Herberts Finds Positives Despite Difficult Weekend; Looks Forward to Denver

Courtesy Gerry Frechette

Coquitlam, B.C., August 3, 2006 – Adrien Herberts of Coquitlam, B.C. headed into the most recent event of the Formula BMW season at San Jose, California last weekend optimistic he would do well on the street course, but good results proved tough to achieve.

With so many cars on such a short, tight track, incidents are almost expected, and Herberts had his share. In qualifying for the first of two races, Adrien tapped the wall and he had to park the car for the rest of the session. After having run in the top seven to start the session, not being able to improve his time as is usual at the end of a session saw him drop to 14th in the final analysis. The race was a short one, as the hairpin turn one took its toll, major contact ending his race right then and there.

In qualifying for the second race, Adrien was again quick right off the bat, but then he had no luck dealing with all the traffic and had some issues with the braking on his car, and he ended up a disappointed 24th on the grid. As seen before, though, that would give him the chance to salvage the weekend by passing numerous slower cars, and he ended up 12th for a good result.

Adrien remains positive about the weekend, in that he knows that he and his team have the ability to run up front in qualifying, with a little more good fortune. Heading into the next event in Denver in two weeks, he is one of only several drivers in the Formula BMW field to have driven there last year, so he is looking forward to having an early advantage in qualifying and running some quick laps so as to start the races further up the grid.

“I like the track in Denver and know it well,” Adrien says of the street circuit where he ran as high as second last year, “and we’ll be going full steam there to finish the qualifying sessions near the front, where we know we can be.”

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