The touring car legend has no open-wheel experience and is already 33, so faces a daunting task to get up to speed after just four days of testing. Yet he was impressive at preseason testing at Thermal Club in California. Despite it being a 100sec lap of just over three miles, Canapino was 0.78sec off Ilott on Day 1, 0.86sec behind on Day 2, and both days he finished in 21stst out of 27 entries.
Yet he modestly – realistically – admits there are huge barriers for him to still overcome.
