THIS is how the Supercars grid will look when the 2023 Sandown 500 starts on Sunday afternoon.
A single team has locked out the front row of the Sandown enduro grid for the first time since 1998.
Will Brown and Jack Perkins will start from pole position after the Toowoomban’s sterling lap in Saturday afternoon’s Top 10 Shootout, while his Erebus Motorsport teammates Brodie Kostecki and David Russell line up alongside.
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The two Camaros head an all-Ford second row, with Tickford Racing’s Cam Waters/James Moffat qualifying third-fastest ahead of Dick Johnson Racing’s Will Davison/Alex Davison entry, while Broc Feeney and reigning Sandown 500 co-winner Jamie Whincup will start from fifth.
Several big names will pursue the race victory from outside the first five rows of the grid.
Mark Winterbottom and James Courtney – who locked out the front row the last time a Top 10 Shootout determined the Sandown 500 grid in 2007 – will start alongside each other on the seventh row of the grid, while 2021 Bathurst 1000-winning combination Chaz Mostert and Lee Holdsworth will start from 16th place.
Shane van Gisbergen and Richie Stanaway will start from 19th on the grid, alongside the second DJR Mustang of Anton De Pasquale and Tony D’Alberto, while the Triple Eight-run wildcard entry of 2019 co-winner Craig Lowndes and Zane Goddard line up from 23rd.
The Supercars next hit the track at 10:10am AEST for a 20-minute warm-up session, before the 161-lap race gets underway at 2:15pm.
THE GRID: 2023 Sandown 500
| Pos | No. | Driver | Team | Car | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | Will Brown / Jack Perkins | Erebus | Chevrolet | 1m08.6693s |
| 2 | 99 | Brodie Kostecki / David Russell | Erebus | Chevrolet | 1m08.8555s |
| 3 | 6 | Cam Waters / James Moffat | Tickford | Ford | 1m08.9781s |
| 4 | 17 | Will Davison / Alex Davison | DJR | Ford | 1m09.0011s |
| 5 | 88 | Broc Feeney / Jamie Whincup | Triple Eight | Chevrolet | 1m09.0325s |
| 6 | 3 | Todd Hazelwood / Tim Blanchard | BRT | Ford | 1m09.0636s |
| 7 | 19 | Matthew Payne / Kevin Estre | Grove | Ford | 1m09.1005s |
| 8 | 26 | David Reynolds / Garth Tander | Grove | Ford | 1m09.1298s |
| 9 | 55 | Thomas Randle / Garry Jacobson | Tickford | Ford | 1m09.2708s |
| 10 | 34 | Jack Le Brocq / Jayden Ojeda | MSR | Chevrolet | 1m09.4426s |
| 11 | 23 | Tim Slade / Jonathon Webb | PremiAir | Chevrolet | 1m08.8597s |
| 12 | 35 | Cameron Hill / Jaylyn Robotham | MSR | Chevrolet | 1m08.8623s |
| 13 | 18 | Mark Winterbottom / Michael Caruso | Team 18 | Chevrolet | 1m08.9114s |
| 14 | 5 | James Courtney / Zak Best | Tickford | Ford | 1m08.9288s |
| 15 | 8 | Andre Heimgartner / Dale Wood | BJR | Chevrolet | 1m08.9324s |
| 16 | 25 | Chaz Mostert / Lee Holdsworth | WAU | Ford | 1m08.9387s |
| 17 | 56 | Declan Fraser / Tyler Everingham | Tickford | Ford | 1m08.9729s |
| 18 | 31 | James Golding / Dylan O’Keeffe | PremiAir | Chevrolet | 1m08.9806s |
| 19 | 97 | Shane van Gisbergen / Richie Stanaway | Triple Eight | Chevrolet | 1m08.9848s |
| 20 | 11 | Anton De Pasquale / Tony D’Alberto | DJR | Ford | 1m09.0068s |
| 21 | 20 | Scott Pye / Warren Luff | Team 18 | Chevrolet | 1m09.0303s |
| 22 | 4 | Jack Smith / Jaxon Evans | BJR | Chevrolet | 1m09.0308s |
| 23 | 888 | Craig Lowndes / Zane Goddard | Triple Eight | Chevrolet | 1m09.0731s |
| 24 | 96 | Macauley Jones / Jordan Boys | BJR | Chevrolet | 1m09.0821s |
| 25 | 14 | Bryce Fullwood / Dean Fiore | BJR | Chevrolet | 1m09.1015s |
| 26 | 2 | Nick Percat / Fabian Coulthard | WAU | Ford | 1m09.1691s |
| 27 | 7 | Aaron Love / Jake Kostecki | BRT | Ford | 1m09.4351s |
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