FIA WEC, 6 Hours of Bahrain - Thursday Notes

Weather news - It’s Hot - Damn Hot!

Entry news – JWA Avila, contrary to our race preview, will run with a three man crew here, Markus Palttala has another racing commitment and is replaced here by Benny Simonsen, younger brother of Allan, fresh from his efforts in the BES at Nurburgring - "I got the call yesterday morning, I'm delighted with the opportunity.  I'll be out in the first session today and will just do my best to bring the car home in good shape."

Two LMP2 cars though are running with a two man crew here (ADR-Delta, Jan Charouz is no longer the #25 car) and the #31 Lotus LMP2 (Mirco Schultis is apparently not running here).

Messrs Vilander (#51 AF Corse) and Kimber Smith (#44 Starworks HPD) are both here as planned.

The Krohn Ferrari has been rebuilt since its Interlagos shunt – the front end looking very neat and tidy this morning.

It is very, very hot here, here’s a Lotus LMP2 part having a patch repair cured in the sunshine whilst at the opposite end of the spectrum Audi apparently struggled to apply the decals to the newly hybridised #2 car – The solution was to commandeer a meeting room here at the circuit, turn the aircon right down and then bring the body parts into the chilled environment!