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26 May, 2015 - RTBW | 0 Comments

The past week has been a busy week for the Cold Zero team. They've been working hard on the test track adjusting everything they can. The design team have been hard at work on the liveries too. We've been told we will something very different this time round, but they refused to give us any hints.

Wednesday saw the pre qualifying event which was always going to be difficult for the team. An insider told us that their flights to Belgium were delayed and they only got there an hour before the event started. They managed a few laps and then it was crunch time.

Much has been said about the rules and regulations for this season. We saw back in the BMW's that Rob Walker raced that there was controversy over the white line rule on the Nurburgring GP circuit. This rule has reared it's head again. Many shared concerns about certain parts of the track, and it seemed to split opinion in the paddock. When we spoke with our insider and Cold Zero, they definitely seemed to think the rule played on the minds of the drivers and hindered them slightly.

After 4 hours, both drivers had done 3 hot laps and their times were very close indeed. Rob Walker had been leading the way in the brief practice session with Andy White some way off the pace. This was very surprising as Andy was definitely the faster driver around Mugello. I caught Rob Walker after and asked him if he was happy with his time. "I am a bit disappointed I didn't get at least a 1:43 as I was hitting them for fun earlier. But it doesn't make too much difference as we are still in the 2nd division and I think that will be better for us. We both have experience with Silverstone, I know Andy is very strong round there. We had testing there the week before at the same time as a few other teams, and we feel we definitely have the beating of a few drivers that beat us today. As long as we don't have an incident I can see one of us doing really well."

We couldn't find Andy White as he was installing some new custom pedals into his car.

The Reawakening

13 May, 2015 - RTBW | 0 Comments

Rumours have been flying round that Cold Zero Motorsport might be taking part in the BMW M235i racing cup that is due to take place in June. The boys were spotted yesterday at Mugello in a warmup event for the championship, but there was no announcement and we started to think that maybe they were just humouring us. Luckily for us, we managed to catchup with both drivers last night after the race and they gave us a quick interview.

Racing News: So is the rumour true? Will you be taking part in the BMW M235i racing cup?

Rob: We've wanted to come back for a while, but we've had a few injuries and other commitments that have kept us from racing. We haven't been in touch as much as we used to but I knew that I could probably convince Andy. I phoned him up and told him I was considering racing again and invited him to watch me race around Mugello. It wasn't long before he was dusting off his helmet.

Andy: (Laughing). Yes it didn't take long to convince me. Although I was a little worried about my back. I've had problems in the past an wasn't sure I could do a full race. The last time I raced in these kind of events was in the Megane cup and I put a lot of hard work in to be at my physical peak for that. I've had a few curry's since then! I decided to give the warmup event a go and see how it went.

Racing News: It went quite well didn't it?

Andy: Yes I was very pleased. I did have a little pain but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I think it helped that the car really suits my driving style, it's balanced quite well for me. During the race I felt I was really consistent putting in some respectable laps. Still off the pace of the boys at the front but we expected this.

Rob: Andy was superb. I couldn't keep up with him! BMW could only provide us with 1 car, so I didn't get chance to practice and we had to borrow a car from team Pickering for the race. I did settle in eventually but I struggled for a while. I was still way off the pace of Andy though. I am looking forward to driving the car some more and hopefully the gap will tighten and we can push each other closer to the others.

Racing News: So what's next?

Rob: We will be doing some private events. We've got a few weeks for the engineers to some tweaks. We can't say too much but our new head engineer is of a very high pedigree.

Andy: What's next you ask? A CZM pole!?

We had to let the guys go at this point as they were being summoned to a post race briefing, but we can confirm that they will be racing in the cup. Very exciting times indeed, especially when the first cup that CZM entered was in a similar BMW and Rob did quite well in that. Both drivers will want to improve on the Megane cup, where both drivers had a DNF. They are certainly taking it very serious and putting in some hard work and we look forward to seeing them on the tarmac.

-Ted Pratt