Whats Happening?
“It’ll be about hitting the setup from the get go,” says Baird of the plan to win races and close in on the 18-point championship lead.
“We need to be ahead of the pace and Christian Menzel (the series leader). Getting pole position is goal number one.
Once we’ve done that the racing becomes a lot simpler and it’s really the start and tyre strategy that become variables.”
After six rounds of the 2010 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, Craig Baird one of New Zealand's top ranked motorsport drivers is in a dog fight battle with German driver Christian Menzel at the half way point of the season.
Craig with little or no experience of the asian circuits along with the Triple X Motorsport team have proven to be very competitive with their first shot at the title and still well in the hunt of victory. The team at Redline Signwriters are backing the VnC Cocktails Porsche, Craig and the Triple X team to be at the top soon, will keep you updated.
2010 Porsche Carrera Cup Asiapoints after six of 11 rounds
1 Christian MENZEL , GER, 98
2 Craig BAIRD, NZL, 80
3 MOK Weng Sun, SIN, 74
4 Marchy LEE, HKG, 74
5 Keita SAWA , JPN, 55
