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Team Bruichladdich Radical Shows Pace To 1000km Finish |
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Sunday, 16 July 2006 |
Team Bruichladdich Radical made its international debut in style by making its way to the front and leading the class within eight laps. Stuart Moseley drove through very crowded conditions on the track with a pace to match Le Mans Series LMP2 leaders RML and fellow Radical runners Rollcentre Racing. A spin for Stuart as he passed a Porsche and a problem with a boost pipe to the engine cost the team time and by mid-point were lying 7th in class and 20th overall. From that point it was a case of making the most of the running time available given that the car had only completed around 20 laps in a shakedown before this weekend. Both Stuart and team-mate Tim Greaves drove well and in its first race took the flag after a hard race of 171 laps and 6 hours.
Tim Greaves, Team Owner and Driver: “I’m very pleased we finished. We had a recurring turbo pipe problem so
for the last stint we were normally aspirated! Once we’d lost ground
with the first pipe problem we knew we were out of contention for a
podium so from then our goal was to finish and put mileage on the car.
The car handled extremely well and there’s plenty in reserve. We’ve
demonstrated that the car’s quick enough – now we need to make sure
we’ve got reliability.”
Stuart Moseley “I had a slight advantage at the start when the
car in front didn’t make it off the line. Unfortunately putting me with
the ‘P1’ cars got me boxed in a bit but RML didn’t have a great exit
out of turn one and Michael Vergers [Barazi Epsilon Courage] got by on
turn two. The next turn I managed to pass him round the outside with
all the traffic for second in class. I sat behind Michael and managed
to pass him going down the hill to take the lead.”
“A few laps later I was overtaking a Porsche but I couldn’t get passed
cleanly because of a Panoz being there and it just felt as though the
Porsche pushed me round and I over-steered into a half spin. There were
no marks on the car so I’m not sure what happened. From there I had a
routine stop and was making up places and getting through the traffic.
About halfway round the circuit in my second hour I lost power
instantly so had to crawl back to the pits with what turned out to be a
loose boost pipe.”
“I think the highlight for me has to be leading the class and getting
there on merit as well as showing that we’ve got the performance.”
Team Bruichladdich Radical next competes in round five of the Le Mans
Series on home ground at Donington, UK on 26th and 27th August.
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