The 2017 Tyrepower Tasmania SuperSprint was a motor racing event for the Supercars Championship, held on the weekend of 7 to 9 April 2017. The event was held at Symmons Plains Raceway in Launceston, Tasmania, and was scheduled to consist of one race of 120 kilometres and one race of 200 kilometres in length. It was the second event of fourteen in the 2017 Supercars Championship and hosted Races 3 and 4 of the season. The event was the 45th running of the Tasmania SuperSprint.

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Shane van Gisbergen entered the event as the championship leader ahead of Fabian Coulthard and James Courtney.

Race 3 Race three began in damp conditions. Polesitter Scott McLaughlin had a slow getaway from pole position and was rounded up by Chaz Mostert and Shane van Gisbergen off the start. On lap two, Fabian Coulthard made contact with Rick Kelly on the exit of turn three, slowing up Garth Tander (who was behind Kelly), who in turn was hit by Cam Waters and subsequently spun, causing a chain reaction crash involving Tim Blanchard, James Courtney, Will Davison, Simona de Silvestro, Taz Douglas, James Moffat, Nick Percat, Scott Pye, Alex Rullo and Tim Slade. The race was immediately red-flagged and of the cars involved only Coulthard, de Silvestro and Waters returned to the grid (Coulthard and Waters) or the pit-lane (de Silvestro). The race was suspended for 45 minutes before the field completed two more laps under the Safety Car before the race was declared under time-certain conditions, with van Gisbergen winning the race after passing Mostert before the incident occurred. McLaughlin finished down in 14th having accidentally driven into the pit-lane as opposed to the grid in the red-flag period. Points were initially awarded to the fifteen classified finishers but were later rescinded.

Results Race 3 Qualifying Driver Team Car Time 1 17 Scott McLaughlin DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 0:57.4178 2 55 Chaz Mostert Rod Nash Racing Ford FG X Falcon 0:57.8003 3 97 Shane van Gisbergen Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 0:57.8153 4 9 David Reynolds Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 0:57.8951 5 88 Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 0:57.9109 6 888 Craig Lowndes Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 0:57.9444 7 99 Dale Wood Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 0:57.9901 8 56 Jason Bright Britek Motorsport Ford FG X Falcon 0:58.0375 9 7 Todd Kelly Nissan Motorsport Nissan Altima L33 0:58.0512 10 5 Mark Winterbottom Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 0:58.1741 11 12 Fabian Coulthard DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 0:58.1922 12 14 Tim Slade Brad Jones Racing Holden VF Commodore 0:58.2340 13 6 Cam Waters Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 0:58.2450 14 15 Rick Kelly Nissan Motorsport Nissan Altima L33 0:58.2471 15 21 Tim Blanchard Tim Blanchard Racing Holden VF Commodore 0:58.2766 16 33 Garth Tander Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 0:58.2773 17 8 Nick Percat Brad Jones Racing Holden VF Commodore 0:58.3178 18 34 James Moffat Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 0:58.4115 19 2 Scott Pye Walkinshaw Racing Holden VF Commodore 0:58.6161 20 18 Lee Holdsworth Team 18 Holden VF Commodore 0:58.6895 21 22 James Courtney Walkinshaw Racing Holden VF Commodore 0:58.7467 22 78 Simona de Silvestro Nissan Motorsport Nissan Altima L33 0:58.9291 23 62 Alex Rullo Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 0:59.0880 24 23 Michael Caruso Nissan Motorsport Nissan Altima L33 0:59.0996 25 19 Will Davison Tekno Autosports Holden VF Commodore 1:00.2153 EXC 3 Taz Douglas Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Holden VF Commodore Time excluded Source:

Race Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Points 1 97 4 54min 29.0032sec 3 2 88 4 +0.3952 5 3 888 4 +0.7230 6 4 9 4 +1.2641 4 5 55 4 +1.7370 2 6 56 4 +2.1496 8 7 5 4 +2.7013 10 8 99 4 +3.4304 7 9 7 4 +3.9659 9 10 6 4 +4.5085 13 11 12 4 +5.1666 11 12 18 4 +5.8930 20 13 23 4 +6.3654 24 14 17 4 +6.9807 1 15 78 4 +7.5535 22 15 1 Accident 14 Ret 14 1 Accident 12 Ret 33 1 Accident 16 Ret 8 1 Accident 17 Ret 21 Tim Blanchard Racing 1 Accident 15 Ret 34 1 Accident 18 Ret 2 1 Accident 19 Ret 22 1 Accident 21 Ret 62 1 Accident 23 Ret 19 1 Accident 25 Ret 3 1 Accident 26 As the completed race distance was less than 75% of its original designation, no points were awarded.

