'Ridiculous' Bathurst lap leaves legend stunned

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Ford operator Cam Waters has topped the opening signifier league for the Bathurst 1000, and successful an bonzer co-incidence, recorded the nonstop aforesaid clip arsenic helium did successful the corresponding league past year.

Waters stopped the clocks successful 2:05.0233, a fraction quicker than 2014 champion Chaz Mostert, with Will Davison third.

James Courtney, Mark Winterbottom and Tim Slade rounded retired the apical six, successful a comparatively incident-free opening session.

But it was Waters' clip that was the astir singular infinitesimal of the session.

"Check this out, this is perfectly ridiculous," Neil Crompton said successful commentary.

"Last year, signifier one, Waters, 2:05.0233.

"Cam Waters has conscionable duplicated the nonstop aforesaid time, to the 4th decimal point, that helium did astatine the aforesaid clip past year.

"That's ridiculous."

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Mark Skaife, a six-time victor of the race, was arsenic dumbfounded.

"Unbelievable. Never seen thing similar it. That is extraordinary," helium said.

Macauley Jones deed problems aft conscionable 5 minutes, pulling implicit successful his smoking Holden arsenic helium made the ascent retired of The Cutting.

Initial suspicions centred connected the engine, though it was aboriginal revealed to beryllium a powerfulness steering issue.

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Practice 1 times:

1. Cam Waters/James Moffat (Ford) - 2:05.023

2. Chaz Mostert/Lee Holdsworth (Holden) - 2:05.107

3. Will Davison/Alex Davison (Ford) - 2:05.139

4. James Courtney/Thomas Randle (Ford) - 2:05.368

5. Mark Winterbottom/Michael Caruso (Holden) - 2:05.398

6. Tim Slade/Tim Blanchard (Ford) - 2:05.411

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