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Racing Engineering - GP2 Spa Preview |
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 |
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The GP2 Series doesn’t stop during the final part of the season and after
competing last weekend in Italy, the Racing Engineering team is already on the
way to Belgium to face, from Friday, the penultimate event of the 2007
championship. It will be at yet another track full of history, Spa-Francorchamps,
for most people the “track of tracks” andit will be one of the biggest challenges
of the year for the young drivers racing in the F1 feeder series.
The two Spanish Racing Engineering drivers, Javier Villa and Marcos Martínez,
are looking forward to the challenge. For both men it will be their first race at the
difficult track located in the Ardennes forest, a circuit where driving skills still
make a difference and, for that reason, where a good result is more valuable
than anywhere else. Shining at Spa means to a chance to catch the eye of the
international press and the F1 teams, with whom the GP2 will share the spotlight
for last time this year in Belgium before the premier category of motorsport
heads away from Europe for their final races while the GP2 circus closes its
schedule at Valencia.
The Telefónica and Repsol liveried Dallaras will have a great chance to score a
prestigious result on the return of the GP2 series to Spa-Francorchamps after a
year’s absence. With the only change on the circuit layout being at the last
chicane, the Belgian track keeps all its personality with corner names redolent of
motorsport history such as La Source, Eau Rouge, Malmedy and Stavelot.
Especially important will be the famous Raidillon which will be a key point on the
track that has plenty of rhythm changes and is almost totally different to any
other in the GP2 schedule.
All this means that Javier Villa and Marcos Martínez are keen to witness for
themselves all the things they have seen and heard about Spa. For Javier a
good result on the Ardennes track will certainly put him in the reckoning as one
of the big hopes of world motorsport. After the bad luck that hampered his
chances at Monza, Javi aims to be once again fighting for the top positions and
repeat such spectacular moves as his double overtaking at the end of Monza’s
straight that gave him the lead in the opening stages of the last race. Marcos, on
his part, will have at Spa a great chance to dramatically improve his experience
at the wheel of the Dallara GP2, building on the very good progress he’s already
shown since his debut a month ago. His laptimes throughout the Monza
weekend were a further proof of how quickly Marcos is getting used to the
category despite the handicap of joining the team when the season was already
nearing its end.
From Friday morning the GP2 cars will start to run on the Spa-Francorchamps
tarmac looking for that ideal setup that is often tricky to get here given the
unpredictable weather at the Ardennes forest, anothe factor to deal with in a race weekend that all the competitors are impatient to begin.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 12 September 2007 )
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