JT, my best mate from home, came with me and we both got in for a ride with the safety car driver. The car was fast! Easily the fastest car I’ve ever been in. It was hard to sit there and be driven around though. I’d have much rather been taking it for a thrash myself, but then again, that would have been lethal! I didn’t think much to the safety car driver, I thought he could have gone a bit quicker, pushed the boundaries a bit!
Me and JT then got in the 130i 1 Series which really ripped for a little car. Having grown up on a go-kart circuit for the last 15 years I like to think I’ve got a bit of an idea when It comes to four-wheels, but we did have a couple of close ones!
On the first lap I went in a bit hot at the end of the back straight and it was seriously under steering and going wide on the entry. I had to really play with the steering wheel to try and find some grip but came out of it ok! After that little scare I stepped back from that line about 10%!
On the second lap some of the Honda mechanics had run off at the second corner and buried themselves in the gravel and the
BMW people understandably didn’t look best pleased about it, so I cruised around the rest of the lap. I reckon I definitely had the measure of the safety car driver so I was happy about that!
On Friday morning it was blue skies right from when I woke up and looked like it was going to be a real nice day - as it had been the day before. The first session in the morning wasn’t really as I expected it to be. In testing earlier this year I was doing fast times and feeling nothing back from the bike, but it was doing exactly what I wanted it to do and it showed in the lap times.
