V8 Supercars: Craig Lowndes Takes The Battle Before The Last Race Title

V8 Supercars: Craig Lowndes race before the last battle takes title

Veteran Craig Lowndes V8 Supercars championship after Saturday term appeared around the Olympic Park area in the first of two 125 kilometer race from the back of the grid with engine battling at least before the last race of the season to put the fight to go.Later in the season, which is the 35th time in the day to face the Ready beginning, but as said Mark Winterbottom 0.500 in Sydney, and came all the trump cards held this week, the man Ford, in a position almost unassailable was still.

Prevent disastrous set of circumstances - Doonside in the western suburbs of Sydney, who grew up in the Far Winterbottom, won the first of the highest ever Supercars him from his 11-year career in the series set to crown. He said the incident or the car is not to break and the chance to stay in the hunt until Sunday Lowndes end, even your opponent will need to finish in the top five will be required in the region.Lowndes touched all the right Winterbottom in Arles today can operate on Saturday everything went wrong.Lowndes, in a hot lap in qualifying, setting the triple eight races Holden her into the wall, while Winterbottom, the first position for the first race to put his Prodrive Racing Falcon.In front of his opponent that he was able to control their own destiny, while Lowndes, had to start from the back of the grid.He can do it in the vicinity of the front end, to stay out of trouble, and take many possible points, but to win the race in death or cast glory it decided not to indulge showed Winterbottom equal amounts of speed and stamina.

Lowndes was from the beginning no choice but to get out of the house. He stood outside the normal range of track conditions, is expected to make, as he could until his station mandatory pit on lap 24 of 37 before taking a bold strategy chosen to stand outside.An active campaign at the age of 41 years had ended in 2015. The record Whincup the race was his seventh triple-eight team-mate Jamie Whincup, rose winning special from 25 to finish 15 behind, which is doing something, but not what it could have been the fifth title unusual enough to keep him in the hunt.

Individual race to be the fastest, but the constant rush through the championship season, which ends with the man.The desired speed and strength to win the title, but also the race smarts, and tactical awareness and calls for strong support crew.During his career with Ford, who was Winterbottom, has the support of a strong garage this season and he put himself in position to win and then ensure the preservation of progress in the strategic skills and showed a lot of maturity.

On Saturday, he avoided the heroic: at the age of 34-year-old hard-charging Shane Van Gisbergen 37 laps to get past him in the second lap of the open competition allows, and then put the nose of trouble for the next hour or so to fifth for.

He won the event of motor sport in the World Cup in Sydney Kiwi Van Gisbergen enviable record, in the past two years to punish the race on the street circuit.He supported the Red Bull Lowndes triple eight rider next season is going to take a seat as a going away present to win, employers, the team was determined to techno.

And do nearly so. Van Gisbergen delayed while his guests, but not enough Whincup, and his colleagues to be next year, as the man who, clever pit stop managed to get through it in the past. Whincup left for the rest of the race, who's never been enough to give advantage.Last seasoned old, Jason Bright, Team BOC Commodore his second podium of the year, and capture third place.

Winterbottom was close to the ultimate prize in the investigation to know was an attempt to maintain their enthusiasm."Harmony you have developed from the elbow and was the big picture leak. I do. I just had to evaluate, so it was not compatible, but when you're weak is a terrible fifth situation. I just try to be going red hot and now it's done and I'm going tomorrow. We hope that the operation of another good result. "