Podium finish for Karun Chandhok at British GP
Karun Chandhok drove an amazing race to finish third at the British Grand Prix and secure Ocean Racing Technology's (ORT) first podium finish in the GP2 series here on Sunday.
The Chennai-born driver, who had finished sixth in the feature race, ended ahead of series leader Romain Grosjean.
"I am very very pleased for the team, being the first podium for them. I was as quick as the guys in front early on but started to struggle with traction later on in the slower corners so I decided to just make sure I looked after the car till the end," an elated Karun later said.
"It feels really good to be on the podium again at Silverstone. It's a good present for my dad on father's day and also a great day for Tiago (Monteiro) and the boys at ORT," he added.
Karun got his weekend off to a perfect start by finishing third in the first practice. He was looking good going into qualifying but got caught out in traffic which ruined his qualifying. Chandhok ended up qualifying 11th on a circuit where he felt he should have been in the top five.
"I really got messed up in qualifying with traffic. Nunes (Diego) blocked me twice and Valssechi (David) once on my best laps when I was on course for fourth place. After qualifying, they both got penalised but it didn't really help me," said Karun.
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06-23-2009, 06:39 AM
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