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What it's like to be paired with Bathurst 'royalty' - CtrlF.XYZ

What it's like to be paired with Bathurst 'royalty'

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Bathurst 1000 rookie Declan Fraser has vowed to "not beryllium a hero" and enactment himself into the play arsenic helium prepares to marque his Great Race debut.

Fraser volition thrust with Supercars fable Craig Lowndes successful a Supercheap Auto-backed wildcard introduction being tally by Triple Eight racing.

Speaking to Wide World of Sports, Fraser said helium is moving with his seven-time Bathurst champion teammate arsenic good arsenic squad brag Roland Dane to support his expectations successful check.

"I conjecture I don't privation to spell retired determination and beryllium the leader successful signifier 1 - we're conscionable going to physique up to it arsenic overmuch arsenic possible," the 22-year-old said.

"We privation to marque definite we get to Sunday day with a nice, clean, consecutive car."

Fraser is highly regarded successful the Supercars paddock. He leads the Super2 title with 2 contention meetings to go, and volition beryllium pulling treble duties connected the 1000 weekend.

He made his car racing debut successful the Toyota 86 bid successful 2017, earlier graduating to Super3 successful 2020, and Super2 past season.

Lowndes - who volition go the archetypal operator to ever commencement 300 rounds erstwhile the lights spell retired astatine the commencement of the contention - said his young teammate was similar a "sponge".

"He's travel to each Supercars lawsuit this twelvemonth and it's truly a recognition due to the fact that helium wants to learn, helium wants to understand," helium told Wide World of Sports.

"He's been sitting successful each the pre-briefs and debriefs with Shane (van Gisbergen) and Broc (Feeney) ... he's conscionable hopeless to larn and understand, and he's doing it the close way."

Having retired from fulltime racing astatine the extremity of 2018, Lowndes has spent the past 3 seasons arsenic Jamie Whincup's co-driver.

A twelvemonth aft his retirement, Whincup will vie astatine Bathurst arsenic co-driver to Broc Feeney, leaving Lowndes to spouse Fraser.

Shane van Gisbergen volition erstwhile again spouse Garth Tander successful the team's pb car.

Having a rookie arsenic a co-driver is besides a caller acquisition for Lowndes. Even erstwhile helium was coming done the ranks successful the mid-90s, each his co-drivers had immoderate benignant of Bathurst 1000 experience. He said the accommodation had truthful acold been smooth.

"Declan and I speech the aforesaid language, and the car setup and the mode we similar the car is similar," helium said.

He said the information some helium and Fraser were of a akin build, and truthful determination is nary compromise required ergonomically, was important successful a 1000km race.

Lowndes said helium was assured of a beardown result.

"His cognition is truly good, he's down to world and helium truly takes things connected board," helium said.

"If we tin enactment retired of occupation and a spot of luck goes our way, we tin person a truly beardown decorativeness to the race."

Fraser said helium understood however his esteemed co-driver would person felt successful the aboriginal days erstwhile Lowndes was teammates with Peter Brock.

Lowndes was precise overmuch seen arsenic Brock's protégé, and took implicit the relation arsenic instrumentality favourite erstwhile Brock retired astatine the extremity of the 1997 season.

"Yeah it's beauteous chill - it's my archetypal Bathurst commencement and I'm fundamentally driving with Supercars racing royalty successful Lowndesy," Fraser said.

The wildcard introduction is being tally by Roland Dane, who was Triple Eight brag until the extremity of past play erstwhile helium stepped backmost and handed the reins to Whincup.

In Fraser's past sojourn to Bathurst successful a Supercar, helium suffered a right-rear instrumentality seed nonaccomplishment astatine Reid Park, which caused him to rotation rear-first into the factual wall.

The car was destroyed and his play was done.

His instrumentality to the upland came earlier this twelvemonth successful the Bathurst 12-hour astatine the instrumentality of a MARC Ford Mustang.

He said the countless fig of laps helium completed implicit that play means his 2021 shunt is retired of his mind.

Fraser's past time successful the car earlier the 1000 came astatine a trial time astatine Queensland Raceway connected Wednesday.

The livery for the car volition beryllium launched connected Tuesday, earlier signifier starts connected Thursday.

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