With each meeting, Dario Cabanelas steps up a gear in the Eurocup-3 Championship, which is proving to be a logical and appropriate follow-up for a driver who has highlighted himself in F4, as was the case for Dario. The Valencia event was only the young Swiss hopeful's third meeting in this category, and he already managed to celebrate an excellent first top-five finish in one of the two Qualifying sessions. A mechanical problem then cut him short, but Dario and his Saintéloc Racing team showed that they will be a force to be reckoned with in the future.
A driver who is making a name for himself
Dario Cabanelas was delighted to return to the Valencia circuit, where he had made his mark a year earlier in the French Formula 4 Championship, and he was immediately at ease in the first Free Practice sessions. As the sessions progressed, he climbed up the order: P10 in the first and P4 in the second, with the 2nd fastest time among the rookies. "Unfortunately, I had a problem with the car's flat floor in the first Qualifying session," regretted Dario.
"On a track where you can't hesitate to use certain kerbs, it really handicapped me, so I couldn't do better than 10th. It clearly wasn't a good result, because in Race 1 I found myself in a pack with drivers who weren't as fast as me. What's more, the safety car on track for several minutes didn't make it any easier to get back up the field. At the end of the race, just after the restart as I was trying to overtake a driver, a kerb threw me off balance in the middle of braking, the car shot straight ahead and I had to go off the track. By the time I got back on track, a few cars had passed and I had to settle for 13th place."
"On a track where you can't hesitate to use certain kerbs, it really handicapped me, so I couldn't do better than 10th. It clearly wasn't a good result, because in Race 1 I found myself in a pack with drivers who weren't as fast as me. What's more, the safety car on track for several minutes didn't make it any easier to get back up the field. At the end of the race, just after the restart as I was trying to overtake a driver, a kerb threw me off balance in the middle of braking, the car shot straight ahead and I had to go off the track. By the time I got back on track, a few cars had passed and I had to settle for 13th place."
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