Drewer and West fast at Road Atlanta test.

USA based Australian driver Tom Drewer is ‘delighted’ with the results of a successful two day test at the Road Atlanta circuit in Georgia.

The test, designed to find optimum set-ups on the new spec tunnel floor WEST race car, went ‘totally to plan’ according to Drewer who together with PVM Racing team mate Eric Vassian both recorded times in the mid 1.20 bracket.

‘It was my first time at Road Atlanta, and my impression was that it was a little like a Bathurst with plenty of undulation around the 12 turn 4.987 kilometre circuit.

Turn 11 is amazing as you go under the bridge totally blind and then plummet down the hill and around the last corner onto the main straight. Turns 1 and 3 also put a smile on your face. Turn 1 is super quick and the amount of g-force generated from the aero of the tunnel floor is quite severe on your body, particularly your neck, so I am working on that part of my training regime.

The esses after Turn 3 are also very challenging as you hold the car flat down the left, right, left complex pulling gears all the time’.

Drewer reported the team to very extremely happy with the times, being 2 seconds better than PVM had ever recorded before at the circuit.

‘We were only a second off the time set by a much more powerful L1 Elan prototype that was also at the test running a new tunnel floor, so that bodes well for our L2 cars at the next American Le Mans Series IMSA Lites event scheduled for May 17-18 at Miller Motorsport Park in Salt Lake City, Utah.

We didn’t put new tyres on the car to go for an ultimate time, and I took a fairly conservative approach, so I figure there is a little more in both me and the car.’

Drewer is currently leading the 2008 American Le Mans Series IMSA Lites L2 Championship having won both races at Round One in Sebring, Florida in March this year.