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Lowndes Wins Race 2

Craig Lowndes won race two at Eastern Creek in New South Wales to take his first round win in over two years

Lowndes took the win ahead of Marcos Ambrose and Greg Murphy in race two to take his first round win since the 2003 event at Phillip Island. By winning the second race, Lowndes took the round win from Ambrose who shared the same number of points, with Murphy third overall with a third and fourth place finish.

The result sees Ambrose cement his place on top of the standings, 35 points clear of teammate Russell Ingall with Steven Richards the best placed Holden in third, 123 points behind Ambrose. Former teammates Craig Lowndes and Mark Skaife are close behind Richards.

At the start of race two Ambrose led into turn one ahead of Lowndes, Greg Murphy, Todd Kelly and Steven Richards.

In a reversal of race one, Lowndes moved ahead of Ambrose at the pit stops. After passing Richards before the pit stops, Ingall lost out to him after the stops.

A couple of mid-race safety car periods, the second coming out after Paul Morris hit the tyre barrier at the high-speed turn one, bunched the field up.

At the restart Ambrose was right on Lowndes' bumper, but that was as close as he got for the rest of the race. Instead, Ambrose had to worry about Murphy who spent the second half of the race looking at Ambrose's rear bumper.

Lowndes led the rest of the way to win a few seconds clear of Ambrose and Murphy, Todd Kelly in fourth with Richards holding off Ingall in the closing laps to complete the top five places.

Result of Race Two, Eastern Creek, New South Wales:

Pos  Driver              Car
 1.  Craig Lowndes       Ford Falcon BA
 2.  Marcos Ambrose      Ford Falcon BA
 3.  Greg Murphy         Holden Commodore VZ
 4.  Todd Kelly          Holden Commodore VZ
 5.  Steven Richards     Holden Commodore VY
 6.  Russell Ingall      Ford Falcon BA
 7.  Mark Skaife         Holden Commodore VZ
 8.  John Bowe           Ford Falcon BA
 9.  Steven Johnson      Ford Falcon BA
10.  Garth Tander        Holden Commodore VZ
11.  Brad Jones          Ford Falcon BA
12.  Jason Richards      Holden Commodore VZ
13.  Cameron McConville  Holden Commodore VZ
14.  Rick Kelly          Holden Commodore VZ
15.  Jamie Whincup       Holden Commodore VZ
16.  Max Wilson          Holden Commodore VZ
17.  Craig Baird         Ford Falcon BA
18.  Paul Radisich       Holden Commodore VZ
19.  Matthew White       Ford Falcon BA
20.  Simon Wills         Holden Commodore VZ
21.  Jason Bargwanna     Ford Falcon BA
22.  Steve Owen          Ford Falcon BA
23.  Jason Bright        Ford Falcon BA
24.  David Besnard       Ford Falcon BA
25.  Alex Davison        Holden Commodore VZ
26.  Paul Weel           Holden Commodore VZ
27.  Glenn Seton         Ford Falcon BA
28.  Steve Ellery        Ford Falcon BA
DNF  Anthony Tratt       Holden Commodore VY
DNF  Mark Winterbottom   Ford Falcon BA
DNF  Andrew Jones        Holden Commodore VZ
DNF  Paul Morris         Holden Commodore VZ
DNF  Greg Ritter         Ford Falcon BA
DNF  Paul Dumbrell       Holden Commodore VY

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