Breeze Fastest in Pre-Season SEAT Cupra Testing

01 April 2005

Carl Breeze set the fastest time in the official SEAT Cupra Championship pre-season test session at a hot and sunny Thruxton circuit today.

The 25-year old former BTCC driver from King’s Lynn in Norfolk lapped the ultra-fast 2.356 mile Hampshire track in 1:23.105, precisely 0.343 seconds quicker than his nearest rival in his Barwell Motorsport-prepared Leon Cupra R.

"I’m really pleased," said Carl.  "It’s the first head-to-head test I’ve had with the people I’ll be racing against this year, and I did two or three laps which would have been good enough to set fastest time.  We put a fresh Pirelli tyre on the front left, but the chequered flag came out before we could set a hot lap.  Had we had time for one more lap I reckon we could have been inside the 22s.

"I’m all set now for the first race meeting next weekend.  We’ve already tested at Donington Park and now we’ve been to Thruxton so we have a good set-up for the first two race meetings of the year.  It means we already have a good base set-up, so come race weekend we can just concentrate on qualifying well."

Tom Ferrier was second fastest in his Team Parker Racing Leon Cupra R, while Alan Blencowe rounded off a good day for Barwell Motorsport by setting the third fastest time

See series calendar for SEAT Cupra Championship 2005

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