Bruno sports ‘Senna Tri Campaign’ helmet

After the official launch of the ‘Senna Tri Campaign’ in Japan last weekend, Bruno sported a specially-branded Sennatri helmet during today’s two Korean GP practice sessions.

The Senna Tri Campaign not only marks the 20th anniversary of the last of Ayrton Senna’s third world title, but aims to raise awareness of the work the foundation is doing - feeding, housing, clothing and educating the underprivileged in Brazil; causes that were very close to Ayrton’s heart.

Bruno will continue to wear the helmet for tomorrow’s final practice, qualifying and the race itself on Sunday.

Senna – “Yeongam is a track which is very unforgiving.”

Bruno, welcome to Korea – what are your memories from here?

Last year was a very interesting experience – the first time for me in Korea and it was a new circuit for everybody. I wasn’t in a very competitive car and we had a very wet race. We had a safety car and quite a few incidents but we had our best finish of the year, with P13. It was actually quite a big challenge, but it paid off very well with the result.

As you say the conditions were challenging last year, do you think driving in a more competitive car this year will allow you to give a good account of yourself?

I think we should will be interesting to see where we are, we believe we should be in the same ballpark as in Japan. Suzuka was a better track for us in terms of performance thanks to the high speed corners, whilst here there’s a bit of a mix between lower speed and higher speed corners, and if we get everything right we should be in the top ten but maybe not quite as strong as we were last time. I’m looking forward to driving a car which can be in the top ten again, and hopefully this weekend will be a bit more straightforward for me than last weekend.

What do you think are the key challenges?

This is a track where car setup can make a big difference as there are on and off camber corners, there are hairpins and high speed corners, so there is a big mix. Then there’s a part of the track where there are big run-offs, and another part with no run-off areas. It’s a track which is very unforgiving in many places. The important thing is to have a trouble free weekend and have a good Friday where we can make good progress with the team and find a good set-up with the car, and then get in there on Saturday and have a good race on Sunday as a result of good work done on Friday.

Source LRGP