It’s hard to believe that we are rapidly approaching the halfway point of my first season in the GP2 Series, but I know one thing for sure: the second half can’t be any harder than the first!
Actually, to say that we are approaching ‘halfway’ is a little misleading, even if we have had a ‘half-time’ break while
Formula One went off on its trip to Canada and America and I am writing this in July. We have still only had seven races, and there are still 14 to go, so really we are only a third of the way through and there is still a lot of racing to be done.
I’m hoping that things start to pick up a little from my home race at
Silverstone this weekend. It hasn’t been the easiest of debuts with one thing and another, and I know there is more to come from both me and the DPR team.
For starters, I think I've had all my health problems at once. First of all, in Barcelona, I had a problem with my back, which sort of hindered me in the first race and made me pull out of the second, even though we were running in a strong ninth position. Then, in Monaco, I had some food poisoning during qualifying, so I wasn’t really at my best. Throw in Bahrain, where I’d not raced before and you can see that it was a tough baptism.
The problem in Barcelona was a strange one, but I’ve spoken to one of the physios at the
Red Bull Racing team, and he admitted that it happens every so often, especially to drivers doing a lot of testing. The third corner at the Circuit de Catalunya is very high g-force and, as I was powering through there, the rear end came out. As I went to correct it, a nerve got trapped in my back. It was just a combination of the sudden movement and the amount of g-force. There's not a lot you can do about it - it's just unlucky.
![Christian Bakkerud - DPR [pic credit: GP2 media]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/344953.jpg)
