The compact Symmons Plains layout will greet the 25-car Supercars field with a significantly different challenge to Sydney Motorsport Park, which opened the season earlier this month.
Gone are SMP’s long, sweeping corners, with Symmons all about two long straights and the tightest hairpin in Australia.
But while the two circuits are remarkably different, it’s the SMP race winners that head into the Symmons weekend as favourites.
The standout favourite has to be reigning champion Shane van Gisbergen, based purely on Triple Eight’s remarkable form at the Launceston circuit over the years.
The Triple Eight squad has won 13 of the 17 races held a Symmons Plains since 2014, putting van Gisbergen in the box seat to lead the way this weekend.
However there’s no guarantee that he’ll have everything his own way. Series leader Chaz Mostert was a winner at Symmons last year for Walkinshaw Andretti United, and the squad looks to have made plenty of gains since then.
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