Home of the Tasmania Devil (ex-home to the Tasmania Tiger), and most importantly host of Round 4 of the 2023 Supercars Championship. The Bulls are heading over the Bass Strait to Tasmania next. The championship is set to head to Symmons Plains raceway this weekend for the NED Whiskey Tasmania SuperSprint.
Last year the team achieved some great results, including BFeen’s first podium finish in the main game and a SVG clean sweep, achieving the top podium position across all three-races. Looking to keep the good times rolling (literally), the team has been working hard analysing the data from Perth to get the cars prepped to hit the track for a successful round for 2023.
Broc Feeney – Car #88
“I’ve got good memories of Tassie. It’s where I got my first podium in the main game.
“Tassie is similar to Perth in the sense that it’s a short track which means the times are super tight. It’s been a successful track for Triple Eight in the past, but these new cars are quite different as we’re all still learning. So, it will be interesting to see if it carries over, but I’m just looking forward to going racing again.
“The whole category is still learning so much about these cars, but hopefully we can keep the momentum rolling from Perth. We finished very strong in Perth, and certainly made gains on the Sunday, so that shows just how hard the team are working to make those changes to the cars to put us at the front. Hopefully we can keep the good results going for Tassie.”
Shane van Gisbergen – Car #97
“The track is an easy one on paper, but it can actually be quite technical and difficult. The team usually perform pretty well there, so hopefully we can keep this going this season.
“There aren’t a lot of corners at this track. Only three of them, but each corner is different. The set up of the car has to be comprised in a way that will help suit all of them, and of course, then making sure you get down the straights. There are a lot of different parts that need to come together.
“Coming from Perth, I think our qualifying results show that we need to work on the consistency in qualifying. I mean one minute Broc was running at the back and next he’s up front in pole killing everybody. The team’s working hard to figure out how we can find that consistency, so for Tassie we’ll see if we can improve this.”
Current Championship Standings
Driver Championship
SVG – 3rd (648 points)
BFeen – 5th (564 points)
Teams Championship Standings – 2nd (1217 points)
