Fan Notes by Amy Daytona Bosche 250 2010
James Gué took a great start and was fastly at 3rd place. Charles Espenlaub was up to 9th to 7th place. My first impression was “it’s going to be an interesting race for the guys !”
Near the first hour, there was the first full caution due to debris on the track. Some cars took the opportunity to make a pitstop. Charles went up to 4th place. At the restart James lost a place and was 4th and Charles 6th.
Shortly after, Charles went down to 10th place after a pitstop.
The race started 45 minutes ago, 23 laps completed and James has suddenly fallen to 11th place. Later, we’ll learn he got pushed wide.
30 laps completed, almost an hour in that race, Charles was 9th, James 11th then a second full caution due to debris in the chicane 
interrupted the race.
6 minutes later, always full caution, and a lot of pitstops was made. Charles and James have been propelled to places 3 and 5.
The next lap Charles and James did both a pitstop. Speedy Joe Foster and Leh Keen were in the car and back on the track at places 11 and 13.
35th laps is done and the race restart. Joe and Leh went up of one place due to a car which did a pitstop.
Fifteen minutes later, no move for our drivers until the laps 48 when Joe was at the 8th place and Leh 10th. Three laps later, our Speedy Joe was 7th.
45 minutes remaining Joe and Leh went up to 5th and 6th. Other cars did their last pitstop. And they finally went to 4th and 5th.
But unfortunately five minutes later -58 laps completed- Joe dropped to 8th. No one knew why. We were supposed that he just did a last pitstop. But the next lap was very slow again. He went down to 13th place with a lap time of 3:37.495.
Leh did not stop his efforts and was third.
This 58th laps was the last for Speedy Joe and the Mazda #40. We still don’t know why, nothing on Speed about the incident. Thanks to Jim Jordan who said on twitter a few minutes later that DPs ruined their race.
A few minutes before the 2-Hours of the race, Leh went down at the 5th place because he tangled with another GT. And at tne next lap he did his last pitstop and was back on the track in P8. Few laps later he won a place.
He stayed at that place until the end of the race, with around 15 secondes late on the prior.
After 2h30, the checkered flag was waved.
Conclusion of the race:
♥ I still don’t understand why DP and GT race together if on Speed we never saw their battles which can be very interesting.
♥ I HATE the DPs which for the second times this year they damaged our Mazda #40
♥ The race is just to forget and I look forward to the next one.
