My life in the fast lane
15.5 hrs... 
Sunday, July 26, 2009, 01:36 PM
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We have just come out of the night and the sun is shining, unlike the rain we had earlier on in the race...

We made it through the night trouble free since the earlier crash and have managed to climb back up a few positions...

We still continue to struggle with the handling in the car, but there is nothing we are going to be able to do about it except drive it like it is! Our team is still pushing hard to try to climb back into the top 5.....

We've moved from 9th position back to 7th but we still have alot of laps to catch up from the others...Time to take a nap before my next stint...

live timing and streaming at www.fiagt.com
Car hit by Maserati but back on track... 
Sunday, July 26, 2009, 06:21 AM
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The race got off to a decent start for the team today... We have been suffering handling problems right from the start of the race so it has made the job difficult for all the drivers on Prospeed.

After my stint on the 6th hour, I passed off the car back to Westbrook... He had good pace and was catching up to 3rd place... but as he headed into the last turn, a Maserati GT1 over ambitiously tried to overtake him and hit him hard on the right rear suspension.

The car was heavily damaged on the rear suspension..However, the team did a fantastic job and managed to change the entire right rear suspension in 20 min and after losing 10 laps, the car was back on track...

There is 16 hrs remaining in the race..i'm going to try and get some rest before my next stint...We currently lie in 22nd position overall and 9th in the GT2 category.
Driver change practice that went wrong! 
Saturday, July 25, 2009, 01:29 AM
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Click the link to see a bad driver change today....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo3SKCVuEjM

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
Lazyness!?! 
Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 11:05 PM
Posted by Administrator
Ok everyone, I have to admit it.. I've been lazy the past few weeks in my blogging...Since my last Zhu Hai race, alot of things have happened!

Redbull has become the fastest Formula 1 team on the track taking over from Brawn GP! Michael Jackson, the pop legend has passed away, and even more sadly, two hotels in Indonesia were bombed last week, the same weekend I had meant to be there... For once, I am extremely happy a race was postponed for us as the Indonesia stop was moved back a months time....

Moving on, although I've been lazy in my blogging, I haven't been lazy in Hong Kong! I've been extremely busy with things having several interviews with television, newspaper, and radio..I had several events for my sponsors including a Porsche weekend where we invited many customers to come to the Kowloon Bay Service center to try out and see many new and used Porsche's which were for sale....I've also been training extremely hard in the gym by stepping up my training program to 3 hour long sessions 6 days a week.. ok......sometimes 5 days a week when im really busy...;)

I posted some copies of interviews up on my website and facebook fan page. Although I had several interviews, the most fun had to be the one where I hosted as a guest DJ on a 1 hour radio show for Commercial Radio...I managed to choose and play various songs on the radio from my childhood all the way up to present time... lots of fun! It was also for a good cause as the charity I chose for donations was World Vision Hong Kong, which is a Christian Charity that puts volunteers and money to work for those in need.

Anyhow, off I go to one of the biggest races of the year..The 24 hours of Spa in Belgium.. I will be posting various updates throughout the weekend and it will hopefully give you alot of insight to what the 24 hours of Spa is all about...

Onto the plane I go! See ya soon!


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