Last weekend was the 24hr of Dubai organized by Creventic and I started for Scuderia Praha in a Ferrari 458GT3.
We lead the race until approximately 11:30 in the evening, when my teammate collided with an other competitor and we were out of the race.
Unfortunately the other driver was injured, something we all wish never happens!
My teammate acknowledged that it was his fault and the stewards penalized the team with a 10 place grid penalty for the next race at Mugello.
At the stroke of midnight, when the checkered flag waved over our second participation in the Sepang 12 Hours, the most prestigious endurance event in South East Asia, we had survived elements to superbly come away with another podium finish.
At the end of a long and tough twelve hours which saw heavy rain throw the race into chaos and meant it was red flagged not once but twice, the #26 B-Quik Racing Audi and our team never flinched and after an early problem set us back we tenaciously fought our way into third place as the race finally came back to full life during the dying minutes to keep our podium record in this race intact.
Behind the wheel, Henk Kiks, Daniel Bilski and Peter Kox had dug in as the afternoon turned to night and the rain kept coming, while in the pitlane our crew supported the car superbly and that all added up let us fight our way back into contention, clinch third place in GTC and take a trip to the winners’ podium.
Practice & Qualifying
It was a long and testing week in Sepang as, before the scheduled activity on track here even started, we had a lot of additional work to do as the #26 Audi R8 LMS Cup had raced in the final round of Thailand Super Series 2015, the Bangsaen Thailand Speed Festival, just a week and a half beforehand and it was then loaded into a container with our equipment and trucked to Laem Chabang Port before being shipped down to Malaysia.
B-Quik Racing is ready and raring to go for its second appearance at the Sepang 12 Hours which is scheduled to go to green lights the day after tomorrow (Saturday) at midday before coming to a conclusion when the surviving racecars take the checkered flag on the stroke of midnight.
With drivers Henk Kiks, Daniel Bilski and Peter Kox in the cockpit of the #26 B-Quik Racing Audi R8 LMS Cup it promises to be an exciting race as we chase another appearance on the ‘GTC’ class podium.
Today (Thursday) has seen morning and afternoon unofficial practice sessions and the action will wind up this evening with the two official practice sessions, the latter being exclusively in the night, offering our trio of drivers the opportunity to power into the darkness in preparation for the race, almost half of which will in fact be held in through the night.
This afternoon all three drivers took turns in the #26 Audi during the unofficial practice session, completing a combined total of 30 laps with a best time of 2:10.981, as the team started to set the car up for Sepang.
Last year saw our first appearance in the prestigious Sepang 12 Hours, then held in August, and we were on the GTC class pace all race, leading more than half the laps and battling back after several mechanical issues to finish in the runners up spot.
