Jordan King says Team LNT has got to do its own thing and not look at the other teams as he prepares to start the Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain from the front row.
King will start from second place after team-mates Charlie Robertson and Ben Hanley qualified second yesterday, with an average time that was just 0.144s off the pole time. When speaking to Motorsport Week prior to the race, King explained his game plan for the final WEC race of the year:
"It's really just going to be a process race from us. We do our processes, focus on ourselves," the 26-year-old said. "That's the only thing we can really do. It's an eight hour race, it's a long race, we've just got to kind of nail down, do the best job we can do, push as hard as we can.
Team LNT currently sits third in the LMP1 World Endurance Championship, trailing leaders Toyota Gazoo Racing by 41 points and is yet to finish on the podium in its debut season. It showed strong pace in Shanghai before a drivethrough penalty ended hopes of an upset victory.
"If we execute the pitstops, execute inlaps, outlaps and try and go as far as we can in eight hours, then hopefully that's enough," King continued.
"You can't really try and look at other people over an eight hours. At some points we'll quicker, at other points, they'll be quicker. The big thing from our side is just do the best we can."
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