Race 4 Qualifying Driver Team Car Time 1 88 Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 0:58.3971 2 17 Scott McLaughlin DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 0:58.6678 3 55 Chaz Mostert Rod Nash Racing Ford FG X Falcon 0:58.7079 4 14 Tim Slade Brad Jones Racing Holden VF Commodore 0:58.8794 5 97 Shane van Gisbergen Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 0:58.9093 6 12 Fabian Coulthard DJR Team Penske Ford FG X Falcon 0:59.1030 7 7 Todd Kelly Nissan Motorsport Nissan Altima L33 0:59.1156 8 888 Craig Lowndes Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VF Commodore 0:59.1516 9 9 David Reynolds Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 0:59.1881 10 6 Cam Waters Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 0:59.1974 11 18 Lee Holdsworth Team 18 Holden VF Commodore 0:59.2207 12 5 Mark Winterbottom Prodrive Racing Australia Ford FG X Falcon 0:59.2281 13 23 Michael Caruso Nissan Motorsport Nissan Altima L33 0:59.2682 14 33 Garth Tander Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 0:59.4243 15 2 Scott Pye Walkinshaw Racing Holden VF Commodore 0:59.4861 16 8 Nick Percat Brad Jones Racing Holden VF Commodore 0:59.5786 17 56 Jason Bright Britek Motorsport Ford FG X Falcon 0:59.6093 18 99 Dale Wood Erebus Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 0:59.6364 19 34 James Moffat Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VF Commodore 0:59.7258 20 78 Simona de Silvestro Nissan Motorsport Nissan Altima L33 0:59.9941 21 21 Tim Blanchard Tim Blanchard Racing Holden VF Commodore 1:00.2586 - 62 Alex Rullo Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Holden VF Commodore No Time Source:http://racing.natsoft.com.au/645620798/object_603622.85Q/Result?24

Race Pos No. Driver Team Laps Time / Retired Grid Points 1 12 Fabian Coulthard DJR Team Penske 76 1hr 23min 36.5118sec 6 150 2 17 Scott McLaughlin DJR Team Penske 76 + 0.6906 s 2 138 3 88 Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering 76 + 1.1425 s 1 129 4 888 Craig Lowndes Triple Eight Race Engineering 76 + 1.5404 s 8 120 5 9 David Reynolds Erebus Motorsport 76 + 2.1798 s 9 111 6 6 Cam Waters Prodrive Racing Australia 76 + 2.8738 s 10 102 7 55 Chaz Mostert Rod Nash Racing 76 + 3.2336 s 3 96 8 14 Tim Slade Brad Jones Racing 76 + 4.5562 s 4 90 9 97 Shane van Gisbergen Triple Eight Race Engineering 76 + 4.8085 s 5 84 10 33 Garth Tander Garry Rogers Motorsport 76 + 5.3104 s 14 78 11 8 Nick Percat Brad Jones Racing 76 + 5.5128 s 16 72 12 2 Scott Pye Walkinshaw Racing 76 + 6.0487 s 15 69 13 5 Mark Winterbottom Prodrive Racing Australia 76 + 6.6048 s 12 66 14 99 Dale Wood Erebus Motorsport 76 + 7.5451 s 18 63 15 78 Simona de Silvestro Nissan Motorsport 76 + 7.9248 s 20 60 16 23 Michael Caruso Nissan Motorsport 75 + 1 lap 13 57 17 18 Lee Holdsworth Team 18 73 + 3 laps 11 54 18 7 Todd Kelly Nissan Motorsport 72 + 4 laps 7 51 19 34 James Moffat Garry Rogers Motorsport 70 + 6 laps 19 48 Ret 62 Alex Rullo Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport 62 Retired 22 Ret 21 Tim Blanchard Tim Blanchard Racing 41 Retired 21 Ret 56 Jason Bright Britek Motorsport 3 Retired 17 DNS 3 Taz Douglas Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Did Not Start DNS 15 Rick Kelly Nissan Motorsport Did Not Start DNS 19 Will Davison Tekno Autosports Did Not Start DNS 22 James Courtney Walkinshaw Racing Did Not Start Source:

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