Evans escapes big crash, Feeney on provisional pole
Jaxon Evans escapes big crash, Broc Feeney on provisional pole
Evans suffers huge hit at Turn 8, qualifying declared in final minute
Feeney beats Cam Waters to Race 24 provisional pole
Jaxon Evans has walked away from a big crash in Boost Mobile Qualifying, with Broc Feeney claiming provisional pole for Race 24 at the VAILO Adelaide 500.
Evans became the latest victim of Adelaide's infamous Turn 8, with the Brad Jones Racing rookie pin-balling across the circuit in the closing minutes of the session.
With the session red-flagged and declared, Saturday winner Feeney claimed provisional pole ahead of Cam Waters by 0.0405s, with Ryan Wood and Chaz Mostert making it a Walkinshaw Andretti United three-four result.
Champion-elect Will Brown was fifth ahead of Thomas Randle, with Will Davison, Brodie Kostecki, Nick Percat and Anton De Pasquale completing the Top Ten Shootout running order.
The session began in bizarre scenes for Percat and Wood, who tripped over each other at Turn 4. Wood, weaving after exiting pit lane, tipped Percat into a spin.
Officials advised the incident will be investigated after the session.
Feeney opened up with a 1:20.2331s ahead of Mostert (1:20.3544s), Wood (1:20.4860s) and Brown (1:20.6036s).
Feeney pressed on and set a 1:19.6382s ahead of Mostert (1:19.7452s), Brown (1:19.7878s) and Kostecki (1:19.8683s), before Waters (1:19.6558s) and Wood (1:19.7407s) improved.
Ahead of the second runs, Feeney led Waters, Wood, Mostert, Brown, Randle, Davison, Kostecki, Percat and De Pasquale. However, as drivers loomed to go faster and secure a Shootout berth, Evans struck trouble.
The SCT Logistics Chevrolet Camaro sustained major damage after Evans first hit the Turn 8 wall, before going into the concrete head-on as it slid down the track.
Evans was cleared of injury, but BJR now faces a race against time to repair the car for Race 24.
"The car looks pretty badly damaged, it takes a long time to do these sorts of repairs and we don't have a lot of time now," team owner Jones said.
"The boys are always up for a challenge, so we'll get it back here and see what we can do, but it's just unfortunate that he's clipped that inside kerb and it's put him into the outside wall pretty hard."
The session was immediately suspended and later declared, with only 19 seconds remaining. Matt Payne was 11th, 0.0289s behind De Pasquale, with stand-in teammate Kai Allen 19th.
The Boost Mobile Top Ten Shootout will commence at 12:35pm local time/1:05pm AEDT.
The VAILO Adelaide 500 will conclude with Race 24 at 3:15pm local time/3:45pm AEDT.
