SURFERS PARADISE, Australia — Thomas Randle led a Ford sweep of the top three spots on the leaderboard during Friday’s second practice session for the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 for the Repco Supercars Championship.
Randle’s Tickford Racing Mustang turned a lap of 1:10.337 to edge the Ford wheeled by his teammate Cam Waters by a mere .0290 seconds.
Third on the board was Penrite Racing Ford driver Matt Payne.
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“It’s still only practice, being fastest today is a nice way to go to sleep tonight but that means really nothing,” said Randle. “The cars have rolled out really fast and I just got so many kerb strikes in the first practice, so it was hard to really show our true pace.
“In that session they turned off one of the sensors at the beach chicane and hopefully they leave it like that, I think everyone would have had way less then,” he added. “The car rolled out really strong, we’ve just been tuning it a little bit across the two sessions, then we finally put some greens on it and it was really, really good.”
Broc Feeney was first Chevrolet home in fourth for Red Bull Ampol Racing, while Bathurst winner Brodie Kostecki was fifth for Erebus Motorsport.
Point leader Will Brown was sixth for Red Bull Ampol Racing.