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June 9, 2002: VTR-Viggen did good this weekend
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More news on the VTR team. There was a 4-hour race in Francorchamps this weekend, and the Viggen again performed as expected, even a bit more as expected. The team had done a great job this week to improve road-handling. Unfortunately, when they started testing on Friday, suspension broke after just a few rounds. The team decided not to risk anything and mounted the former suspension back on the car. Another big moment for the team was the arrival of a new 300HP and 420NM trionic, Friday in the afternoon. Not able to test the car properly, they took a chance by using it for the race...
The race itself started at 8PM and ended in the dark at midnight, witch was very exciting. The weather was dry during the whole race, witch wasn't in the teams best interest.
After 2 hours of racing the Viggen was in fifth place of his class and 37e overall. This was an excellent performance and all the team members where trilled. Only moments later they received the news that the car had no more power steering. The team manager called the car for a pitstop ( new tires, driver, fuel), and to fix the broken powersteering. It took them three laps to fix the problem, so they fell back to 7e place. Good luck arrived when 2 cars of the same class, the Mondeo turbo and the super Audi, broke down and didn't finish the race. They again took fifth place and 30e overall. At the end of the race, a Porsche crashed into the wall and so the race ended under safetycar guidance.
Without the bad luck, the Viggen would have had 3e place...
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