REBELLION Racing driver Neel Jani shot to the top of the timing charts with a time of 1:14.700 on lap 14 and stayed there until the chequered flag in Thursday’s practice session. His closest competitor ended the session 0.916 seconds behind. The Swiss squad posted the day’s best time in spite of the session being their first laps ever on the Laguna Seca road circuit .
Regardless of the team being pleasantly surprised with the result, they are still pushing forward to learn as much as they can about the track and to provide the best car set-up possible for Sunday’s race.
LMP1 classification :
1. #12 REBELLION Racing 1:14.700
2. #6 Muscle Milk Racing 1:15.616
3. #16 Dyson Racing 1:15.619
Neel Jani : “Today’s free practice was, for us, just to get to know everything and to find a set up for the car since we’ve never run here before. We were P1 which was a nice surprise, but we all know after Long Beach that it doesn’t mean anything because in the race everything can happen. We still have a lot of work ahead of us with the car but it felt great to be with this car on this track. It’s a very quick track and it’s very nice to drive with our car here. “
Nick Heidfeld : “One should say “as usual” in a moment like this, but the traffic was worse than I expected. The track is relatively small and is so twisty that it’s not easy to overtake at many places. So I didn’t really get a clear lap. But more importantly the car had no major problems. Balance wasn’t really where we wanted it to be but we are still quick and I like the fact that we have more practice time than we had in Long Beach even though the car went quite well there too. So definitely we will do some changes to the car and I’m looking forward to getting back in tomorrow.”
The American Le Mans Monterey race will be broadcast on May 12th at 4:00 pm EDT on ESPN 2 with Live Streaming on May 11th at 6:15 pm EDT on ESPN 3.
European fans will be able to watch the race live on Motors TV Network.
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