Brodie Kostecki admits he's still haunted by a "pretty big lesson" taught to him by Supercars heavyweight Shane van Gisbergen at the Bathurst 1000.

Kostecki will take a big step towards pulling off back-to-back Bathurst 1000 wins if he turns his provisional pole into the real deal in Saturday's top-10 shootout.

The Dick Johnson Racing star set a new Gen3 qualifying record at Mount Panorama on Friday to lead the final 10, putting down a lap time of two minutes and 4.030 seconds.

Should Kostecki triumph in the shootout, he will join Peter Brock and Allan Moffat as the third driver in history to snare three consecutive poles at the Great Race.

But Kostecki said he won't get ahead of himself, still thinking of when he was upstaged as pole-sitter by 2023 winner Van Gisbergen off the startin

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