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Reynolds pulls a wild card

08 Jul 2016
Erebus racer tops Townsville practice in first hit-out
2 mins by James Pavey
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Erebus Motorsport’s David Reynolds has topped the first practice session at the Castrol EDGE Townsville 400.

His 1min12.8697 lap came after the chequered flag and knocked old stablemate Chaz Mostert off the top by 0.0121sec.

TEKNO’s Will Davison was close behind in third in the 40-minute session, which was punctuated by a red flag mid-way after Shane van Gisbergen took out a foam Coates Hire sign and littered debris on the circuit.

“It’s practice one, I’m not writing home about it yet … everyone’s worked hard over the break, we’ve put some new bits in the car,” the Erebus racer and 2015 Townsville podium finisher said.  

“To be honest the track must be pretty green doesn’t feel like much grip out there… hopefully we can keep it up.”

Mostert revealed he had also changed onto a better set of tyres after being unhappy with his first set.

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Tim Slade finished fourth in the session in a one-off black livery on his Commodore. He led Rick Kelly, with three of the four Nissans finishing top 10 – Todd Kelly sixth and Michael Caruso ninth. 

The Holden Racing Team Commodores topped the session early but dropped back to seventh and eighth, with James Courtney just ahead of Garth Tander.

Defending champ and back-to-back 2015 Townsville winner Mark Winterbottom completed the top 10.

Click here for full results.

The Supercars will tackle a second 40-minute practice session this afternoon at 3pm local time, before qualifying and racing tomorrow.

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