2016 Tyrepower Tasmania SuperSprint
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| Round 2 of 14 in the 2016 International V8 Supercars Championship | ||||||||||||||
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| Date | 1–3 April 2016 | |||||||||||||
| Location | Launceston, Tasmania | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Symmons Plains Raceway | |||||||||||||
| Weather | Friday: fine Saturday: fine Sunday: fine |
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| Race 1 | |||
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| Distance | 50 laps | 120 km | |
| Pole position |
Mark Winterbottom Prodrive Racing Australia |
51.1530 | |
| Winner |
Shane Van Gisbergen Triple Eight Race Engineering |
44:25.1871 | |
| Race 2 | |||
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| Distance | 84 laps | 200 km | |
| Pole position |
Mark Winterbottom Prodrive Racing Australia |
51.0773 | |
| Winner |
Will Davison Tekno Autosports |
1:20:51.7031 | |
The 2016 Tyrepower Tasmania SuperSprint was a motor racing event for V8 Supercars, held on the weekend of 1 to 3 April 2016. The event was held at Symmons Plains Raceway in Launceston, Tasmania, and consisted of one race of 120 kilometres and one race of 200 km in length. It was the second event of fourteen in the 2016 International V8 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 4 and 5 of the season. The event was the 44th running of the Tasmania SuperSprint.
Defending series champion Mark Winterbottom started from pole position in both races, but was unable to take victory in either race. Triple Eight Race Engineering teammates Shane Van Gisbergen and Jamie Whincup finished first and second in Race 4, ahead of Will Davison. Davison took victory in Race 5, passing both Van Gisbergen and Winterbottom in the closing laps after the latter pair went off the circuit due to oil dropped by Winterbottom's teammate Cameron Waters. Craig Lowndes finished second while Winterbottom recovered to take third. Van Gisbergen, after leading for most of the race, did not finish after getting stuck in a gravel trap. Davison's win elevated him to the championship lead, 15 points clear of Lowndes, with Whincup a further nine points behind in third.
The event was the first to feature the revised SuperSprint race format, which was introduced for the 2016 season. A single 120 km race was held on Saturday, with drivers required to make a pit stop to change tyres. The 120 km race replaces the pair of 60 km races which had been held on the Saturday of SuperSprint events in 2015. It was also the first event held at the circuit following upgrades which had taken place across December 2015 and January 2016, which included the installation of new concrete barriers on the inside of the circuit and the reconditioning of the gravel traps.
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