The next round is in Bucharest in Romania this coming weekend. We’ve been working hard with the team’s trainer and trying to improve our fitness for the hot weather we expect to find out there. I’ve done a lot of A1GP races though, and they’re an hour-and-ten minutes long, so hopefully my fitness won’t be an issue. It will certainly be a tough race, and anyone who makes a mistake is going to come together with the wall; it will be all about just keeping consistent and pushing as hard as possible while remaining within your limits.
Being a street circuit, Bucharest may just suit our car a little bit more. With the experience that both myself and my team-mate have – with a few years of racing in F3 under our belts each – we hope that might push us onto the podium. We will wait and see what happens when we get there; it’s going to be a bit blind for everyone going into the weekend, and a few of the drivers have never driven on a street circuit before. I don’t know how the car is going to go there, but I hope we will be up scoring points at the least.
Now if we can keep working the way we have been doing, by midway through the season hopefully we will be challenging right at the front and getting podiums. I definitely think that is possible.
I’ll speak to you again soon,
Michael
Ultimate Motorsport is a new British-based racing team and the latest addition to Northamptonshire’s famed motorsport corridor. The team’s challenge is to end the years of Dallara dominance in British F3 using a new French-built Mygale chassis powered by Mercedes engines and driven by Esteban Guerrieri, of Argentina, and Ireland’s Michael Devaney.
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