Clean sweep ... Jamie Whincup wins back-to-back races in Perth. Source: Mark Horsburgh / AAP
The two-headed Holden monster has warmed up and is poised to yet again eat up the V8 Supercars field.
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In an ominous sign following a sluggish start to the season, Red Bull Racing pair Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes sealed a three-race cleansweep of the round in Perth on Sunday.
A day after Lowndes took his 91st chequered flag to break Mark Skaife's record of most career wins, Whincup was victorious in both 100km battles at Barbagallo Raceway.
Triple Eight Racing have won four of the past five team championships while Whincup has similarly dominated the drivers' championship to lift the title in those same years - with 2010 their only blemish.
| Rd. | Event | Track | Date |
| NC | Official Test Day | Sydney Motorsport Park | Feb 16 |
| 1 | Clipsal 500 Adelaide | Adelaide | Feb 28-Mar 3 |
| NC | Australian Grand Prix | Albert Park | Mar 14-17 |
| 2 | Tasmania Challenge | Symmons Plains | Apr 5-7 |
| 3 | Auckland 400 | Pukekohe | Apr 12-14 |
| 4 | Perth | Barbagallo | May 3-5 |
| 5 | Texas 400 | Austin | May 17-19 |
| 6 | Skycity Triple Crown | Hidden Valley | Jun 14-16 |
| 7 | Sucrogen Townsville 400 | Reid Park | Jul 5-7 |
| 8 | Coates Hire Ipswich | Queensland Raceway | Jul 27-28 |
| 9 | Winton | Winton | Aug 23-25 |
| 10 | Sandown 500 | Sandown | Sep 13-15 |
| 11 | Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 | Mount Panorama | Oct 10-13 |
| 12 | Armor All Gold Coast 600 | Surfers Paradise | Oct 25-27 |
| 13 | Phillip Island 400 | Phillip Island | Nov 23-24 |
| 14 | Sydney 500 | Sydney Olympic Park | Dec 6-8 |
The new Car of the Future design regulations introduced for 2013 had the desired result for V8 Supercars officials of evening out the competition when seven different drivers won the first nine races across the opening three rounds in Adelaide, Tasmania and New Zealand.
But the level playing field is starting to skew slightly.
Although Whincup was playing down his team's stark improvement when asked whether they're back in control as the category pacesetters.
"No I wouldn't say that,'' he said.
"We're certainly improving which is what it's all about.
"It was good this weekend to prove the hard work behind the scenes is paying off. Let's hope we can now maintain this for the rest of the year.''
The 30-year-old Commodore VF pilot added that the new rules mean any advantages are difficult to engineer.
"The big teams can't do any more than any other team,'' said Whincup.
"It's not like Formula One where we can spend a few days in the wind tunnel and come up with a new wing or diffuser or something.
"It simply doesn't happen.
"It's just a matter of working on the car set-up and making the most of what you've got.''
Whincup grabbed the lead from Lowndes in the third and final race of the weekend with an opportunistic move on lap 32 of the 41-lap showdown.
As soon as the race re-started following the second safety car deployment, Whincup swooped to hit the lead and hold off his 39-year-old teammate by a comfortable margin of 1.57sec.
In the process, Whincup won the overall round with a second-placing to Lowndes on Saturday and extended his championship lead over Ford's Will Davison to 65 points.
While disappointed to be outwitted by Whincup, seemingly in contrast to the bickering between Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel that has divided Red Bull Racing's Formula One team, Lowndes was happy for his pit-lane partner.
"You always give your teammate a little bit more room than anyone else,'' said Lowndes.
"I just didn't get the drive off the corner and Jamie got a run quite early on the pit straight.
"It would have ended up disastrous if I had crammed him down.''
Jason Bright was third in another solid performance followed by Davison, David Reynolds and New Zealand pair Shane van Gisbergen and Fabian Coulthard.
Earlier, Whincup claimed a comfortable victory in the second race ahead of fellow Holden driver Bright and luckless Ford Performance Racing's Mark Winterbottom.
Perhaps in one positive for those chasing Whincup and Lowndes, the next round heads to a new venue on the schedule in Texas.
All of the 28-driver field will have to learn the intricacies of the massive 5.5km, 20-turn highly-technical track in Austin in preparation for the May 17-19 event.
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