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Australia's Dyk to focus on starts

A1 Team Australia's Ian Dyk will focus on practicing his starts before this weekend's Brno races after he admitted to having two 'shocking' ones at Zandvoort.

Dyk qualified the yellow and green car 16th and 17th on the grid for Zandvoort's Sprint and Feature races respectively, but on both occasions was in 22nd and last place going into the first corner, after suffering different problems getting away.

He stalled the car when the cars left the dummy grid and was forced to start from the pit lane for the Sprint race, and made a poor start to the Feature race and fell to last almost immediately.

Dyk will make a concerted effort this weekend to improve his starts. Drivers can utilise a special section at the exit of the pit lane, designated specifically for practice starts. 'I had a shocking start to the Feature in Zandvoort,' Dyk confessed. 'When the lights changed, I just couldn't launch it. It wasn't wheel spin - it was just the car bogging down. I ended up last by turn one so I made my job three times as hard as it needed to be. That was difficult but I learned a lot of things.

'I will be practising starts in Brno and change the pedal set-up a little bit because it wasn't working for me. But my starts last year in Shanghai and Brands Hatch were exceptional and I was making up a few rows. It was a huge surprise to me. It was frustrating to be wheeled off the dummy grid and put into that position.'

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