Hitech Racing was left frustrated by a series of red flags after qualifying for the latest rounds of the British F3 International Series at
Croft.
The team elected to try and new set-up on the cars of Walter Grubmuller and Max Chilton during the opening qualifying session but neither driver was able to get a clear lap as Grubmuller qualified in 18th with Chilton two places higher.
With the decision taken to go back to a set-up that had seen the team run strongly in official testing earlier this month, both drivers looked set to move up the order in the second session, but two red flags one of which ended the session as the duo prepared to go back onto the track to go for a time left Chilton and Grubmuller down in 14th and 19th.
We've had a very frustrating day caused by a variety of problems, team boss David Hayle said. For Walter we tried some aerodynamic parts on the car for the first session which sadly didn't quite work for him but he was also caught in traffic. We reverted back to the original settings for the second session and were hopeful of improving until the session was stopped seven minutes early preventing us from doing so.
Max unfortunately missed the official two-day test so the track is unknown to him in the new car. In the second session, he'd made some great improvements over the course of the session but on new tyres the session was red-flagged and then stopped prematurely and he was unable to rejoin the track.
