Lifestyle and Forma 3000
László Szász doesnt slow in his
fourties
The forests around the the track are waiting for the winter, but
the
northern wind brings cold rain above the road. The box is almost
empty, just the truck and bus of the Szász Motoring are waiting for in
front of the exit. Inside the car-mechanics try to set the car of László
Szász. During their work we have enough time to have a chat with
László
Szász who is 40 years old in this year, and after many cups got
the Knights
Cross of the Hungarian Republic.
_ How many years did you spend near the
car?
_ At least thirty. Supposedly I took the car in the garage sitting in my
fathers lap when I was five. I started to karting serisously when I was
fourteen.
_ You spent most of your life biting and dangerous
competitions. Did
you have a lot hard moments?
_ The last ten years was
really hard, because a lot of pilots died around
me. I know: you have to get
in a car, and you also can get out of the
car.
_ One of your Spain
collagues died not long ago
_ The fate had been really next to us lately.
The Spain Villarino, who we
started the year with, fall as big as his crash
helmet broken, in spite of
this he had luck. Another pilot fall down through
the barrier with 180
speed with his car in Germany. Luckily he also could
get off the car. The
last was another Spain boy, who defeated me in the
Tournament of the
Champions _ he was the third and I was the fourth _ but
died with a
Forma 3000 during a competition
_ Your lifestyle, which
leads competition to competition, doesnt good to
the traditional family
life. How do you usually spend your Christmas
Eves?
_ I dont know
anything about this in this year, but most of the time we
just arrive in the
feast and we dont have enough time to prepare. Last
year I went to Japan
from Spain, from Spain to Italy, and I arrived home
in the morning on the 24
th of December. The event go fast in that
time, but we have to do this. I
dont search the beauty of the family life,
because I know I sacrified it
for the racing. That was the price. I trust,
that I will have old days and I
wont regret my decision. It helps me
that a lot of young people are around
me. I consider them my family,
and this compensate me for the forced ride,
which still keeps me
behind bars.
_ On what depends the
victory?
_ I learnt that the will is a big thing, and I dont fear that I
should
despair because of the passing years. Then comes a talented young
pilot, who needs attention. It will be a hard thing. I will see what does
the future hold.
_ What do you need that you always can get out of
the car?
_ Good teammates, who know everything about the car. Money to
maintain the car, and you also cant miss the testing, you have to
prepare for the competitions. You have to be relaxed, because you
need
calmness to concentrate. The last thing is, which has caused a lot
of
problem for me lately. This is complex progress, where everything
have to
work well if you want a good achievement.
_ When do you thing a young
pilot talented?
_ If somebody is fast, and has a good sense. The next is how
long
does he stand the rate: for days, for months, for weeks or for years?
This is a more difficult question. The most important is the will. And the
fanatism.
_ And what about you? Are you fanatism?
_ Im sure
some people would say this, if they saw somebody
walking alone in the garage
in midnight and looking for the less peace
of the parts which is need to be
faster with some tenth-second
Next to the track with Krisztián
Fekete
I don't really want to hurt my readers, but I can't remember it
one
week after the season-closing weekend that: it was cool!
Although
it didn't start well, because I could run just four round in the
Friday
testing, and I did it with shabby tyres. Usually I need this time to
warming
up my real speed, and I had planned that after the seventh
round I took the
new tyres and go on! But, in deed I spent almost all
the race behind the
Mansell-curve like a viewer, because a part of my
car had broken. I watched
sad my opponents rounds, and I also
noticed in bad mood that I will start
just from the fifth place on
Saturday morning.
Saturday morning! I'd
rather call it daybreak, because the start was at
8 o'clock. But, soever we
call it the main point is I still was asleep. In
spite of this I didn't
started bad and, for God's shake I was waking
enough to relaise an other way
next to my teammate, Bianca Steiner.
Of course she realised this, and
frightened me, after that I took back
the gas and went to the other side. It
was really succesful, so I could
use the exit of the box-street during the
overtaking. I also could
overtook Péter Gyuricza. All that I had written
here didn't take as long
as you read it, so it was really exciting! To tell
you the truth I wouldn't
do it again
Channoch, who was at the top of
the field drove fast, but I _ as I
usually do _ push the gas so that I keep
Bianca after me. In spite of
this she almost reached me sometimes. The
result more than good: this
was the first occasion when the pilots of the
Szász Motoring won the
race! I congratulate us!
