A very relaxed Bruno Senna took the time earlier today to give DSC the lowdown on his upcoming season with RGR Morand. The Brazilian, who took a year off from the WEC after running with Aston Martin during the 2014 season, is back and raring to go, sharing a Ligier with Filipe Albuquerque and Ricardo Gonzalez for the full season in LMP2.
“I was talking with these guys towards the end of last year, and they had a pretty good plan,” Senna said to DSC. “We’ve got two platinum drivers, with a bronze/silver driver depending on how you look at it. But it’s going to be a pretty tough championship. We still have a lot of work to do.
“I’ve known Felipe for many years, he was even my teammate at one point in GP2. And everybody gets on really well as a whole anyway. We are all Latino people, and we have a similar way of thinking.
Senna is no stranger to racing the type of car he’s set to peddle this season, with experience racing in Formula One and GP2 in the past. Nevertheless, the 32-year-old says the Ligier JS P2 is still going to take some getting used to.
“I have driven the car, I was with the team at Motorland Aragon to test it. It was fantastic going back to a car with that sort of downforce, as since 2012 I’ve been driving only cars with low downforce. It took a good few laps to find belief in the car.
“The amount of grip you have, being able to attack the corners gives me so much pleasure.”
Aside from learning his way round a new car and team, Senna is also looking forward to the challenge of taking on the rest of this year’s LMP2 class, which is full of teams and drivers he’s not yet used to competing against.
“This is one of the stronger years in P2, so it’s nice to be a part of it. These cars are proper racing cars.
“The WEC is one of the places to be right now as a driver.”
Outside of his sportscar commitments this season, he’s competing with Mahindra Racing in Formula E too; playing a part in another young series with high aspirations. And he stresses that both series continue to be on an upward curve.
“Both series are clearly growing up, getting stronger and stronger. Formula E is getting more and more drivers from prestigious series, like WEC. Formula E doesn’t know where it will be yet, but for the moment it’s so relevant for road cars that I cannot see how more manufacturers will not get involved soon.
“There’s 10 drivers in Formula E, pretty much half the grid, that do WEC as well. Luckily there’s no clashes!”
Stephen Kilbey
