Triple Eight Race Engineering has secured a formidable line-up for the PIRTEK Enduro Cup, reuniting Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup and bringing in Garth Tander.
Full-time retirees Craig Lowndes and Garth Tander will be endurance co-drivers for Triple Eight Race Engineering in 2019, forming the strongest driver pairings since the rule that split full-time drivers in 2010.
That rule change followed the domination of the Lowndes- Jamie Whincup combination (pictured right) from 2006 to 2009, in which time they won three consecutive Bathurst 1000s from 2006 to 2008, the Sandown 500 in 2007 and took seven podiums from eight races.
“Lowndesy and Whincup together, you can’t beat that combination,” says team principal Mark Dutton.
“They changed the rules to split them; that’s why the rule came in that you couldn’t pair main drivers, because of those two. The fact we can get them back together, bring it on!
This story is from the February - March 2019 Issue 109 edition of V8X Supercar Magazine.
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