Fresh off a sublime win in yesterday’s opener, van Gisbergen made a fast start to Sunday’s action with a dominant showing in the first of two qualifying sessions.
He did two laps good enough for pole as he and new teammate Broc Feeney locked out the front row for today’s first race for Triple Eight.
Van Gisbergen then looked set to make it a pair of poles in the second session, going purple in the first two sectors on a final green tyre run.
However an attempt to get a two off Tim Slade down the back straight went awry, van Gisbergen clattering into Slade’s door at Turn 6.
Both cars were left with damage as van Gisbergen was forced to settle for third from his first-run banker – although the indigent is now in the hands of the stewards.
“It was a bit of a shame,” said van Gisbergen of the Slade bungle.
“He mucked up out of the hairpin and let someone go. I was on a ripper, big tow, and he kind of went wide at the sweeper. I thought, ‘okay, he’s giving me the line’. And then at…
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