Daniel Serra, from São Paulo, set the best time of the free practice that opened on Friday in Cascavel the schedule of the fourth stage of Stock Car. The RC team racer stopped the timing in 1min00s875 on his best lap in the first of two groups of 15 racers who entered Cascavel´s track, just under tenths faster than second-place Attila Abreu (Shell). Another highlight of the session was Júlio Campos, from Prati-Donaduzzi. In the circuit, where he achieved some of his best results - he has one pole and three second places - Campos was also surpassed by Max Wilson (RC), but finished in a great 4th place, confirming his familiarity with the fast and challenging course of the west of Paraná.
Campos also began to fulfill the optimistic expectation that surrounds Prati-Donaduzzi in the double round of this Sunday. Toledo's drug manufacturer has Cascavel as "home" and must receive strong encouragement from its employees and residents of the region, who will "push" the purple cars in the races. The team comes from a second place in Santa Cruz do Sul with Antonio Pizzonia, a result that broke a sequence of under-potential results and caused by accidents in the two initial stages.
"I think the weekend started really well, we did not put in new tires, we will only have brand-new tires to take the time, because this will be a track in which we will save them for other races. This set of tires I used today consists of 3 tires with little use and another 'caught' that replaces one that became unusable. Under these conditions, the three tenths we take today are reasonable. Let`s fight in the lead in the qualifying, "said Campos.
The tests were performed with sun, steady time and low temperatures - around 10°C ambient and less than 30°C on the asphalt. If it caused discomfort and trembling in the pit area, Campos said that the cold is always welcome. "It helps a lot, because it reduces the wear on the engine and especially on the tires. Actually, it helps everything, even for the racers who do not feel as much inside the cockpit as with the heat."
If Campos qualified the training as quite productive, the same did not happen to Pizzonia. He did not hide the disappointment with 16th place overall. "There is something very out of the ordinary, the car is very difficult to steer, the rear is quite unstable, the front is not good either, the car is not reacting to the changes we are making. We will have to do a careful analysis and see what is happening, "said.
