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INISSUE TOUCH25 MOTORSPORT NEWS THE DUNLOP CONFIDENCE TRICK OCTOBER 2012 MOTORSPORT Race derived DUNLOP Grip and Braking BEATS for the road EXTREME HEAT IN BAHRAIN Round six of the FIA World Endurance Championship took the test of searing temperatures in the desert for the 6 Hours of Bahrain on September 29. In the all-Dunlop LMP2 class the trio of Pierre Kaffer, Nicolas Minassian and Luis Perez-Companc in the #49 the extreme driving conditions. One driver was even helped Pecom Racing Oreca 03-Nissan took their first victory in the off the LMP1 podium so he could faint! World Championship. “The ambient and track conditions were also very tough on It was a clear, flawless win, two laps ahead of the No.23 tyres. The Bahrain circuit is notoriously tough due to the Signatech Nissan Oreca 03-Nissan, in the hands of Jordan surface and the risk of having sand on the circuit. It was Tresson, Olivier Lombard and Franck Mailleux, and the #44 challenging from a traction point of view which saw several Starworks Motorsports HPD-Honda who remain leaders in teams optimising the traction control strategies to ensure the LMP2 Championship. consistency. The #44 combo of Stéphane Sarrazin, Tom Kimber-Smith “We took medium and hard tyre options stet the majority of and Enzo Potolicchio set pole and were ahead at the start of the teams opting to use the hard, and a few teams managing the fifth hour, but lost four minutes in the pits following a to engineer a suitable setup to exploit the additional grip of technical problem, leaving the way free for the Argentinian the medium.
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