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This Thursday, Mexican driver Michel Jourdain Jr. began a two-day testing session with his new Lola B99/00 at Miami-Dade Homestead Motorsports Complex. This was the second time the Herdez-backed driver drove his new Champ Car.
The new Lola isn't completely painted yet
Michel Jourdain Jr., Car #19 Herdez/Payton-Coyne Racing: "I am very happy with the work we have done today. Ben Bowlby and Andrew Bruton of Lola performed the engineering. Their experience and knowledge proved to be very important in the results reached today. We learned a lot about the performance of the new Lola and my best time was a 26.1 seconds lap."
"We didn't run toward the end of the day, when we could have been faster, because the weather was fresh and less windy. However, we think that we will be running within the 25 seconds per lap. We will try more settings and we will use a fresh engine and this will help, too."
"No doubt the team took the right decision to test again in Homestead before the race. The car has a lot of potential and we are trying to maximize what we have in order to achieve good results during Round 1 of the FedEx Championship Series."
The new Lola isn't completely painted yet
Also present at Homestead was Luiz Garcia Jr., testing for Payton-Coyne in the Tang '98 Reynard he will pilot at
the beginning of the season. The IndyLights graduate will campaing a full season schedule for the team, supported
by Brazilian soft drink manufacturer Tang.
