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Exclusive pictures of the GBH Time Attack car in action, a rundown of the fourth round at Oulton Park and an interview with Bob Parker Time Attack - Round 4 - July 5th - Oulton Park Circuit I
arrived at Oulton Park early SatI arrived at Oulton Park early saturday
morning to find team GBH had already commandeered their specified
pit/garage and were still fast asleep. Obviously they arrived Friday
night and unloaded all the vans and tools. After handing
Bob his coffee we had a brief chat about the day ahead. We discussed
the fact that it was currently chucking it down with rainand the going
did not look good. Interview Lisa: Did you make any changes to the car due to the weather conditions? Bob:
We did first things first we put on a set of wet tyres and adjusted
pressures accordingly. We also disconnected front and read anti roll
bars and softened the damper settings. L: How did the new settings pan out in the first practice session? B: Car felt good but was not really pushing hard as I used this session to learn the track, as it has been about 5 years since I last drove at Oulton and that was on the full circuit not the island circuit that they were using for Time Attack. L: Did you make any changes between session 1 & session 2? B:
No further changes were made as I really did not get to feel the car
on the limits in the first session as this was used as a learning
curve. Session 2 turned out to be quite fruitful as I managed to push
the car for the whole session still not really finding the end of
the grip level. L: So you were pleased with the set up and were looking forward to the qualifying session, how did that go? B:
There was last minute panic as the weather had changed dramatically
to brilliant sunshine and a dry line was beginning to appear. This
meant all the changes we had made for practice 1 & 2 had to be
reversed. L: So you made through the qualifier by the skin of your teeth into the super battle.. how did that go? B:
We struggled!!!!
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