Lowndes and richards win bathurst, coulthard top kiwi. Richards joined triple eight as lowndes codriver in 2014, the pair. Whincups midrace stints proved decisive as he claimed the lead from todd kelly off a safety car restart on lap 110. Craig lowndes wins fairytale seventh bathurst after. 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. Form guidewise, to pick up the current bathurst champion as a codriver, thats as good as you can get. V8 supercars veteran craig lowndes and rival holden codriver warren luff have escaped injury after a heavy crash during practice for sundays bathurst. 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. Two bathurst podiums for red bull racing australia by. Richards, winterbottom supercars enduro combo confirmed.
Mark winterbottom has won his first supercheap auto bathurst, boldly leading jamie whincup home. Whincups codriver, seventime bathurst champion craig lowndes, earlier made an encouraging return to the track after retiring from fulltime driving last year. Craig lowndes wins bathurst peter brock trophy car. 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. 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. 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. Craig lowndes will have a new codriver for the 2014 pirtek enduro cup, with red bull electing against retaining warren luff.
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. Richards joined triple eight as lowndes codriver in 2014, the pair claiming two bathurst victories including last octobers great race. Lowndes will mark his 500th australian touring carv8 supercars race start on sunday. After the team previously announced that shane van gisbergens enduro cup codriver garth tander will take a wildcard start this. Hes now a codriver for the team the returned to the winners circle with. Richards 1st 1998, 99, 20, 15 no driver pairing has more bathurst wins than the combined tally of 10 for. His codriver, some young nobody with the surname lowndes managed to chase. But few would bet against him adding to his 20 bathurst crown after.
Bathurst winners craig lowndes and steve richards. Hes got seven bathurst wins, 14 podiums and two pole positions, but craig lowndes just wants more. 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. Supercars legend craig lowndes at peace with his decision. 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. The session was open to both championship drivers and codrivers. 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. The series now moves to surfers paradise in two weeks time for the gold coast 600, the final round on the endurance calendar. Each entrant in the bathurst nominates a lead driver and a codriver. 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 has completed a fairytale finish for the final time as a fulltime driver at bathurst. 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.
Hrts garth tander raises the pulses of 3 other v8 supercar drivers in the gts. 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. In latter years, strong probable results in 20 and 2014 with greg murphy went. Bathurst legend craig lowndes keen for a supercars. 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. Craig lowndes exwife supported by friends after ugly. Lowndes has endured a tough season so far with a third in the opening race of tasmania his best race finish. Richards 1st 1998, 99, 20, 15 no driver pairing has more bathurst wins than the combined tally of 10 for these two veteran. Craig lowndes racing career profile driver database. He ended the season in 2nd for the third consecutive year each behind jamie whincup. Holden driver craig lowndes has dedicated his popular sixth bathurst win to his codriver, quiet achiever steven richards. Mark winterbottom takes out maiden bathurst title, holding off.
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. Richards won last years bathurst with craig lowndes, bringing his great race tally to five. Seventime bathurst winner craig lowndes will team up with grove motorsport on the porsche payce carrera cup australia grid at the formula 1. Lowndes first competitive race at bathurst was in the 1994 james hardie 12 hour for production cars. 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. The 20 season saw manufacturers other than ford and holden enter the great race for the first time. The lead driver must complete no more than 107 laps while the codriver must complete no less than 54 laps. 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. 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. Remarkably, lowndes has finished on the bathurst podium eight times in the past 10 years including four wins. Check out the highlights of this great race at mount panorama. Bathurst in 20 before richards switch to triple eight to partner lowndes that netted two more victories.
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. Lowndes, luff in heavy crash at bathurst sports news. In 2011 he finished second outright in an audi r8 lms gt3 driving for famed. Fords mark winterbottom has won his maiden bathurst title, holding. Sifting through the sob stories of bathurst s gone by. 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. Lowndes retired from fulltime supercars competition at the end of 2018, having claimed his seventh bathurst win earlier in the year. Richards won bathurst alongside craig lowndes at triple eight both last year and in 2015. 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. The red bull racing australia drivers set to battle in sydney for 20 v8 supercars championship. Craig lowndes feared the worst for warren luff western.
The 20 bathurst was the second race of the three endurance races in the v8 supercars championship. 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 became a household name in that great race, launching an audacious pass for the lead on john bowe in the closing. But the good thing about that is that we have recognised that we can be better and are working towards doing that. Richards 1st 1998, 99, 20, 15 no driver pairing has more bathurst wins than the combined tally of 10 for these two veteran drivers. With 300 points awarded to the race winner, bathurst is the most important race in the championship hunt.
The wettest bathurst in recent memory made it a long day for the teamvortex duo, having to fight their way forward from. Whincups holden teammate fivetime champion lowndes who was. Craig lowndes set the fastest time during the session, ahead of mark winterbottom and. Courtney responded to the news by saying he felt this year was his strongest ever chance to win at the supercheap auto bathurst. Top 10 bathurst driver pairings sports news australia. Top 10 bathurst driver pairings nine wide world of. The race blew up for fourtime bathurst winner jamie whincup and codriver paul dumbrell on lap 40. Lowndes to win the championship he needs to finish first or second.
Lowndes crashed out of the lead of the safari the following year. Bathurst when v8 supercars veteran craig lowndes saw the holden of former codriver warren luff on its roof, he feared the worst. Craig lowndes stays on as triple eight enduro codriver until 2021. Craig lowndes will have a new co driver for the 2014 pirtek enduro cup, with red bull electing against retaining warren luff. Remarkably winterbottom had never podiumed in 10 bathurst starts before the 20 race. 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. Two bathurst podiums for red bull racing australia written by.
Team 18 adds bathurst winner steve richards to supercars. It was held on october 20 at the mount panorama circuit in bathurst, new south wales. Bathurst 2019 schedule, tv how to watch, start time. Craig lowndes goes top in first bathurst practice abc.
Richards wants lowndes bathurst fight after split supercars. Lowndes and luff have driven together in each of the last two. Supercars legend craig lowndes joins eseries wildcard list. 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. Whincup vs lowndes for 20 v8 supercars title red bull.
Mark winterbottom and steven richards won the race for ford performance racing, ahead of the polesitting triple eight race engineering car of jamie whincup and paul dumbrell and their teammates craig lowndes and warren luff. Fan favourites garth tander, craig lowndes relish red bulls. James courtneys race ended on lap 33, with codriver jack perkins skidding off with engine failure. 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. 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. Lowndes bathurst winning count now increases to six, the triple 8 driver now alongside mark skaife and larry perkins in the bathurst record books. 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. It was a tough day at the office for craig lowndes and codriver steve richards in this years bathurst on the weekend. Two bathurst podiums for red bull racing australia. The 20 champion is again among the favourites, lining up with a new codriver this year in steve owen. It was a tough day at the office for craig lowndes and co driver steve richards in this years bathurst on the weekend. I am yet to follow up with cams to see where we have got with improving the system. Former v8 supercar team owner, kees weel was codriver.
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