The Repco Supercars Championship heads to Symmons Plains this weekend for the Tasmania Super440, with Broc Feeney carrying a slender points lead into one of the shortest, fastest layouts on the calendar. The 2.41 km Launceston circuit produces lap times under 52 seconds and a tyre wear profile that favours the team that can finish a green-flag stint with grip in the right-front. It is the third event of the post-Christchurch run and the first since Supercars Australia confirmed a mid-season aero adjustment package for the Chevrolet Camaro fleet.
Feeney took the championship lead at the Christchurch Super 440 last month after Brodie Kostecki's run of bad weekends, and the Triple Eight Race Engineering driver heads to Tasmania with confidence but a thin cushion. The Camaro driver has won the past two Symmons Plains visits and has put in a quiet test day at the Tasmanian end of the schedule to validate set-up changes.
Kostecki, in turn, has been the most open driver in the paddock about how much the lost lead has stung. The Erebus Motorsport-aligned Camaro racer has framed the Tasmania weekend in interviews this week as a chance to draw a line under his six-week slump. He sits second on the standings going in and will need to outscore Feeney by a meaningful margin across the three races to take the lead back before the Sydney street round in June.
Will Brown holds third and Cam Waters is fourth, with both within reach of the front two if Feeney or Kostecki has a poor Saturday. Waters has been the closest of the chasing Tickford Mustang group and remains hunting his first 2026 win.
The story below the leaders this weekend is the Camaro aero package. Supercars Australia confirmed at the New Zealand round that the Chevrolet entries will receive mid-season aerodynamic adjustments at Tasmania, with category technical lead Tim Edwards confirming the changes target long-run tyre wear to bring the Camaro into closer balance with the Ford Mustang. Several Camaro teams have pushed for a smaller parity "box" — the operating window inside which both manufacturers can be tuned — to ensure neither side opens an aerodynamic gap as the season heats up.
Matt Payne arrives at Symmons Plains after a mountain bike spill earlier in the month that he and the Grove Racing team have publicly downplayed. Payne has been medically cleared and is preparing for what he has previously described as one of his favourite tracks on the schedule, though Grove Racing's broader weekend will be dominated by what the new Camaro aero package does for their two cars.
Brad Jones Racing's Tasmanian local connection runs through Macauley Jones, who will carry a special Wrest Point Country Club tie-up livery for the weekend. The team principal's son will run the Camaro in a one-off scheme as part of a BJR commercial activation at Wrest Point timed to coincide with the home-state appearance.
The weekend format is the now-familiar Super440 split: a Saturday with two races and a longer Sunday finale, with the points table reset each session and qualifying carrying full weight. Symmons Plains' tight tyre window is what historically scrambles championship maths — a driver outside the top ten on Saturday morning can easily be on the podium by Sunday afternoon if the long race lands the right tyre call.
Television and streaming coverage runs on Fox Sports and Kayo in Australia, with Stan Sport also carrying the rounds. The Tasmania weekend has historically been a strong free-to-air audience driver in the Apple Isle and the event is the only one of the year where the field stays inside Tasmania across all three days.
For Feeney, the script is straightforward: do not give Kostecki a clean run at the lead. For Kostecki, it is the opposite — Tasmania has to be the weekend where the points table starts to move back his way. With the Camaro fleet running fresh aero and the Symmons Plains tyre window doing its usual work, the championship picture by Sunday evening could look very different.
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