“I received a call on Thursday afternoon from my manager Phil Hindley, to drive with Oliver Morley in the Muhlner Motorsport Porsche 997 GT3 Cup S in the first two rounds of the FIA European GT3 championship” Sean recalled.
Last minute situations are never perfect, let alone, having never driven a 997 GT3 Cup ‘S’, but Sean relished the challenge to return to the series, that he won in 2006.
A last minute call to Sean Edwards has put him in the Porsche 997 Cup S seat alongside Oliver Morley for this weekend’s two FIA GT3 races at his home track of Silverstone.
“I got the call today from my manager Phil Hindley to see if I was available and although very last minute I am looking forward to working with the team and Oliver for the first time. The last time I raced GT3 was back in 2006 and we won, so I expect to pick up where I left off and do a good job this weekend as I am sure the Porsche is more competitive now then it was back then. The weather looks suspect for this weekend too and these cars are superb to drive in the wet and I know the track very well, which brought me victory last year in the British GP Porsche Supercup race!” commented Sean.
Porsche Supercup racewinner Sean Edwards is set to become the latest driver to join the 2009 Le Mans Series grid. The 22 year old from Henley-On-Thames, United Kingdom will drive a ARC Bratislava-Kaneko prepared Saleen S7R in the LM GT1 category at the 1000 Km of Catalunya on April 5th.
The British driver is not unfamiliar with the Saleen S7R. In 2008 Edwards joined ARC Bratislava for the first two rounds of the FIA GT Championship. Alongside team owner Miro Konopka Edwards nearly secured an overall pole position at the opening race at the Silverstone circuit after treacherous weather conditions hampered the qualifying session. Unfortunately the team retired in both races that Edwards raced.
The Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup series moved onto one of the most challenging tracks of the season, the infamous Spa-Francorchamps in the Arden Mountains. “It’s my favourite track in the world” explained Sean on the lead up to the weekend.
Practice was just about wet enough for rain tyres to be used. Immediately Sean set the bench mark with a 2.48.863, which would not be beaten throughout the whole 45 minute session. “Practice was good, we did a good lap straight out of the box and then tried various changes, but the track got even more slippery after the first few laps, so we could not improve our time”. Continue reading…
Sean Edwards arrived in Valencia with high hopes of a good result. The Konrad team had been somewhat been re shuffled, with Jan Seyffarth going to Tolimit and being replaced by Jiri Janak in the number 23 Konrad machine.
The test session didn’t go well for Sean, as while he was running his brake pads in, there was a problem with the front suspension. He came in, but the team could not fix it in time and they missed the whole session. “It’s very unfortunate, as the track is very different to drive on the Michelin tyres and ceramic brakes and they have changed the track a bit since last time, so we are on the back foot already.” Sean said after testing.