I took part in the
training in Saturday night, that I thought my Israelian
teammate won't start
in the race in Sunday evening. As far as I know
the reason was a religious
feast, because in his country the first of
October was a kind of national or
religious feast, and he isn't allowed
to do things like motor racing.
So I drove really loosed, and I ran good times. I thought that if it
goes
so well, I can push the gas more, for example I can do 1'46! Schuks!
The traffic was as big as in the Bécsi street on Monday morning
I
thought that I relax a little bit, and when the track will empty, I will do
the 1'46. But the display in my car started to flashing: LOW OIL
PRESSURE! So, I went back to the box and I told the fault to the
car-
mechanics. After one week I can't tell was it a relaxing or annoying
feeling, when I knew that it was just a false alarming
The
Sunday-evening race was a plane PLEASURE, which ended a start-
finish
victory. Now, in this place I should say thanks for them, who
helped me
during the race, but I'd rather say just: THANKS FOR
EVERYBODY! Especially
to my Fun Club, who believed and supported me
in all season. So, I offer my
first victory a little bit to them
Nowdays I'm thinking about the awards
ceremony in November, where
I could take the cup for the best place during
my carreer, for the E-
place in the National Speed Championship.
In
the next season I try for do a better result with my team, the Szász
Motoring and my car, the Coloni-Nissan. I would like more luck and
more
racing.
From the Skyguard-Heidelberg Cup report
Let's continue with an interview the analysis of weekend of the
Skyguard Heildeberg Cup. We were talking about the background with
László Szász:
autogyorsasagi.hu: _ László, your foreign season had
ended lately.
What are your results?
_ My results didn't get better
in the second part of the season, this is
the result of a difficult
equation. Besides I don't really find my own
rhythm and we also have a lot
of technical problems with the car. This
problems were more or less
aerodynamic problems, and the reason
was a new wing which was fixed up the
car during the season.
Moreover we also had to struggle for the right
settings on all tracks,
and we couldn't always find them. Unfortunatly I
can't use a
Hungaroring test result on a 10 kilometres-long, Italian,
mountain
item
We had problems with the AVON-tyres: sometimes the wet-tyres
had bad quality, sometimes we didn't choose tyres well. At the end I
had
the fifth place in the European Hill Cup, and I know, I should do it
better
in the next year.
autogyorsasagi.hu: _ Let's talk a little bit about
Bianca Steiner,
because you are her mentor. Although it seems you aren't the
one
_ It is true, and it is a good thing. Thanks for Tamás Frank
supporting
Bianca had a lot of publicity, which is necessary for an
international
carreer. I appreciate very much the result, she did during the
the F3000
training, and I can tell that Bianca drove my Formula Nippon one
of our
private tests in the Hungaroring. And imagine: she was slower than me
just with 10-20 tenth! But we have to look to her, because we don't
want
if Bianca's carreer becomes bad because of an early cathegory-
change.
Probably she will stay between the Formula Renault 2000 in
the next year,
and it seems, that the Italian championship would be
perfect to her.
_ autosgyorsasagi.hu: What is about the combination of the Szász
Motoring in the next year?
_ There will be a lot of changes.
Krisztián Fekete probably continues
with the Coloni, and the Hungarian races
would be important also to
Bianca. Hopefully she could take part in them
between her busy,
foreign programmes. A yellow Tom'S-Toyota is still free,
or it is sold.
Now I have to offer on it, one of them from Krisztián, who
really want
his brother to sit in the car. The other offer is from Béla
Nyitrai. Now I
could say that the car will be those, who bring the money
faster.
_ autosgyorsasagi: At the end we would like to know what will
you do
out of the season?
_ I will relax and work! I deal in
different form-cars, which comes from
Japan. Now I bring a Formula 3000 car
to the country, which was made
in 1991, and it ran very few kilometres. It
is without engine. The order
is Kálmán Bódis, who has big plans with this
car.