HOT SHOTS: Fire it up.

The 2025 Supercars season fired up – literally – at Sydney Motorsport Park.

Jimmy Golding was into the second phase of his day in his Premiair Camaro when a fuel fitting failure triggered a blaze. He was able to drive the final three corners to the safety and extinguishers in pitlane, before a long night of work by his team to get the car back in shape.

"Luckily I got onto the extinguisher inside of the car quick and got it back into pit lane close to more extinguishers and people that could help extinguish it," Golding said.

Predictably, he missed the 'happy hour' timed runs on fresh Dunlop tyres at the end of the day and was slowest on the time sheets, but his team-mate Richie Stanaway was solid in 14th.

The fastest lap of the day was a 1 minute 30.1027 by reigning Supercars champion Will Brown for Red Bull Racing, ahead of Ryan Wood on 1:30.5106 and Cam Waters on 1:30.5307 in their Ford Mustangs.

"It's very hard because there's not a lot to take from three quarters of today. It was literally running on last year's tires that are old and, at Sydney Motorsport Park, there's a lot of degradation so you're never sure where you're at," said Brown.

"I'm feeling positive after that last session. I think we've got good green tire pace. It's just working out what the new tire's going to do over a race run. Biggest thing is about qualifying well always. So hopefully we can do that."

The other mishap was a crash by Aaron Love, who had brake dramas in his Blanchard team Mustang and hit the wall at Turn 2.

The official times from Supercars at the end of the test day are: