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Rookie Jarvis impresses for Britain

Oliver Jarvis seized his second opportunity to compete for A1 Team Great Britain in this weekend's ninth round of the 2006-07 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City, 23rd - 25th March, by capping Friday's practice outing with 'fastest rookie' honours.

The 23-year-old from Burwell, Cambridgeshire signaled his intent early in this morning's 'Rookie-Only' session at the 2.74-mile track, powering his 550bhp A1GP car to the top of the timesheets ahead of current series leaders A1 Team Germany with a flying lap of 1m28.597s, six tenths clear of Christian Vietoris in second.

Jarvis' consistency kept the British team at the head of the pack for much of the afternoon's hour-long practice session, their potential sweep of Friday's sessions blighted only by Jonny Reid's late effort in the New Zealand entry. Oliver remained the fastest rookie with the second quickest time of the day, just a tenth of a second shy of Reid's best, a 1m28.174s.

Oliver Jarvis commented, "I seemed to get the hang of the track pretty quickly which is a definite bonus. It's quite a challenging circuit with some significant bumps but there are also some handy looking overtaking opportunities. We tried to change our set-up this afternoon to see if we could combat the effect of the bumps but it didn't really work so we reverted back to this morning's configuration. I'm still working on getting the best out of a new set of tyres but overall I think we're looking strong for qualifying. It'll be my first crack at the aggregate lap time given I didn't get to qualify when I last raced in China as the session was cancelled. I'm looking forward to seeing what I can do this time round."

Team boss Paul Bellringer added, "Oliver did a superb job for us today and we certainly have no complaints with running so consistently at the front of the pack. We tried a slightly different set-up in the afternoon practice which actually set us back a little but there was no cause for concern as we knew we had a competitive package. Based on today's performance you have to think we have a good shot at being up there in qualifying tomorrow. Oliver's given us a good grounding and hopefully we can build on it."

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