Zonta breaks Laguna Seca lap record - again.

Having sneaked the overall lap record at the Laguna Seca Raceway on the first day of the Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races, Ricardo Zonta went on to rubber stamp his name in the circuit's history books by lowering his own mark on his second attempt.

Dipping below the original time of Helio Castorneves in a Champ Car from 2000 by two tenths, changes to the set-up on Zonta's Toyota meant he was able to push harder, lowering the mark by almost a second on the way to claiming a new lap record of 1min 06.596secs.

However, Zonta claims he could have gone even quicker had the conditions not been cooler than they had been on the first day, while various oil spills from the historic racing had also contributed to making the conditions difficult for the Brazilian.

"The older cars dropped oil in places on the track and I didn't want to challenge the car because I couldn't be certain where the oil was. I needed to assume there was a high possibility that oil was in many places. It was also more windy today than before and the blowing dust made the track slippery in places."

"This has been a very satisfying weekend," said Zonta after the session. "This experience has brought up a lot of good memories from when I was here in '98 and won the FIA GT Championships. And, of course it's always a good feeling to come to a circuit and leave knowing you've set a new record."