After a fair amount of laps the practice session was over. Jake came back into the pits and was feeling good about the new Yokohama A.driveR1's. He says “They gripped up well running at high tyre pressures. The reason I ran higher pressure was due to them being a new tyre and I was keen to see how they went.”
Jake continues “A quick pressure check and they didn’t seem to sky rocket like most tyres do and also guess what? They held up awesome! The Yokohama A.driveR1's still had good enough tread to go back out again. So another practice session was up and I went to finish them this time.”
This time Jake totalled the tyres. “Not only were the Yokohama A.driveR1's grippy; but according to everyone following me that couldn’t see anything. The crowd said the Squid mobile was easily the biggest smoke maker” Jake said.
It was now time for Jake’s first qualifying run. In the past, he has had much success during this stage often qualifying first. “I went in with the same enthusiasm aiming to push out a good but daring run. Sure enough thought this time it bit me back and I spun coming out of the last transition” says Jake.
Coming all this way, Jake wasn’t about let his second qualifying run be his last of the competition. “I put down a very safe run which I thought pushed it just enough to make sure I was in the top 16.” When the results were announced, Jake had managed to qualify 5th, well above his expectations after the first qualifying lap. It was time to prepare his car for the battles.
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