Spyker took things easy at the first practice session by just checking the car out for the first time this season eager to find out if the made changes over the winter paid off. This approach resulted in a 11th position in class.
The Spyker Squadron made good progress, clinching 7th in class at the second practice session. A very good result if you take into account that the Squadron was one of only two teams in GT2 that did not attend the LMS test at the same circuit earlier this year. The gap to first in class is just over a second which is very promising. Go Squadron !
This morning it was time for the last free practice session of this weekend. The Spyker Squadron were last on the timesheets for most of this session, which makes me believe they were focussing on racepace more then on setting one fast laptime. Untill about ten minutes from the end of the session when Jeroen went into the car, went out and get in after just a few laps. Some changes were made on the set-up of the car and out he went again. After just one lap he came back in again for some quick last changes and then set fastest Spyker laptime of the weekend: 1:58.955 Lifting the Laviolette GT2R to 9th in class, which might sound a bit dissapointing but the gap to first in class is less then 8 tenths of a second... So the GT2 contenders are very, very close to eachother and it promisses to be a great race !
... is this car the same chassis number as last year?
Iirc we've seen some footage with last year's vehicles next to another chassis that was being prepared for the races. So that would mean this car has another chassis... But I'm not sure.
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