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Seton has made light contact with the wall, a damaged front splitter the result

Jason Richards has gone to a low wing set up to gain more speed thru the third sector, which is 70% full throttle. That is going to make the car very twitchy across the top of the Mountain !!!

Seton ruined one of the 24 allocated tyres with that spin.

Rick Kelly is on track

The front runners are circulating in the low 08s, which suggests that will be the race pace.
Some are now doing fuel runs to measure economy, or lack of.
The car set ups have to encompass full to empty to full tanks throughout the race. On a track that has every imginable corner that is no mean feat.

Murphy has just done a 2 :07:8

Murphy glanced the wall on the next lap, the team is inspecting the car now.
Ambrose had a moment coming thru the cutting, but kept it together.

Session over

Full details of times from that session are now available on the official site.

The top 10 Shootout is set for 1540 hours AEST. (3:40pm)

With 40 minutes to the shootout there is heavy rain falling on the Mountain

With 10 mniutes to go the track appears to be dry in most places. Because it is a mountain there will be residual run off in some places for some time
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The shootout may be delayed.
Shannon O'Brien in the Porsche Cup Porsche Carrera entered the Chase at 280kmh. He exited via a massive rollover and nose spin before hitting the wall and coming to rest back on the track. He is ok, but it will take some time to clear the debris and fluid.

Thereis still sufficient water on the track to warrant the first runner Jim Richards going out on wets.

Richards on wets has posted a time of 2:20:120
His speed on Conrod was 273kmh.

Seton on wets has done 2:19:601
speed on conrod 277kmh