Audi's Allan McNish contests his final race before the Le Mans 24 Hours this weekend as the Le Mans Series heads to Spa for the third round of the year.
McNish heads to Spa in Belgium just over a month ahead of the prestigious Le Mans 24 Hours and will hope that the excellent form shown by his Audi Alex Premat and Mike Rockenfeller will finally be carried over to the #1 car.
While McNish and co-driver Dindo Capello to fifth and sixth place finishes in the LMS this season following issues at both Barcelona and Monza. two runners-up positions for Premat and Rockenfeller put them at the head of the LMS standings going into round three at Spa.
“I'm going to Spa determined to recover some of the ground we've lost and to register the first LMS win for the Audi R10 TDI,” McNish said. “In each of my races for Audi this year, it's been a case of fighting back from a delay so I'm out to change matters.
“At Sebring we had some brake issues we'd never previously encountered. In Barcelona an alternator belt broke – again unheard of within Audi Sport. In our last race, Dindo was unfortunate to get tangled up with a slower car which caused substantial damage.
“In each of the cases pit-stops, although superbly executed by the Audi team in terms of getting the car fully repaired in a remarkably short amount of time, nevertheless caused us to then fight back through the field when we'd been in contention for race wins prior to our little niggles.
“I don't believe in luck, good or bad, but I'm certainly hoping there's a change in our fortune especially as the ‘big one' comes up after Spa and it would be nice to head for France with a victory under our belts.”
The Spa-Francorchamps circuit is one of the most historic on the LMS calendar and McNish added it was a circuit he enjoyed racing on – despite bad luck during his last LMS race there back in 2004 where his title hopes quite literally went up in smoke.
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