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Disappointing day for team GBR

A1 Team GBR suffered two heartbreaking results today in Taupo, New Zealand. In the sprint race Robbie Kerr was hit while trying to overtake A1 Team USA, which forced him off the track and caused his engine to stall. His feature race then came to a premature end when he pulled into the pits with a technical problem which is currently being investigated.

"We got a pretty good start, though didn't capitalise on it completely as the first corner was so tight," said Kerr. "But I managed to get past Robbie Wickens (Canada), though the car was sliding around a lot at the back which allowed Canada to pass me, and from that point on we struggled. Something was wrong with the engine and we had to come into the pits and retire."

Katie Clements, team principal commented, "It's been an extremely disappointing day. Robbie did well to avoid the collision at the start of the Sprint race, gained five places, and from then on he was determined to move forward but unfortunately USA shunted us, putting us out of contention. We're still looking into the engine problems that caused us to pull out of the Feature race, but hopefully everything will be resolved and GBR will be back racing at the front of the pack in Australia where we belong."

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