When I was travelling to Hungary at the start of the weekend I thought it might be a bit difficult there because I'm still learning about the set-up and I'm still struggling a little bit with the car, and a circuit like that one is not really an ideal place to be learning about a car.

It's a difficult circuit technically, and I don't really love it to be honest: I was seventh in qualifying there last year, which wasn't that bad I guess, but it's not the type of circuit I can really enjoy. And of course, I had a big crash there in the race last year, which doesn't make me like it more!

Free practice was nothing special on Friday, and then it was straight into qualifying, or at least that's how it seemed because of the heat. Okay, we were a bit unlucky because with the first set of tyres we had a lot of traffic and on the second set I spun off and the tyres were gone. It was all my mistake, and it was because I thought we might have a gap in the traffic at last, but after that I was struggling with qualifying and everything just got more difficult.

In the race, I honestly wasn't expecting much because we were starting 21st, but even the pace wasn't fast. Sometimes you can have a bad weekend but at least if your pace is good then it's not so bad because you can say okay, it was a shame but I at least we were fast. Here I wasn't fast at all. I feel I'm not fast in the car, that my speed is not enough, because I can't carry the speed I want through the corners: I'm losing a tiny bit at all of the corners, it's not just one place where I lose a lot and that's it, but it's more just losing it corner by corner.

I made up a few places at the start but it wasn't enough, and everyone stopped around the same time as us so there was no advantage there. Then on Sunday, my start was okay, nothing special, but then I was behind Petrov. That's hard anytime, but in that race I wasn't as quick as him anyway, and then I felt something strange on the steering wheel, so I had to stop, and that was it.

The next three weekends I think are the best for me in terms of the circuits. I raced in Valencia and I think I was fast there so to me it felt good, and then Spa and Monza I think were my best weekends last year except maybe for Bahrain, because I was second in both race ones and also second in Monza race two: they were really good races for me and I know the circuits really well, so I think I can be fast again. The key point is going to be to find a better feeling with the car: it is the set up I think, because sometimes you have a moment where you are feeling good, feeling fast, and we just have to find a way to have that better feeling more often.

But next we have Valencia, and I am really looking forward to returning to that circuit. I was invited to race in the GT race there recently with my friend Max Visa, and it was a good weekend even if we had basically the same problem in both races: when the car was going over 100 degrees the electrics were cutting down!

It's a shame because we were fourth in race one, which is the one where my team-mate qualified, and in the second race I was third and the top two guys were penalised at the pit stop, so we were winning the race by a long gap until I handed over to my team-mate and suddenly the car just stopped. We knew that maybe the problem was coming, because we had the same problem the day before and we didn't really know how to solve it, and for Max it's a real shame because he was fighting for the championship and now he is nine points behind.

I just hope it's not a bad omen for me, although after this year you never know what is around the corner! I'm just hoping that my experience will count in qualifying, and we can set up for a strong weekend, at last.

Until next time,

Luca

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