I was passing cars left, right and centre – it was very exciting! There were a couple occasions where I was passing two or three cars in one shot as I came back from 22nd to eighth to grab the final point.
That put me on pole for the sprint race. At the start I squeezed Diego Nunes on the straight and he backed out of it, so I was clearly ahead turning into the corner. Suddenly, he just drove into me out of nowhere. I was keen to get ahead into turn one, because I knew he would hold up the quicker guys behind him, but the next thing I knew – bang! He ruined both our races…
Nothing went right in the final round in Dubai either, leaving me down in 13th position in the final drivers’ standings. Looking back over the GP2 Asia Series, everyone knows I’m quick, but that didn’t result in points for a variety of reasons and we didn’t get the wins and podiums we deserved. I’m still quite optimistic for the rest of the season, though.
It was hard work for all the teams and drivers to be shuttling between Europe and Asia, but the six test days we had with the GP2-08 car were very important to determine who gets the set-up right and who doesn’t. You know things are kicking off in GP2 when you are on good old Easyjet flight 2121 at stupid-o’clock in the morning from Luton to Nice to go to Paul Ricard – again!
The new car has proved to be quite a bit different to the old one. The aero package is really awesome, and I think that if we were allowed to use the full downforce levels we would be a worry to the back-of-the-grid
F1 teams. The suspension designs are quite different to last year and that has really proved to be quite tricky to get sorted out.
As a team, Bruno and I have both had up-and-down days. We were pretty even in the first test at Ricard and right in the ballpark for pace. I then had a nightmare at Barcelona with all sorts of reliability issues, while it was his turn to have a similar mess at Ricard at the third round of tests.
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