General
ETCC: Spa: Volvo Racing preview
Spa's fast straights to be a challenge for Volvos. The seventh round of the LG Super Racing Weekend series will take place at the magnificent Belgian circuit of Spa-Francorchamps, a long, challenging track. The weekend of racing will include the ...
Edited: Jul 2, 2009, 5:39 PM
Copy link
Share on Viber
Spa's fast straights to be a challenge for Volvos.
The seventh round of the LG Super Racing Weekend series will take place at the magnificent Belgian circuit of Spa-Francorchamps, a long, challenging track. The weekend of racing will include the 13th and 14th rounds of the FIA European Touring Car Championship, which will be held on the Saturday prior to the Proximus 24 Hours of Spa. This weekend's racing sees the last action until September 22nd as the teams have their mid-season break.
Rickard Rydell scored two podium finishes at Oschersleben, Germany three weekends ago and so keeps his 10kg of success ballast. The BMWs of Jorg and Dirk Muller dominated the races in Germany and are the other drivers with ballast. This leaves the Alfa Romeos without handicap and hence having a distinct advantage on a track that suits their superior engine power. With the Volvo S60 not being ideally suited to the circuit good results for the team are going to depend on skilful driving and the drivers capitalising on errors and incidents from others. The third Volvo S60 will make its second appearance. Flash Engineering will be running the car driven by Jans `Flash' Nilsson.
Rickard Rydell:
"I'm really looking forward to racing at Spa. It's a very popular circuit with drivers; probably not my favourite but it is a great track. I've raced there a little and know it well enough. I think that where we are now with the car we should have a good chance. The straights are perhaps a bit too straight for the Volvos to compete with the power of the Alfas and BMWs but we should to be up there with them."
James Hanson:
"I'm aiming for points from a good race weekend. I've spent some time learning the circuit so I can use the practice sessions to find the best set-up rather than learning the circuit like I had to at Oschersleben. Hopefully the Volvo will be able to carry its good corner speed into the straights which will help."
Dave Benbow, race team manager:
"Spa is quite obviously very different to Oschersleben and I expect that Alfa Romeo will be back at full strength down the very long straights. I would expect good performances from the Volvos through the ups and downs and twists and turns that have so far proved to be the Volvo's stronger points."
-volvo-
We want your opinion!
What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?
Take our 5 minute survey.
- The Motorsport.com Team
Read and post comments
Read also :
Share Or Save This Story
Copy link
Share on Viber
Previous article Spa: Rick Pearson preview
Next article Key Motorsport Trois-Rivi?res race notes
Top Comments
There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?
View More & Comment
More from
Dirk Muller
WeatherTech/Proton adds second Mercedes to Rolex 24 line-up
IMSA
IMSA
WeatherTech/Proton adds second Mercedes to Rolex 24 line-up
Top Ford GT disqualified from Le Mans results
WEC
WEC
24 Hours of Le Mans
Top Ford GT disqualified from Le Mans results
Ford’s Daytona victory loss a “kick in the teeth”
IMSA
IMSA
Daytona 24
Ford’s Daytona victory loss a “kick in the teeth”
Latest news
Haas justifies picking Rafael Camara over Ryo Hirakawa for F1 Brazilian GP
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
Sao Paulo GP
18 min
Haas justifies picking Rafael Camara over Ryo Hirakawa for F1 Brazilian GP
F1 retains Brazilian GP until 2035 with fresh Sao Paulo deal
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
Sao Paulo GP
28 min
F1 retains Brazilian GP until 2035 with fresh Sao Paulo deal
LIVE: F1 Brazilian GP updates - Kimi Antonelli leads FP3, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton among drivers with grid penalties
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
Sao Paulo GP
39 min
LIVE: F1 Brazilian GP updates - Kimi Antonelli leads FP3, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton among drivers with grid penalties
Feature
Discover prime content
Top 10 Can-Am drivers
General
By Kevin Turner
Top 10 Can-Am drivers
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
You have 2 options:
- Become a subscriber.
- Disable your adblocker.
Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here
Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page
Manage Alerts
Subscribe