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And another win to Winterbottom

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Ford Performance Racing’s Mark Winterbottom Extended his lead in the 2008 V8Supers Series by dominating race three of the City of Ipswich 400 at Queensland Raceway.
Winterbottom took his second consecutive victory of the weekend in a lights to flag race closely followed most of the way by former champion Russell Ingall who made a mistake with six laps to go allowing race one winner, James Courtney past, dropping Ingall to third.

Winterbottom lead Russell Ingall at the start of the 38 lap race. Ingall’s Commodore pressurising the Falcon of Winterbottom throughout the early part of the race. Eventually Ingall’s hopes to pass the Ford were dashed when he made an error with six laps to go, he ran wide and letting the Jeld-Wen Motorsport BF Falcon of James Courtney into second.

Toll Holden Racing Team’s Garth Tander crossed the line for fourth, just in front of the hard charging Will Davison, Team Vodafone driver, Jamie Whincup finished right behind Davison in sixth as he was trying to recover from a earlier mistake that dropped him four places.

The second Team Vodafone Falcon of Craig Lowndes followed his teammate in seventh place, with Fabian Coulthard eighth, Mark Skaife ninth and Lee Holdsworth completing the top ten.

Winterbottom was awarded the round’s overall victory ahead of Ingall and Courtney.