What a treat! 4 Kiwi’s racing this weekend in Europe. NZ’s Damon Rees is making debut race appearance in 2020 British SBK Championship Opening Round at Donington Park along-side team-rider Shane Richardson competing in National Supersport 1000 class.
Racing under Astro JJR Racing, Damon and Shane kick off Free Practice 1 and 2 on Friday August 7th (UK time), with R1 on Saturday at 5.15pm and R2 on Sunday at 12.25pm. With both riders completing final test sessions at same race venue last week, times, bike performance, confidence levels are well on track to gain much sought after results.
With 2 wins to his credit in Formula 3 Championship, Liam Lawson has cemented 5th Overall in standings heading into half-way point Round 5 of 9 at same circuit as last weekend- Silverstone, UK.
The Red Bull Junior Hi-Tech Team driver, has really opened eyes to his impressive, aggressive style behind the single-seater wheel, making sure improvements are made each and every week. Main focus has been on improving qualifying which put the 18 year old 2nd behind pole for the Feature Race last weekend.
Liam: ‘”It was a great win last Saturday and we’d like to be able to repeat the Quali and Race 1 this weekend. There are still things to work on. We didn’t have the speed of some of the cars behind us in Race 1 so I hope we can improve there. We need to make our car better in traffic, that is something we saw in Race 2 last weekend”‘.
ART Grand Prix Ferrari Driver Academy driver Marcus Armstrong made solid race performance count standing 2nd on podium in Feature Race at Opening Round at Spielberg, July 3-5th.
Subsequent double-header Round 2 at the Red Bull Ring circuit the following weekend resulted in Armstrong gaining 3rd step of podium in Sunday’s Sprint Race- confirming #6 was made of strong stuff even when unexpected incidents occur on track.
Subsequent Rounds 3 -4 have tested Armstrong’s resolve to maintain focus amongst most competitive class which has seen 7 different winners from 8 races. Marcus stands 11th on table points Overall.
Words: Sharon Cox.
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