Bangkok--27 Aug--sandystuvik.com
Thai racing driver Sandy Stuvik impressed during early practice at Austria’s RedBull Ring, setting the fastest time of all 34 Formula Renault 2.0 cars in the second session. In the third and final session he lead for most of the session, before eventually setting the third fastest time.
In the Saturday afternoon qualification rounds he managed 6th place in the first, later converted to 9th due to a yellow flag infringement and 11th in the second session after catching slow traffic on his fastest lap. Still, the Austrian race commentators were quite impressed with having a Thai driver performing at this level.
The Austrian summer with blue sky and well over 30 degrees, came to an end with Sunday mornings first race and the ensuing cold and heavy rain effected the set up and confidence of the Thai driver. The first race was started under Safety Car due to the large amounts of water on the track and with numerous accidents up and down the field, the Thai driver opted to play it safe and ended the race in a point scoring 14th place.
The second race again started on a wet circuit and Sandy Stuvik was distressed not to have a chance to show his impressive dry circuit set up speed, but again drove a sensible race and finished where he started in 11th place.
That meant that the Thai driver Sandy Stuvik reached 100 points and maintained his 10th place in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Championship. The next race will follow in only one week, during September 1-2, at Autodrom Most in the Czech Republic.
Sandy Nicholas Stuvik races for the Royal Automobile Association of Thailand and is sponsored by The Pizza Company, Singha Corporation, Dacon Inspection Services and Sports Authority of Thailand.
Formula Renault Northern European Cup 2012 schedule http://www.necup.com/
Events:
19/22 April Hockenheim- Germany
21/23 June Nurburgring- Germany
5/8 July Oschersleben- Germany
2/5 August Assen - Netherland
23/26 August Red Bull A1 Ring- Austria
30 August - 2 September Most- Czech Republic
20/23 September Zandvoort- Netherland
11 /14 October Spa — Francorchamps - Belgium