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Me in the Karousel, Nordschleife 2007. |
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| First practice! |
| Friday, May 23, 2008 |
Hello racerfans, after the driver's meeting this morning I started out with just warming up the tires on the GP-loop before going for a timed lap on the whole Nordschleife. All fast teams did this, since there was a 3 minute delay until the slower categories were let out.
I posted a 9.13 on the first lap, felt good!(video to show later) Two cars held me up a bit for some time, but the car is crazy fast so the time was quite good after all. The car didn't need any setup changes, the team did great setup work before the start.
On the second lap there were just too many slow cars in the way to do anything useful, same on the third although a little bit better.
After those laps, I went into the pits to hand over to Anders who had a lot of traffic.
 The 9.13 had put us just behind top 10 at the beginning of the session, but as the session went on we were eventually pushed down to 17th. There were a few cars that squeezed in on 9min 12s, but that we can easily beat on a free lap - or even just by getting to know the combination of tires and engine - after all this was the first lap of the whole weekend.
Within the top 20 is just what we want and we hope we can stay there until the race starts tomorrow.
Today's second practice starts at 19.30! Keep your fingers crossed!
CarlLabels: Racing |
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Hey!
Good start, we're crossing fingers here, perhaps the little one can learn to do that in the 30 minutes left before next practice starts... :)
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Name: Carl Rydquist
Age: 31
Home: Redondo Beach
Web: CarlRydquist.com
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Highlights: Winner of Swedish Endurance GT Racing Championship (2001 & 2004). Winner of Zandvoort 500 (2005). Winner of Eurosport Super Racing Weekend Challenge (2001). 24 Hours of Nurburgring (2006, 2007, 2008).
Memberships: FIA (international racing license), Performance Two Stunt & Precision Driving Team, Hollywood, CA (professional driver).
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Hey!
Good start, we're crossing fingers here, perhaps the little one can learn to do that in the 30 minutes left before next practice starts... :)