Happy days ... Van Gisbergen ended a controversial weekend in style. Source: AAP
Tongues were wagging about Kiwi star Shane van Gisbergen before he had even arrived at the V8 Supercars season opener in Adelaide this weekend - for all the wrong reasons.
However, the controversial driver walked away from the tight street circuit with a much more positive buzz on Sunday after holding out defending champion Jamie Whincup and emerging with race two honours.
Van Gisbergen was the talk of the track after his former team threatened legal action in a bid to stop him from racing following a messy off-season departure.
And the flying Kiwi continued to dominate conversation by clinching his third career victory on a weekend in which he also claimed back-to-back pole positions.
He finished more than two seconds ahead of four-time championship winner Whincup in the 250km race with his Triple Eight Holden teammate Craig Lowndes third in front of a sell-out 95,000-strong crowd.
Van Gisbergen snapped a 34-race winning run by Holden's Triple Eight and Ford Performance Racing who had combined to claim every V8 Supercars event since November 2011.
The young upstart's win seemed an apt way to usher in an exciting era under new Car of the Future (COTF) specifications.
1. Shane Van Gisbergen (Holden) 1:51:52.4116
2. Jamie Whincup (Holden) 1:51:54.6309
3. Craig Lowndes (Holden) 1:51:56.2409
4. Russell Ingall (Holden) 1:51:59.4847
5. Mark Winterbottom (Ford) 1:51:59.8002
6. Will Davison (Ford) + 1 Lap
7. James Courtney (Holden) + 1 Lap
8. Tony D Alberto (Holden) + 1 Lap
9. Scott McLaughlin (Holden) + 1 Lap
10. Jonathon Webb (Holden) + 1 Lap
11. Scott Pye (Holden) + 1 Lap
12. Dean Fiore (Holden) + 1 Lap
13. James Moffat (Nissan) + 1 Lap
14. Rick Kelly (Nissan) + 1 Lap
15. Tim Blanchard (Ford) + 1 Lap
16. David Wall (Holden) + 1 Lap
17. Lee Holdsworth (Mercedes) + 1 Lap
18. Jason Bright (Holden) DNF
19. Garth Tander (Holden) DNF
20. Todd Kelly (Nissan) DNF
21. Alex Davison (Ford) DNF
22. Jonny Reid (Ford) DNF
23. Tim Slade (Mercedes) DNF
24. Michael Caruso (Nissan) DNF
25. Maro Engel (Ford) DNF
26. Fabian Coulthard (Holden) DNF
27. David Reynolds (Ford) DNF
28. Alex Premat (Holden) DNF
All 28 competitors boasted new vehicles, including newcomers Mercedes and Nissan, the first time an entire field had done so at the same round in touring car history.
Initially it was business as usual as Lowndes took out the opening 250km race by more than 20 seconds on Saturday.
And it seemed his teammate Whincup would extend their Holden team's dominance on Sunday before van Gisbergen got the jump with a clever 42nd lap pit stop.
Van Gisbergen appeared to have an unbeatable six second buffer over the Holden ace but lost his advantage when the safety car emerged after Alex Davison hit the concrete wall with 13 laps left.
Van Gisbergen somehow kicked clear to emerge unscathed from the mad scramble that ensued to claim line honours.
His win almost made up for the disappointment of race one when he claimed pole but failed to finish due to gearbox problems.
Still the Holden Triple Eight team again appears to be the team to beat this year. Whincup backed up Saturday's third-placing with second on Sunday.
And Lowndes was third to lead the series on 279 points, 12 ahead of Whincup and 39 ahead of Ford's Will Davison.
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