July will become the real marathon for the team participating both in Italian and French Porsche Carrera Cup series. No week without a race! It's not the same with everybody, but we like it!
In fact, the marathon has already started last week in Imola. And now we transfer to Val de Vienne track, where Oleksandr Gaidai will fight for the podium in Division B in the third Porsche Carrera Cup France round.
Circuit du Val de Vienne
Designed: 1990
Last rebuild: 2008
Lap length: 3.729 km
Direction: clockwise
Turns: 18
Circuit du Val de Vienne is the most windy track in Porsche Carrera Cup France season, aside from Spa, but if 20 turns are distributed on the 7-kilometre lap on Belgian track, here we have 18 turns on 3,700 meters. It sounds breathtaking!
O. Gaidai:"Val de Vienne is a very specific track, there are very complicated places here. And the kerbs are such that the rainy night makes one appear in gravel catcher instantaneously having caught the kerb, there's no chance to stay on the track. Such places should be known."
According to the weather forecast, the climate won't be as on the resort for the racers in Le Vigean town: 30 degrees of heat and thunderstorms. Our mechanics are already preparing umbrellas... and slicks!
Free practices are scheduled for Friday, 11:40 a.m. and 3:55 p.m., as always.
The hottest day of Saturday will become the more intense one. Both qualifications are scheduled for morning, both for the Saturday and the Sunday race, and they are in succession: at 9:05 and at 9:35. But the first race of the weekend, the 35-minute one starts already in the evening, at 7:35 p.m., when the heat will be gone down.
A short 25-minute race will be held on Sunday, and it starts in the morning at 10:15 a.m.
Live broadcasting from the track can be watched on www.gt-tour.fr/live/video. On-the-spot news and interviews will be waiting for you on our Facebook page. As usual, you can find the detailed weekend review and photo galleries on the website.
Val de Vienne is a track where Gaidai hasn't participated in the race yet, Tsunami RT had only practice there. But Las Vegas marketing experts invented the good principles last year: "Beginners have luck." Sounds tempting, doesn't it?
