Craig lowndes set the fastest time during the session, ahead of mark winterbottom and. With 300 points awarded to the race winner, bathurst is the most important race in the championship hunt. Richards won last years bathurst with craig lowndes, bringing his great race tally to five. Bathurst is the ultimate test of a codrivers mettle last week saw the 28th and final codriver named for the v8 supercars championships inaugural pirtek enduro cup. The red bull racing australia drivers set to battle in sydney for 20 v8 supercars championship. His codriver, some young nobody with the surname lowndes managed to chase.
Craig lowndes wins fairytale seventh bathurst after. If victorious this year, lowndes will join jim richards father of his current co driver steven on equal second in the bathurst alltime victory list with seven. Lowndes will mark his 500th australian touring carv8 supercars race start on sunday. The session was open to both championship drivers and codrivers. Craig lowndes has completed a fairytale finish for the final time as a fulltime driver at bathurst. Winterbottom added that having richards come in straight of a stint as a t8 codriver, which yielded bathurst wins with craig lowndes in 2015 and 2018, will be a big bonus.
Team 18 adds bathurst winner steve richards to supercars. Top 10 bathurst driver pairings nine wide world of. Form guidewise, to pick up the current bathurst champion as a codriver, thats as good as you can get. Lowndes has endured a tough season so far with a third in the opening race of tasmania his best race finish. Supercars legend craig lowndes joins eseries wildcard list. The 20 bathurst was the second race of the three endurance races in the v8 supercars championship. Bathurst legend craig lowndes keen for a supercars. Richards has three wins from his last six attempts, going back to his and winterbottoms breakthrough for whats now tickford racing in 20, their last start together. Richards, winterbottom supercars enduro combo confirmed. The 20 champion is again among the favourites, lining up with a new codriver this year in steve owen. Each entrant in the bathurst nominates a lead driver and a codriver. Lowndes became a household name in that great race, launching an audacious pass for the lead on john bowe in the closing. Two bathurst podiums for red bull racing australia. Steve richards or steven richards, nicknamed richo, is a racing driver and team owner from new zealand, a son of the touring car legend jim richards and one of the most decorated drivers at the famous mount panorama circuit.
The race blew up for fourtime bathurst winner jamie whincup and codriver paul dumbrell on lap 40. It was held on october 20 at the mount panorama circuit in bathurst, new south wales. Champion v8 supercars driver craig lowndes has announced his retirement as a fulltime professional racer after more than two decades at the top of the sport. Lowndes, luff in heavy crash at bathurst sports news.
After the team previously announced that shane van gisbergens enduro cup codriver garth tander will take a wildcard start this. One mistake could cost a driver the equivalent of a full race weekend worth of points, and with only 97 points between first and third, that could be the difference between a title and a long, sad trip home from the finale in sydney. V8 supercars veteran craig lowndes and rival holden codriver warren luff have escaped injury after a heavy crash during practice for sundays bathurst. Seventime bathurst winner craig lowndes will team up with grove motorsport on the porsche payce carrera cup australia grid at the formula 1. Fan favourites garth tander, craig lowndes relish red bulls. Craig lowndes will have a new codriver for the 2014 pirtek enduro cup, with red bull electing against retaining warren luff. Lowndes first competitive race at bathurst was in the 1994 james hardie 12 hour for production cars. Sifting through the sob stories of bathurst s gone by.
The 2010 v8 supercars champion is the only driver of the four at hrt not to have won at the mountain, with 2011 winner nick percat now to slot in alongside garth tander. Craig lowndes stays on as triple eight enduro codriver until 2021. Craig lowndes wins bathurst peter brock trophy car. Craig lowndes exwife supported by friends after ugly. Check out the highlights of this great race at mount panorama. He was left out of the triple eight codriver reshuffle as lowndes replaced paul dumbrell as jamie whincups codriver and garth tander was signed to partner shane van gisbergen. Bathurst 2019 schedule, tv how to watch, start time. It was held on october 20 at the mount panorama circuit in bathurst, new south wales mark winterbottom and steven richards won the race for ford performance racing, ahead of the polesitting triple eight race. Along with his triple eight racing teammate jamie whincup, lowndes had continued to dominate in the 20 season, scoring race wins at adelaide, barbagallo raceway, hidden valley raceway, and also winning race 1 at gold coast with codriver warren luff. Chiyosan sat third on a late race restart but fired past two cars on the penultimate lap to take an incredible victory with codrivers florian strauss and wolfgang riep. Craig lowndes has achieved a fairytale bathurst win on his last fulltime drive at mount panorama, partnering with steven richards to achieve a stunning seventh triumph in. Bathurst when v8 supercars veteran craig lowndes saw the holden of former codriver warren luff on its roof, he feared the worst. Richards 1st 1998, 99, 20, 15 no driver pairing has more bathurst wins than the combined tally of 10 for these two veteran drivers. Hrts garth tander raises the pulses of 3 other v8 supercar drivers in the gts.
He ended the season in 2nd for the third consecutive year each behind jamie whincup. The 20 supercheap auto bathurst was an australian touring car motor race for v8 supercars, the twentyninth race of the 20 international v8 supercars championship. Hes got seven bathurst wins, 14 podiums and two pole positions, but craig lowndes just wants more. In latter years, strong probable results in 20 and 2014 with greg murphy went. I am yet to follow up with cams to see where we have got with improving the system. Whincups midrace stints proved decisive as he claimed the lead from todd kelly off a safety car restart on lap 110. The series now moves to surfers paradise in two weeks time for the gold coast 600, the final round on the endurance calendar. Last octobers triumph took lowndes to seven bathurst victories and richards to five.
