{"id":30105,"date":"2017-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/craig-lowndes-has-big-news-for-fans-ahead-of-clipsal-500\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:00:00","slug":"craig-lowndes-has-big-news-for-fans-ahead-of-clipsal-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/craig-lowndes-has-big-news-for-fans-ahead-of-clipsal-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Lowndes has BIG NEWS for fans ahead of Clipsal 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Supercars legend Craig Lowndes has some good news for fans ahead of the 2017 season.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited about this year,\u201d Lowndes told Rowey and Bicks on FIVEAA, \u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a much better TeamVortex than you saw last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe start this season much better prepared than last year. We expanded to three cars this time last year, so we had a few hurdles to get over during the start of last year, which we did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe smoothed things out and really looking forward to hitting the ground running for the Clipsal. It is a tough race, no doubt about that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/306844299&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>TeamVortex will be driving a new Commodore in 2017, Lowndes said\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe actually give it a shake down next week, the following week we have our official test day. 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