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Thursday, 24 May 2007 |
Jeremy Metcalfe aims to challenge for nothing less than victory at Croft Circuit next weekend, 2nd/3rd June, during the seventh and eighth rounds of the 2007 Formula Renault UK Championship after comfortably topping the times in official testing at the North Yorkshire venue last week.
The 19-year-old title contender, from Fleet in Hampshire, already has one win and another podium finish to his credit this season but he is hungry for more race victories as he returns to the venue of his maiden Formula Renault UK success, which came during the final round of the 2005 Winter Championship.
Next weekend’s races mark Jeremy’s best opportunity of returning to the
top step of the podium since his opening round win of 2007 at Brands
Hatch Indy Circuit and the AKA Cobra driver has very high hopes for
Croft and is confident he will be able to convert the pace shown in
recent testing into race-winning performances.
Incidentally, the BRDC Rising Star’s round one success will receive
wide exposure this Sunday night, 27th May, at 00.05 on ITV1 as part of
the Motorsport UK programme which follows immediately after highlights
of this weekend’s Formula One Monaco Grand Prix.
Returning to the upcoming race meeting at Croft, during last week’s
two-day test the Loughborough University student posted the fastest
time of all with an outstanding lap of 1m 17.268 seconds (99.01mph).
Having been consistent and blindingly fast, Jeremy is relishing the
forthcoming event.
“Last week’s test is the best we’ve gone all year and so we’re feeling
confident for the races but we’ll just have to wait and see if we can
be as competitive”, said Jeremy, “I really like Croft, it’s a circuit
where there are some good overtaking opportunities and our car goes
well there.
“Hopefully everything will go to plan, I’m feeling confident and now is
the time for us to start making inroads into the championship battle.
We did a lot of good set-up work at the test and we were very fast on
old tyres and quick on new rubber too so we should be strong.
Qualifying will be very important though as we’ll only have one session
at Croft.”
Due to restrictions with the weekend timetable, the grid for both
Formula Renault UK races at Croft will be determined during a single
20-minute session on Saturday, 2nd June, at 10.20. Each driver’s
fastest time will set the grid for round seven and every competitor’s
second quickest lap will determine the starting order for the eighth
round.
The first race of the weekend will take place ay 16.25 on Saturday, 2nd
June, with the second 15-lap encounter, which will be broadcast live on
digital satellite and cable subscription channel Setanta Sports 2,
scheduled to follow at 14.00 on Sunday, 3rd June.
Provisional 2007 Formula Renault UK Championship Standings (after Rds5&6)
1st Duncan Tappy, 181pts; 2nd Dean Smith, 172pts; 4th Jeremy Metcalfe, 121pts
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