Augusto Farfus “not worried at all” about dip in form

BMW’s Augusto Farfus says he is “not worried at all” about his dip in form since Brands Hatch.

The RBM team driver won the Hockenheim season opener and qualified second at Brands Hatch. However, he retired from the British race, and has since managed to score just eight points, all of which came in the following round at Spielberg.

Whilst Farfus is “disappointed” his promising start to the season has not brought stronger results, he is unconcerned about the situation as he believes it is part of motorsport.

“It is obviously disappointing my good start to the season has not continued,” Farfus told TouringCarTimes. “At the Lausitzring BMW lacked a bit of pace, and the 5 grid penalty in qualifying did not help.

“On the first lap I dropped to almost last in the field and managed to recover and fight back to 12th. Twelfth as a result is not what I wanted, but the race pace was very good.

“I’m not worried at all [as the] speed is there and also the confidence. Motorsport is also made of bad weekends.”

Farfus also said his Norisring race, where he finished 16th and a lap down on post-Watergate race winner, Robert Wickens, was due to a wrong set-up direction by him and RBM, rather than a lack of outright pace in the BMW.

“At the Norisring I just could not get the right balance again and so the set-up was not what I wanted to get the perfect lap.

“We have to be honest and say we have made the set up mistakes so cannot give ourselves a top score for performance, however, I would give RBM 10 out of 10 for teams and we shall be back at the front of the grid again soon.”