HUGELY POSITIVE END TO MEMORABLE YEAR FOR GP2 STAR BRATT
GP2 Series rookie Will Bratt capped off this week's official test
outing at Paul Ricard in France with a superb front-running effort today,
Thursday, 12th November -- the Briton posting the fifth fastest time
in the morning before improving to fourth quickest this afternoon.
Marking the last time category runners will be on track until the second
race meeting of the 2009/2010 GP2 Asia series in early February, the
Party Poker Racing-supported driver completed just shy of 200 laps over
the course of the three-day test and made fantastic progress along the
way.
Steering his Renault-powered Dallara to a quickest lap of 1m12.675
seconds this morning, just 0.159 seconds shy of the session's best,
the 21-year-old went on to lap with a fastest time of 1m12.835 seconds
in the afternoon to conclude the final session of the year in fourth
position.
Each time he was on track today, Will was always in the top cluster of
pace-setting drivers. Despite not being able to piece together his
fastest sector times in both sessions, which ultimately cost the Banbury
racer a potential time-sheet topping best, his efforts were still
incredibly impressive.
Will commented: "I'm pretty happy with how the Paul Ricard test
has gone for us, it's just a shame we weren't able to hook the
sectors up today as we should have been faster. Finishing in the top five
this morning and fourth this afternoon is great but it could have been
better still. Even so, we've made very good progress and it's
been a fantastic way to end a phenomenal year."
The steps made by Will throughout this week, working closely with the
PartyPokerRacing.com Scuderia Coloni engineers, have truly put the icing
on the cake for 2009 -- a memorable year in which the British Racing
Drivers' Club (BRDC) Rising Star matched academic success, a degree
in History from Oxford University, with multiple race wins and
championship victory in Euroseries 3000.
With today's test outing the final GP2 run of the year, Will now has
a lengthy 12 week break from competitive action until the GP2 Asia Series
resumes at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi on Friday, 5th February,
and Saturday, 6th February 2010.
-credit: willbratt.com
