In a sport that is measured in hundredths of a second, it is no surprise that no chances are taken in the preparation of the cars or drivers. With so much at stake, every racer will go to extreme lengths to prime their cars and ready themselves for a winning run.
There is a phrase that motorsport competitors – be that teams or drivers – like to use and that is to ‘control the controllables’. No matter how obsessed a competitor is with drilling down into the minutiae, there will be factors outside of everyone’s reach that can turn a race on its head. The Great British Weather.
It was perhaps predictable that the opening round of the British GT championship at Oulton Park over the Easter weekend would be beset by shunts, safety cars and interruptions as the April (and late-March) showers did their best.
What is fascinating is how all drivers cope on a track that is offering up varying levels of grip as the conditions change. On a drying or increasingly wet piece of Tarmac, racers still routinely manage to set lap times within fractions of each
