The Bottle-O Racing team showed good pace during todays 3 practice sessions. As the Barbagallo circuit is situated in a very sandy area, each year the surface of the track gets worse as the sand rounds off the bitumen. Today the laptimes were roughly a second slower than last year, with most teams complaining of the lack grip.
"The track lacked grip, we struggled with rear grip today, we couldn't seem to get a balance in the car."
" We need to make some changes over night for qualifying tomorrow, if we can get a better balance, I'm sure we can gets those couple of tenths we need"
Tony finished practice back in 24th, although he was less than 3 tenths off 10th. Barbagallo always bunches up the field and today was no different.
"We didn't have a very clean run at the end of the session when we put our second set of tyres on, I think we could have gone faster if I had clear track, and you only need a small amount here to fire you up the field"
This round welcomes back the 'Sprint tyre', so it should be very interesting to see how and when the teams use the soft tyre and how the tyre lasts on this circuit. Qualifying and Race one will be held tomorrow.
Last Modified on 21/11/2009 00:10