Pau practice thoughts from the FIA ETCR drivers

They’ve all been out on track in Pau Ville for practice for Infinite Reality Race FR, the first round of the FIA ETCR eTouring Car World Cup, so here’s some initial impressions from the day from our drivers. CUPRA EKS Ad/> Mattias Ekström FIA ETCRRomeo Ferraris target regular success in 2022 FIA ETCRA MINUTE AGO The track was really a great experience. Turn one going in with roughly 180kph coming from 240kph was super exciting.

Then first hairpin up the hill it was very difficult to find braking for  turn two then I would say the super slow and hairpin right. And from then on this fast section over the top, the long left to long right. And then from then on back to the finish, cutting curbs and chicanes and elevation and a lot of curbs everywhere.

And yeah, the anxiety was high, but we are happy so far. We had good lap times and good pace. So we’ll keep improving from there and see if we can continue this.

Over the weekend will be mega. Jordi Gené Very good practice sessions. I’m happy that everything went well.

In the first session I always take it as a shakedown. And this is a very exciting shakedown with 500 kilowatts so all in all everything is very positive. Well, things run well,  drivers run well, so I’m happy and let’s see if we continue with this pace.

Adrien Tambay Well, very good impressions but I expected that, it’s track a I enjoy really, really much driving on and to do that with the ETCR car is quite special. A lot of power and driving around the streets in between the rails is a big challenge. So actually it happened quite well so far.