TCR Singapore 2016 – First day and a Free Practice

Flash news no. 1, 16. September, 23:30, Singapore

There was only one Free Practice on the plan on Friday here in Singapore, and Mato Homola was able to set 10<supth best time of the session. He was not able to be any faster thanks to the technical problem, but he managed to learn the track and to test several settings.

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Marina Bay Street Circuit welcomed us with the conditions we all expected – high temperature of both air and the track and high humidity. After the Buriram, we knew what to expect approximately, but for middle European body is still hard to get used to it.

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The track is really beautiful but extremely challenging. There is no place for a mistake and it is unforgiving. “I trained on the simulator a lot, but reality is usually different and this was the same case. I like to race on it, but I still need to do some homework with the video and find some spots to be faster. We have limited time on track, due to only one Free Practice session and only one qualifying session, so I will need to push a lot.”, said Mato after the Free Practice.

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Unfortunately, the technical issues appeared again. “It’s a pitty, that I’m facing some problems again, now it was the brake cylinder. We’ve had just one free practice session, therefore there was no time to fix it and we rather focused on learning the track with limited braking performance. We will make some slight setup changes and I’ll hope for the good qualifying result!”

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You can follow the race live on the TCR YouTube channel, facebook fan page, or www.tcr-series.tv.

Weekend Schedule:

Saturday:
08:40-09:05 Qualifying (Q1 + Q2)
13:25 Race 1 (streaming)

Sunday:
09:00 Race 2 (streaming)

Times are CEST.

Results: http://www.tcr-series.com/index.php/events/item/marina-bay-street-circuit

Pictures for download: http://bit.ly/Homola_Singapore-Race
Photo Credits: B3 Racing

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