SuperCars by Luke West

Author:Luke West
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rockpool Publishing
Published: 2021-07-05T00:00:00+00:00

Dick Johnson Racing endured a tough season. This is Will Davison.

Lowndes won the big race just weeks after his mentor’s passing.

These developments left Lowndes/Whincup looking good. Craig looked to be doing it easy on the run home, but a late-race safety car gave Rick Kelly one last chance. Just as at Sandown, he threw everything into the chase only to fall agonisingly short. At the end of the year, it was easy for those who criticised Kelly for his ‘coast and collect’ tactics to overlook the passion with which he attacked the chance of seizing victory in the two biggest races of the year.

So Lowndes and Whincup narrowly – and emotionally – won the inaugural Peter Brock Trophy, in memory of the legend who had died in a targa rally crash four weeks before. Behind the Kellys came James Courtney/Glenn Seton, who deprived their teammates Russell Ingall/Luke Youlden of a podium finish by a coat of paint.

If Bathurst had gone smoothly for Lowndes, Surfers Paradise was just the reverse: incurring the wrath of officials for two indiscretions and finishing 10th overall, well short of Rick Kelly’s third. This slashed Lowndes’ points lead to just 30.

Things got worse for Lowndes at Symmons Plains, 12th overall, when he was innocently caught up in teammate Whincup’s accident at the start of race one.

At least his title rival Rick Kelly did not discover his teammate Garth Tander’s secret of extracting maximum speed from a Toll VZ around the short and fast Tasmanian venue: Tander easily won the round, while Kelly was back in fourth, behind the FPR pair.

The Ford works team’s late-season form improved even more at Bahrain, a circuit notable not only for its exotic international location, but also for its ability to provide side-by-side racing.

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