The 20-365 days-primitive, making pleasing his 2nd valuable sport open as a wildcard for Tickford Racing, apprehensive the self-discipline by snaring pole for at the present time’s first scurry.
Superb used to be constant across all segments of qualifying, comfortably progressing thru Q1 and Q2.
On the opposite hand he grew to change into up the warmth within the final segment, a 1m47.816s on his first crawl proving to be an unbeatable benchmark.
Runaway series leader Shane van Gisbergen did his most effective to crawl down Superb’s time pleasing at the flag, but fell 0.02s making an strive denying Superb a dream pole.
“I wasn’t anticipating this,” said a shellshocked Superb.”I receive now not of direction know what to command.
“We did the supreme we would possibly well maybe presumably. I had a grand plug into Turn 1, we have been losing a diminutive to Cam. I in a roundabout blueprint pieced all of it collectively and it used to be pleasing ample for pole. I didn’t judge I would possibly well maybe presumably be on pole this afternoon.
“Racing is an absolutely varied element. I’ve bought to receive off the line then strive to preserve out of inconvenience, and it’ll form itself out.”
Van Gisbergen will open on the originate air of the front row, his slow lap bumping Superb’s Tickford teammate Cam Waters to the within of the 2nd row.
Chaz Mostert grabbed fourth along with his final lap, whereas DJR pair Anton De Pasquale and Will Davison have been entirely pleasing ample for fifth and sixth.
Broc Feeney certified seventh ahead of David Reynolds whereas Gash Percat returned to some qualifying salvage with the ninth quickest time ahead of Will Brown.
Thomas Randle used to be left on the Q3 bubble, the Tickford driver entirely ready to climb to 11th on his final crawl in Q2.
Andre Heimgartner, within the intervening time, used to be a shock omission from the final segment of qualifying.
The Kiwi, who took his first Supercars scurry take at The Bend final 365 days, would possibly well maybe presumably organize pleasing 14th on the grid after running out of time for a final crawl attributable to a place of abode-up alternate.
“If we ran the final place of abode of tyres we would possibly well maybe presumably have been on,” said Heimgartner. “Nonetheless we ran out of time to exit again, so clearly all people bought one extra crawl than us.
“Or now not it is aesthetic disappointing, but I judge our car of direction is now not too rotten.”
The first scurry of the weekend kicks off at 4: 15pm native time.