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He has found plenty of speed in practice but Shane van Gisbergen is still chasing more as he closes in on a maiden Supercars title in Sydney.The Holden driver set a new lap record in the last of two sessions on Friday in sweltering heat at the Olympic Park circuit.His time of 1min 27.07secs was nearly 0.3 secs faster than Red Bull Racing teammate Jamie Whincups mark set in 2011.Whincup was also under record time and finished third quickest.It came as little surprise, though, with teams allowed to use soft tyres - which have more grip - in practice for the first time.Today was about getting the car fast and comfortable, and we managed to achieve that, the Kiwi said.Theres a few little things to tweak, but were in a good position.Van Gisbergen is 119 points clear of Whincup in the series standings and is in the box seat to take out his maiden Supercars championship this weekend.A total of 300 points is on offer over the two-race, season-ending round - the first starting late Saturday afternoon.Its obviously not done, the championship. It still can be lost on Saturday, van Gisbergen said.Our objective for tomorrow is to qualify up front, stay out of trouble and see how it goes.Van Gisbergen, with a reputation of being a gung-ho driver, said he had no plans of taking it easy out on the track this weekend in a bid to stay out of trouble and cruise his way to the 2016 crown.If you need to conserve at some point, I guess I will - but Im not just going to pull over and let people past.Whincup said the conditions were difficult in the two practice sessions, which were both interrupted by red flags to clear cars from the track.It was hard work out there, the six-time champion said.The car was pretty ordinary at the end there.It was a frustrating start to Mark Winterbottoms final weekend with the No.1 sticker on his car.The reigning champions Ford suffered an electrical issue inside the first few minutes of the opening session, limiting his time on track, and was only 16th quickest in the second run.A number of drivers felt the wrath of the concrete-lined track, including Holden veteran Craig Lowndes, Nissans Michael Caruso and Dale Wood, Chris Pither in a Ford and the Commodore of Shae Davis.Qualifying begins just after midday on Saturday, followed by the race at 3.45pm. 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Incidentally, they havent made more than two 300-plus totals at any other venue in Sri Lanka.1998 Last time two of Australias top three batsmen scored centuries in a Test innings in Asia - against Pakistan in Peshawar. The tons by Marsh and Smith is just the fourth such instance for Australia in Asia and first in Sri Lanka.129 Runs accumulated by Australia openers, apart from Marsh, in this series in 11 innings. Marsh scored more than that aggregate in his single innings. There was no half-century by any other Australia opener before Marsh in this series.92.50 Marshs average in Tests in Sri Lanka, in four innings, with two centuries and a half-century. Before his 130 in this Test, he had made 141, on his Test debut, in Pallekele and 81 & 18 at SSC in the 2011 series. Apart from Sri Lanka, Marsh hasnt played in any other country in Asia.0 Test centuries for Smith in Asia before scoring 119 in this match. In 12 innings in the continent, he had made four half-centuries including two scores in nineties. With this century, his average in Asia has increased to 44.15 from 37.91. He has now scored centuries against six of the seven teams he has played against; his best against Pakistan is 97.10.15 Average partnership of Australias last four wickkets in this series, their second-lowest in any series with 20 or more partnerships in the last 100 years.dddddddddddd In their first innings of this match, the last four wickets could add only 26 runs. In the last Tests first innings also their last four wickets added just 26 and in the second innings of the first Test of this series, they aggregated 21 runs.64.90 Percentage of runs in Australias innings that came from the second wicket alone, which is the highest share from a single partnership when Australia have been bowled out by Sri Lanka. The previous highest was 60.53% in Galle in 1999 in which their opening stand added 138 out of 228 runs in the innings. In Sri Lankas first innings of this match, 59.43% runs came from the sixth-wicket partnership between Dinesh Chandimal and Dhananjaya de Silva.6/81 Rangana Heraths figures in the first innings - second-best by a Sri Lanka spinner in the first innings against Australia. Muttiah Muralitharan took 6 for 59 in Galle in 2003-04. These are Heraths second-best figures against Australia behind his 7 for 157 at this same venue in 2011. This is the fourth consecutive Test against Australia in which Herath has taken four or more wickets in the opponents first innings.25 Five-wicket hauls for Herath in Tests - joint seventh-most by a bowler. Wasim Akram, Harbhajan Singh and Dale Steyn also have 25 five-fors. All these five-wicket hauls for Herath have come since 2009. In this period, no other bowler has taken even 20 such hauls.48 Marshs average in Tests outside Australia which is about 43% better than his average in Australia. He has made 720 runs in 16 innings away and 504 in 15 innings at home. Three of his four centuries have also come outside Australia. ' ' '