After the retirement of the German women’s national soccer team against Japan, also the Lohne-based ‘Team Abu Dhabi by tolimit’ suffered from challenging conditions. Mixed weather conditions and frequent rain resulted in the drivers Jeroen Bleekemolen, Sean Edwards and Khaled Al Qubaisi starting from positions 6, 10 and 23 respectively. Despite of cutting the losses in the race, the team had to settle for positions 6, 10 and 22 in the end.

Sean Edwards: “Unfortunately we pushed our luck in the qualifying. My lap on the first set of tyres was fast and we therefore wanted to save the second tyre set. But the times became faster and when I went out again, the rain was setting in and I wasn’t able to improve. The race was not good, too. We were simply lacking general pace. We will now need to sort out what was going wrong for the next race at the Nürburgring, and then come back fighting.”

Jeroen Bleekemolen: “I didn’t have a completely dry lap in qualifying and had to learn the new part of the track. Especially in the first corner it is hard to find the right line and lots of drivers cut the edges. But 6th on the grid was ok. The race, however, was simply bad. We didn’t have the pace. I had a great start, but was made running wide by a competitor and almost lost a few positions. After that the leading group just took off and the rest of the field wasn’t able to keep up.”

Khaled Al Qubaisi: “In the qualifying I concentrated on not losing too much time to the front. The track wasn’t completely dry, but the lap was ok for me. In the race, I ran wide in the first corner trying to avoid traffic, but unfortunately, I went off track and later had so much dirt on the tyres that I wasn’t able to push any more. It was a weekend to forget for the team, but I am happy that I finished the race.”

tolimit head of motorsport and Supercup team manager Michael Seifert: “Among others, the mixed English weather put a spoke in our wheel, but that sort of things happen. Now we unfortunately lost the lead in the driver and team standings, but we are running up close and will do everything to gain it back in the next race at the Nürburgring.”

tolimit general manager Hans-Bernd Kamps: „Our performance on the weekend was simply not good enough. We will look at what hasn’t worked out right away on Monday back in the office. We are definitely able to perform better than shown in Silverstone. For this weekend, my favourite saying fits once again: Only those show real greatness that are able to stand up after having fallen down. Different to the German women’s national soccer team, we will use our chance to win the title.”

The race dates:
July 24, Nürburgring, Germany
July 31, Budapest, Hungary
August 28, Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
September 11, Monza, Italy