TeamVortex Media Release

Bathurst 1000
Friday 07 October, 2016

CRAIG LOWNDES/STEVEN RICHARDS - VF HOLDEN COMMODORE / Car #888

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Practice Four - Richards: 21st (Fastest Lap – 2:07.1679)

Practice Five - Lowndes: 12th (Fastest Lap – 2:05.9811)

Qualifying - Lowndes: 21st (Fastest Lap – 2:06.2289)

CRAIG LOWNDES
"We'll obviously now focus on making the car a good race car. We're not in the Top Ten Shootout, so we'll make sure we have a good race car for Sunday. It is disappointing, I think that we've had a pretty tough run into the weekend and it just shows that you've got to be on your game around here and the competition is really tight. We made an adjustment in the last run, which improved the car, but not as much as we needed to be in the top ten. It's disappointing starting 21st, so we'll try to stay out of trouble on Sunday and see where we end up."

STEVEN RICHARDS
"We've got two pretty good references in the {Red Bull Racing Australia} cars that are next door, so we've got to have a really good look. Clearly we've been struggling a little bit with the car all weekend and we might have lost a fair bit of time early on with our practice tyres, but we're still a long way from the mark. But the race is a long way and our strategy will depend on practice and warm up and how much better we can make the car."