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Lowndes dominates race one

Team Vodafone's Craig Lowndes dominated the first race of this weekend's Sprint Gas V8 Supercar Manufacturers Challenge at Albert Park

Lowndes lost out at the start to Ford Performance Racing's Mark Winterbottom but took the lead back when Winterbottom ran wide at turn three on the opening lap, running away from the rest of the field from there, winning by nearly six seconds.

Winterbottom finished a comfortable second as Holden Racing Team's Will Davison finished third, holding out attention from Jim Beam's Steven Johnson and Team BOC's Jason Richards.

Davison's team-mate Garth Tander was involved in the battle in the early laps, running fourth, before losing out on lap four as Johnson and Richards forced past. Late in the race he slowed before retiring with less than two laps remaining.

While Tander slid down the order, Team Vodafone's Jamie Whincup headed the other way. Starting 15th, he fell back to 17th on lap one but then charged his way up the order, taking seventh place from Shane van Gisbergen with three corners remaining on the final lap.

Marcus Marshall showed his qualifying effort wasn't a fluke, finishing in 12th place.

There were incidents down the order, Alex Davison spinning Greg Murphy while Russell Ingall ended up stuck in the gravel in the same incident, while Steven Richards and Rick Kelly both had offs after Richards apparently ran into the back of Kelly, Kelly retiring soon after.

Pos  Driver                Make     Time
 1.  Craig Lowndes         Ford     29:53.5736
 2.  Mark Winterbottom     Ford     +   5.7659
 3.  Will Davison          Holden   +   9.4610
 4.  Steven Johnson        Ford     +  10.0543
 5.  Jason Richards        Holden   +  10.5411
 6.  Fabian Coulthard      Ford     +  15.2910
 7.  Jamie Whincup         Ford     +  18.4052
 8.  Shane Van Gisbergen   Ford     +  19.2725
 9.  Todd Kelly            Holden   +  21.8781
10.  Paul Dumbrell         Holden   +  22.4705
11.  Cameron McConville    Holden   +  25.4080
12.  Marcus Marshall       Ford     +  27.5098
13.  Jason Bright          Ford     +  30.8537
14.  Alex Davison          Ford     +  34.4660
15.  Jason Bargwanna       Holden   +  39.6898
16.  James Courtney        Ford     +  40.1010
17.  Tony D'Alberto        Holden   +  40.8528
18.  David Reynolds        Holden   +  41.4724
19.  Steven Richards       Ford     +  41.8481
20.  Michael Patrizi       Ford     +  42.7292
21.  Jack Perkins          Holden   +  44.9592
22.  Greg Murphy           Holden   +  48.7623
23.  Tim Slade             Holden   +  56.3308
24.  Dean Fiore            Holden   +  57.3227
25.  Michael Caruso        Holden   +   1 lap
26.  Lee Holdsworth        Holden   +   1 lap

Not classified/retirements:

     Driver                Make     Laps
     Garth Tander          Holden    13
     Rick Kelly            Holden     6
     Russell Ingall        Holden     5
     Dale Wood             Holden     4

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