Leitch Takes Solid Points From Opening Round
15 JANUARY 2017
Leitch Takes Solid Points From Opening
Round
Invercargill driver Brendon Leitch has gathered
some good points from his first outing in the 2017 Castrol
Toyota Racing Series at Mike Pero Motorsport Park at Ruapuna
in Christchurch
this weekend.
In what was his first
competitive outing in a race car since last year’s series,
Leitch qualified thirteenth and tenth in Saturday
morning’s two qualifying sessions leaving him plenty of
work to do
in the three races after some changes were
made to his ITM FT-50 race car.
However as he gained
mileage over the weekend he steadily made ground, gaining at
least three places in each race to place ninth, sixth and
seventh across the three races with hearings
still to be
carried out into the final race, the prestigious Lady Wigram
Trophy Race.
The three results have left Leitch eighth equal in the championship points after he finished third in the 2016 Series.
Leitch was reasonably happy with the
results, saying it was at a round he has “never done
particularly well at,” and that he hadn’t done a lot of
laps in recent times. He was upbeat about next
weekend’s second round at his home circuit of
Teretonga Park in Invercargill saying, “we have real good
speed there and I am pretty happy heading there. It is going
to be a very tight
championship and you need to finish
every race so it is good to finish with all four wheels
attached.”
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