Ford edges out Erebus V8 trio

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Reynolds topped the times at Ipswich, heading a trio of Mercedes. Source: Mark Horsburgh / AAP

DAVID Reynolds continued his stellar run of form to top Friday V8 Supercars practice at Queensland Raceway, heading the Mercedes trio of Erebus Motorsport.

With the Ipswich 360 kicking off with two 75 minute practice sessions, Reynolds came home strong with new rubber to announce his weekend intentions as Erebus Motorsport rose from the ashes with a trio of quick times.

Belted so far this season as they come to terms with their all-new machines, the upstart Mercedes outfit showed they are firmly on the rise with Tim Slade, Lee Holdsworth and Maro Engel stealing the next three places on the timesheets behind Reynolds.

The team owned by billionaire Westfiled's heiress Betty Saunders-Klimenko charged through the second session with new soft tyres and were only denied a practice sweep by Reynolds' last ditch charge.

The solid pace has given the team validation of their efforts as they try to match the big guns of the sport in the V8 arms race.

"It was a very good day for us,'' second-placed Slade said.

"We actually put on a fresh set of tyres at the end and went slower so we have a bit of work to do tonight. We need to work out what that was but we can also look at it as being a good thing because our old tyres were fast.

"I guess we have been in the top ten in the last couple of races and this weekend there is no reason why we shouldn't be there again. We tested here last week and it was very productive. I don't want to predict to much but it would be nice to carry on with our form and even go better.''

Holdsworth was equally confident of carrying his practice speed into today's race and end his poor run of results.

"I am confident of getting into the top ten," Holdsworth said.

"I was confident of getting in the top ten at the last couple of rounds. We have gained some speed and the team has put a lot of hard work in to get these gains. I haven't been able to put it all together and get the right set-up for qualifying and it has hurt.

"I need to improve there and not get caught up in trouble."

With the likes of Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes failing to fire a genuine shot, Reynolds found the top of the leader board and is hoping to convert his practice pace into the first race victory of his career.

"Hopefully I can get that win,'' Reynolds said.

"I had a pretty good car in Townsville on the Sunday but didn't have the strategy of HRT. I have missed a couple of opportunities but we are always trying and always trying new things. I want to win races but we just haven't got there yet.''

Reynolds admitted his practice speed was thanks to tyres he saved in Townsville when he did not finish.

"100 percent of the speed today was from that,'' Reynolds said.

"We saved our soft tyres from the Sunday race and we knew we would be quick here.''

Lowndes claimed he had a good car despite finishing back in 20th place.

"It's been an interesting day,'' Lowndes said.

"We actually used three sets of tyres. We used the hard set to begin with, we had two other sets which were soft. We went through our normal program changing things.

"The car actually changed more in balance in the tyre life, than what it did instead of the car setup. But all in all, not too bad. The car balance in the end wasn't too bad, we just didn't have the grip level in the tyre to match it, so we're not too concerned at this stage, but of course sitting at 20th is never a good feeling.

"Tomorrow we've got an opportunity to make amends for it. The guys at the top of the tree were using brand new sets of tyres, which we will probably opt to tomorrow to see where we are, but other than that I'm pretty happy.''

The V8s have one final practice session at 10:15am EST, followed by qualifying at 1:30pm ahead of the weekend's first race at 3:40pm.

  TIMES - V8 Supercars, Queensland Raceway - Practice 1 (75 min)  
  Pos Driver                Car          Time       Gap1   Tim Slade             Erebus       1:10.2188  2   Lee Holdsworth        Erebus       1:10.2755  0:00.05673   Scott Pye             Holden       1:10.3553  0:00.13654   Will Davison          Ford         1:10.3923  0:00.17355   James Courtney        Holden       1:10.4162  0:00.19746   Jamie Whincup         Holden       1:10.4737  0:00.25497   Scott McLaughlin      Holden       1:10.4829  0:00.26418   Mark Winterbottom     Ford         1:10.4845  0:00.26579   Alex Premat           Holden       1:10.6321  0:00.413310  David Wall            Holden       1:10.6333  0:00.414511  Jason Bright          Holden       1:10.6776  0:00.458812  Fabian Coulthard      Holden       1:10.6963  0:00.477513  Jonathon Webb         Holden       1:10.8027  0:00.583914  David Reynolds        Ford         1:10.8029  0:00.584115  Rick Kelly            Nissan       1:10.8657  0:00.646916  Craig Lowndes         Holden       1:10.8811  0:00.662317  Dean Fiore            Holden       1:10.9380  0:00.719218  Chaz Mostert          Ford         1:10.9754  0:00.756619  Russell Ingall        Holden       1:10.1342  0:00.915420  Maro Engel            Erebus       1:11.3408  0:01.122021  Garth Tander          Holden       1:11.4409  0:01.222122  Tony D'Alberto        Holden       1:11.5097  0:01.290923  Alex Davison          Ford         1:11.5379  0:01.319124  Tim Blanchard         Ford         1:11.7064  0:01.487625  Todd Kelly            Nissan       1:11.8734  0:01.654626  James Moffat          Nissan       1:11.9802  0:01.761427  Michael Caruso        Nissan       1:12.2492  0:02.030428  Shane van Gisbergen   Holden       1:14.7827  0:04.5639  
  TIMES - V8 Supercars, Queensland Raceway - Practice 2 (75 min)  
  Pos Driver                Car          Time       Gap1   David Reynolds        Ford         1:09.59262   Lee Holdsworth        Erebus       1:09.6531  0:00.06053   Tim Slade             Erebus       1:09.7750  0:00.18244   Maro Engel            Erebus       1:09.8239  0:00.23135   Fabian Coulthard      Holden       1:09.8833  0:00.29076   David Wall            Holden       1:10.0002  0:00.40767   Will Davison          Ford         1:10.0415  0:00.44898   Jason Bright          Holden       1:10.0416  0:00.44909   Alex Davison          Ford         1:10.1011  0:00.508510  Chaz Mostert          Ford         1:10.1296  0:00.537011  Mark Winterbottom     Ford         1:10.2008  0:00.608212  Alex Premat           Holden       1:10.2155  0:00.622913  Jamie Whincup         Holden       1:10.2296  0:00.637014  James Moffat          Nissan       1:10.2585  0:00.665915  James Courtney        Holden       1:10.2772  0:00.684916  Dean Fiore            Holden       1:10.3114  0:00.718817  Scott McLaughlin      Holden       1:10.3379  0:00.745318  Russell Ingall        Holden       1:10.3440  0:00.751419  Garth Tander          Holden       1:10.3776  0:00.785020  Craig Lowndes         Holden       1:10.4117  0:00.819121  Scott Pye             Holden       1:10.5094  0:00.916822  Rick Kelly            Nissan       1:10.5228  0:00.930223  Michael Caruso        Nissan       1:10.5336  0:00.941024  Todd Kelly            Nissan       1:10.5507  0:00.958125  Shane van Gisbergen   Holden       1:10.7810  0:01.188426  Tim Blanchard         Ford         1:10.8247  0:01.232127  Jonathon Webb         Holden       1:10.9219  0:01.329328  Tony D'Alberto        Holden       1:11.0157  0:01.4231  

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