This year I'll be driving for the FIA OKJ World Championship winning team Forza Racing. I’ve been in Italy for two weeks testing with the team and getting used to the OTK chassis.
This weekend I raced in the WSK Champions Cup for new team. Through practice I had good pace and was excited to start my weekend!
Qualifying was on a cold drying track. I had good pace early, getting to the top of the time sheets, but I caught a slower driver on my penultimate lap and decided to back off to build a gap for my final lap, but it enabled a driver behind to catch and he sent it on my final lap destroying that lap and my quali.
I qualified P44 overall and that placed me in Group D. I started 17th or 18th in each heat.
Final advice from my mechanic Nikklas
In my first heat, Heat B-D, I tried to make a pass on the opening lap in the back hair pin and crashed. I DNF’d, it was my fault!
In my final heat I started P17, I raced up to 9th place and set the fastest lap. I finished P8 after penalties.
Saturday was sunny, clear and dry. A perfect day for racing!
I started the day with Heat D-E. I had a tough start but I made my way up to 11 places to finish P6.
After a 4 hour gap I raced in Heat A-D, I had a decent drive from P18 to finish P7, up another 11 places.
I finished the qualifying heats in P22 and I started Pre-final B in P11.
Sunday started off with a solid warm up, but Prefinal B was a struggle. I started P11 and made my way up to P10 but I was tapped in the mechanics corner and I fell to 16th place. I climbed back to P12.
The final was a mess. I started P22 but a pile up at the start saw me crash and badly damage my kart. The race was red flagged and my AWESOME team replaced my steering column and tie rods and got me back on the grid!
I made the restart, but my kart was a handful. I did what I could, I fell back at the start, but I climbed back to finish P17. P16 after penalties.
It’s been tough weekend results wise, but there have been lots of positives. I am getting on top of my new chassis and the speed is there. I can’t wait until next weekend for the Super Masters Series!
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Qualifying: P44 (P22 in Group)
Heat B-D: DNF
Heat C-D: P8 🟣
Heat D-E: P6 🟣
Heat A-D: P8 🟣
Qualifying Position: P22
Prefinal B: P12
Final: P16
Thank you to my team at Forza Racing - Niklas, Dean, Luca, Stuart and the team at Machac for super fast TM Engines.
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