Narain Karthikeyan took part in the openingsessions of the A1GP Mexico City, Mexicotoday, around the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit. The weather was hot andsunny for A1 Team India’s first visit to the capitalcity.
Karthikeyan took to the Mexican track for twopractice sessions this morning, to get his firsttaste of the bumpy and challenging circuit, andset the fifth fastest time. After making set up changes for the afternoon session, theteam moved to within eighth tenths of the quickest time.
Speaking about his day, Karthikeyan commented, “Fundamentally, something seems to be wrong with the car. We’re not using my tub, after the crack we discovered inDurban, so that could be causing us a problem. The team will strip the car this afternoon; to make sure everything is put together and working properly.
“The front of the car has been pretty good all day, we just need to make a few changes to the rear to make that work, especially through the esses in sector two, which is where we seem to be losing a bit of time. In the morning we were about 8km down onthe main straights, so we made a few changes to the gear ratios, which seems to haveworked. Narain and the team will now discuss what changes need to be made aheadof tomorrow, but I think we know what direction we need to go in. ”
A1 Team India will be back on track for a final practice session tomorrow morning, before the four segment qualifying session in the afternoon.
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