TeamVortex Media Release

Winton SuperSprint
Sunday 22 May, 2016

CRAIG LOWNDES - VF HOLDEN COMMODORE / Car #888

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Qualifying Race 2: Third (Fastest Lap – 1:18.8225)

Race 2: Eighth

Championship: Fourth (1,044 points)

CRAIG LOWNDES

"We had great qualifying pace. We changed the car overnight, which gave it a little bit of a snappy oversteer to begin with, but then Ludo and the guys did a great job to fix it. We made a change between the first run and the second run and the second run was our best time. The car settled down and it was obviously great to be able to start closer to the front today in third. We got a good start and the car was running strong. I think we were the effective leaders there for a little while, but we had a broken exhaust about a third of the way into the race. In the last two thirds we had to battle it out with a broken exhaust, which I think was the same problem as we had at Clipsal - it felt like a header pipe. The car balance was great though, I can't complain about the car itself. We still had good speed even though we lost a bit of power. We take some positives out of the weekend and we go to a track that we like very much in Darwin, so I'm looking forward to the next one."