Craig Andrew LowndesOAM (born 21 June 1974) is an Australian racing car driver in the Repco Supercars Championship racing for Triple Eight Race Engineering. He is also a TV commentator.
Lowndes is a three-time V8 Supercar champion, a five-time Barry Sheene Medalist, and a seven-time winner of Australia's most prestigious motor race, the Bathurst 1000 and two-time winner of the Bathurst 12 Hour.
On 6 July 2018, Lowndes announced his intention to step down from full-time driving at the end of the 2018 season, continuing as a co-driver.[1]
Among all his other achievements, Lowndes has claimed nine 500 kilometre V8 Supercar/ATCC endurance titles (six Sandown 500 victories, two Phillip Island 500 crowns and one Queensland 500 win). He is also the first driver in ATCC/V8SC history to win 100 races and holds the record for the most Bathurst 1000 podiums with 14.
On 11 June 2012, Lowndes received the Medal of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his success in motorsport and contribution to the broader Australian community, "particularly through road safety education programs and charitable organisations."[2]
In 2018 Lowndes was also recognised in the prestigious Australian Institute of Sport Performance Awards, as the ABC Sports Personality of the Year.[3] On 16 March 2019, Lowndes was inducted into the Australian Motor Sport Hall of Fame.
Lowndes also voices Conrod in Roary the Racing Car in both the UK and US.
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^"Craig Lowndes receives Queen's Birthday honour". speedcafe.com. 10 June 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
^"Lowndes wins ABC Sport Personality of the Year". Supercars. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
Craig Andrew Lowndes OAM (born 21 June 1974) is an Australian racing car driver in the Repco Supercars Championship racing for Triple Eight Race Engineering...
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away zero points. Tander and CraigLowndes both had fairly good weekends, putting Tander into the series lead over Lowndes heading into the Symmons Plains...
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shower, CraigLowndes and Steven Richards eventually prevailed for their sixth and fourth wins of the Bathurst 1000 respectively. It was Lowndes' thirteenth...
controlled the event from 1996 to 2000, taking victory in all five years. CraigLowndes won all twelve races across the 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000 events having...
of CraigLowndes. Lowndes led for the first half of the second race before his left-rear tyre failed at the end of the main straight, causing Lowndes to...
events. CraigLowndes left the first event of the championship leading the points standings ahead of Fabian Coulthard and Shane van Gisbergen. Lowndes' teammate...
Archived from the original on 1 August 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2013. Lowndes, Craig (11 September 2012). "Sandown 500 back where it belongs". CarsGuide...
and final race. CraigLowndes lost the championship lead after an altercation with Shane van Gisbergen in the first race that saw Lowndes spin and puncture...
two drivers have achieved this feat: Peter Brock in 1978 and 1980 and CraigLowndes in 1996. The Japanese Triple Crown is achieved by winning titles in...
alongside CraigLowndes. 2011 – Skaife continues as an endurance-only driver in V8 Supercars Championship for third consecutive year. Teams with Lowndes to score...
Succeeded by Todd Hazelwood Preceded by CraigLowndes Barry Sheene Medal 2014 Succeeded by CraigLowndes Preceded by CraigLowndes Barry Sheene Medal 2016 Succeeded by...
replaced by CraigLowndes for the Sandown 500. After finishing fifth and setting the fastest lap of the four drivers, HRT elected to retain Lowndes for the...
engine issue on the final lap allowed teammate CraigLowndes past, with Skaife finishing 2nd. Lowndes' car then failed to fire prior to the start of the...
Silvestro at the wheel, to finish 21st, 40 laps down on the winning pair of CraigLowndes and Steven Richards. In 2016, Gracie competed in her second season of...
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Mark Winterbottom respectively. In 2007, Lowndes won the event for the fourth time, with Jamie Whincup. Lowndes and Whincup would go on to become the first...
position, ahead of Tim Slade and CraigLowndes. Whincup finished eighth to maintain the championship lead, with Lowndes in second and McLaughlin in third...
in a crash at the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans—with V8 Supercar driver CraigLowndes holding off a late charge from German driver Maximilian Buhk to take...
Australian Motor Sport. After racing for the Holden Racing Team since 1994, CraigLowndes moved to the newly created Ford team formed from the formerly Holden...
November 2014. Australian .Motorsport Classics, Eric Bana aka POIDA meets CraigLowndes, archived from the original on 22 December 2021, retrieved 26 January...
of the most successful drivers in series history; Jamie Whincup and CraigLowndes. Van Gisbergen won his first race for the team at the Tasmania SuperSprint...
1999 V8 Supercar Drivers' champion: CraigLowndes Teams' champions: Holden Racing Team Previous 1998 Next 2000 The 1999 Shell Championship Series was...
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