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JOHNNY COCKER DIARIES: LE MANS 24 HOURS

Jonny Cocker: Lola Diaries

Drayson Racing's Jonny Cocker has established himself as one of Britain’s elite young drivers. His 2010 season includes racing a full-season effort in a new Judd-powered Lola B09/60 coupe in LMP alongside teammate and team owner Lord Drayson. Jonny will be giving lola-group.com and americanlemans.com regular updates this season on his and Drayson Racing's campaign in the 2010 American Le Mans Series.

 

JOHNNY COCKER DIARIES: LE MANS 24 HOURS

2010-07-02

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Drayson Racing's Jonny Cocker closes his chapter on Le Mans 2010 with this report. He and Paul Drayson will return stateside for next week's Larry H. Miller Dealerships Utah Grand Prix at Miller Motorsports Park...

“Le Mans was super tough this year but the important thing was that Drayson Racing finished the race and that is something which can’t be underestimated in terms of an achievement for the whole team and our partners. You know, we saw a lot of the factory teams have issues and the amount of cars that finished (26 from 55) just shows that even though we were unclassified and had issues throughout the race, taking the flag at the end of it was a massive achievement. We really did deserve it based on how the team worked together; the guys just didn’t give up. That was fantastic really and they should take a lot of credit for that, everybody involved did a fantastic job.

“At the start of the race Paul (Drayson) did a good job in his first stint. I jumped in the car for my first stint and immediately felt the car was different from what it had felt like previously. We had made improvements throughout the week and the engine change meant that qualifying wasn’t really a true representation of where it should have been on the grid. After the first stint we changed tyres which is not normal, usually the tyres would do at least two if not three stints when it cools off a little bit but the problem didn’t go away. We did finally get to the bottom of it and the car was fantastic to the end of the race. That was really nice and we were lapping in 3m27/3m28’s which is right at the top end of what the petrol powered cars were doing in the race. We had a lot of additional little problems such as a fuel cell issue but the team again did great work to fix it and it was nice to fully commit and have the Lola in such great condition at the end of the race. It was a real pleasure to drive, just fantastic."

Read more of Jonny's diary from lola-group.com. An archive is available on his blog page at americanlemans.com.



 
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