Snetterton was a good weekend, I had three wins and three fastest laps and I was keeping pace with a few of the championship cars but in hindsight, knowing what I know now as I was always learning throughout the year, I think I probably could have made more of a dent on the championship cars if I’d applied myself at some of the weekends.
Crash.net:
2005 you’ve elected to make the switch from what is now called the National Class up to the main Championship Class. I wonder if you could just bring us up to speed with where you stand in relation to your 2005 drive.
Ryan Lewis:
Well at the moment we’ve provisionally said to T-Sport, and we’ve got an agreement with them, that we’ll be running for them next season – halfway through 2004 I made it clear that that’s what I wanted to do.
Right from the start we saw it as a two year programme where we’d do one year in the Scholarship/National Class and then move up to the Championship car and that’s the progression that we were going to make with them, but at the moment we haven’t committed to signing a deal with T-Sport because we don’t want to commit to something and then towards the end of the season run out of cash and not be able to finish the year. That would be unfair to T-Sport and we don’t want to chuck everything in without getting it secure first of all.
Crash.net:
How much time have you had to run in the Championship car since the 2004 season ended? Have you had much chance to see what the main differences are between the car you drove last season and the car you’ll hopefully have in 2005?
Ryan Lewis:
Everyone will say that the Scholarship car that I drove last season, which is the same spec that
Takuma Sato won the championship with, is the best Formula Three car that there has been for a long time in that is very drivable and easy to learn in – it’s a very nice car to drive.
