Ford's Anton De Pasquale has claimed his first Supercars win as a Dick Johnson Racing driver with success in Sunday's first race at Tailem Bend in South Australia.
The 25-year-old started the race from pole position and avoided a first-lap multi-car crash to hold off teammate Will Davison and Red Bull Ampol Racing's Shane Van Gisbergen for just the second win of his Supercars career.
"We've got a one-two, it's pretty cool. It's a cool day," said De Pasquale, who will look to make it two-from-two when he starts Sunday's second race from pole position.
"I don't think we had the world's best racecar then so we'll still have some work to do and but we're in the right position to have a go."
Davison made it a one-two for Shell V-Power Racing, their first of the year, while birthday boy Van Gisbergen celebrated turning 32 by climbing from 13th on the starting grid to third.
The real drama of the 24-lap race at The Bend Motorsport Park occurred on the sixth turn of the opening lap in a collision that ended the races of championship contenders Cameron Waters and Chaz Mostert as well as Macauley Jones.
Waters was sent spinning off the track after Saturday's race winner Andre Heimgartner's aggressive move into the turn created a domino effect with the cars around him.
Heimgartner forced Tim Slade to run wide and when Slade rejoined the circuit he clipped Mostert who then speared into the side of Waters' Tickford Racing Mustang.
Jones was caught up in another incident at the same time involving David Reynolds which left his Commodore stricken.
The first lap chaos meant Waters, Mostert and Jones all finished with zero points for failing to complete the required 75 per cent of the race distance.
Van Gisbergen said the fact Waters and Mostert and teammate Jamie Whincup, who finished 11th, had endured tough days made his podium finish even more rewarding.
"To come third after starting where we did is pretty awesome and the guys around us who are close in points, had a shocker so it's a good thing," the New Zealander said.
Mostert did make a brief return after some furious work by his pit crew, setting a fastest lap but then returned to the pits and was clearly unhappy to have his race cruelled so early.
"Thought we were racing Supercars, not dodgem cars," a furious Mostert said.
Sunday's second race begins at 3.40pm (4.10pm AEST).
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