Corvette Racing\u2019s Oliver Gavin will be travelling to California next week with a view to boosting his ALMS Championship points tally after a difficult start to the 2010 season. Racing in front of the Corvette Legends of Le Mans at the six-hour American Le Mans Series Monterey at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on May 21-22, round three of the ALMS, the Briton will once again be taking his Corvette C6.R into the thick of an intense, and no doubt thrilling, GT battle.<\/p>\n
\u201cOlivier [Beretta] and I seem to have been very unlucky so far this year, and our season hasn\u2019t really got going yet,\u201d says the 37-year-old three-time GT1 Champion, now fully recovered from his amazing record run of 2:54.19 for the BRDC team in the recent London Marathon. \u201cMore than anything we are looking for a solid and straightforward performance at Laguna. We need to get some serious points registered for the Championship as Flying Lizard Motorsports, Risi Competizione and our sister car are disappearing rapidly up the road.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire (UK), resident continues, \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to going back to California as Laguna Seca is a great track and the Monterey Peninsula area is fantastic. The race will be slightly different this year to previous ones as it\u2019s not only in a different spot in the calendar \u2013 mid season instead of the final round \u2013 but it\u2019s also six hours instead of four. I believe that\u2019s a good thing for us as we don\u2019t have to charge along in first few hours and take any unnecessary risks; we just have to stay on the lead lap.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s likely to be plenty of cautions and incidents with 30 plus cars in the field, it makes for a full race track. Additionally the track surface is always very dusty which adds to the challenges. Our GT class in particular is super competitive and there\u2019s usually nothing in it between seven or eight cars, as we\u2019ve seen both at Sebring and Long Beach. The GT class drives round in a high speed train and it only really gets broken up when there\u2019s an incident, or when you come against faster or slower traffic. You have to be 100% on top of your game and concentrating fully; you can\u2019t afford one slip up otherwise you won\u2019t finish in the top five let alone on the podium.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year our GT2 car worked extremely well at this track, and we got a good set up, so I feel confident we\u2019ll have the car to challenge everybody and be in the fight at the front. Whether Ferrari and Porsche have any new updates to bring to this endurance round, we\u2019ll have to wait and see. It\u2019s the last round before we head to Le Mans in June for the 24 Hour race, so it\u2019s a good chance for us all to prove our mettle in the longer distance races.\u201d<\/p>\n
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