Harold Primat and Christophe Tinseau scored crucial Le Mans Series championship points with a comeback performance in the 17 Pescarolo Sport car at the 1000kms of Valencia.
Despite starting at the back of the grid when the car did not fire up for the formation lap, the pair fought back gallantly, with their Pescarolo-Judd 01 showing impressive reliability, closing the gap to the second works Peugeot to just two points in the overall LMP1 standings.
Primat said: “At the start, the mechanics got rushed off the grid before they had the chance to switch on the battery. I did not know what was wrong and I had to wait for the boys to come and help me. That meant we couldn’t get away on the warm-up lap and had to start at the back. I was able to work through the GT2 cars fairly quickly, but unfortunately one of the Ferraris didn’t see me and we touched very lightly, but in just the wrong place, giving me a puncture. After that though both Christophe and I pushed hard from the back of the field to make a good recovery. After the problem at the start, we would probably have taken sixth place, but the car felt good enough for a podium today so it’s a little bit frustrating. In the end it was too difficult to climb back to the top three, but we scored valuable championship points. ”
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