Qualifying and Top Ten Shootout for Race 31; Crazy weather set to cause chaos, as Broc Feeney takes pole position.

Qualifying 1:

It was a very rainy morning at Sandown with early showers causing some drama. The rain looked set to cause an interesting session. The drivers are going to need to commit to the track and their drive capability. The rain will not make this track any easier.

The lap times are set to be dramatically longer with the wet conditions, but this may benefit a fair few of those drivers that often excel in those conditions.

Some of these drivers include, James Golding with a performance at Bathurst in the wet. James Courtney is another driver excelling in the conditions with 3 purple sectors.

With the rain slowly stopping now, the lap times have started to quicken. Teams begin to pit for fresher tyres, to enable the faster times as opposed to the old and warm tyres. Cam Hill and Ryan Wood having good times so far, compared to the field.

Now the conditions are beginning to improve, whilst still having showers. We might see some late showers in the last 3 minutes. This may make it harder to get a good times, especially for those close to the bottom of the list. This includes yesterday's race winner, Chaz Mostert, Will Brown and Broc Feeney and Cam Waters. They may prove lucky given how bad the conditions are.

It was near impossible to keep the cars on track, with little to no time improvements.

Macauley Jones managed to top the timing charts, followed by Ryan Wood and Cam Hill. All 7 of the drivers fighting for a spot in the final 4 were able to survive the downpour and make it through to qualifying 2.

Qualifying 2:

This session was going to be less rain and easier to qualify. But the big question was which tyre would be best to use as a way to get a good time overall. Only Will Brown and Chaz Mostert opted for the wet tyres, whilst the rest of the field went for slicks. Brown and Mostert pit and switched to the slick instead, given the wet tyre would not work in the same way as the other ones.

Broc Feeney and Matt Payne both jump to the top of the timing charts. Cam Hill drops it into the grass, with an odd spin, but wet conditions would allow that. The time that he had been setting initially before the spin, possibly would have ensured that he end up within the top 3.

Will Brown will need to work a lot more harder to get out of the bottom elimination area. Currently he sits 11th. It was not going to be easy with the everchanging conditions, especially the rain. But the uncertainty of rain here in Melbourne always leaves room to go again. Various drivers were able to work around this.

Rain is beginning yet again, times need to be set otherwise drivers may miss out. Will Brown has pit, may have missed his opportunity to get a better time. The rain falling is threatening good times from drivers, with both Brown and Randle currently out. These are 2 of our top 7 trying to get as many points as possible.

Will Brown with another tough break, starting 17th, after declaring that the track was getting too wet and the times were not going to improve. But, drivers on track were able to find their best areas to gain time on track, even with minor rain. This makes it a tough race from this position but not impossible, given where Brown started in yesterday's race.

Top Ten Shootout:

Bryce Fullwood is the first to go out, currently its not an easy ask, especially with the rain beginning to bucket down, unfortunately he loses it towards the end of the lap and that is it for his lap.

Cam Waters is up next with a warmer tyre on the car. Currently he had two green sectors, but he managed to keep it on track. It was so hard with the conditions and being forced to tip-toe around track.

Chaz Mostert is next, and with a wet tyre on, this might be easier to control. It is slippery and with 2 green sectors this would be a good time for him. A much easier time, but rain beginning to fall more and more will make this harder.

Broc Feeney brings out a new wet tyre, might not be an easy tyre initially but should begin to warm quickly. He keeps it on track with that, but lots of sliding going on with this lap. He manages to take the top spot, with a much faster time of a 1:13.7141.

Cam Hill opts for a new wet tyre, but with an early error this might be a tough lap. He runs wide at the first corner, the corner that currently is not as wet. He is able to keep it together for the moment, within the final corners and last sector especially. He drops to the bottom of the times unfortunately with a 1:16.4890.

Thomas Randle struggling with the early corners, going wide in turn one, and off the track in turn 2/3. The rain is making this difficult for the remaining runners. He ended up with a very slow time of a 1:18.9. It was a very tough lap with the changing conditions.

Matt Payne is next and recently won the Bathurst 1000 in the very wet conditions. Better conditions for Payne as he negotiates through the first half of the track. Lots of spray from the back end of the track, with lots of rain and standing water. That was a solid time of a 1:17.0444.

Kai Allen is the young driver, attemping to prove himself and the potential this weekend. Turn 1 was very easy for him, even the first sector was easy. He was able to maintain it on track. He completes the lap easily, with a 1:15.8227.

Ryan Wood is looking to replicate his lap from yesterday with a pole position result. This lap looks easier and better to maintain for the young driver. Wood with a good time, just behind his teammate with a 1:14.4116.

Whilst Wood was going on his lap, Thomas Randle's lap was invalidated so unfortunately he will start from the back of the top 10.

Anton De Pasquale is the final driver to go. So far he managed the car well, its close between Feeney set time and this time by De Pasquale. The back end of the track is damp still, but he is able to remain on the track and within touching distance of the pole position time. A great time from De Pasquale, but ultimately Broc Feeney takes the pole position for race 31.