The Spa 1000 kilometres was my first race with Peugeot Sport and the closest thing we get to a dress rehearsal for the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Spa is an awesome circuit, probably one of the best in the world, so I love racing there but it's been a good ten years since I last tackled the Spa 1000 kilometres. So I was really looking forward to taking on the challenge once again with a brand new team.

Unfortunately it didn't go as well as I would have liked but the sister car had a faultless race and it was great for Peugeot to take the win.

I had a pretty frustrating race. I was overtaking another prototype and I thought I had enough room but he moved over. I tried to move to avoid him, but he tagged my right rear bending the wishbone.

We lost a lot of time in the pits but the team did a fantastic job to get me back out there. When we finally got racing again, after the safety car, I managed to pick up a few places. But then we received a penalty for that incident which dropped us even further down.

It's always easy to look back in hindsight after the event, but it is important to reflect on those experiences and see where we can learn. You can do that for every race, even if you win.

My first few laps at Spa were on intermediate tyres and it was raining pretty hard, so that was rather interesting. Spa does have a lot of grip but, with so many cars on the track, it was difficult to gauge the real grip level.

I've been to Spa before and driven that car before but, with three drivers all needing track time in advance of an event like that, you don't get a lot of time in the car and that was my biggest problem.

My first dry run was really on race day. I got two laps or so beforehand but both myself and Christian Klien were at the end of a line of 50 cars so all we could do was try and get through the traffic. I didn't get up to speed and neither did Christian on that run. I was due to go out in the warm up on Sunday but of course that was cancelled because of the fog.