Toyota driver sachafenestraz was left frustrated by a strategy call that dropped him from third to sixth in today's sformula race at Motegi. “The strategy was terrible....We lost the race there.'
Looking back on his race, Fenestraz referenced May’s Autopolis race - where he ignored Kondo’s instruction to pit and went on to finish runner-up to Hirakawa - and made clear his annoyance that the team fell into the same trap for a second time.
“It was the same situation as Autopolis, where the team called me in but I didn’t listen to them, stayed out and finished well. Today I should have done the same. “Hirakawa did today what we did in Autopolis, which is stay out when the cars ahead come in, get a clear track and push. That’s what we should have done. Sacha Fenestraz, KONDO RACINGFenestraz added that he knew his podium chances were over when he realised his team had called him on the same lap as Oyu, who was struggling for race pace.
“We definitely had the pace for P2 or at least P3 as Nojiri didn’t seem to be super-fast. But when I was stuck behind Oyu, I knew we were finished.
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