Autobarn Lowndes Racing Media Release
Saturday 5 May, 2018
Perth SuperSprint - Practice, Qualifying & Race 1
Practice 3: 22nd (Fastest Lap: 0:56.6165)
Qualifying Race 1: Eighth (Fastest Lap: 0:54.8974)
Race 1: Fifth
Craig Lowndes (#888) - Holden Commodore ZB
"We had a good qualifying session, being in Q1 it gave us an opportunity to have a feel for the change of wind direction and make sure the car was up to speed. The car was really good and we were able to elevate up into Q2. We opted to only do one run in Q2 to save the tyre in hope for for Q3. We fell back to seventh but that was enough to get through. We had a couple of bites at the cherry in Q3, although we improved the car over every run we just didn't quite have the pace to be any further up. We started eighth, I was very happy with that, we had a good start, kept out of trouble and had a good battle in the early parts of the race with David Reynolds. We opted to come in early which obviously made for a long second stint to the finish. Our car pace and balance were good, we just didn't have the tyre at the end to fight too hard where other guys could. Ultimately to finish fifth when we started eighth is a credit to the team, we moved forwards. It's good for the points and championship and now I'm really looking forward to tomorrow"
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