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May 21, 2016 | General

DOUGLAS ROLL CONTINUES WITH TWO WINTON WINS

Having won the opening round of the 2016 season at Sandown in April this year Douglas started from pole broke the lap record and won both races in cool but fine conditions today at Wintons Woodstock Supercars SuperSprint event in country Victoria.

Hes now just one victory away from becoming just the fifth driver in series history to sweep more than one Kumho Series round and extended his series lead in the process.

Douglas superb day started when he qualified his THR Developments VE Commodore on pole by 0.08s edging out round one polesitter Josh Smith in an intensely close session. The margin between the pair was the third closest in Kumho series qualifying history.

He then led from lights to flag in the opening race beating home Smith and Tyler Greenbury in a 12-lap affair.

He was headed briefly in race two when Smith jumped the start though the Brad Jones Racing driver quickly surrendered the position allowing Douglas back in front where he would remain for the remainder of the race.

Smith was penalised five seconds for his jumped start the penalty dropping him to third in the final results behind Greenbury.

The result delivered Greenbury his best result in his Kumho series campaign to date.

Jim Pollicina was another driver in the thick of the action today qualifying sixth before making his usual customary brilliant start to gain three places by turn one.

Unfortunately Pollicina ran wide at turn two and spun on his own ultimately finishing 11th in his ex-Tasman Motorsport Commodore.

He then stormed from that position to fourth by the end of the second race.

A strong day for former series champion Chris Smerdon saw the FG Falcon driver nab finishes of fourth and fifth respectively racing his way to the front of the field having only qualified 10th in the Matt Stone Racing-prepared car.

Bathurst driver Michael Anderson was a star performer in qualifying and race one: starting third and racing to fifth in the opening race. He was then caught up in a turn one incident early in the second race damage to the car caused while re-joining the track forcing him to pit lane and out.

Jason Heck finished sixth in both races having qualified ninth while Brendan Strong rebounded from a race one spin (after contact with Smerdon at turn five) to finish race two seventh.

Anthony Loscialpo Dean Kovasevich and Jack Sipp completed the top ten in race two.

Todays results mean the 15-lap feature race on Sunday will see Douglas start from pole with Smith alongside.

Greenbury is set to line up third with Chris Smerdon alongside with Heck Pollicina Strong Wright Sipp and Loscialpo completing the top-10.

Only four drivers Ryan Simpson Josh Hunter Terry Wyhoon and Liam McAdam have swept more than one round of the Kumho series since it was founded.

Round two of the 2016 Kumho Tyre V8 Touring Cars series concludes tomorrow at Winton with race three to be broadcast live on FOX Sports at 10:20am on Sunday May 22.

RACE 1

Pos Car  Competitor/Team                Driver                   Vehicle              Cap   CL Laps     Race.Time Fastest...Lap1    45  SA Racing Logist/THR Developmt Taz Douglas (VIC)        Commodore VE         5000       12    17:08.1322   9 1:24.5344R2    14  Brad Jones Racing              Joshua Smith (QLD)       Commodore VE2        5000       12    17:11.1072   5 1:24.9462r3    13  Image Racing/Lubrimaxx         Tyler Greenbury (QLD)    Ford Falcon FG       5000       12    17:18.2004   9 1:25.2868r4    39  Vectra Corp/Lubrimaxx          Chris Smerdon (SA)       Ford Falcon FG       5000       12    17:31.8643   2 1:26.1166r5    11  Kenwood Homes                  Michael Anderson (NSW)   Ford Falcon BF       5000       12    17:32.8370   3 1:25.5518r6     5  HaymansVirginia/JCH Electrical Jason Heck (QLD)         Ford Falcon BF       5000       12    17:35.4569  10 1:26.2088 7     6  501 Performance                David Wright (VIC)       Ford Falcon BF       5000       12    17:35.6472   6 1:25.7341r8    66  Unichip Dynomotive             Jack Sipp (QLD)          Commodore VE         5000       12    17:47.0618  10 1:27.1386 9    75  BSTRONG ELECTRICAL/Kirra Auto  Brendan Strong (NSW)     Commodore VZ         5000       12    17:55.8886   6 1:26.6688 10   88  Simon's Earthworks/WARLORD     Simon Emerzidis (NSW)    Commodore VZ         5000       12    17:57.5408   7 1:27.7640 11    7  MoComm M'sports Communication  Jim Pollicina (NSW)      Commodore VE         5000       12    18:01.7336   4 1:25.7093r12   37  Tempest Sol's Air & Mechanical Anthony Loscialpo (NSW)  Commodore VE         5000       12    18:16.8151   8 1:27.1956 13   25  Savs AutoElectric/Westco Equip Dean Kovacevich (WA)     Commodore VE         5000       12    18:20.0826  10 1:27.1473 14   17  Newton M'sport/PetewellEnginee Troy Stapleton (VIC)     Ford Falcon EL       5000       12    18:25.8832   9 1:28.1267 15   16  Image Racing/Lubrimaxx         Leigh Moran (VIC)        Ford Falcon BA       5000       11    17:15.1905   9 1:30.6901 DNF  18  Cavalier Homes                 Matt Chahda (VIC)        Ford Falcon BA       5000       11    16:10.6541   4 1:25.4926r

RACE 2

Pos Car  Competitor/Team                Driver                   Vehicle              Cap   CL Laps     Race.Time Fastest...Lap1    45  SA Racing Logist/THR Developmt Taz Douglas (VIC)        Commodore VE         5000       10    14:11.7109   8 1:24.3542R2    13  Image Racing/Lubrimaxx         Tyler Greenbury (QLD)    Ford Falcon FG       5000       10    14:18.3182   8 1:24.7498 3    14  Brad Jones Racing              Joshua Smith (QLD)       Commodore VE2        5000       10    14:18.4456   2 1:24.5556 4     7  MoComm M'sports Communication  Jim Pollicina (NSW)      Commodore VE         5000       10    14:32.6014   8 1:25.9395 5    39  Vectra Corp/Lubrimaxx          Chris Smerdon (SA)       Ford Falcon FG       5000       10    14:35.0746   9 1:26.4790 6     5  HaymansVirginia/JCH Electrical Jason Heck (QLD)         Ford Falcon BF       5000       10    14:35.5006   2 1:26.2446 7    75  BSTRONG ELECTRICAL/Kirra Auto  Brendan Strong (NSW)     Commodore VZ         5000       10    14:37.5987   4 1:26.4102 8    37  Tempest Sol's Air & Mechanical Anthony Loscialpo (NSW)  Commodore VE         5000       10    14:53.5218   8 1:26.5432 9    25  Savs AutoElectric/Westco Equip Dean Kovacevich (WA)     Commodore VE         5000       10    14:58.9318   9 1:27.6191 10   66  Unichip Dynomotive             Jack Sipp (QLD)          Commodore VE         5000       10    14:59.4716   9 1:26.5366 11    6  501 Performance                David Wright (VIC)       Ford Falcon BF       5000       10    15:05.7955  10 1:26.5760 12   17  Newton M'sport/PetewellEnginee Troy Stapleton (VIC)     Ford Falcon EL       5000       10    15:10.1626  10 1:28.8231 13   16  Image Racing/Lubrimaxx         Leigh Moran (VIC)        Ford Falcon BA       5000       10    15:29.6720   6 1:30.5270 14   88  Simon's Earthworks/WARLORD     Simon Emerzidis (NSW)    Commodore VZ         5000        9    14:27.6837   7 1:28.5851 DNF  11  Kenwood Homes                  Michael Anderson (NSW)   Ford Falcon BF       5000        1     1:33.2988   1 1:33.2988