Sandown 500 – Warm Up & Race 19 Results
Craig Lowndes/Cooper Murray – Car #888
Warm Up – Seventh (1:08.9971)
Race 19 – Fifth
Drivers’ Championship Standings – 27th (291 points)
Teams Championship Standings – 13th (291 points)
Cooper Murray, Car #888
“That feels like a win, to be honest. An amazing day with the whole Supercheap Auto Racing wildcard crew, Craig did an amazing job and gave me a really good spot and really good position with our strategy and just had to conserve the tyres and bring it home. But then after the restart towards the end, it was a bit sketchy as well, having Cam Waters behind me, giving me a little nudge, but I was more than prepared for it. But overall, really to come away with fifth. It was a little bit chaotic at the end, it was fine until the safety car came out. That’s when I knew it was going to get hectic because I knew Waters was behind and he’s very aggressive. So just had my eyes forward and focused on the job and got it home.”
Craig Lowndes, Car #888
“That’s a great resolve for us. You know, starting 18th at the beginning of the day. You never know what it’s going to bring, whether you have carnage, problems, or anything else, but I’ve got to give the credit to the team. They did a fantastic job through strategy, through pit stops. We had a couple of little bumps, but really at the end of the day, Cooper brought it home and it was a fantastic job. He looked after the tyre; he did the longest stints of the day. But a huge great team effort. The best wildcard finish we’ve had since it began, with today’s fifth. So now we’ve raised the bar and now we head to our grand finale at Bathurst.”
