Andre Heimgartner

It's been a pretty good weekend for these guys.

Again, Andre Heimgartner showing that he's got some pace.

We had Maka Jones in the top 10 on Saturday.

They actually did that with a three-stop strategy.

Ryan Wood and Chas Mostert.

And the second session was topped by Matt Payne, Brock Feeney, from Brock Feeney, Cooper Murray, Andre Heimgartner, James Golding, Ryan Wood, Anton DiPasquale, Ojeda, Will Brown and Brodie Gostecki.

First session, what happened? What went on there? Ah, that was the Jack LeBrock...

drop gear session so msr realized pretty quickly that they'd left the wrong drop gear in jack lebrock's car uh he returned to the pits after a couple of laps to have that rectified didn't go back out but you've breached the rules and he ended up being disqualified for it yeah it normally doesn't take them too long to work it out

From first, it was Jared Hughes, who we should say did a phenomenal job in his maiden solo start on the streets of the Gold Coast.

But then it was Andre Heimgartner too, and that's interesting in its own right because a fellow Toyota driver putting pressure on, I guess, the other Toyota finals hopeful, but...

At the end of the day, Walkinshaw TWG Racing, they made the call.

Whether it was right or wrong, that's up for debate.

I'm sure we're going to debate it soon, but they made the call to drop Chas Mostert back and slot him in perfectly in between Ryan Wood and Andre Heimgartner.

And the entire way they executed that was, it was perfect.

Chas rolling off on the back straight, slotting in right before the beach chicane where Andre can't make a move.

But teams can coordinate between each other.

and yeah it's one of those days that will sting for a while but we didn't give up and you know we showed our grit and determination and that's credit to our team for the hard work they've put in the last couple of weeks after a really tough Bathurst so cool to see car one get through they had an awesome pace again this weekend and a big thank you to them for you know obviously trying their utmost to get me in so Big thank you to all our partners and can't wait to see you guys at Sandown.

If you want to talk about a performer of the Kiwis the weekend, why don't we talk about Andre Heimgartner fitting fifth in the second race the weekend.

He was pretty stoked.

Another mixed day in the Gold Coast and pretty wild too as you can see lots of scrapes down the car, lost a mirror and Cam had a pretty wild shootout and his car's looking pretty second hand too but overall pretty solid day.

But it is what it is.

So we know Kyle Allen, Ryan Wood, Andre Heimgartner, they're out of the final.

Or Jack LeBrock, I beg your pardon.

Andre Heimgartner is already ahead of Jack LeBrock because the points reset after you're eliminated from the finals.

But next on the chopping block, if you like, it's Will Brown, which I think is the big one.

I was sort of saying this earlier today.

to get into BJR and ask a few questions down here at Brad Jones Racing.

By the way, Andre Heimgartner.

Man! It was up and about this weekend.

How good was it seeing prime Andre? If you go back to the chat that we had at Bathurst, remember we called Andre in the pod and we said, good news, you can finish higher than 11th this year.

We're at Team 18.

Let's go for a bit of a wander and see who might be around down here.

I saw Adrian Burgess just moments ago, and Andre Heimgartner had shown up, so I think that might be the guys we need to try and find.

Burgess is always a friend of the pod, isn't he? He's a big friend of the pod.

Local driver Brock Feeney's blitzed the top ten shootout on the streets of Gold Coast to claim pole position for race one of the supercars weekend.

Andre Heimgartner's the best of the New Zealanders in fourth.

Matthew Payne's one behind him.

Ryan Wood's tenth.

He's taking out Provisional Pole.

in qualifying yesterday up at the gold coast 500 brock feeney was second matt pain third and then andre heimgartner in fourth and would you believe between first and fourth it was there was only a difference of 0.08 so of a second so not very much difference there but what it all means is they've got the top 10 shootout that'll be at 12 35 local time so 12 35 in queensland and Anton Di Pasquale, he'll be the last car out.

They go around the street circuit trying to record the fastest time.

And whoever has that fastest time will start Saturday's race, race 31 in first position.