SUPERLEAGUE FORMULA - 08.10.2008
Flamengo Race Report Vallelunga 01-02 November

MIXED EMOTIONS

FREE PRACTICE

Throughout the free practice sessions the track was wet. Straight away Tuka Rocha showed to be on good form for the weekend with some competitive lap times in the tricky conditions.

It was great to see Tuka and the Flamengo car back on the same fine form as in the first race at Donington where we got a beautiful 2nd place in very tricky conditions in Race 2.

QUALIFYING

With no dry running in free practice it was great to see Tuka and the team responding so well to the dry conditions in qualifying. Tuka got P2 in Group B which meant qualification for the quarter finals.

In the quarter final we got past Galatasaray.

In the semi-final the pace again seemed to be quick enough at least in the first sector, to beat Liverpool. Unfortunately, a problem with fuel pick-up prevented Tuka from finishing the lap at a normal speed.
But anyway, Tuka and the team proved proved they were back on great form.

RACE 1

The pace car took the pack round on the formation lap too slowly, resulting in engines overheating and thus loosing power at the race start. Tuka also sufferd a power loss and lost a place in the run up to the first corner. It turned out quickly that the car had very good traction out of the corners but too much understeer going into the corners. Tuka did a super job hanging on to P5 in difficult circumstances. Right at the end we got P4 after Liverpool had some engine problems. Anyway a good result for Flamengo Race Team after the somewhat less successful previous races.

RACE 2

Drama at the first corner. Tuka claims the cars of Corinthians and AC Milan touched each other right in front of him and unfortunately in the first corner braking chaos he was catapulted over the AC Milan car. This of course meant the end of the race.

The car itself sufferd a lot of damage and the team will do it's very best to get the car back in race condition for the last race at Jerez, Spain on 22-23 Nov.