Archive for May, 2010
It’s been a few weeks since my last blog and during that time I managed to take my third and fourth National Class wins of the year at Silverstone and Magny-Cours. We had some bad luck as well at both events, including a puncture and some understeer problems because of a really bad flat-spotted tyre [...]
Bom Dia from the sunny Algarve! I’m writing this blog from the service park after shakedown. I left home in Cumbria on Monday at 3.30am to get my flight from Manchester. It had been a busy few days before we left as we had a 105km bike ride in Keswick on the Saturday. There were [...]
Hi, We have now completed our two days of recce, which have gone smoothly and well. First impressions of the roads after coming from Rally New Zealand are that they are very technical. There are a lot of things happening, which comes from a combination of short corners, short, sharp crests and combinations of corners. [...]
I’ve just got back from the hotel restaurant having had a fantastic bowl of pasta! It’s one of the great advantages of racing in Italy. I sneaked in a bit of pizza for lunch well as before doing my Imola track walk. It’s been a long day. I had to leave the flat at 4am [...]
Risk is all around in motorsport but nowhere more so than in the decisions you make in your early career. My first priority was always to make a living out of racing cars and I worried that being out of a drive for one year or even six months would stop me being able to [...]