The Championship car, when you’ve driven it enough, obviously you have a sequential gearbox rather than the H-pattern gearbox and there are a few other little things, but there is more of a fine line especially in the high speed corners where you don’t have as much of a margin to make mistakes. You have to have more finesse and drive to more of a fine line, but you reap the rewards as the car is much faster.
Crash.net:
Looking at the championship for 2005, you have more races on the continent. From a drivers point of view, how exciting is it that you’ll be driving on some of the most famous circuits in Europe?
Ryan Lewis:
It’s going to be the third year in a row that I get to race at Spa, which is brilliant as it’s my favourite circuit and I always love going there. Obviously we get to go to the Nurburgring which is another
Formula One circuit and we’ll also be on the
Silverstone GP circuit and Monza as well. I love Monza, I’ve raced there previously in Formula Palmer Audi and won there so it will be great to go back there again.
When we were testing there it was tipping it down with rain so it didn’t go quite as well as it could have done, but it will good to go back out there when it is nice and sunny and the weathers a bit better and Silverstone is an awesome circuit as well.
Crash.net:
Once the budget is in place are you confident you could be a title challenger in 2005?
Ryan Lewis:
Yeah definitely. I’m not going into this thinking that I’m going to be chasing anyone, I’m going to be leading from the front. I’m not going to be looking at someone’s gearbox for most of the season trying to push them into a mistake.
I’m going to be going in there with the attitude that I’m putting the car on pole and I’m going to beat everyone before the race even starts.
Crash.net:
You said it was a two year plan with T-Sport so where are you looking to be for next season? Are you looking to maybe follow our champion from 2004 [Nelsinho Piquet] and make the step up to GP2?
Ryan Lewis:
Well I think that Nelsinho is in a much different position to a lot of the other people that were on the grid last year in that he has a big budget and he has a big PR machine behind him as well.
