Heavy drizzle greeted drivers and teams as they arrived at Timaru International Raceway for Saturday morning qualifying at the Hampsta 200 meeting, the fourth round of the summer series.
Matt Halliday crashed out of the Battery Town Porsche GT3 Series qualifying session on the first warm up lap. Cold tyres and slippery conditions saw him into the wall on the front straight without setting a time. It will be ‘touch and go’ to whether his car will be ready for the first GT3 race this afternoon, timed to go at 3:15pm. Craig Baird will start on pole with Aussie charger David Reynolds alongside him.
Mitch Evans is on pole for the Toyota Racing Series. As the track got drier throughout the twenty minute session, times and positions tumbled. Initially it was a fight between Evans, Sten Pentus, Lucas Foresti and Earl Bamber. Bamber dropped back to seventh while Pentus will start alongside Evans with Foresti on row two with Daniel Jilesen.
BNT V8 qualifying gets underway at 4pm.
Cantabrian Matthew Hamilton was fastest in the MINI Challenge, Simon Sceats in the NZ Production, Damon Leitch in the Formula Fords and William Bamber in the Suzuki Swift Sport Cup class.
Battery Town Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge qualifying results
1 1 Craig Baird 1:09.187
2 8 David Reynolds 1:09.446
3 3 Daniel Gaunt 1:09.694
4 9 Jonny Reid 1:09.893
5 5 Courtney Letica 1:10.469
6 15 Hugh Gardiner 1:11.772
7 32 Mitch Cunningham 1:12.102
8 11 Simon Evans 1:12.876
9 82 Andrew Bagnall 1:13.077
10 26 Simon McLennan 1:13.150
11 2 Shane McKillen 1:13.533
12 90 Paul Kelly 1:13.753
13 77 Alan Dippie 1:15.471
14 99 Colin Caldwell 1:16.729
15 21 Matt Halliday --:--:--.---
Toyota Racing Series qualifying results
1 4 Mitchell Evans 1:06.746
2 20 Sten Pentus 1:06.933
3 28 Lucas Foresti 1:07.288
4 9 Daniel Jilesen 1:07.798
5 48 Andrew Waite 1:07.802
6 69 Alistair Wootten 1:08.084
7 7 Earl Bamber 1:08.515
8 47 Nathan Morcom 1:08.643
9 41 Stefan Webling 1:08.819
10 8 Jamie McNee 1:09.294
NZ Production and MINI Challenge qualifying results
1 2 Matthew Hamilton 1:18.487 MINI
2 4 Ryan Bailey 1:19.385 MINI
3 1 Gavin Yortt 1:19.664 MINI
4 15 Mark Maddren 1:19.780 MINI
5 30 Wayne Timms 1:20.359 MINI
6 17 Simon Sceats 1:21.620 NZ Production
7 27 Scott McKelvie 1:21.639 NZ Production
8 10 Grant Aitken 1:22.540 NZ Production
9 64 David Grigor 1:23.094 MINI
10 33 Steve Taylor 1:23.482 NZ Production
11 11 Kevin Varney 1:27.184 NZ Production
12 28 Mark Joblin 1:34.820 NZ Production
13 3 Craig Innes --:--:--.--- NZ Production
Zoagn Formula Ford qualifying results
1 87 Damon Leitch 1:21.899
2 29 Matt Williams 1:22.671
3 5 Martin Short 1:22.737
4 64 Tim Vickers 1:22.974
5 7 Nick Cassidy 1:23.056
6 91 Mathew Penrose 1:24.114
7 10 Henry Thomas-Kircher 1:24.374
8 69 Brett Sullivan 1:24.514
9 65 Richard Vickers 1:24.859
10 84 Scott Manson 1:28.069
11 60 Andre Heimgartner --:--:--.---
Suzuki Swift Sport Cup qualifying results
1 2 William Bamber 1:23.488
2 6 Craig Innes 1:24.001
3 87 AJ Lauder 1:24.382
4 21 Alan Dunkley 1:24.807
5 98 Ben Dallas 1:24.963
6 5 Scott Harrison 1:25.595
7 11 Grant Ryan 1:25.772
8 81 Bramwell King 1:26.433
9 14 Shaun Lawrence 1:26.467
10 22 Daniel Liemburg 1:26.695
11 7 Sam Robinson 1:26.961
12 23 Mike Turley 1:27.189
13 89 Marc Spring 1:27.473
14 88 Matt Gibson 1:27.903
15 95 Kathrine Collins 1:28.399
