24 hrs of Spa.... Here we go....
Friday, July 24, 2009, 03:10 AM
Posted by Administrator
I'm glad to be back here again for the 24 hours of Spa. I remember back in 2006, I ran here in a 996 GT3 RSR, and this time, I'm back in the 997 GT3 RSR with my FIA GT Team, Prospeed Competition.
The big difference this wknd is that I'll be moving from the teams #61 car over to the #60 Porsche. I will be driving along side Emmanuel Collard, Richard Westbrook and Sean Edwards....
It's been a day of rain and shine here at Spa... Since this morning, the conditions haven't stopped changing...
Early in the morning, Westbrook and Edwards took the car out on a wet track and ran the first laps for the team...
Later on in the day, Collard and I took the car out in the 2nd session and ran the car in the dry...The car is running well and we were able to put the car in P3 and P4 in the two practice sessions...
It was great learning the circuit in the RSR. I forgot how much downforce is generated in comparison to the Cup Car as alot of places where it was high speed and difficult in the cup car, it seemed to be more stable and easier to keep a high minimum corner speed...
The first qualifying session just finished about an hour ago. We didnt have very good luck during the session as it began raining after 3 laps. Collard was driving and he wasn't able to really bring out the potential of the car putting the car 7th in class and 16th overall...
There are two more night qualifying sessions tonight but it looks like the rain is going to keep on coming. Each of the drivers need to take the car out for 3 laps in the night so we're going to do that in about half an hour.
Fingers crossed, hopefully the track will dry in the final qualifying session so we can try to better our grid position, but that is highly unlikely.
We will see! More updates to come...
Here are the qualifying times..keep in mind that the track had a light drizzle of rain on it so the times are a bit slower than from the free practice...
http://www.fiagt.com/results.php?season ... ifying%201