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Perth Super Sprint was a motor race for
V8 Supercars held from 1–3 May 2015. The event was held at
Barbagallo Raceway in
Wanneroo
Wanneroo is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Wanneroo.
Geography
As it is on the Swan Coastal Plain, the Wanneroo wetlands stretch parallel to the coastline and to the north and south of the suburb.
Education
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,
Western Australia, and consisted of two sprint races, each over a distance of and one endurance race over a distance of . It was the third round of fourteen in the
2015 International V8 Supercars Championship
The 2015 International V8 Supercars Championship (often simplified to the 2015 V8 Supercars Championship) was an FIA-sanctioned international auto racing series for V8 Supercars. It was the seventeenth running of the V8 Supercar Championship ...
.
On Saturday,
Prodrive Racing Australia
Tickford Racing (formerly known as Prodrive Racing Australia and Ford Performance Racing) is an Australian motor racing team which competes in the Supercars Championship. The team currently campaigns three Ford Mustangs, with their current drive ...
's
Chaz Mostert
Chaz Mostert (born 10 April 1992) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Repco Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 25 Holden ZB Commodore for Walkinshaw Andretti United. Mostert was the winner of the 2021 ...
scored his first V8 Supercar pole position for Race 7, while teammate
Mark Winterbottom scored pole position for Race 8. Winterbottom took the lead from Mostert at the start of Race 7 and did not look back, taking the first championship win for the
Ford FG X Falcon in V8 Supercars.
could only manage to finish 15th after starting 21st on the grid.
Winterbottom also won Race 8 from starting on pole, ahead of Whincup and
Fabian Coulthard
Fabian "Fabs" Coulthard (born 28 July 1982) is a British-born New Zealand professional race car driver, currently competing in the Repco Supercars Championship, driving as an endurance co-driver for Chaz Mostert with Walkinshaw Andretti United ...
.
Mostert scored another pole position for Race 9 on Sunday, with Winterbottom starting alongside, completing a weekend front-row lockout for Prodrive Racing Australia.
With
Craig Lowndes looking towards his 100th career race win, it was looking certain after compulsory pit stops were completed. With 10 laps remaining,
Erebus Motorsport's
Will Davison was quick to catch up to Lowndes and managed to pass him with 5 laps remaining. Davison took the race win – his first since the 2013 Sucrogen Townsville 400 and his first in a Mercedes-Benz.
Lowndes held on to second place, while Coulthard scored another podium finish.
Results
Race 7
Race 8
Race 9
Championship standings
* After Race 9 of 36
;Drivers' Championship standings
;Teams' Championship standings
*
Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
References
{{ATCC rounds 2010–2019
Barbagallo
May 2015 sports events in Australia