It was a disappointing finish to an exciting weekend of racing at the Singapore GP. We continually improved the car throughout the weekend and had a very strong car to fight with in the race, however an engine misfire that started on lap 3 ended all hopes for a strong result.

In qualifying, I drove some good laps, but I struggled with an oversteer that cost me some time. I put the car in P3, which was 0.3 seconds behind the pole sitter Christian Menzel.

At the start of the race, Menzel and Sugden came together in Turn 5 giving me the chance to move up to P2, although Menzel was able to open a 2 second gap as I had to avoid hitting Sugden.

The chase was on and I was able to close the gap over the next two laps to bring the lead down to 1 second. My car felt great and the changes to the setup over night made a massive difference to correct the oversteer probelms we had on Saturday.

However, soon after, my engine began developing a small misfire. This slowed me down maybe 0.5 seconds a lap, but I was still able to keep pressure on Menzel for the first half of the race. The misfire continually got worse each lap until the final 3 laps where I was losing massive straight line speed slowing me down about 2 seconds per lap.

The 3rd and 4th place cars of Baird and Watts soon caught back up to me and although I tried my best to defend, they easily overtook me down the straights on the final lap to take the final podium positions..I crossed the line in 4th.

It was an extremely disappointing result for me as I know I had a car to challenge for the win today. To have engine problems for the second consecutive weekend brings across some frustration, however, I am fortunate that I was able to maintain the 4th position and finish the race.

I know there's nothing I can do about the problems, so I'll just have to keep my focus ahead to the future races, especially next weekends FIA GT race in France at Paul Ricard.

My website has been having techinical difficulties over the past couple weeks but we are getting it all sorted out and it seems to be fully functional again now.

I missed writing about my last race in Potugal last week so I'll give you a quick run down of the events that happened.

Marco Holzer, my team mate qualified the car in Portugal as it was his turn to do so. He did a great job and put the car in P2. However, one of his lap times were taken away after running wide on the last turn, so he started the race from P3.

Marco drove a strong stint in the first 50 minutes of the race and was in P4 when he came into the pits. We had a phenomenal pit stop overtaking 2 cars in the process.

I drove out of the pit lane in 2nd position and soon caught the leading Brixia Porsche and overtook him taking the lead of the race.

Our lead did not last long however, as after another 10 minutes our engine failed forcing us to pull into the pits. It was a real shame as we had a genuine shot at winning the race!

I'll have to put all that behind me this weekend as I am now in Singapore for the Porsche Carrera Cup. We are a support race for the Formula 1 Singapore GP.

The track has changed a little bit but not in drastic fashion. A few corners have been tightened and some widened to change the characteristics slightly. Some parts of the circuit have also been resurfaced which will make it a bit smoother.

Last year I was able to win here, so I'll be looking to do the sam eagain this weekend. I missed out on pole position last year by 1 tenth of a second so I'm going to try and grab pole on Saturdays qualiyfing session.

Today's free practice will be at night under the lights of Singapore so that will be very interesting. Our race however will not be at night but in the late afternoon.

Come back here to see how the free practice goes tonite..more updates to come...

Ciao!

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…