Triple Eight label first shakedown a ”huge success”

Triple Eight Race Engineering has labeled their first shakedown of all three cars ahead of the 2018 Supercars championship season start in Adelaide a huge success, with the team leaving the circuit earlier than planned.

“It was very positive today. We still have a lot of work to do in understanding the package we have. It’s very different visually, and performance-wise it will give us different outputs so we need to make sure we optimise the package moving forward,” said Jamie Whincup’s race engineer David Cauchi.

“We didn’t have any major issues, like in the past, so it allowed us to use the day learning instead of spending that time diagnosing major problems.”

Jamie Whincup and Shane van Gisbergen took part in the 19-lap shakedown, with van Gisbergen driving Lowndes’ car.

The 2018 Supercars championship season starts on March 3-4 with the Adelaide 500.