Last weekend I attended the SNS Series in Barakaldo / Spain. Again I started in all 3 classes - F1, TC stock and TC modified.
On Friday we had free practice and we had enough time to find the right setup even that it was not an easy task as the track has super good traction. Saturday we get some packs of free practice and after that the organizer told us we would run all 5 quallis today because of the bad weather forecast for next day.
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In F1 I was able to set the TQ with a safe gap.
Stock... I got very unlucky with my tires. In practice my car was super good. But with race tires on my car was just spinning 360°. So I changed my setup to get more rear traction. Luckily in the end I was able to save the 3rd sport for the finals.
In Mod everything was super close with some local drivers, Dominic Vogl and Tony Rheinard. In all quallis I was in 4th or 5th place which gave me the 6th spot on the final grid. David Perez was super-fast and in the very last Q of the day set the overall TQ, very good !
The finals on Sunday were stopped after the final round of practice because of heavy rain. Sadly, I could not battle for some better places now so I finished 1st in F1, 3rd in Stock and 6st in Mod.
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Thank you very much guys to having so much fun all these days. If you make this event again I will safe my money and come again for sure!
Race report by David Perez
We started the final round of the Spanish National Series at Barakaldo's circuit on Friday early in the morning. We made few changes to the set-up from the European Championship and were ready to go. With this changes, we could get a second position behind Dominic Vogl with 3 seconds gap in 4 minutes.
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On Saturday the rain threat forced organizers to run the qualification as fast as they could. Fortunately we could run every round of qualifying. In the first round of qualifying, I decided to retire early because I made some mistakes and wanted to save the tires. In the second one I was on second position behind Jon Ander Lorenzo only by 1 tenth. In third one I was on second position another time, but this time behind Dominic by 1 second. In fourth one I was first in front of Jon Ander by 1 second (so close in each round). And in the last one, with the perfect temperature on the track, I made the track record with 21 laps so, I got TQ. This TQ gave me the overall victory because on Sunday it rained hard and we couldn't run any of the 3 finals.
