But if a couple of times where we broke down or had a bit of bad luck - I think Nicky Pastorelli in one round touched my back tyre and it burst, which was very unexpected, they don’t normally happen like that - if we’d had the results that maybe we should have had we could have won it in the rounds we did.
Certainly I think if we’d started the year with a proper budget, I think considering the sort of pace I had during the year we would have been in with a very strong chance. But we started the championship knowing that realistically we wouldn’t be able to win it realistically - having missed the first three rounds and being on a limited budget - so we just went out there and took each race as it comes and tried to get as many good results as possible.
And that’s what we did. We had a few too many DNFs, for various reasons, but at the end of the day I think I did well, it got me some good publicity and that’s all I could really hope for, considering the situation.
Q:
We know that for 2005 the Euro F3000 championship has morphed into Formula Superfund. You were one of the first drivers to have a run in the new car - what were your impressions of that?
Alex Lloyd:
The car was fantastic. I spent a good few days prior to that run in the factory having a look at it coming together, and it was a very exciting thing to get in the car first - albeit only on a runway, it was very rough and you couldn’t really get up to full speed - but to get a feel for it: it’s a fantastic car. I think it’s quicker than a GP2 car and probably as close, in Europe, to a
Formula One car as you can possibly get. So we’ll have to see what happens…
Q:
So would you be looking at running in the Superfund series next year or have you got ambitions to go to GP2 or the new Renault World Series?
Alex Lloyd:
We were looking at Superfund, but I think there’s some bad news on the horizon for that championship and its not looking too great so I think that’s probably a non-runner for us. So GP2 and World Series we’re looking at very strongly.
