TeamVortex Media Release

Darwin Triple Crown
Saturday 18 June, 2016

CRAIG LOWNDES - VF HOLDEN COMMODORE / Car #888

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Practice Three: Seventh (Fastest Lap – 1:06.4971)

Qualifying Race 1: Seventh (Fastest Lap – 1:06.3959)

Race 1: 11th

CRAIG LOWNDES

"It's a bit of a disappointing result considering where we started, but we made a good recovery. The guys did a great job strategy-wise after we had the incident on lap one and went to the back of the field. Going into turn five, we were just trying to sneak around the outside of Mark Winterbottom and we were sort of on our own, but then all of a sudden someone had contact with my right rear, which turned me around straight away. The pace of the car was really good, it was very consistent and I was really happy with that. We had enough bar adjustment to look after the tyre, but ultimately I think the altercation definitely hurt us. We know we could definitely have been running at the front if we had stayed out of trouble. But there were good signs, so I'm looking forward to tomorrow."