Two bathurst podiums for red bull racing australia written by. Remarkably, lowndes has finished on the bathurst podium eight times in the past 10 years including four wins. Richards joined triple eight as lowndes codriver in 2014, the pair claiming two bathurst victories including last octobers great race. Two bathurst podiums for red bull racing australia by. James courtneys race ended on lap 33, with codriver jack perkins skidding off with engine failure. Richards 1st 1998, 99, 20, 15 no driver pairing has more bathurst wins than the combined tally of 10 for. Richards 1st 1998, 99, 20, 15 no driver pairing has more bathurst wins than the combined tally of 10 for these two veteran. Top 10 bathurst driver pairings sports news australia. Supercars legend craig lowndes at peace with his decision. Whincup vs lowndes for 20 v8 supercars title red bull. Lowndes retired from fulltime supercars competition at the end of 2018, having claimed his seventh bathurst win earlier in the year. Craig lowndes racing career profile driver database.
Richards wants lowndes bathurst fight after split supercars. But few would bet against him adding to his 20 bathurst crown after. Whincups codriver, seventime bathurst champion craig lowndes, earlier made an encouraging return to the track after retiring from fulltime driving last year. The 43yearold is the son of seventime bathurst champion, jim, and has won the great race himself in 1998, 1999 and 20 always as the codriver. Hes now a codriver for the team the returned to the winners circle with. From formula ford and formula holden, lowndes burst onto the touring car scene in 1994 with the holden racing team, doing enough on debut at sandown as a late callup to then also replace swede rickard rydell for bathurst. Craig lowndes first appeared on the australian touring car radar back in 1994 when he debuted for the holden racing team in the sandown 500, stunning everyone a few weeks later by finishing second at bathurst in partnership with brad jones. Remarkably winterbottom had never podiumed in 10 bathurst starts before the 20 race. Fan favourite craig lowndes will make his first supercars eseries start this wednesday night at the circuit of the americas as the threetime series champion confirms hell join triple eights regular drivers and fellow wildcard. Jamie whincup and codriver paul dumbrell lead the points standings with 576, a 42point lead over nearest rivals and red bull teammates craig lowndes and warren luff 534, while bathurst winners mark winterbottom and steve richards lie in third with 504. In 2011 he finished second outright in an audi r8 lms gt3 driving for famed. Whincups holden teammate fivetime champion lowndes who was. Craig lowndes goes top in first bathurst practice abc.
Fords mark winterbottom has won his maiden bathurst title, holding. Holden driver craig lowndes has dedicated his popular sixth bathurst win to his codriver, quiet achiever steven richards. Mark winterbottom has won his first supercheap auto bathurst, boldly leading jamie whincup home. Bathurst winners craig lowndes and steve richards. Japanese driver katsumasa chiyo announced himself as a new bathurst culthero in 2015 after delivering nissan an unlikely bathurst victory for the first time since 1992 in style. Lowndes and richards win bathurst, coulthard top kiwi. Steve richards has won five times at bathurst in 1998, 1999, 20, 2015 and 2018 with four different codrivers, and added four more podiums to his account. It was a tough day at the office for craig lowndes and codriver steve richards in this years bathurst on the weekend. Lowndes and luff have driven together in each of the last two. It was a tough day at the office for craig lowndes and co driver steve richards in this years bathurst on the weekend.
The 20 season saw manufacturers other than ford and holden enter the great race for the first time. But the good thing about that is that we have recognised that we can be better and are working towards doing that. Lowndes crashed out of the lead of the safari the following year. Richards joined triple eight as lowndes codriver in 2014, the pair. Craig lowndes will have a new co driver for the 2014 pirtek enduro cup, with red bull electing against retaining warren luff. Mark winterbottom takes out maiden bathurst title, holding off. Richards won bathurst alongside craig lowndes at triple eight both last year and in 2015. The 20 race was the seventeenth running of the australian race, which was first held after the organisational split between the australian racing drivers club and v8 supercars australia that saw two bathurst races contested in both 1997 and 1998, with one race open to v8 supercar entries, and the other open to super touring cars. Courtney responded to the news by saying he felt this year was his strongest ever chance to win at the supercheap auto bathurst.
The wettest bathurst in recent memory made it a long day for the teamvortex duo, having to fight their way forward from. Steven richards hopes he and craig lowndes cross paths and have an ontrack battle at some stage during the supercheap auto bathurst, after spending five years together. So lowndes on track now for a seventh bathurst title just two behind the great peter brock and a few more years left as a codriver. Codriver whincup claimed his maiden bathurst win 12 months after he burst onto the scene with a runnersup place in a holden last year. Lowndes will hit the streets of surfers paradise in this weekends gold coast 600 on a high after his fairytale win at bathurst a fortnight ago. Bathurst in 20 before richards switch to triple eight to partner lowndes that netted two more victories. The ugly spat between the couple, who separated in 2011, has threatened to take the gloss off lowndes glittering racing career which includes six bathurst victories. Former v8 supercar team owner, kees weel was codriver.
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