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Britain hopeful after first day

Robbie Kerr and Duncan Tappy were both in action today for A1 Team Great Britain, as the squad began its preparations for the penultimate round of the 2007/08 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport in Shanghai, China. Tappy took to the circuit for this morning's rookie session before handing over driving duties to Kerr for the afternoon's official practice two.

Kerr returned to the cockpit for the first time since his podium finish in Sydney back in February for this afternoon's one-hour practice session. The team investigated alternative set-up options from those used in the morning session and made a series of changes throughout the session. 

Robbie Kerr commented, "I wasn't happy with the car when I first jumped - the set-up wasn't to my liking so we had to work quite hard on the car and modify the set-up. However, towards the end of the session we were consistently quick and up there with the teams around us, and also with the teams who got the best out of their new tyres and were initially in front of us at the start of the session. It's disappointing not to get the best out of the tyres and of course put in a good time at the start purely because we weren't happy with the set-up, but we cannot worry too much this and it's more important to focus on tomorrow!" 

Katie Clements, team principal added, "It was just a case of getting the job done in this morning's rookie session and, once again, Duncan did a solid job for us to get the car prepared for this afternoon. Robbie then got back into the car for the first time since Australia. He developed the car well during the hour and we know where we are with regard to set-up and the direction we want to go ahead of tomorrow. We're confident that we can be in a very strong position come tomorrow's qualifying sessions."

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