Shane van Gisbergen has completed a clean sweep at the NED Whisky Tasmania SuperSprint and sent an ominous warning to the rest of the field that he is out for a third Repco Supercars title in 2022.
The Red Bull Ampol Racing ace became the first driver to win all three races at a Symmons Plains weekend since Garth Tander in 2005.
After winning race 4 earlier today, the Kiwi also took home a maximum 105 points in Race 5, having set the fastest lap of the race.
“It’s been an awesome weekend,” commented van Gisbergen. ”Our pace wasn’t up to scratch in qualifying yesterday, and even though I’ve never been the best qualifier, Andrew (Edwards, race engineer) had some ideas which we tried today, and my car turned out to be awesome in both qualifying sessions.
“In the races, we had to do it the hard way to get into the lead, but the braking on my car was really good, and I was able to get some really cool passes under brakes.
“I couldn’t be happier walking away with two wins today. Although it was the perfect weekend points-wise, we always have things we need to improve on and there’s always things to get better at. Our procedures and management of qualifying could have been better over the weekend, and there’s a few more things we can look at before the Australian Grand Prix (AGP).
“The AGP has always been dominated by the Shell cars, and they’re going to be tough to beat, but that track is going to be epic to race at – I can’t wait.”
For second and third, Will Davison beat home his Shell Ford teammate Anton De Pasquale, who is now 69-points behind van Gisbergen who sits atop the Championship standings after two rounds.
It was van Gisbergen’s 58th career victory, and means he now sits outright fourth on the all-time win list behind Jamie Whincup (124 wins) Craig Lowndes (110) and Mark Skaife (90).
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