Tomy Drissi Turns Up the HEAT at Circuit of the Americas
May 21, 2013 ;)
Given the severe performance disadvantage Porsche finds itself with, Tomy Drissi made the best of a bad situation in the 3rd and 4th rounds of the Pirelli World Challenge series at the Circuit of the Americas. Driving the No. 46 HEAT (the movie) Porsche 911 GT3, Tomy managed a stellar 7th place finish on Saturday and 14th on Sunday.
Saturdays performance was really quite remarkable given Tomy Drissi was called to the pits to serve a drive-through penalty for jumping out of line on the restart. He was the highest finishing Porsche in race 1.
Tomy was rightfully disappointed and frustrated at the disparity among the World Challenge GT cars.
"The Porsche just isn't getting the help it needs to put it on balance with the other GT cars.
"Seriously, it was all I could do to stay out of the way without giving up my race. After all, I came to race. I'm not going to simply drive around.
"We were pedaling around here pretty good… but in reality, we just had nothing for Audi, Corvettes and Cadillacs.
"Sunday we started based on Saturday fast lap times. We were 13th on the grid. So basically, we were just stuck in traffic for the entire race. When you've got nothing on the top end and nothing coming of the corners, all you can do is try to make the car as wide as possible, put your head down and give it all you've got. That's what I did.