The Supercars tale joined Triple Eight in 2005 because the main wide signing for the intrepid Roland Dane-flee squad.
He conducted a first-rate draw within the team’s evolution into powerhouse squad, a success 58 races, together with six Bathurst 1000 crowns, along the approach.
While his plump-time take care of T8 ended at the conclusion of the 2018 season, he has persevered with the team as an enduro driver ever since.
In the present day he heads up the squad’s wildcard programme and may maybe maybe companion Zane Goddard at the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000.
He has now dedicated to the next two persistence seasons with Triple Eight which will lengthen his time at T8 to 2025 – a two-decade milestone.
The deal coincides with Supercheap Auto extending its T8 backing.
“I’m fully happy to be persevering with my racing profession with Triple Eight for the next two years and I’m exasperated to reach a 20-one year milestone with the team in 2024,” Lowndes acknowledged.
“I’ve shared some unheard of moments with Triple Eight over the previous 18-and-a-half years, and I are searching to thank Jamie [Whincup], Jess [Dane] and the team for searching to lengthen this profitable partnership. It’s loopy to think we’ll be celebrating two a protracted time together subsequent one year!
“After I retired from plump time racing at the tip of 2018, I constantly acknowledged that I wanted to proceed to end engaging by fostering the next skills of Supercars racers, which I’ve been lucky ample to attach thru the team’s wildcard programme.
“It’s something that I salvage every professionally and in my idea rewarding and a approach I’m in a position to give succor to the sport that has been this form of wide a part of my life.
“For now, I’m genuinely ready for the upcoming enduro season alongside Zane Goddard and may maybe maybe maybe’t wait to hit the song for our upcoming take a look at days in preparation for the Sandown 500 in September.”
Whincup, Lowndes’ worn teammate and now managing director of T8, reiterated that the team would no longer the powerhouse it is without Lowndes.
“Lowndesy is clearly an wide a part of Triple Eight’s DNA, and for him to proceed his legacy with the team into a twentieth one year and previous is mainly unheard of,” acknowledged Whincup.
“I’ve in my idea shared so many recollections with Craig, highlighted by our Bathurst 1000 three-peat which I’ll treasure forever. We wouldn’t be the build we’re in actuality without his contribution to the team and the sport as a complete.
“Lowndesy’s value is appropriate as precious off the song because it is on it. His mentorship of the childhood in our sport, as we’ve seen from the success of our Supercheap Auto Racing wildcard programme over the previous two years, has been wonderful.
“For these young guns to possess any individual of Lowndesy’s calibre by their aspect sharing his dash craft and skills is something they’ll most attention-grabbing dream of.”
