Jos Verstappen on Sentul: plenty of overtaking possibilities

Published on 09 February 2006 by Thorsten Hendriks

Jos Verstappen arrived yesterday, 8pm local time, in his hotel and did his usual walk over the Sentul earlier this morning. "If the race is going to be like the local traffic here it will be utter chaos." according to Jos who has experienced how the locals interpret the highway code. "Those mopeds overtake you left and right, it is complete madess. It is very busy on the roads here and going from one place to another is an adventure in itself."

If Jos gets it his way he will be repeating what he did in Durban. "We were very happy with the car's setup, but this is a different circuit and each track needs its own setup. It feels good to start a race as the winner of the previous one, the whole team is very confident." Jos has seen possibilities for a good result on this circuit. "I did my usual walk and there are some nice corners and the straights are ideal for overtaking."

Nothing is as predictable as the inpredictability of the weather in Indonesia. "It is dry now but it can change in no time. Dark clouds and then it will be pouring down. With a bit of bad luck your training or qualifying could be ruined, but then again it will affect all teams."

Team Netherlands does not have a spare car to its disposal. "Well, no one has" Jos says. "The organisation brought 4 cars with them, it's probably too expensive to take a spare car for each team. So in case of emergency there will be four cars available if teams have a write-off."

Thorsten Hendriks