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Great Britain dominate Friday practice

Home team Great Britain dominated the first day of practice for the RAB Capital A1GP Brands Hatch, Great Britain today, increasing the odds of it taking the series' first-ever home win at the 2006/07 season finale on Sunday.

GBR rookie and Mexico Feature race winner Oliver Jarvis, recorded the fastest lap of the day with a time of 1.15.043 in this morning's practice session for rookies and developing nations, beating the current track record of 1.16.547. Jarvis commented: "This morning we started on old tyres. Once I had done my duties the tyres were probably 25 laps old, so the time we did was very reasonable and very competitive. I think if we had done a bit more running in the second session we probably could have improved on that. Unfortunately I had to do another set of pads and also the red flags ended the session early."

The two sessions were interrupted several times by a series of red flags, limiting the track time for all teams. Talking about the disruptions, Jarvis commented: "Brands is very much like a street circuit in the sense that out the back if you make a mistake it is going to cost you - you are in the wall in the gravel - so it is very difficult to find that limit and it is all about improving a little bit every lap and eventually the time will come."

Main driver, Robbie Kerr, who took his first win for the team in the Shanghai Sprint two weeks ago, went on to top the afternoon session with a fastest lap time more than half a second quicker than second placed India. Unfortunately the session ended badly for the British team as Kerr took a trip into the gravel trap bringing out the red flag that finally suspended the session.

Commenting on the incident, Kerr said: "We changed the car a little bit and we went back out there to try to see if it had improved it. Unfortunately it went the other way and it just could not ride the bumps as well and sent the back round as simple as that.

"It was quite good fun until we were in the gravel. It was a good session the whole way through and we had a good car from this morning. We tried a couple of things, some worked and some didn't and so we have just got to look at tomorrow, look at what is working, try to improve both driver and car. We will do that and then we will go quicker tomorrow."

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