It was a good race for the team as Marco Holzer and I crossed the finish line in 4th position today in Round 5 of the FIA GT Championship in Budapest, Hungary.

I started the race in the #61 Prospeed Competition Porsche from 9th position on the grid. It was a very scrappy first few laps as everyone fought hard for position at the start of the race.

I managed to get pass Sugden on the 2nd lap moving me up to 8th place. The next 30 min was just straight driving hard as the pace of the field was quick and it was important to stay in touch with the front pack.

In front of me, Robert Bell began struggling with grip in his Ferrari so I began to attack him. I managed to late brake him into turn 1 to take 7th position.

My pace was good and I continued driving hard till the 50 minute mark when we came in for our first pit stop. Unfortunately,the wheel nut jammed during the pit stop costing us a valuable 15 seconds extra during the stop. Despite this problem, my team mate Marco Hozler drove a very strong stint, and although at one point he was stuck behind two ferrari's, he was able to overtake them again moving us up the order. It was a shame because if the pit stop hadn't gone wrong, we would have had more clean air to run rather than getting held up by the Ferrari's.

Because we planned for Marco to do a longer middle stint, we were able to lead the race for nearly 20 min of the race...At the final 15 min of the race, I changed back in for the mandatory second pit stop and finished off the race for the team.

I came out of the pit in 4th position and crossed the chequered in the same position. We finished a mere 15 seconds behind 3rd position and the final podium spot. Our results may have been better if our pitstop had gone better as we had a genuine shot at the podium. This is a team sport and all we can do is try to improve together as a team and learn from this experience.

We are pleased with the result and this moves me up to 11th position overall in the driver's GT2 standings and still very much in contention for a top 5 in the driver's championship!

Our team mates in the #60 car, Westbrook and Collard made a fantastic come from behind victory to win the race taking the lead on the last lap! This moves us up to 1st overall in the team championship.

Here is a link to the final results and also the overall driver standings in the GT2 Category.

http://www.fiagt.com/results.php?event= ... e%20Result

http://www.fiagt.com/points.php?season= ... mp;event=1

This weekend I'm here in Budapest racing at the Hungaroring for round 5 of the FIA GT Championship.

I'm back this weekend in the #61 car sharing a car with my team-mate Marco Holzer.

Free practice started off ok but we were struggling with some handling issues. We worked hard to improve the setup over the two free practice sessions and managed to find a decent balance before my qualifying session. Although ultimate pace is always a goal, we spent most our effot developing a good race pace so that our car wouldn't have a big drop off through a stint.

In the 15 min qualifying session, I managed to improve my lap time quite drasticly but it just wasn't enough to make a big impact. I was 1 second behind 1st place and 4 tenths away from a top 5 qualifying finish which put us back in 10th position for tomorrows race start.

Unfortunately, our team mates in the #60 Prospeed car had some problems in scrutineering and although they qualified on pole, will start the race from last position on the grid.

Marco and I will have our work cut out for us tomorrow, but there is one thing that I can guarantee and that is I will be pushing extremely hard right from the start of the race. Being aggressive is the only chance we have of getting back up onto the podium.

Follow live at www.fiagt.com with live streaming and live timing in tomorrows race.

It was an extremely tough weekend for me in the Carrera Cup Asia. We failed to nail down a strong and consistent setup all weekend long which resulted in a 4th and 5th place finish in rounds 7 and 8 of the championship.

I qualified the car for Team Jebsen in 4th place for the start of Saturday’s race. I gave it a good effort during qualifying but it just didn't go smoothly in any way.. I left the qualifying session quite frustrated...something that usually doesn't happen too often..

In race 1, I got off the line pretty well but not quick enough to overtake Sugden who was running in 3rd place. I attacked hard at the beginning but he defended and I wasn’t able to gain the position. Although I had the pace to run with the leaders, I couldn’t find my way past and I was right on his bumper for the entire race. I tried to give it a shot to pass him in the closing laps of the race, but the passing line was very dirty and I couldn’t make it stick. I had to settle for a 4th place finish.

In race 2 today, starting from 4th place again, I had a better start off the line and was able to grab 3rd into turn 1. I was able to run with the leaders of the race for the initial half of the race, but I began to lose a lot of grip and my car was oversteering quite a lot. My pace began to fall off quite a bit giving Sugden and Mikola the chance to reel me in. I gave it a hard fight and was able to hold them off for about 5 laps before Sugden got inside me in turn 5. As he passed me, Mikola followed Sugden through leaving me out in the dirty line.. I had to settle for a 5th place finish..

I’m extremely disappointed with the result as I needed to have a good weekend to close the gap back in the championship. That is how racing is, but I guess you can never be happy with a poor result… I’m going to work hard with the team to evaluate what happened to us this weekend and I’ll be looking to come back strong next month in the street race in Singapore…

With the track newly resurfaced a few weeks ago, the Sentul circuit in Jakarta Indonesia is extremely difficult to drive on due to how slippery the surface of the track is.

Yesterday in free practice, I tried various setups to gain grip on the car but the changes didn't seem too repsonsive with the car sliding around alot.

There is also a very narrow racing line on the track because off line is just so dirty and running even half a car length wide of the apex forces your car to slide really wide. This has lead to it being very hard to get consistent lap times on the track which should make it quite interesting in the race this afternoon.

It will also be challenging to get that perfect lap in qualifying as driving on the limit and trying to stay exactly on the racing line will be harder than anywhere I've driven this year. The surface changes between ashpalt and concrete also add to the fun!

For those that are wondering about my hand, yes it still hurts, but I've managed to be able to drive around the pain and will definitly be ok for qualifying and the race. I've adjusted my grip slightly on the wheel which makes it manageable and all I have to say is lucky that my hand isn't injured on the right which would be my shifting hand...

Qualifying and race 1 this afternoon. I'll give you an update when I can...

I made it through all of my childhood without having to get stitches....so I thought maybe I was out of the clear...Not true!!

Yesterday, I was cutting some fruit..I was trying to take out the pit when the knife slipped and went through the fruit, and into my palm...it was a deep cut..

I rinsed it off, put pressure on it, and rushed off to the hospital...

I had to get 4 stitches on my palm...the first time in my life! I have it all bandaged up now and I'm hoping that it will heal more over the next couple days..

It hurts to move my hand, which I suspect will make it difficult to compete as I am racing this weekend in Sentul, Indonesia..

Im definitely going to race and tough it out..but I have a feeling its going to be a painful experience!! Im off to Jakarta Thursday morning and I'll let you know how it goes by friday!!

There are 2 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia free practice sessions on Friday and qualifying and a race on saturday. The second race of the weekend will be on Sunday...