by Russell Atkins
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He may not be superstitious, but reflecting on an Asia Series and start to the main GP2 championship in which anything that can go wrong pretty much
has done, Karun Chandhok admits he is beginning to believe he has upset somebody somewhere along the line.
The Indian bidding to become only the second of his countrymen to ever break into the top flight, in the wheeltracks of Narain Karthikeyan who competed for Jordan Grand Prix back in 2005 and tested for
Williams until the end of last year enjoyed a solid debut season in
Formula 1's feeder series at Durango in 2007, with victory at Spa-Francorchamps the undisputed highlight of what was a highly promising rookie campaign.
Having been snapped up by reigning title-winning outfit iSport International for 2008, heading into the inaugural GP2 Asia Series the man from Mumbai had high hopes indeed, but he acknowledged that despite displaying prodigious raw speed it has not exactly gone according to plan
It was a bit of a nightmare to be honest, Chandhok told
Crash.net Radio, looking back over five rounds that yielded a brace of front row starting spots but ultimately just seven points. We kept qualifying well, but to get just one podium was pretty disappointing in the end I think for everybody.
We had a couple of issues in pit-stops and some mechanical problems, and overall we were just very, very unlucky. I got taken out twice from races one when leading in Bahrain obviously and in Malaysia I qualified on the front row and then the engine went into safety mode. That was nobody's fault it was just one of those strange electronic glitches that unfortunately I'm not intelligent enough to understand!
![iSport International ace Karun Chandhok celebrates on the GP2 Asia Series podium in Dubai [pic credit: Karun Chandhok]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/429652.jpg)
