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The second round of the 2007 FIA GT Championship visited the UK, which is the home of Sean Edwards. He was looking to impress on a circuit that he knows like the back of his hand and he certainly proved that!
Practice was a time to set up the car and try to get the best balance for qualifying and the race. But the team were struggling to set up the car for qualifying, so they changed it radically and it had seemed to work for Sean! He was P1 for most of the session and then dropped to P3 with a late charge from two Ferrari’s, but he was still top Porsche ahead of the factory backed BMS Porsche!
Sean met the 1992 world champion Nigel Mansell in a press conference today at Silverstone. “It is really weird to be racing against one of my F1 heroes from when I was young, as I was only 6 years old when he won his F1 world championship!” commented Sean.
“He is a really nice guy to be honest and is very relaxed about racing in the FIA GT championship this weekend. I wish him every success, but I will obviously be aiming to beat him.”
Sean Edwards was asked if he could come and help with the commentary for the FIA GT3 championship, which he won last year. He accepted and tried his hand at commentating on the first race of the 2007 FIA GT3 Championship and the feedback from the fans and TV directors was so good that he has been asked to do it for the whole season.
“I really enjoyed it, it was a different experience to watch and commentate on a race from behind the scenes and really interesting to see how it all works. It looks easy from the outside, but I can tell you that it is a very hard job for them, especially when going out live to thousands of people!” said Sean. “I will be helping them out for the rest of the year now, with what little time I can spare during the FIA GT weekends.”
Sean Edwards raced at Snetterton in a Porsche 997 cup car, bringing back memories of his FIA GT3 championship of 2006. He was there helping out Jim Geddie (who he instructs) for the 2nd race of the weekend which was 1 hour long.
Jim Geddie did very well, qualifying 4th for the first race and doing very well against the faster cars finishing 3rd eventually. This put Sean in perfect position, for starting the Sunday race. “We are up against some Porsche’s that are a lot faster than ours, like the 700 odd BHP Porsche Bi Turbo GT2 car of Rupert Luwlin, so it’s going to be hard to win on Sunday, but I am quietly confident.” said Sean.
The start of the 2007 season is well and truly underway !
Sean Edwards and the Tech 9 crew have recently returned back from round 1 of the FIA GT Championship at Zhuhai in China.
