The 2013 Clipsal 500 Adelaide was a

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held on 2 and 3 March 2013. The event was held at the

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, and consisted of two races of two hundred and fifty kilometres in length. It was the first round of the

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, and marked the racing debuts of the

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, and

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, all of which were entered in the series under the brand-new "Car of the Future" regulations;

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continued to use the FG Falcon model raced in previous years, but built to Car of the Future specifications.

Report

Race 1

Qualifying

Holden VF Commodore of Shane van Gisbergen 2013

Holden VF Commodore of Jamie Whincup 2013

Ford FG Falcon of Mark Winterbottom 2013

Notes: * —

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and

Shane van Gisbergen Shane Robert van Gisbergen (born 9 May 1989) is a New Zealand racing driver in the Supercars Championship racing in the Number 97 Holden ZB Commodore car for Triple Eight Race Engineering. With three Supercars Championship wins (2016, 2021, 202 ...

both set lap times that were identical to the ten-thousandth of a second. As Lowndes had set his laptime before Van Gisbergen, he was awarded provisional pole.

Top 10 Shootout

Race

Race 2

Qualifying

Race

Championship standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings ;Teams' Championship standings * Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

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