B-K Motorsports Driver Ben Devlin on Morning Practice

By John Coyle

Editor

When I left the hotel this morning it was drizzling and muggy, so I had a feeling that Mother Nature was going to play a huge role on how today’s action was going to unfold, and I was right. But while the first practice session was run under dark clouds on a track that was wet and slippery—obviously not the best conditions to for a driver to get a feel for how a car is handling—the B-K Motorsports team had a pretty good run. To be honest, seeing all the machines ripping around in the wet made me a little nervous, because unlike Road America—which has large gravel traps in the corners—the track on Detroit’s Belle Isle is a street course, which means that practically the entire circuit is bordered by burly cement barricades ready to totally lunch the race car. Fortunately, driver Ben Devlin was cool as a cucumber when I talked with him after his laps. Check out his remarks about the run in the video below, and click here for a walk-around video of the B-K Motorsports Lola B07 46 Mazda.