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Ireland hopeful of improvement

Irish rookie, Niall Quinn, was back in the cockpit as A1 Team Ireland took to the streets of Durban with Adam Carroll taking over for the afternoon. Carroll got his first taste of the Durban streets in the afternoon official practice session, with a cautious approach to help gain as much information as possible heading into Saturday. 

Adam Carroll commented, "The circuit is quite good. It's got a couple of really hard corners and Turn 10 in particular is really slippery in the mid-part of the corner. I don't want to do anything silly, we're struggling in a few places but hopefully we can improve tomorrow. Car doesn't feel too bad but its quite hard round here as its so bumpy its hard to get a feel for things. But we're just trying to generate more grip and keep it out the walls and later on we'll push harder." 

Dan Walmsley, race engineer added, "We finished P16 this afternoon which isn't ideal but we've been doing a lot of work on the set up. It's a new circuit to Adam and he's been trying to learn it but there have been a lot of red flag incidents which stopped us running as much as we'd like to have done. We're still on the learning curve, we'd have liked to have been further up but there's always tomorrow and we got some really good information out that session to help us move forward. There's no sense of despair in the team, it's just are true potential is not reflected in the lap times yet. We have a little bit of work to do overnight to give Adam a car he can attack the corners with a bit more. It's a street circuit which is all about confidence and when Adam has that confidence the lap time will come. We want to maintain a momentum over the weekend and losing track time is the worst thing you can do, so it was pretty much the objective to keep the car out the wall and make sure we got to the end of the session in one piece, which we achieved."

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