Twenty Nine cars took to the track to battle it out for position for race one. The Green machine set some good times to stay up the order. Coming in for green tyres 5 laps in, #55 set a time of 1.11.7114, just tipping it out of the top 20 to 21st in the dying moments by thousands of a second.
'We were so close to the top 20, but we got done right at the end. Theres not even one second between the top 21 cars so we know that we are capable of getting up the pointy end.'
Race One was 33 laps in length and saw T.D get a clean start and up into 17th by lap 3, and steadily working up the order.
Pitting on lap 19 for green tyres and fuel, #55 rejoining the field in 21st, manouvering through the field up into 16th where the green machine finished the race.
'I'm happy with our results today. We are still struggling with understeer and the car is a handful to drive. We still have our soft tyres for tomorrow and are concentrating on qualifying well to get a good position for the race'.
Qualifying begins at 10.15am before race two for the round at 1.05pm.
Last Modified on 28/08/2009 10:23