Jarvis: “We’ve now got to keep working hard as for sure other teams will improve overnight”
Sepang, Malaysia
Nov 23, 2007
A1 GBR
Oliver Jarvis set the standard today topping all the timesheets in the hot and humid conditions ahead of round three of the A1GP season at the Sepang International Circuit this weekend.
Team GBR was straight on the pace today with both team and driver happy with the car set up and thereforespending most the morning session focusing on data acquisition and bedding in brakes. Oliver’s blistering timeof 1:52.013 was 0.744s quicker than anyone else as he took part in his final rookie sessions. After this weekendOliver will have completed more than six races for A1 Team GB making him ineligible to take part in any furtherrookie tests.
He continued his strong form this afternoon setting the quickest time on lap six, which he improved in the dyingmoments of the hour, clocking a 1:49.459 on lap 20.
Oliver Jarvis: “Participating in the rookie session this morning of course helped to some extent, but the fact thatwe set the quickest lap at the end of the day shows that we were improving throughout the day. Our pace, particularly at the end of the afternoon session was excellent, though I’m a little disappointed that we didn’t set aquicker lap time earlier on in the afternoon session with the new tyres as of course in qualifying it’s all about thatone lap. It’s certainly hot and humid here which will be difficult for all the drivers, but we train hard so hopefully itshouldn’t be too much of a problem. We’ve now got to keep working hard as for sure other teams will improveovernight and it’s up to us not to rest on our laurels and keep working at it. ”
Katie Clements, Team Principal: “Quickest in each session today is the best start we could have hoped for. We’re really happy with the progress we’ve made and confident that we can achieve a good result this weekend. Last event we had a puncture in the Feature Race which hampered our progress, but we’ve already shown thisyear that Team GB is a team capable of winning and we’re hoping we can add to that win tally this weekend. ”
