2016 Clipsal 500 Adelaide
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| Round 1 of 14 in the 2016 International V8 Supercars Championship | ||||||||||||||
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| Date | 4–6 March 2016 | |||||||||||||
| Location | Adelaide, South Australia | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Adelaide Street Circuit | |||||||||||||
| Weather | Friday: fine Saturday: fine Sunday: fine morning, afternoon thunderstorms |
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| Race 1 | |||
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| Distance | 39 laps | 125 km | |
| Pole position |
Scott Pye DJR Team Penske |
1:20.0168 | |
| Winner |
Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering |
56:43.1447 | |
| Race 2 | |||
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| Distance | 39 laps | 125 km | |
| Pole position |
Chaz Mostert Rod Nash Racing |
1:20.3724 | |
| Winner |
James Courtney Holden Racing Team |
59:37.1268 | |
| Race 3 | |||
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| Distance | 48 laps | 155 km | |
| Pole position |
Fabian Coulthard DJR Team Penske |
1:21.3006 | |
| Winner |
Nick Percat Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport |
1:49:03.6598 | |
The 2016 Clipsal 500 Adelaide was a motor racing event for V8 Supercars, held on the weekend of 4 to 6 March 2016. The event was held at the Adelaide Street Circuit in Adelaide, South Australia, and consisted of two races of 125 kilometres and one race of 155 km in length. It was the first event of fourteen in the 2016 International V8 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 1, 2 and 3 of the season. The event was the 18th running of the Adelaide 500.
The three races were won by Jamie Whincup, James Courtney and Nick Percat respectively. Percat's win was the first for Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport and came in the midst of controversy surrounding pit stop regulations. The third race was also affected by adverse weather conditions, which caused the race to be red flagged, and eventually finished 30 laps short of the scheduled length. Michael Caruso, despite not winning a race, left the event with the championship lead.
The event saw two drivers make their full-time driving debut in the series: Cameron Waters, the winner of the 2015 V8 Supercars Dunlop Series, competed for Prodrive Racing Australia, replacing Chaz Mostert who was moved into the customer Rod Nash Racing car; and Aaren Russell, another former Dunlop Series driver, who drove for Erebus Motorsport. The event was Mostert's first since the 2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, where injuries sustained in a major crash in qualifying forced him to miss the final four events of 2015.Nick Percat also returned from injury, having missed the final two events of 2015 with a foot infection.
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