James Nash ‘fairly happy’ with Suzuka outing

bamboo-engineering’s James Nash is “fairly happy” with his performance at Suzuka following fifth place finishes in races one and two.

The Briton qualified in fifth in the first 26-lap race, and sixth in the reverse-grid second.

He then managed to maintain his advantage to finish fifth in both races, and declared himself “fairly happy” after his solid performances on a track which is notoriously difficult to overtake.

“I’m fairly happy with the results today,” said Nash after the race. “I lost a couple of places on the rolling start in race one but got them back and in race two I enjoyed a good clean battle throughout with my main rivals in the overall Championship Gabriele Tarquini in the Honda and Tom Chilton.”

Nash also feels the introduction of his former British Touring Car Championship race engineer, Kevin Berry, has also boosted his chances of claiming the WTCC’s Yokohama Drivers’ category title at the WTCC’s next round in China.

The Nash/Berry combination also took the 2011 BTCC title.

“It has been great working again with Race Engineer Kevin Berry,” Nash added. “Kevin was on my car at Triple Eight when together we won the British Touring Car Championship Independent title in 2011.

“He’s with me now for the rest of the season and it is a real boost to have secured his services.

“It looks like it is possible too that I can win the Independent title at the next event in China which would be fantastic.”