His family were crying afterwards, so obviously it ran some emotions through some of us. When he got out of the car he actually looked stunned. I saw him and he was looking at me, staring and I said ‘Marcos, you just finished fourth’ and he was like, ‘Yeah’. He looked like he was just amazed, but then again he’s always been really good in the rain; he will start on slicks when everyone else starts on rain tyres and plough through the field the minute it starts drying up, but even in the wet he doesn’t fall of the track. I think it was more than he expected; everyone was nearly in shock at his result, which was fantastic. That was a real high for us.
What happened in Sunday’s race was a pity. We didn’t expect Marcos to go off, because one of the things he is known for is his extreme consistency, and especially staying on the track. From what I recall of our years in F3 together, he never really had an accident. He only had one big shunt in testing at
Jerez once, so when he went off in Valencia we were kind of wondering what had happened, and then we saw that Xandi Negrao had pushed him off which he didn’t get penalised for and we felt was a bit unfair.
The main thing about that race, though, was that it showed the kid can be there even in the dry. He moved up the order and at the start passed Garcia and Soucek, both drivers who know the track very well. It was fabulous and he and Javi were running one behind the other in second and third, and I thought that would be a fantastic podium to have. Glock obviously was untouchable; he was on a mission to try to win the last race of the season since he had won the championship – and congratulations to both him and iSport for that – and then Marcos went off, which was heartbreaking.
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