Feeney Quickest in Qualifying as Top 10 Shootout Set

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Triple Eight Race Engineering’s Broc Feeney led the way in qualifying for the Repco Bathurst 12 Hour, as one of the cars set to advance to this afternoon’s Top 10 Pole Shootout.

Feeney reeled off a best lap of 2:01.891 in the No. 888 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo to outpace the No. 75 SunEnergy1 Racing entry of Luca Stolz by 0.318 seconds.

Sheldon van der Linde, in the No. 32 Team WRT BMW M4 GT3, set the third quickest time, followed by the No. 130 GruppeM Racing Mercedes-AMG of Maro Engel in fourth.

Jordan Love qualified the sister Triple Eight Mercedes-AMG in fifth, ahead of a late improvement by Matt Campbell in the No. 912 Manthey EMA Porsche 911 GT3 R.

Campbell completed the second half of the 30-minute session after the team elected to put Ayhancan Guven into the car, who was unable to crack the top-ten.

Melbourne Performance Centre’s Ricardo Feller and Kelvin van der Linde were seventh and eighth, ahead of Maxime Martin’s No. 46 WRT BMW and Alessio Picariello completing the top-ten.

The No. 77 Craft-Bamboo Racing Mercedes-AMG of Maxi Goetz, who qualified 11th, was 0.037 seconds shy of making the Top 10 Shootout

Others to miss out included the No. 9 Hallmark Audi of Lee Holdsworth and the No. 222 Scott Taylor Motorsport Mercedes-AMG driven by Cameron Waters, which led final practice this morning.

GT3 Silver class pole went to the No. 44 Valmont Racing Audi of Luke Youlden, while the No. 91 Wheels FX Racing Marc II V8 of Tim Slade took top qualifying honors in the Invitational class.

The Top 10 Shootout gets underway at 4:05 p.m. local time (12:05 a.m. ET), with split 15-minute sessions between five cars each.

RESULTS: Qualifying

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