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Jiminez lifts Brasil to season best

A1 Team Brasil scored its best combined qualifying result of the season today as Sergio Jimenez put the A1GP car in seventh and sixth places respectively for tomorrow's sprint and feature races. 

Jimenez commented, "We expected something to need changing after the first qualifying for the sprint race and we were right as we suffered a lot of understeer in the first session. We made some big changes and improved the lap time by a second so we have to be happy with that. We should really be a couple of places higher, but seventh is not bad. In first qualifying for the feature race, we started very good on old tyres and improved the car a lot. Unfortunately I made a mistake on the middle sector of that lap, but the first sector was the fastest of the session. We put new tyres on for the final qualifying and the balance changed a bit. I had oversteer in three turns, so I think I could have been fourth, but we know we have a good car for the race and I'm confident we can get a podium here." 

Team principal Emerson Fittipaldi added, "I am pleased that we are showing an improved performance and consistency. I'm very happy with Sergio's last lap because he had oversteer and still set an impressive lap time. He should be in the top four but because of the time he lost due to that, I am happy to start from sixth. Sergio is getting more confident, is learning about the car and is working well with the engineers and the team. We have a good synergy and I'm looking forward to two positive races tomorrow."

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