2017 Tasmania SuperSprint

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

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 Cameron 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.[2] 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 Points were initially awarded to the fifteen classified finishers but were later rescinded.[3]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	97	Shane van Gisbergen	Triple Eight Race Engineering	4	54min 29.0032sec	3	‡
2	88	Jamie Whincup	Triple Eight Race Engineering	4	+0.3952	5
3	888	Craig Lowndes	Triple Eight Race Engineering	4	+0.7230	6
4	9	David Reynolds	Erebus Motorsport	4	+1.2641	4
5	55	Chaz Mostert	Rod Nash Racing	4	+1.7370	2
6	56	Jason Bright	Britek Motorsport	4	+2.1496	8
7	5	Mark Winterbottom	Prodrive Racing Australia	4	+2.7013	10
8	99	Dale Wood	Erebus Motorsport	4	+3.4304	7
9	7	Todd Kelly	Nissan Motorsport	4	+3.9659	9
10	6	Cameron Waters	Prodrive Racing Australia	4	+4.5085	13
11	12	Fabian Coulthard	DJR Team Penske	4	+5.1666	11
12	18	Lee Holdsworth	Team 18	4	+5.8930	20
13	23	Michael Caruso	Nissan Motorsport	4	+6.3654	24
14	17	Scott McLaughlin	DJR Team Penske	4	+6.9807	1
15	78	Simona de Silvestro	Nissan Motorsport	4	+7.5535	22
Ret	15	Rick Kelly	Nissan Motorsport	1	Accident	14
Ret	14	Tim Slade	Brad Jones Racing	1	Accident	12
Ret	33	Garth Tander	Garry Rogers Motorsport	1	Accident	16
Ret	8	Nick Percat	Brad Jones Racing	1	Accident	17
Ret	21	Tim Blanchard	Tim Blanchard Racing	1	Accident	15
Ret	34	James Moffat	Garry Rogers Motorsport	1	Accident	18
Ret	2	Scott Pye	Walkinshaw Racing	1	Accident	19
Ret	22	James Courtney	Walkinshaw Racing	1	Accident	21
Ret	62	Alex Rullo	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport	1	Accident	23
Ret	19	Will Davison	Tekno Autosports	1	Accident	25
Ret	3	Taz Douglas	Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport	1	Accident	26

^‡ As the completed race distance was less than 75% of its original designation, no points were awarded.