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Radio Le Mans Interviews 03:00-08:00 Gavin Wills – Team Essex #31 “We’ve developed a misfire. We just wanted to take some data off the car to work out what’s gone wrong. We’ve sent the car back out while we look at the data.” Jacques Villeneuve – Peugeot #7 “There was a lot going on (during my stint). For the first two stints, we had to go slowly to keep the temperature down. We fixed that, but then it started to rain and it got a lot harder. A dry line was sort of forming, but then went away again. The biggest problem we have in the wet is that we can’t put the power down out of the corners as the turbo kicks in and tries to turn the car.” Jonny Kane – Embassy WF01 #45 “It’s pretty difficult to figure out how much water is on the track. The visibility is fine, but the rain is so fine that you can’t see how heavily it’s falling. Being on slicks in the wet and dark wasn’t a good combination, but once we changed to wets it was fine.” Stephane Sarrazin – Peugeot #8 “It’s really difficult out there in the wet. I had slicks at the start and had to change to wets because it was really slippery. Then I had oil on the screen and had to stop two laps early because it was impossible to see.” Stuart Moseley – Barazi Epsilon #32 “Forgive the pun, but when it rains it pours; we’ve had a couple of problems, but the car seems to be running well now and we hope to get it to the end. It’s pretty difficult out there. It was interesting when the rain started and we were on slicks, but it’s not been too bad since then. The track is pretty consistent, apart from the chicanes. When it first came down the first chicane was lethal.” Oliver Gavin – Corvette #64 “It was tricky out there for the last hour or so. We tried to stay on slicks, but it was hopeless. Then we tried inters and they were just as bad. When we changed to full wets, it was much better. Hopefully, we’ve got all our bad luck out of the way by now. We think Max got some monoxide while following the Peugeot during the safety car – we’ve noticed from the ALMS that if you follow the Audi closely and breath in the exhaust, it makes you nauseous; and it’s the same with the Peugeot.” Jonathan France – Embassy WF01 #45 “We’re experiencing low battery voltage. We were only two laps from a scheduled stop when Joey reported that he’d taken a knock to the nose; so we decided to sort it all out in one go. This is endurance racing; we didn’t come here for a holiday.” Ricardo Zonta – Peugeot #9 “It’s raining again - the back of the track was getting drier. I definitely got the worse part of the job in the dark; it was very difficult and we lost a lot of time. There was a lot of dirt and oil on the windscreen, but every time I used the wipers, it made it worse. There’s no misting inside, the problem is on the outside.” Vanina Ickx - Rollcentre Pescarolo #18 "I started my stint in the dark in the dry, then came in to change to inters and stayed on until it was light; and when it was light I wished it was dark again. The dark makes you more nervous - you squeeze your bottom a bit tighter!" Mike Rockenfeller – Audi #3 “It’s not easy out there. I got in when it was dark and it started to rain; I think I did quite well. We made the wrong choice with the tyres; it was a really hard compound. The next set took a long time to come in, but it was okay after that. It’s drying up again, but it did that earlier before starting to rain again.” Ron Fellows - Corvette #63 "It's slick, for sure. The conditions change from one end of the racetrack to the other. I got caught out by a shower at the end of the Mulsanne that cost us about 30 seconds. It was drying and then it was wet again; the tyres are pretty beat up." |