A dream start for Kasper after nightmare journey
Icelands’s volcanic dust did it’s best to try and stop Anglo Motorsport’s driver Kasper Krogh making it to his first weekend with the team.
A 15 hour ‘flat out’ drive from Denmark to make Friday’s practice paid off in Saturday’s Qualifying 1 as Kasper put his BARC Renault on the second row of the grid for race one and then followed up with a third row start for race two, after a yellow flag incident interrupted his fast laps in Qualifying two.
“I could have gone faster but I made a small mistake coming out of Druids on my last planned lap, the team decided not to send me out again as my previous lap was good enough to hold on to sixth place” said Kasper after Q2.
Team manager Julian Tanser said “we had decided to stick with our 13 lap sessions to keep Kasper’s tyre in the best possible condition for the first race.”
Unfortunately the slopping grid of Brands Hatch caught out Kasper who dabbed the brake peddle to stop his car rolling forward just as the lights went out for the start of the race. Kasper set about gaining back the places lost at the start before spinning as he re-passed Alice Powell for sixth place.
After the disappointment of race one, Kasper kept a cool head for the start of race two, producing a near perfect start he gained two places before turn one, and for the next 10 laps Kasper battled for 3rd before being caught by a very quick Hale and Webster and Powell.
“Kasper has driven very well all weekend, obviously we where disappointed with the result of race one but I had set a top six finish as our aim for this weekend, I am very happy with what Kasper has achieved a great start to his season, we now look forward to the next round at Silverstone in a few weeks time”.
Julian Tanser, Team Manager.
