Silverstone Race 2 – Another strong performance by Sandy

With a combined spectator turnout of 120 thousand it was clear that the beautiful English summer weather contributed in a big way to the fantastic racing atmosphere at the Silverstone Circuit. The enormous early morning traffic congestion into the track got everyone’s pulse up, but in the end all got where they needed to be in time.

Sandy attacked immediately for the Sunday morning qualifying and improved his time again compared to the front runners and set his personal fastest time around Silverstone with 2:01:058. This put him 14^th in his group and 27^th on the 38 car grid.

For the afternoon race, Sandy had a poor start and lost several positions going into Copse corner, but in usual style he again went much stronger in the race then in the qualifying and had soon moved himself up to 23 position. Unfortunately he got hit on the side trying to overtake another car and damaged the front wing and from then on just had to do his best to maintain position.  There were plenty of action up and down the 38 car strong grid and by race end Sandy found himself in 22nd position after finishing the 14 lap race distance. Sandy and the team were positively encouraged with the strong showing on only his first time at Silverstone and with the new team. Most importantly this put the young Thai driver back up in the mid field of this, the strongest Junior Formula racing field in the world. Sandy's objective for this season has always been to learn and prepare himself for a championship challenge in 2012.

The race was won by Dutchman Robin Frijns, with Alex Lynn from UK in second and Frenchman Paul Loup Chatin in third. The next race in the EuroCup series will be in the South of France at the Paul Ricard Circuit during 16-18 September, 2011.