Tagged ‘Formula 3’

Monaco 2011

Saturday, June 4th, 2011

Racing at Monaco is something that not many people get the chance to do, so going to the circuit in a World Series car for the first time can only make you feel a bit tense! I have dreamt of driving this circuit for many years and finally I got the opportunity to race there.

The circuit in general is a pretty slow speed track due to the amount of corners and small straights. At the beginning of every race event, Monaco is always very dusty and dirty as it has had a year’s worth of casual everyday driving on it. Going into the practice session I was briefed on keeping the car out of the barriers and making sure I had maximum track time. I had to take a pretty strict mindset into practice so I made use of every minute to my disposal rather than pushing too early and having a shunt.

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Spa-Francorchamps 2011

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Coming to Spa is always a great experience for me. It is hands down the best circuit I have driven to date, so always look forward to this Belgium round.

The first practice session was more about learning the circuit again on a partially greasy and green surface so the main thing was to just get laps round the track. I had some work to do for the second session but hadn’t used new tyres yet and was on some old tyres that had been flat-spotted in the previous race event. In the second practice I progressed and took some time off the fastest lap but with the lap being as long as 2:04 and having around 17 corners you can lose time very easily. The problem I had on my new tyres was various yellow flags at corners and not getting the free space I needed so with plenty in reserve I ended up around the 22nd mark after the first day.

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Spa-Francorchamps

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Ultimately this is my favourite circuit of all time, nothing comes close to it. I love the high speed corners and the rapid chicanes. After my win at Rockingham I was looking forward to getting in another here.
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Rockingham Round 5

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Rockingham has always been a low grip surface which is very hard on tyres. I quite like the circuit with a mix of everything, and being one of the only anti-clock clock-wise circuits. I had a nice result at Hockenheim to which I hoped to progress further and get some more results here.

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