Duncan Tappy admits that he could have featured higher up the World Series by Renault timesheets after two days of testing with British teams Red Devil Comtec and Fortec Motorsport this week.
The new Formula Renault UK champion accepted a chance to test with two race-winning teams as reward for his season of success, but insists that, in trying to understand the limits of the soon-to-be-pensioned off Dallara-Renault combination, he was unwilling to give his all personally and potentially end his days early.
The 23-year old is looking to make the move to the international series for 2008, and made a good start to his time in Valencia by steadily progressing on his day with 2006 series champion Comtec. After the morning session, he was an impressive eighth overall, before finishing the day a very credible 13th among drivers who, in the main, had experienced the cars either throughout the season or at earlier tests.
“Stunning!" was team boss Jonathan Lewis' reaction, "He hasn't put a wheel wrong. He just gets on with the job. He's probably the best British driver to come from the junior formulas that I've seen for a long time.”
What he learned about the car and working with the Comtec team for a full day, he took to Fortec on day two, effectively stepping up from the squad that had engineered him to his FRenault UK title.
The morning session proved disappointing after Tappy lapped seven-thousandths of a second shy of his best from Wednesday, but the team was also unhappy with the car and made some significant changes to it over the lunch break. While again not making as much of an improvement as he may have hoped, Tappy still produced his fastest time of the two days with a 1min 22.961secs effort that left him 16th in session, but just 0.933secs from the fastest time.
![Duncan Tappy - Fortec Motorsports [pic credit: Renault Sport]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/399807.jpg)
