Perez Ready for penultimate Porsche contest
19-year-old Amigos Redline Racing star Seb Perez hopes that his birthday weekend will bring luck to Silverstone in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB Championship this weekend (28-29 September) after a four week break.
Perez, from Chesterfield, turns twenty years old on Monday (30 September) and hopes to celebrate it with a trophy or two, following last year where he took two podium places.
This weekend will be his third race weekend at the Northamptonshire circuit, the last two on the Grand Prix circuit that started in July at the International Porsche Supercup as a British guest driver racing alongside Sir Chris Hoy supporting the British Grand Prix and then a support to the FIA World Endurance Championship.
A disappointing Silverstone weekend in August saw him and the Amigos Redline Racing team struggle to find the pace in the car during the two free practice sessions that saw him finish ninth and eleventh respectively. The team worked hard on the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup supercar chipping away at the performance from then on.
Qualifying proved that Perez was still in the Porsche rankings, he stormed the sessions finishing sixth and a third row slot for race one.
An entertaining thirty-five minute race one saw Perez in a battle that resulted in a solid sixth-place finish and was looking to secure an even better finish in race two.
His race two encounter didn’t quite weigh up to expectations through, after a slow start but a fantastic recovery Perez ended up in fourth place by lap 12 of the 17 lap contest when he lined up a move on the outside of Brooklands before disaster struck, contact sent him off track and with dirty tyres he then lost control of the car into Luffield, getting stuck in the gravel and being forced to retire.
Not one of the best weekends for the Derbyshire race ace, commenting on the weekend he said “the speed we had in the second race was brilliant, so we need to bear that in mind and keep our heads high. We need to do what we did in race two and hopefully we’ll have a solid result this weekend on our return to Silverstone.”
Perez is back on the shorter 1.639 mile Silverstone National circuit for the penultimate weekend’s two races, last year he took to a double Porsche ProAm podium success, winning the second race and taking a third in race one.
He commented “I’m looking forward to Silverstone after the four week break and hoping for a weekend like last year that was faultless taking two race podium finishes a first and third place.”
Perez is currently in sixth place in the championship and Amigos Redline Racing third in the Entrants Championship.
The final round of the Championship sees the Amigos boys back at Brands Hatch on the Grand Prix Circuit (12 – 13 October) where it all started in April this year
This year’s 16 race Porsche Carrera Cup GB Championship series is one of the most highly regarded championships in Europe and follows the Kwik-Fit British Touring Car Championship as a support package.
Editorial by Paul Horton and Images Paul Horton Motorsport Photography
