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Ebbesvik Quick on Spanish Test Debut |
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Friday, 16 February 2007 |
Christian Ebbesvik shone on his Spanish F3 debut with Team West-Tec on 14th and 15th February at Jerez.
With the Spanish climate and regulations offering great potential for seat time Christian notched up over 500 km of running and was consistently amongst the very quickest cars overall on old tyres.
The rapid Norwegian dominated amongst the Class B Cup cars and finished the test almost a second faster than the next quickest driver in class,despite it being his and the team’s first experience of the Spanish circuit.
Former Formula BMW UK racer Lars Viljoen drove the team's other Class B
car on the second day of the test, purely as a shakedown, and is
expected to race for the team in British Club F3.
The team now moves on to Jarama and Valencia next week with further
running scheduled for Gaudix, Albacete and back in the UK before
theseason starts on 30th March.
Joint Team Principal John Miller said "Everything went very well and
Christian was fast from the first laps of the first day. It’s fair to
saywe didn't get the best out of the new tyres and I think we were
actually about fifth fastest overall on old rubber. With more
experience of the Spanish-specification Dunlop rubber, I'm sure
Christian will be troubling even more of the Class A cars.
Lars also did a good job for the team, with a shakedown run for our
other car. Typical niggling new car problems restricted his running to
limited short stints but he impressed the team with his pace and
maturity nonetheless and, if all goes to plan, should be seen in our
British Club F3 team this year.
We now have an option with Racing Engineering to run a Class A Dallara
F306 this year too as well as still seeking to confirm the
full-timedriver for the second Class B car."
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