Saturday, October 3, 2009, 11:34 PM
Posted by Administrator
It has been a good weekend so far here at the Paul Ricard Circuit located in Le Castellet, France. I have continued to push myself hard to continue improvement in my speed in my Porsche GT3 RSR.Posted by Administrator
Driving the GT3 RSR is very different than the GT3 Cup Car which I compete with in Asia. The styles vary alot due to the design of the car and more importantly, the aerodynamic benefits of the RSR.
In order to maximise the RSR, you must be able to carry alot of mid corner speed, even in the lower speed corners, which is something I continue to improve in.
Last time I qualified the car, i placed the car in 9th position, but I have been able to improve since Hungary and find more of the limit of the car. Although I made a few minor mistakes today in the qualifying session, I put the car in 6th position, which was 0.5 seconds behind the fastest Porsche.
Our team has spent alot of effort to focus on a car that will be good over a 1 hour stint, so we feel this is the strength of our car, which we hope will benefit us in tomorrows race.
I will start the race tomorrow and push hard to gain as many positions as possible before handing the car over to my team mate, Marco Holzer of Germany.
Together, we should be able to put in a strong performance. I will focus on having a clean start in the race and most importantly, stay with the lead pack of the GT2 class before the first rounds of pit stops.
2 weeks ago in Portugal, we were leading the race before an engine failure ended our run. We will try to repeat a good race and have quick pit stops in order to climb up the leader board.
The race is this Sunday and the race will be streamed live on www.fiagt.com. Follow the race on the website, or watch the re-run of the races on ESPN/Star Sports during the weekdays this following week.

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