Kiwi rally pairing Dave Holder and Jason Farmer make their debut at the Tour de Corse this week, facing their first-ever tarmac rally as the second round of their 2018 FIA Junior World Rally Championship campaign. Dubbed the Rally of 10,000 Corners, the 5-8 April French WRC round is famous for its continuously twisting roads […]
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25-year-old Chaz Mostert flirted with Shane Van Gisbergen’s Bathurst lap record in the 2018 Top 10 Shootout, winning the Allan Simonsen Pole Award with a stunning 2:01.934 time, less than a second off the all-time best tour in the #43 BMW Team Schnitzer M6 GT3. Mostert took to the circuit ninth out of the 10 […]
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As a racing driver, you always want to end the season on a positive note. The summer break can be a miserable time to stew over a poor performance, or a bad result. Thankfully, the cards were in our favour at Twin Ring Motegi – and we knew this before we started. A ‘stop-start’ layout, […]
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Not much in the way of positives to take from the penultimate round of the SUPER GT season at the Chang International Circuit in Buriram, Thailand. As a result, we’ve dropped from 8th to 12th in the points after an incomplete performance. The weather played its part throughout the weekend, with heavy rainstorms typical of tropical South […]
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The final Suzuka 1000km was the race everyone wanted to win, and we were no different. All things considered though, finishing 8th wasn’t a bad result for the Gulf Porsche after a long, exciting race in front of a packed house full of adoring Japanese fans. We were slow off the mark all weekend, and […]
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As much as the racer in me yearned to ‘send it’ on our return to Fuji for the second time this SUPER GT season, we took a more measured approach this time around after a few mediocre results in the Gulf Racing Porsche. This is more a case of mentality than anything, though the lessons […]
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What could have, should have, would have been. It was one of those weekends at Sugo, where you can feel the pressure building and for every step forward, you take two steps backwards. In an interview with Radio Sport (listen here) before the weekend, I said “I’ve got a really good feeling, but you never […]
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Testing, testing…1, 2, 3. That’s been the flavour of the month with three in-season SUPER GT tests over in Japan. #1 – Suzuka Tyre Test First up was two days of tyre testing at Suzuka, working closely with Yokohama to isolate our compounds for the 1000km race in August. Honestly, Suzuka was airmarked as a […]
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Autopolis was nothing special, despite the belief that the nature of the circuit would be well suited to the rear-engined Porsche. Unlike Fuji – where a wrong tyre call was the root cause of a poor result – at Autopolis we didn’t have any excuses. We just didn’t have the pace. This was a theme […]
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Fuji unearthed our potential, as well as our flaws. For that reason, it was a vitally important event for myself and Gulf Racing Japan, as we mount a championship challenge in SUPER GT this year. We knew we had a quick car, and second place in qualifying confirmed that. I was happy with the front […]
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