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Britain counts valuable points

Oliver Jarvis scored valuable points in difficult conditions for A1 Team GBR in round three of the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport at the Sepang International Circuit.
In the sprint the team finished seventh, scoring four valuable points and one more in the feature race.

Oliver Jarvis: "In the Sprint race, I made a reasonable get away coming down into the first corner and was comfortably in third. I moved to the middle of the track braking fairly early and Canada shot up the inside. This wasn't too much of a problem, the problem was that France was almost at a standstill and unfortunately we made contact coming into turn 2. There was a bit of damage and I struggled with the car, which felt very snappy. At the start of the Feature Race, going into the third corner, the throttle stuck so when I braked I locked the front wheels, and ultimately lost two places on the exit. The team did a great job in the first pit-stop and we got ahead of France coming back out on track in third. On the restart, I managed to get Switzerland round the outside, but he had a better run out on the second corner and drove down the inside of the third pushing me out wide to allow France back through leaving me in fourth. I put pressure on France for many laps then Germany made a ridiculous move hitting the left rear and causing me to drop a couple of places. Unfortunately we got a drive through penalty after the second pit stop as I couldn't get my car to slow down enough for some reason, which lost us valuable time. It's probably the hardest race I've ever had to only get a point. It's a disappointing result for the team and hopefully we will do better in China." 

Katie Clements, Team Principal added, "Oliver drove fantastically all weekend and we had a good car but these things sometimes happen. We also had a problem with our two-way radio in the Feature Race; our engineer could speak to Olly, but Olly could not communicate back making it hard for the team to know if he was happy with the car and difficult track if he was coming in for pit-stops. The team really pulled together though and despite the problems it's great to come away with some valuable points. We're all now looking ahead to China where we hope to be back up on the podium."

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