Event Recap: 2018 Supercars Championship from Adelaide 500, Race #2 (March 4, 2018)

Event statistics following the second race of the 2018 Supercars Championship season, Race #2 of the Adelaide 500 at the Adelaide Grand Prix Circuit in South Australia.

Shane van Gisbergen made it two-for-two, winning from the pole position to sweep the event for the second consecutive season. David Reynolds claimed second, ahead of Garth Tander.

Race Statistics

Adelaide 500 (Race #2)

Adelaide Grand Prix Circuit – Adelaide, South Australia

- Winner (starting position): Shane van Gisbergen (1st)

- Top Five: Shane van Gisbergen, David Reynolds, Garth Tander, Chaz Mostert, Cameron Waters

- Full Results: Shane van Gisbergen, David Reynolds, Garth Tander, Chaz Mostert, Cameron Waters, James Courtney, Craig Lowndes, Scott Pye, Michael Caruso, Scott McLaughlin, Tim Slade, Will Davison, Mark Winterbottom, Rick Kelly, Nick Percat, Fabian Coulthard, Anton de Pasquale, Simona de Silvestro, James Golding, Richie Stanaway, Todd Hazelwood, Jack LeBrocq, Tim Blanchard, Lee Holdsworth, Andre Heimgartner, Jamie Whincup

- Laps Completed: 78

- Race Leaders: 6

- Laps Led: Shane van Gisbergen (32), Jamie Whincup (22), Scott McLaughlin (12), Scott Pye (6), David Reynolds (5), Anton de Pasquale (1)

- Pole Position: Shane van Gisbergen (1 minute, 19.5831 seconds)

- Hard Charger: Craig Lowndes (+10; 17th to 7th)

- Fastest Lap: Jamie Whincup (1 minute, 20.919 seconds)

- Margin of Victory: 0.825 seconds

- Car Count: 26

- Cars Entered: 26

- Cars Running at Finish: 25 (of 26; or 96 percent of the field)

- Drivers to Finish on Lead Lap: 20

- Cautions: None

- Average Speed: 139.445 kph/86.647 mph

- Lead Changes: 9

- Manufacturer Breakdown: Holden (14); Ford (8); Nissan (4)

Notes of Interest – Race/Weekend Recap

- This is Shane van Gisbergen’s second Supercars Championship victory of the season and the 26th of his career. He is four behind Dick Johnson for 10th all-time.

- Van Gisbergen has won at least two races in each of the last six seasons and seven of the last eight. The fewest races he’s won in a season was two (2011, 2013 and 2015). He won a season-high eight races in 2016.

- This is van Gisbergen’s fifth series victory at Adelaide and four straight. He won the second race of the 2013 season and swept the 2017 and 2018 races, all from the pole position. Each of his five Adelaide wins has come from the pole.

- In fact, 11 of van Gisbergen’s 26 victories have come from the pole.

- Van Gisbergen has led 198 laps at Adelaide in 25 career races.

- Van Gisbergen’s pole position was his 20th of his career. He’s earned at least two pole positions in each of the last three seasons and five out of the last six seasons, and at least one pole in each of the last six seasons.

- Holden extended its consecutive victory total at Adelaide to 15, having won every race at the track since first race of 2013. Overall, Holden has won 29 of the 42 Supercars Championship races at Adelaide.

- David Reynolds notched a career-best second-place finish at Adelaide, his first career podium at the track and three top-five finish, including second of the weekend. He was fourth in the first race of the weekend. Overall, it gave Reynolds his 16th career podium, and at least one podium in seven consecutive seasons.

- Garth Tander earned third, also a season-best, and a podium for the 20 consecutive seasons, dating back to his second season on the circuit in 1999. Tander only recorded one podium in 2017, matching his lowest total since 2001. Tander’s third-place finish gave Holden a podium sweep, it’s first at Adelaide since the first race of the 2016 season.

- For Tander, it was his 149th career podium and his 11th at Adelaide. His last podium at Adelaide came in Race #3 in 2016.

- Chaz Mostert was fourth, his fourth top-five finish at Adelaide. He’s earned at least one top-five finish at Adelaide in four straight seasons. Mostert also drove the top-finishing Ford.

- Mostert’s teammate, Cameron Waters, completed the top five. It marked Waters’ first top-five finish of the season and third in seven career races at Adelaide.

- Others recording season-best finishes included Craig Lowndes (7th); Scott Pye (8th); Michael Caruso (9th); Tim Slade (11th); Rick Kelly (14th); Fabian Coulthard (16th); Anton de Pasquale (17th); James Golding (19th); Richie Stanaway (20th); Todd Hazelwood (21st); and Tim Blanchard (23rd).

- Anton de Pasquale led his first career lap in the series (Lap 45).

- Jamie Whincup’s streak of 136 consecutive races running at the finish came to an end when his car’s transmission failed. The streak dated back to the first race at the Gold Coast 600 on October 26, 2013. It was also the first time in 33 races at Adelaide that he failed to finish.

- A total of 15 drivers improved on their starting position in the race.

- The next race weekend will be March 22-25, at Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit in Melbourne with four races that make up the Melbourne 400. The weekend is part of the Formula 1 World Championship weekend.