Brendan Lines

February 18, 2020

Supercar testing is underway at The Bend and just hours into the 2020 season Red Bull Holden are already flexing their muscle.

Image: Red Bull

Despite uncertainty off the track after GM announced Holden will be retired yesterday, car no.97 of Shane van Gisbergen and Garth Tander is top of the time sheets — van Gisbergen crushed the opposition in the opening session posting a 1:47:69 lap time.

At the four hour mark of testing and after 29 laps of testing, Tander posted a best time of 1:48:01.

Closet rival is Erebus driver Anton De Pasquale who sits .443 seconds adrift.

The fastest Mustang is Cam Waters with the fourth fastest time 1:49:01.

The feedback in the Red Bull garage is positive as Tander stepped out the car just an hour ago.

“Running through our program it seems that we are around where we expected to be.” Tander said.

“All the feedback has been pretty encouraging so far, obviously there has been a lot of technical changes and the team have done a really good job of understanding them before we even got here.”

Testing continues this afternoon at The Bend.