2023 Super Production Challenge season comes to a close!
August 29, 2023 at 3:32 pm,
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And with that, the 2023 Super Production Challenge season comes to a close!
The Futec Motorsports car showed promising lap times all through testing on Friday, consistently setting lap times in the top 3 in the constantly changing weather conditions.
By the time qualifying came around, an electrical issue caused the car to cut power over bumpy corners. Despite setting the 2nd fastest lap for most of the session, mechanical issues meant Blok couldn't improve his time, and qualified down in 7th. Fortunately, this issue would be fixed prior to the first race.
Starting the first race in 5th after penalties were applied, there was a extended caution for a major accident with Jacques Gravel. Once the race got started, Blok would finish in 4th, marking his best finish of the season and the best ever finish for Futec Motorsports.
The final race of the season, would have Blok starting in 2nd. Being squeezed into the inside wall in turn 2 on the opening lap by another driver in a Nissan 370, left him nowhere to go. Despite a severely damaged rim and car as a consequence, he managed to hold onto 2nd place and begin to catch up to Gabriel Lacombe in 1st. Unfortunately the electrical issues appeared to return again as he slowly slipped down the order leading to an early retirement from the race.
It was a growing season, but we know everything we need to do now for 2024. The car is fast, we just need to fix our reliability issues. It was a challenging year as a team owner, but Blok is confident we can be even faster next season!!
Big thanks to Tom Russell, Brandon Lepine, Steve Blok, Sandra Blok , and Jeff Steenbakkers for all the help and work this season!