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Carroll Service: Day 1 - Getting acclimatised.

Friday, 8th June 2007

Adam Carroll charts his first 'home' DTM weekend at Brands Hatch for Crash.net, but as his diary reveals, it was a weekend that didn't necessarily go to plan...

After two seasons spent trying to impress the partisan crowds at Silverstone during his stint in the GP2 Series, Adam Carroll is able to call Brands Hatch his home for the first time after visiting along with the rest of his DTM rivals for the fourth round of the season.

With each day of the weekend bringing with it equal measures of joy, promise, desperation and disappointment, the Brands Hatch round of the championship was certainly a roller coaster ride of emotions for the Northern Irishman, as his diary exclusively for Crash.net reveals…


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Getting acclimatised again

We have had first practice and after finishing the session with the second fastest time I have to say that it has been a good start. Hopefully we can continue and keep it out front for the rest of the weekend now. I have been up there generally in testing this year and you do get a lot of running here, so it is possible to get the set-ups dialled in well here, but when the conditions change over the weekend and it gets a bit hotter, it makes our life a little more difficult. I am hopeful though that we can continue this pace.

I’m coming to Brands Hatch having had a pretty good season so far. There is not much I can do other than try and match my team-mate or the other Audi drivers and try and generally get the best out of what I have, which I feel I have done.

The 2005 car is a good car and although I am light compared to the other guys, I think at certain parts of the track you don’t have the downforce you need. However, I have to admit that in medium to low speed corners where all the mechanical grip is important, I am much better there and I can match the other guys.

Driving a 2005 car is not a problem, although on paper it looks like the slowest compared to the 2007 and 2006 machinery. However, Paul (di Resta) is obviously doing a good job at the moment, even though I suspect he must have all the right bits underneath him and only they know what he has and what he hasn’t.

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