page_title: Craig Lowndes
section_title: 2016
hierarchical_section_title: Craig Lowndes / Racing career / 2016
caption_attribution_description: English: Craig Lowndes in his 600th championship race at the 2016 Red Rooster Sydney SuperSprint
context_page_description: Craig Andrew Lowndes OAM is an Australian racing driver in the Supercars Championship competing in the Holden ZB Commodore for Triple Eight Race Engineering. Lowndes is a three-time V8 Supercar champion, a five-time Barry Sheene Medalist, and a seven-time winner of Australia's most prestigious motor race, the Bathurst 1000 and two-time winner of the Bathurst 12 Hour.
  On 6 July 2018, Lowndes announced his intention to step down from full-time driving at the end of the 2018 season, continuing as a co-driver.
  Among all his other achievements, Lowndes has claimed nine 500 kilometre V8 Supercar/ATCC endurance titles. He is also the first driver in ATCC/V8SC history to win 100 races and holds the record for the most Bathurst 1000 podiums with 14.
  On 11 June 2012, Lowndes received the Medal of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his success in motorsport and contribution to the broader Australian community, "particularly through road safety education programs and charitable organisations."
  In 2018 Lowndes was also recognised in the prestigious Australian Institute of Sport Performance Awards, as the ABC Sports Personality of the Year.
context_section_description: In 2016, Shane van Gisbergen joined Triple Eight Race Engineering, with Lowndes moving to a third Triple Eight entry sponsored by Caltex and engineered by long-time technical director Ludo Lacroix. Lowndes won his first race of the year at the Perth SuperSprint, where he charged through the field after taking on a two-stop strategy. At the Sydney SuperSprint, Lowndes became the first driver to enter 600 championship races, and after leading the first half of the race, finished second to Whincup, who in the process became the second driver after Lowndes to win 100 races.
caption: Lowndes in his 600th championship race at Sydney Motorsport Park
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