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A1 GRAND PRIX - 01.12.2007
Another fine result - eventually
Free practice
Frankie seemed to be right on the pace on
Friday. Unfortunately a 'sticky throttle' problem developed during
the last session on Friday. A lot of effort was put into trying to
find the reason for this but unfortunately the same problem reoccured
in the free practice session on Saturday morning.
Qualifying
So as there wasn't enough time to change the
engine we had to go into qualifying with this prolblem which was
clearly costing us time and so the overall result was a somewhat
disappointing P8 and P9 for the sprint race and feauture race. In the
end, Zytek owed up to the fact that it was an engine problem and the
engine was changed overnight.
On the other hand we can say though that it is
very encouraging for everyone involved in A1 Team China that we're now
genuinely disappointed to qualify P8.
Sprint race
A very spectacular start to the race as always at
Sepang (due to the lay-out of the circuit) in which Frankie also got
hit be it without real damage to the car.
A couple of laps into the race Frankie made a
mistake defending his position and spun out of the race.
Feature race
Another very hectic start with a lot of incidents
which somehow Frankie managed to escape and he was able to continue
the race in P11. He then set about putting in really quick lap times
and catching some opponents and 2 very quick pit stops resulted in P5
at the end. This was afterwards changed to P4 after the
disqualification of Germany.
So in the end another great result and we're all
now really looking forward to our first home race at Zhuhai where
we'll be aiming for the podium.
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