It was time to do track laps. This was what I had looked forward to doing all winter, in the Pantera. With its power, handling and new Michelins, it would have been great. In the Longchamp, might I be a rolling chicane? Would it be fun at all? It turned out to be a lot of fun, the Longchamp that I’ve always claimed handles very well proved itself. I overtook 2 F-cars and lots of others. I ended up all the way in front, just after the pace car, and when I in my “no I haven’t read the d… rules, when you only hand them out in French and Flemish”-naivety wanted to go past the pace car, I got some hand signals clearly saying that that would not be appreciated. I had 6 fast laps, I timed one of them with almost no traffic to 4:25. Then the tires (an unknown number of years old) started to get a little mushy. I looked for the radio to tell my pit crew that I would have to come in for new tires, but I couldn’t find it. So I backed off the next 3 laps, and then called it a day. When I got off the track I saw that the tires were scrubbed a bit, but ok.
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