{"id":2015,"date":"2020-02-25T18:45:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T18:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2020-02-25T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T18:45:35","slug":"negri-closes-asian-le-mans-series-season-with-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/25\/negri-closes-asian-le-mans-series-season-with-podium\/","title":{"rendered":"Negri Closes Asian Le Mans Series Season with Podium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buriram, Thailand (25 February 2019) \u2013 Ozz Negri concluded the 2019-2020 Asian Le Mans Series (ALMS) season on the podium with a run to third place\u00a0on Sunday. The\u00a04 Hours of Buriram saw the field of LMP2, LMP3 and GT machines\u00a0do battle with championships and Le Mans auto-invites on the line at the\u00a0Buriram International Circuit.<\/p>\n

Negri and his co-drivers Francesco Piovanetti and Daniel Serra (who filled in for Alessandro Pier Guidi who was on duty in Austin for the WEC event weekend) shared the driving duties in the No. 51 Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GT3.<\/p>\n

The two-day event kicked off with two practice sessions preceding the final qualifying session of the season on Saturday. Hot and humid conditions taxed the Spirit of Race team during practice with relief and increased speed coming in qualifying \u2013 taking 1.974-seconds off the Ferrari\u2019s lap time and securing third on the starting grid.<\/p>\n

Strategy became key on the 4.55km, 12-turn road course as multiple\u00a0caution periods slowed down the pace of the race. Unfortunately, none of the cautions coordinated with the team\u2019s pit stop strategy and they were forced to make necessary pit stops under green flag running.<\/p>\n

Taking on the closing stints for Spirit of Race, Negri had a\u00a0late race fight in the final minutes\u00a0which\u00a0saw the Brazilian\u00a0take the Ferrari across the finish line in third place.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe took a gamble on strategy at the start of the race,\u201d said Negri. \u201cIt all seemed to be\u00a0working\u00a0to our advantage,\u00a0but unfortunately\u00a0they\u00a0yellows didn\u2019t\u00a0fall during our pit windows. Everyones effort at each race was great. It\u00a0has been great to see the improvements that Francesco (Piovanetti) has made over the last few race seasons, but especially this one. It was a tough season and of course we would have loved to come out with the championship, but we will keep pushing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Making stops in China, Australia, Malaysia and Thailand \u2013 the No. 51 Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GT3\u00a0claimed\u00a0third in the GT class championship. The entry\u00a0never finished\u00a0outside\u00a0of\u00a0the top four and\u00a0scored\u00a0three podium finishes in the four-race\u00a0championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buriram, Thailand (25 February 2019) \u2013 Ozz Negri concluded the 2019-2020 Asian Le Mans Series (ALMS) season on the podium with a run to third place\u00a0on [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundaymanagement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}