Circuit Le Mans Bugatti, France

Start date: 23 September 2023 - End date: 24 September 2023

Location: France

2023 Season

ROUND 7

Penultimate round of the series. What a venue it was fantastic to be racing at the world famous Le Mans Bugatti Circuit here in France. We faced another challenging weekend but to end the last race with a Promoters Cup podium couldn’t have ended any better for them. It was the icing on the cake for the team taking a well-earned second place and 6^th overall.

Since Zolder repairs and maintenance were carried out including a new back axle fitted and new steering column and gearbox issues rectified. We went well in both Free Practices sessions, followed by a very short qualifying session due to problems with the truck, an oil line on the turbo split and a new turbo needed to be fitted before the first race.

Race One: Mark had a great start and straight into P13, in a great move on Clemens Hecker. On the last lap Taylor moved into 12^th spot to take the flag and promoted into P11.

Race Two: Mark had a battle with Jose Rodrigues and shortly after three into a corner don’t go! Taylor coming off worst and into the gravel after contact with Rodrigues. Taylors regained for a lap before retiring with a broken shock absorber from the coming together.

Race Three: Settled for P12 in Q2, we lined up on the 6^th row of the grid, a red flag stopped the race after Andre Kursim became stranded on the pit straight. A restart straight away and Taylor avoided drama with two trucks in front, straight into P12 by lap 3. It was a race of swapping positions and settling for 11th place.

Race Four: Last race of the weekend saw Taylor line up on row 6, a fantastic start and into P9 by the end of lap one and straight into P8. An eight-truck train followed, Taylor trying his hardest, by lap 5 he slid into P7, two laps later into 6^th remaining to take the chequered flag and a podium second place in the Promoters Cup.

Goodyear FIA European Truck Racing Championship. Our weekend looked like this:

Race One – 11th (5th – Promoters Cup)
Race Two – DNF
Race Three – 11th (5th – Promoters Cup)
Race Four – 6th (2nd – Promoters Cup)

Driver Comments

“Quelle course fantastique” “That’s the only French I know! – What a fantastic race.” – “the last race couldn’t have gone any better, it was brilliant a good end to the weekend. It was a good battle, I enjoyed it and keeping up with Jamie and Sascha for a good few lap”.

“The weekend didn’t start so well for us, but the team pulled out the stops and got us back up in the points by the end of the weekend, a big thanks to them all and now look forward to Spain next weekend”.

We leave Le Mans Bugatti Circuit with the following championship points in total: