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| 03-03-2012 at 08:00: Classic Craig Lowndes | |
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The three-time V8 Supercar great agreed to new terms with TeamVodafone this week and Friday he effortlessly claimed his first Armor All Pole Position at the Clipsal 500, a remarkable statistic for the most decorated current driver in the field.
After the 20 minute qualifying session, Lowndes was sitting in second position behind FPR driver Mark Winterbottom. The pair were separated by just over three thousands of a second with the pair sitting ahead of Will Davidson.
With the Shootout returned to Friday in Adelaide and live on Seven for the first time, Lowndes continued his form that ended last year when he narrowly missed his fourth Championship to team-mate Jamie Whincup.
Lowndes starts ahead of HRT’s Garth Tander who moved from his sixth position in qualifying. Reigning Supercar champion Jamie Whincup, will power off from fifth with Jonathon Webb and Tim Slade from forth and sixth respectively. Webb fought hard to make it to forth and is a career high qualifying position.
“It’s not over yet, we’ve still got a race to go tomorrow,” Lowndes said.
“My weakness has always been qualifying and it’s nice to come here on quite a demanding street circuit. You need a lot of confidence in yourself to create a good lap here and the car is spot on.
“Tomorrow’s another 78 laps, you just can’t do one (today). If I couldn’t get pole position I was happy to be on the front row at least. Now we need a good race car.”
Tander’s race record in Adelaide is second only to Whincup, whose fifth place start is a first since 2006 that he has not been on the front row in Adelaide.
“We got better and better through qualifying,” explained Tander.
“Our aim was to be in the shootout but our lap was about two hundredths short of where it needed to be. Our goal all day was to get in the shootout and finish in the first two rows.”
Davison and team-mates Mark Winterbottom (seventh) and David Reynolds (eighth) all made the shooutout. Davison was the best performed of the trio.
“We topped very session except the one that set the grid,” said Davison.
“The car is very quick. We needed a two-lap shootout and I think we would have been pretty good. I have been weak on one lap but very strong on the second.” |
The start of the V8 Supercar season started in the best possible way for Craig Lowndes as he secured pole position for the first time in Adelaide.^ Back to top ^
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