Predator Racing Group Blog
By Bob Power
Thursday
Race number two is upon us! We just arrived here at Munich and just unloaded the cars, we cant be any more excited to be here and one of my favorite tracks to be at.
For our goals for the weekend is to finish in the top 15 I think we can achieve this and will look good for our current sponsors.
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Friday - Practice
Final afternoon practice was a very cool but sunny 55 degrees we manage to hit on a good setup with Sofi, but Santa ana never hit on a wing adjustment she liked during practice. Isabel Bishop made some final adjustments to her car and hopefully she will like them.
Jean-Francois Beauchamp from Garuda Racing won the round with a time of 1:36.476
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Race Day
As the rules states reversed driver points position grid Santa Ana will start 3rd and Sevilla will start 4th.
We had a little weather in the morning of the race that lingered to the start with light rain. We opted to stay with softs as the track was not that wet. Vaananen lead early on and Santa Ana was able to hang on to 3rd till her first stop. Sevilla on the other hand got trapped behind a slower car and fell to 13th at the start.
On lap 6 Jean-Francois Beauchamp slamed into the back of Sergio Arbeloa when the track was a little damp and both had to pit early. No caution.
Soon after a wild ride for Eduardo Melo as he went head on into turn 12 tire wall. The track was still a little wet. Claen up had to be made from Melo car and to the tire wall. Yellows out!
It was a busy pit road, Santa Ana made a few adjustments to her car and drops to 9th, Sevilla had a vary bad stop and came out 15th as Sergio Valdes leads them to the green.
Not much excitement happen after that as the field got strung out as Santa Ana fought her way up to 5th with 10 to go as Sevilla got as high as 10th before the last stops and with heavy storms linger in the area.
With 5 to go we gained some with the weather as every one anticipated the storm but it rained later in the run as we switch to wets.
Last lap! Santa Ana got to carried away in 6th and lock them up big time resulting her tires to blow out and limping home to 16th. Sevilla on the other hand push her car a little to much and ran out of fuel coming to the line finishing 12th
Sergio Valdes take the win with El Sadat 2nd and Arbeloa 3rd
After the race the GMA handed out 5 penalty's to pit road violations to over aggressive driving resulting in a pass thru. Arbeloa,Chu,Sabado,Beauchamp,Jha
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On lap 6 Jean-Francois Beauchamp slamed into the back of Sergio Arbeloa when the track was a little damp and both had to pit early. No caution.
Soon after a wild ride for Eduardo Melo as he went head on into turn 12 tire wall. The track was still a little wet. Claen up had to be made from Melo car and to the tire wall. Yellows out!
It was a busy pit road, Santa Ana made a few adjustments to her car and drops to 9th, Sevilla had a vary bad stop and came out 15th as Sergio Valdes leads them to the green.
Not much excitement happen after that as the field got strung out as Santa Ana fought her way up to 5th with 10 to go as Sevilla got as high as 10th before the last stops and with heavy storms linger in the area.
With 5 to go we gained some with the weather as every one anticipated the storm but it rained later in the run as we switch to wets.
Last lap! Santa Ana got to carried away in 6th and lock them up big time resulting her tires to blow out and limping home to 16th. Sevilla on the other hand push her car a little to much and ran out of fuel coming to the line finishing 12th
Sergio Valdes take the win with El Sadat 2nd and Arbeloa 3rd
After the race the GMA handed out 5 penalty's to pit road violations to over aggressive driving resulting in a pass thru. Arbeloa,Chu,Sabado,Beauchamp,Jha
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Race run down
we had a really great race with Santa ana and Sevilla. We manage to fix the little gremlins that plagued us during the first race even tho the results didnt show for it. We definitely showed some muscle in this race and over all we completed our goals for the race weekend. On to Milan!
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