Victory in the 2015 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 gave Craig Lowndes a prominent place in the history books of Australian motorsport and V8 Supercar racing. Lowndes claimed his sixth Bathurst 1000 win, guiding his Red Bull Racing Australia Commodore VF to victory and placing him in the record books alongside Peter Brock, Jim Richards, Larry Perkins and Mark Skaife as the only drivers with six or more victories in the famous race.
It also gave Lowndes a record 13th podium finish in the race, surpassing the joint record of 12 held by Brock, Richards and Perkins. The victory, shared with Steve Richards, came in Lowndes’ 22nd start in the race and went alongside his previous successes in 1996, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010 – all bar 1996 achieved with Roland Dane’s Brisbane-based Triple Eight Race Engineering squad. Lowndes’ sixth Bathurst win came from a lowly 15th on the grid after rain had affected qualifying on Saturday - it was just the second time in race history a winning car had started from that position. Despite being his worst qualifying position in more than two decades of racing at Bathurst, the low grid spot was not enough to stop him and Richards leading 34 of the 161 laps and claiming Holden’s record 30th Bathurst victory.
The victory came in the 55th running of the Bathurst endurance classic, cementing Lowndes as an all-time great of Mount Panorama.
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