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Alajajian In Form On Friday At Oran Park |
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Friday, 11 August 2006 |
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| Round 4 of the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series at Sydney’s Oran Park Raceway started on a strong note for Protecnica Racing and Chris Alajajian today, with Alajajian setting the fifth fastest time of the day. |
Round 4 of the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series at Sydney’s Oran Park Raceway started on a strong note for Protecnica Racing and Chris Alajajian today.
Contesting just their second round of V8 Supercar competition, the Sydneysiders shone during practice. In the opening 35-minute session, Alajajian steered the Jack Hillermans / Elf Lubricants Commodore to the second fastest time, with a lap of 1:11.3629 around the 2.62km circuit.
‘The Chris’ sat atop the timesheets for much of the session, before he
was sidelined for the final ten minutes with a broken starter motor.
“It’s a great way to start the weekend,” Alajajian, 19, enthused .”We
lost a little bit of track time late in the session, but aside from
that it all went to plan.
“The car is the best it’s ever been, and we’ve shown again that the
performance is there. I know there is still some more time in my
driving as I continue to learn, so it’s all very encouraging.
“Obviously you don’t get points for practice, but to finish a session
in second place so early in our time in the series is a nice little
reward for the team. They’ve done a great job as always.”
For Practice 2, the team elected to make some setup changes. Remaining
on old tyres, Alajajian again lapped competitively during the session,
before settling for the 13th fastest time.
“We tried something different in setup for the session,” he said. “With
the changes and the tyres getting past their use by date, it didn’t
work and we went backwards a little bit.
“It was very much a ‘nothing ventured, nothing gained’ situation. We’ll
go back to the setup we had for Practice 1 but all in all it was a good
day for us.”
Underlining the promise of their Friday performance, Alajajian’s time
from the opening practice session was the fifth fastest lap of the day
when times from the two sessions were combined.
“We know we have the pace, and have shown that today which is good,”
said Protecnica Racing team owner Scott Anderson. “We looked at the
data between sessions and saw an avenue where we could find some more
speed, so we made a couple of changes for the second session.
“In the end it didn’t go our way, so we’ll go back to the setup we had
for the first session, put some new tyres on the car for qualifying
tomorrow morning and go from there.”
Round 4 of the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series at Oran Park continues with
qualifying tomorrow morning at 9:25am, before the first 16-lap race at
2:10pm. Races 2 and 3 will take place on Sunday.
Protecnica Racing thanks the ongoing support of Jack Hillermans Smash, Elf Lubricants and Nudie Juices.
For more about Chris Alajajian, head to www.TheChris.com.au
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 06 January 2007 )
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