Scott McLaughlin scored another pole position for the new Ford Mustang, making it two in a row in same weekend after beating his 2018 title rival Shane van Gisbergen.
The 2018 Supercars champion put the DJR Penske to pole for a second time, the other being Fabian Coulthard who took pole yesterday.
McLaughlin set a 1:19.626 on his single-lap, being the final man to be out for the shootout and beat Shane Van Gisbergen to pole by just 0.263 seconds as Gisbergen was undefeated all way through the session, being the first man to go out for one-lap performance after crippling to 10th place in Qualifying.
No one else matched the two in shootout, making mistakes around the track in different turns as McLaughlin put a stellar lap to take his maiden pole in Adelaide, 47th overall in his career.
"It’s a big thing to get my first pole here," McLaughlin said.
"Shane put a pretty good lap down there and I just knew I had to hit my marks and come away with a good spot.
"He had it on me last year [in Adelaide] and we’re just trying to work together with this new car on my driving.
"Yesterday’s lap was average, so today I needed to do better and it worked out really well."
His teammate Fabian Coulthard finished third, but got penalised to 10th place due to the work going on his car in pitlane before the session started, with the bonnet of his car up.
“We were able to do it yesterday on one lap,” said Fabian before getting penalised.
“We’ve tuned the car, maybe the ambient and things like that have played a bit of an effect and we really struggled to get it done on the first lap in quali.
“Unfortunately the Shootout is one lap and you’ve got to do it in that lap, but we moved from fifth to third, so it’s not all bad.”
David Reynolds finished 4th, ahead of Will Davison and Nick Percat in Tickford and Brad Jones Racing.
Todd Hazelwood finished 7th after securing a top 10 shootout yesterday, ahead of De Pasquale. The Top 10 was completed by De Pasquale and Mostert ahead of Coulthard, as Coulthard was disqualified.
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