The jump-start penalty for Javi in race two was tough, but he shrugged it off. When we told him over the radio he just said ‘ok, I’ll come in’ and he did. He knows when he makes an error it’s done and he lives with it; he doesn’t get flustered about it like some drivers do. I remember when he finished fourth in the feature race he was very upset, though, because he still hadn’t been able to reach the podium. That really got to him and was what he said bothered him the most over the weekend, because he said it would have proved to everyone he’s capable of driving. We don’t doubt he’s capable of driving – it does make it more difficult when he qualifies further back, but he’s
the driver who has overtaken more cars than anyone else over the course of the season. If you look at the statistics he has been extremely impressive.
After that we had an exhibition at Oviedo, which was insane – we didn’t expect it to be as big or as popular as it was. We wanted to show people in Spain what a GP2 car is, and as Oviedo is Javi’s home town as such we decided that was the right place to hold it. The mayor’s office said they would set it all up for us and make it like a track, and they did everything we asked for. It was absolutely spot-on.
We had one of Javi’s karts, the Formula Junior car he competed in, his F3 car when he raced with us and the GP2 car. He went out and showed people what he could do with a go-kart and did lots of donuts, then went out in the 1,600cc Formula Junior so people could see the car he had started off in single-seaters with at the very young age of 14. After that he went out in the F3 car, which makes a lot of smoke when you accelerate, and then did about six or seven laps of the track in the GP2 machine including pit-stops.
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