The HMO Customer Racing Hyundai driver was a contender across both 10-minute sessions to settle the grid.
He comfortably made it through Q1 with the fifth fastest time, the gap back to early pacesetter Tony D’Alberto just five hundredths of a second.
Morcom then stepped up his game in the second part of qualifying, a 55.293s helping him to his first TCR Australia pole.
“It’s a bloody ripper,” he said. “The boys did a mega job. We were fast in practice but I didn’t think we had it in us [in qualifying]. I gave it my all down at the hairpin and pulled it off. It’s awesome for the team.”
Jay Hanson (Melbourne Performance Centre Audi) qualified second, the gap to Morcom just a single hundredth of a second.
Inaugural series champion Will Brown, back after missing the 2021 season, qualified third in his MPC Audi, as Josh Buchan capped off a good session for the HMO squad with fourth.
James Moffat ended up sixth in his Garry Rogers Motorsport Renault after a lock-up on his final run.
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