The 2.0 Litre Cup season and the overall official Peter Auto season started on March 20-23th in Barcelona, Spain. This was the earliest season start we have had in the 2.0 Litre Cup in many years. For us from Finland this meant that our last tests before Barcelona, were done with spiked tyres. The race event: Espiritu de Montjuïc was held on the legendary Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya which was opened in 1991. This is a demanding FI and Moto GP track with 4.7 km of technical corners and long fast straights.The conditions for the weekend were demanding. The open test day on Thursday was a rainy day. It became very obvious that the relativily new rack surface had quite a lot of rubber in the main braking areas and the whole track was extremely slippery when it was wet. The rainy weather continued trough the whole weekend. Heavy showers, then dry for a moment and then rain again. For us the changing conditions were a real challenge both in terms of driving, strategy and the chassi setup. There was in total 27 cars enrolled the race and the fleet was very competitive. Our car was fast. We had the 2. highest topspeed in Qualifying and 5. fastest in the Race. Our qualifying as awhole was disappointing with 22. out of 25 cars started. The race began on the wet track and changed then to the dry in the end of the race. Our full vet set-up was not the best in these conditions. The race result was finally 18/25. This left quite a lot to improve for the next races. The season will continue in May first at Botniaring, then SPA and Dijon in the beginning of June.In Barcelona it was clearly visible how the historic racing is changing. There were more and more cars coming from the history of the serious endurance racing and the cars are more and more “recent”. Porsches are well presented. As a example there was the race start for the Endurance Legends for the GT2 cars from the period 2000-2010. In this fleet of 33 cars there was 24 Porsches. Mainly 993 GT2´s, 996 and 997 GT3 RSR versions, the latest Porsches were from 2009. 
