Lavilla unlucky with tyre choice.

The changing weather conditions in the wet Superpole session at Brands Hatch today caught out Gregorio Lavilla, who was unlucky to finish down in thirteenth place.

Lavilla fell foul of the changing conditions in a wet Superpole and ended up on the fourth row of the grid. The morning session had been dry, but the rain started just before Superpole and the one-lap shoot out was changed to a Wet Superpole.

At first the track was only just damp and Gregorio's front tyre turned out to be the wrong one for the conditions. By the time, he returned to the pits for a new tyre, the rain had begun to fall more heavily and he was not able to set a quick time.

"I'm not sure if it was my fault or what, but I used a wet tyre and went a bit quicker and then the conditions changed and suddenly I was down in twelfth," said Lavilla after the session. "The rain began to fall heavily and I knew I couldn't go faster and so I ended up thirteenth!

"Obviously I'm not very happy and it will be very hard to get a high result because there aren't so many passing places here. I need a very good start in both races if I'm to have any chance at all. I would prefer a dry race because I'm reasonably happy with the set-up we found for dry conditions. For a wet race, I think we're not quite right. Also, if it rains, it is so easy to make a mistake and crash or get taken out by somebody else making a mistake.

"It's going to be two very hard and long races tomorrow - whatever the conditions."