FIA WEC, Silverstone – Brief Sunday Morning Notes
A Full Grid Expected

After our now-infamous weather forecast at the start of the ELMS race yesterday, we’ll be leaving today’s synopsis to the good people at Accu-Weather; thus absolving us of all blame when a blizzard/hurricane sweeps through the circuit ten minutes into this afternoon’s race:

As it is, Silverstone is enjoying fine, sunny and even warm weather this morning, even though there is a stiff breeze. The autograph session is underway in the pitlane and well attended, if perhaps not at Fuji levels.

A quick tour of the pits yielded little in the way of news, save for confirmation from Proton Competition that the #88’s FP3 crash on Saturday morning was caused by “too aggressive braking – a little bit optimistic in the slippery conditions” and not due to a component failure. The RSR is expected to take part in the race, starting from the back of the grid.

The starting grid can be found – here

AF Corse boss Amato Ferrari was clearly realistic about prospects for his three GT cars in the race after a disappointing qualifying session; “That’s how it is – the balance of performance is now against us and we’re going to need some luck to do any better. Last year we had a performance disadvantage, but better fuel consumption, which meant we gained a pitstop over the other cars; but they’ve taken that away from us now and not given us anything back in return, so we need some luck.

The AF Corse-run Pecom Racing Oreca Nissan didn’t have a good qualifying session either, so did that have a problem? “No, the team made the wrong tyre choice at the start of the session,” said Ferrari.  “We’ll be much better in the race.”

The race begins at noon and we’ll be running a live race ticker once again, as well as live Tweeting on @dscracelive.

MH