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Erebus locks out final Townsville practice

V8 Supercars

V8 Supercars10:50am 5 July 2014

Erebus Motorsport Mercs have recorded the day’s fastest times in the closing minutes of Friday practice in Townsville.

The Mercedes Benz AMG E63s were separated by just 0.864 seconds, with Lee Holdsworth just toppling teammate Will Davison with a 1min13.7919.

Holdsworth recorded the team’s first win in the Erebus guise earlier this season at Winton; while Davison won at the Townsville circuit on Saturday last year, though in a Ford Performance Racing Falcon.

The top four cars were all within one tenth of a second, Volvo’s Scott McLaughlin and Holden’s Jamie Whincup right on the tail of the Erebus machines.

Earlier fast man Shane van Gisbergen finished fifth, with Jason Bright, Nick Percat, James Courtney, Garth Tander and Mark Winterbottom completing the top 10.

Others to note include Fabian Coulthard 11, first Nissan Rick Kelly 12, Craig Lowndes 14 and Chaz Mostert 17.

Click here for full session results.

There is one practice session still to run tomorrow morning, marking the V8 Supercars’ first time on-track for Saturday, at 10.30am.

Back-to-back qualifying for the afternoon’s two 125km races will begin at 11.40am, with the races set to run at 3.15pm and 4.50pm AEST at the Castrol Townsville 500 – Driven by TAFE Queensland.

One Response to Erebus locks out final Townsville practice

  1. mike purvis says:

    Would be fantastic to have free to air tv coverage , I’ve lost alot of interest in v8sc since loss of coverage shame really & hard to keep up with the performance the kiwis are putting up lucky for websites like crc , online motorsport etc , I wonder how many fans lost to v8sc & feel the same ? ? Hmmmm

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