Well, qualifying is over and I guess you couldn't say it was pretty. On a positive note, we made some adjustments to the cars setting during the session that has definitely made an improvement for the car.

Everything started off pretty well for me. I began my session getting the tires warm for the first couple laps. I began to push hard and I noticed an understeer in the car. It was not a major problem, but it was defenitely costing me some time.

On about lap 6, I was on a great lap. My first 2 sectors had been my quickest, however, as I approached chicane near the pit lane, I hit the inside curb and came off strange. This put my car into a spin! I touched the wall, damaged my left rear wheel, and my rear bumper. I drove the car back into pit lane.

The mechanics inspected the car and everything seemed to be ok. I put on my second set of tires and went out. At about turn 6, my alternator light came on and by turn 10, my engine temperature light came on. I later found out my alternator belt had come off and had caused the water pump to stop and therfore overheating my engine. I was able to bring it back to pit lane, and I thought my session was over.

To my surprise, my mechanics at Schnabl Engineering and with some assistance from Porsche, we were able to put a new alternator belt in and I was able to go back out to finish my session.

When I went back out, I felt that I had a little less confidence than before I crashed the car. I quickly built this back up by going quicker every lap, on my last of 4 laps, I was able to put in my best lap of the session and thankfully jump from 23rd to 17th. Of course, this is not the result I wanted, but I felt that under the circumstances, I was lucky to be able to get back out and set a time.

I definitely could've put a better time out there with a few more laps, and I am quite disappointed wiht my mistake early in the session, but I'll put this behind me and drive a good race tommorow. Everything is possible in a race like Monaco so I hope to put in a solid result and score some more points in the race.

Qualifying is the most important, especially on a track like Monaco where overtaking is very very difficult, so alot of the weekend was lost from the bad qualifying result. I can't change the past, so I can only look forward!

I have a day off tommorow and the race will be on Sunday. Remember to catch the exciting race live on Eurosport!

Link to Qualifying Results:

http://www.racecam.de/index.php?lang=en ... amp;sid=21

Link to my Qualifying Quote:

http://www.racecam.de/files/ced370c04e6 ... 1young.mp3




Photo's in Monaco Courtesy of racecam.de