me to pit, and I was like, ‘Nah, come on, it’ll be ‘right’, and luckily he let me finish it, but I thought I would’ve had enough to get back, but obviously not.”

Thursday Times

POS	#	DRIVERS	TEAM	TIME	GAP
1	6	C. Waters Davison	Monster Energy Racing	2:04.170	+0.000
2	17	McLaughlin Slade, T. D’Alberto	Shell V-Power Racing Team	2:04.463	+0.294
3	97	Van Gisbergen Tander	Red Bull Holden Racing Team	2:04.494	+0.324
4	7	Heimgartner D. O’Keeffe	NED Whisky Racing	2:04.741	+0.571
5	8	Percat T. Randle	R&J Batteries	2:04.993	+0.823
6	12	Coulthard Slade, T. D’Alberto	Shell V-Power Racing Team	2:05.073	+0.903
7	5	Holdsworth Caruso	Truck Assist Racing	2:05.097	+0.927
8	99	A. de Pasquale B. Kostecki	Penrite Racing	2:05.132	+0.962
9	44	Courtney B. Feeney	Boost Mobile Racing	2:05.143	+0.973
10	2	B. Fullwood K. Kostecki	Mobil 1 TM Middy’s Racing	2:05.144	+0.974
11	18	Winterbottom J. Golding	IRWIN Racing	2:05.320	+1.151
12	20	S. Pye D. Fiore	DEWALT Racing	2:05.385	+1.216
13	55	J. Le Brocq Moffat	Supercheap Auto Racing	2:05.568	+1.398
14	25	Mostert W. Luff	Mobil 1 TM Appliances Online	2:05.581	+1.412
15	14	T. Hazelwood J. Boys	Cub Cadet Mowers	2:05.660	+1.490
16	888	Whincup Lowndes	Red Bull Holden Racing Team	2:05.720	+1.551
17	35	G. Jacobson Z. Goddard, D. Russell	Yellow Cover Racing	2:05.957	+1.787
18	9	Reynolds W. Brown	Penrite Racing	2:06.000	+1.831
19	34	J. Kostecki Z. Goddard	UNIT Racing	2:06.029	+1.860
20	15	R. Kelly Wood	Castrol Racing	2:06.139	+1.970
21	19	A. Davison J. Webb	Local Legends Racing	2:06.165	+1.995
22	3	M. Jones J. Perkins, Blanchard	Team CoolDrive	2:06.261	+2.091
23	4	J. Smith J. Perkins	SCT Motor Sports	2:07.111	+2.942
24	22	C. Pither J. Webb, S. Owen	Team SYDNEY	2:07.651	+3.481
25	40	T. Everingham J. Ojeda	Team Valvoline GRM	2:08.054	+3.884