I think really we’ve just got to wait and see; it’s all a big guessing game at the moment, but SEAT are a hugely professional team and they’re not going to be slow. We need to see what they’ve got. World Touring Cars are slightly different – they run Yokohama tyres and we run Dunlops, and the car might not perform on Dunlops – but they will be there, and obviously it’s the same with Vauxhall. Fabrizio Giovanardi’s aim is to win the championship, the car is very quick and they’ve done lots of testing.
Everything depends on qualifying really. If we’re off the front row – if qualifying was based on the times we did at Brands Hatch in testing – then the goal would be a win and nothing but. That’s what we’ve got to aim for, but if we qualify down in the midfield it makes it very tough. You’ve got a lot of cars around you, you’ve got to stay out of trouble and it’s all about picking up points, whereas if we’re off the front row, we’ve got the
BMW which is a fantastic car off the line and one that puts down the grip unbelievably well.
The future looks bright, but like I say we’ve got to bang in the results at
Brands Hatch. Hopefully we can have three clean races and leave Brands on Sunday night with a good haul of points to work towards the main aim that we need to have as a team, and that’s the championship. We need reliability, I need to finish all the races and then hopefully towards the end of the year we can see where it all pans out. It’s certainly going to be very, very tough, but top three in the championship is where we’ve got to aim for.
I’ll catch you later,
Mat
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