BTCC明星车手Jason Plato告诉你如何在Donington Park赛道夺得杆位

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时间和水平的关系，就不翻译了：

“You can see as I cross the line to start the lap, there are a couple of cars in front of me. If I had been in a testing session I would have aborted the lap but when you are in qualifying mode, with all the tyres and brakes up to the right temperature, you simply have to go for it anyway.

"Your pulse is generally a bit higher on a qualifying lap, but you can’t get too wound up with traffic and then make a mistake because of that. You flash your lights like crazy and hope they move out of the way but it is just something that you have to deal with.

“I was flat-out down the Craner Curves and then we get to the Old Hairpin right-hander, which is a real test. You have to make up your mind before you get there about how much of the corner you are going to bite off. It is a bit of guestimation.

"It is like biting in to a chilli – you have to decide how brave you are going to be and then commit to it. You have to be over the normal limit because if you are on the normal limit, you will not be fast enough. It is a question of how brave you really want to be.

“It is a corner that when you get it right, you always think you could have done quicker but you will see that I am sliding around on opposite lock there. That means I gave it all I could.

“McLean’s is another corner where you use guesswork. It is hard to get right and there is gravel right on the edge, so the penalty for getting it wrong is harsh.

“Then it is up to Coppice, and you are judging the feeling that the car has given you from Redgate, the Old Hairpin and McLean’s to give you the confidence to attack there. As I come out of the corner, you can hear the car bog down – we had a small electrical issue that cost us a tenth of a second or so.

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