Rodin Motorsport's Maxim Rehm has been one of the most consistent drivers in this year's GB3 Championship, having delivered a string of impressive race results interspersed with doses of bad fortune.
The German driver, who was a race-winner during his series debut weekend at last year's Monza finale, has continued that form over into the first half of this year's campaign, earning five podiums from the first 15 races. He's also finished every race he's finished inside the top-eight, with some excellent fightback drives included.
Qualifying has also been a strong point, having only qualified outside the top-five on two occasions. One of those was at Silverstone last time out when he was seventh in the first session, but even with that strong track record otherwise, Rehm reckons one lap pace is where he needs to make the biggest gains.
"I think we had a strong base-line pace [at Silverstone], but in the first qualifying I didn't put my sectors together, otherwise we would have ended up P2 and that would have changed the outcome of the weekend.
"I think we showed we have the race pace, but in the third race it was just a bit messy because my tyres were gone so I was just defending for my life basically.
"Knowing that I just need to get my qualifying right, and then in the races we're quite OK."
Rehm sits fourth in the standings at the moment, with a couple of unfortunate retirements denting his charge, but he's set his sights on a higher position.
"Obviously the goal is going to be getting second place in the championship at Donington, Brands and Barcelona. There are still three rounds to go, so I'll be working hard in the summer break to get there, and we'll see what happens."
Rehm's recovery drives have been a key feature of his season, no more so than at the Hungaroring where secured a podium from a lower top-10 qualifying result. After a similar outcome in the first Silverstone qualifying, he expected to make progress again at the British Grand Prix venue.
"At the Hungaroring I went from P9 to P3, so I did a lot of places, and normally it's very difficult to overtake there.
"So when we had a bad quali at Silverstone, I thought it would be quite easy to catch up some places, but in the DRS train it was very difficult to pass people. It was very hot and tyre wear went against me, after five laps you were kind of stuck where you were!"
The 'summer break' is now in full swing, and while Rehm has no seat time planned before the next rounds at Donington Park, he's going to be keeping himself as sharp as possible.
"I'll be doing a lot of sim stuff and going to the gym, that's basically all you can do, we've got no test days scheduled in between.
"I'll just keep myself fit, and also get to know Donington better on the sim, and I think we'll be very well prepared for the races."



