With the Pilbeam, the problem we had was that there were some suspension mods that were failing. I never really got to drive the car if I’m being honest, but Warren had picked the pace up so much and the team had worked so much on the car that it just needed a re-think and we didn’t have the time to do that. Of course, it isn’t an easy to decision to leave the Pilbeam to one side for the moment and race another car, but I think it is the right move. The Radical is a proven race car and everyone has a mountain to climb now with it being so close to the start of the season, but the guys are happy working on it and when you sit in the car, it is a great machine.
I’ve had no seat time in the Radical which is the only problem going to Monza. If it was a GT car, I could jump into a GT1 or GT2 car and be comfortable straight away as it’s what I’m used to, but I haven’t found my comfort zone in the prototype yet. Warren has found his and has done a lot of mileage in these cars so he is happy but myself, I’m a little bit behind the eight ball. Hopefully we can have a good hour and half of testing and then go into qualifying and be comfortable by the time we get to the race. There is just that little bit of an unknown at the moment.
Before going to Monza, I was due to drive for Martin Braybrook’s team - Brookspeed Racing - in the opening rounds of the British GT Championship at
Oulton Park. I started my GT racing career with Brookspeed many years ago and it was going to be a bit of a thank-you to them for helping out with my career. Time was against us though, so we ended up putting Nigel Greensall into the Viper with James Littlejohn instead and they did well to get a top ten finish with a new car.
Even though I wasn’t racing, I still went along to the track and it was really good as I found myself helping out with one of the other Viper teams, Moore Racing. I drove the Moore Viper a few weeks ago at
Snetterton so I was acting as a bit of go-between over the weekend.
