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[GP2] Race two "not fantastic" for Racing Engineering |
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Race two "not fantastic"
The wait for the first points of the season for Racing Engineering continues after race two in Imola where an expectation of no points, the result of incidents in race one yesterday, unfortunately came true. The team was using today’s race largely as an unplanned test session ahead of the next round at the Nurburgring, but nonetheless Adam Carroll made his customary smart start, moving up from seventeenth to eleventh in two corners. Further back, Javier Villa was caught up behind an accident caused when Adrian Valles stalled on the grid, bottling up the drivers behind him until Lucas di Grassi hit the stationary car. Javi was caught behind the pair and the remainder of the grid powered past as the safety car was called out.
At the restart Adam was able to move up to tenth before his handling went away, and he was unable to fight any further up the grid. With two laps remaining Jose Maria Lopez, who had finally caught Adam, tried to force his way past, colliding heavily with the Racing Engineering driver and putting both men out of the race. By contrast Javi had a quiet race, running very consistent lap times at a good pace, finally finishing the race in eighteenth position.
After the race team principal Alfonso de Orleans was sanguine about their morning’s work: "Race two was not fantastic, certainly. Adam had a really good start and got off the line well, but he didn’t really like the way the car handled today and couldn’t push any harder, and then his coming together with Lopez wasn’t exactly the highlight of the weekend! Javi had a really good race
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