Brands Hatch birthday for Perez this weekend
Chesterfield’s Ginetta race car driver Seb Perez celebrates his 18th birthday on Saturday as he travels to Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit (30 Sept / 1 Oct) for the last three races of the season in the Michelin Ginetta GT4 Supercup.
He started the season back in April this year with a new race series and new car after being promoted from the smaller Ginetta Juniors last year and has seen him in action at 8 very demanding race circuits across the Country including Donington Park and Oulton Park in a very busy and demanding race year for him.
His last outing at Brands Hatch Indy Circuit in April saw him finish the opening rounds of the Supercup in 6th, 8th and 5th places.
Two weeks ago saw the Rob Boston Racing duo of Perez and Nottingham Teammate George Gamble in action at the “Home of British Motorsport” Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire.
The weekend proved a difficult one for Perez finding it hard to get to grips with the Ginetta G55 in the slippery conditions over the weekend.
A wet qualifying session on Saturday meant choosing the prime time to head onto the circuit would be more important than ever. But he missed the optimum slot by a few minutes, meaning starting with opening race later in the day down in tenth.
The appearance of rain during the mid-point of race one saw Perez struggle and with the Ginetta. Twelfth spot would be a disappointment to the Chesterfield ace.
With the postponement of race two last off on Saturday due to torrential rain with some thunder and lightning mixed in, Perez made the choice to use slicks for the drying track on the early re-arranged Sunday morning race two. It would be an all or nothing approach, which would sadly not work out the way he wanted and headed backwards to 16th at the flag.
Despite being much drier, race three offered little chance for Perez to make any gains on his starting position and rounded off the weekend with 12th.
“It has just been one of those weekends again really, I just couldn’t make the car work the way I wanted it to,” said Perez.
“I missed the break at qualifying which meant it was just going to be a hard weekend all round. I just have to look at it from an experience point of view and learn from the setbacks.”
Perez who is tenth in the series with 248 points, hopes to keep the series challenge alive for the Brands Hatch season finale.
You can follow Seb live this Sunday on ITV 4 as a support race to the popular Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.
Images and editorial by Paul Horton
