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4 November 2014 | General

SIX SWEEP FOR BOWE WITH RECORD-BUSTING BATHURST POLE

JOHN BOWE has smashed the ENZED Touring Car Masters lap record at Mount Panorama en-route to taking pole for round six of the 2014 series this morning.

It was the Tasmanian hero’s sixth consecutive pole position of the 2014 season and came with a staggering lap well ahead of his nearest rivals.

Bowe used only three laps in the 20 minute session to set a stunning 2m19.1430s to secure his second TCM Bathurst pole – the same weekend he’s celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Bathurst 1000 victory he shared with Dick Johnson.

The lap had another significant milestone – it’s average speed was the first TCM lap to crack the old-school ‘100mph’ barrier thanks to it’s average speed of 161km/hr.

Though Bowe was on pole by a substantial 1.9 seconds his four nearest rivals were closely matched and also lapped underneath Glenn Seton’s 2013 TCM pole record of 2m21.6s.

Andrew Miedecke (2m20.8) will start race one from second on the grid with Keith Kassulke just 0.02s behind in third place and in turn only 0.2s ahead of the Mopar Charger driven by Greg Crick.

Second third and fourth were covered by just 0.3s with four different brands represented in the top four once again.

The Sydney’s Cheapest Cars Falcon XB Coupe driven by Kim Jane (2m21.05s) grabbed fifth and will start race one alongside Jim Richards’ Shannons Falcon Sprint.

Mark King Brett Youlden Bill Pye and Jason Gomersall completed the top-10 with less than one second covering sixth through tenth positions in qualifying.

Comeback king Brad Tilley qualified 11th just in front of the similar GTHO falcon of Andrew Fisher.

The 29-car field escaped qualifying unscathed and as such will start race one – over seven laps – in good shape on Friday afternoon.

Races two and three – one each on Saturday and Sunday – will be broadcast live on the Seven network around Australia.

 

RESULTS: Qualifying TCM Mountain Masters Mount Panorama Bathurst.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Pos Car  Competitor/Team                Driver                   Vehicle              Cap   CL   Laps   Fastest...Lap        Gap1    18  Dunlop Super Dealers/Wilson Se John Bowe (VIC)          Mustang Trans Am     5600c         3     2 2:19.1430R2    95  Whiteline Transport Racing / L Andrew Miedecke (NSW)    Camaro SS            5800c         3     2 2:20.8204  0:01.67743    52  Outbound Racing / wheels.com.p Keith Kassulke (QLD)     Falcon XB Coupe      5800c         3     2 2:20.8354  0:01.69244    75  Mopar Performance              Greg Crick (TAS)         Charger E55          5570c         6     6 2:21.0551  0:01.91215    48  Sydneys Cheapest Cars          Kim Jane (VIC)           Falcon XB Coupe      5800c         4     2 2:21.1327  0:01.98976     1  Shannons Insurance             Jim Richards (VIC)       Falcon Sprint        4700c         4     3 2:23.0058  0:03.86287    85  Whiteline Transport Racing / K Mark King (QLD)          Camaro RS            5800c         5     4 2:23.3561  0:04.21318    56  Autolite Spark Plugs           Brett Youlden (VIC)      HQ Monaro            5800c         7     5 2:23.4928  0:04.34989     7  calga.biz                      Bill Pye (NSW)           Camaro               5800c         6     5 2:23.8296  0:04.686610   35  iseek Racing                   Jason Gomersall (QLD)    Torana SL/R 5000     5047c         6     3 2:23.8950  0:04.752011   28                                 Brad Tilley (NSW)        Falcon XY GT         5800c         5     2 2:24.4186  0:05.275612    9  Synergy Race Engines           Andrew Fisher (NSW)      Falcon XY GTHO       5800c         6     5 2:24.5576  0:05.414613   50  Flo-gineering                  Carey McMahon (VIC)      Torana SL/R 5000     5000c         6     3 2:24.5959  0:05.452914    3  Hercules Engines               Cameron Mason (NSW)      Mustang Fastback     5000c         5     4 2:24.6516  0:05.508615   88  TIFS - Warehousing & Distribut Tony Karanfilovski (NSW) Mustang Trans Am     5800c         6     5 2:24.7857  0:05.642716   11  Lion Mill Solutions            Adam Bressington (NSW)   Falcon XA GT         5768c         5     1 2:25.0595  0:05.916517   99  Outbound Racing / Treloar Rose Les Walmsley (VIC)       HQ Monaro            5810c         6     4 2:27.1416  0:07.998618   25  Freestones Transport/Freestone Paul Freestone (VIC)     Camaro SS            5800c         4     3 2:28.0843  0:08.941319   60  Tilleys Racing Equipment       Cameron Tilley (NSW)     HQ Monaro            5800c         4     2 2:28.5011  0:09.358120   33  SportsMed                      Greg Keene (SA)          911 RS               3600c         5     3 2:29.3946  0:10.251621   10  Sunliner RV                    Tony Hunter (VIC)        Monza 2+2            5000c         4     3 2:29.7800  0:10.637022   98  Thunder Road Racing Australia  William Vining (NSW)     Mustang Coupe        5000c         6     6 2:29.8806  0:10.737623    6  Chris Stillwell Racing         Sven Burchartz (VIC)     Mustang Trans Am     5000c         6     6 2:30.1753  0:11.032324   46  THD Motorsport                 Leo Tobin (VIC)          Boss Mustang         5000c         5     4 2:30.5361  0:11.393125   74  Lyndways Builders              Wayne Mercer (VIC)       Falcon XY GTHO       5800c         5     2 2:31.3825  0:12.239526    4  Skye Sands                     Rusty French (VIC)       911 RS               3600c         6     6 2:32.2747  0:13.131727   43  Treloar Roses / Mick Wilson Pl Mick Wilson (VIC)        Charger RT           4390c         5     3 2:39.3564  0:20.213428    5  Northern BM P/L                Phillip Showers (VIC)    Escort RS 1600       2000c         6     6 2:41.1986  0:22.055629   72  BMR Industries                 Bruce McLeod (NT)        Falcon XA Superbird  5000c         5     4 2:41.7755  0:22.6325