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Britain hoped for more in qualifying

After a difficult qualifying session for the penultimate round of the 2007/08 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport at the Shanghai International Circuit today, A1 Team Great Britain's Robbie Kerr will begin tomorrow's Sprint race from the fifth row in tenth place, and the Feature race from the fourth row in eighth place. 

Robbie Kerr commented, "Unfortunately we just didn't seem to get the reaction out of the car that we were expecting from the new tyres. However we were reasonably quick on older tyres in practice so we don't want to make too many changes ahead of the races. But we'll look into it overnight as we definitely need to find a bit more time to be competitive tomorrow."

Katie Clements, team principal added, "Unfortunately, it's been a disappointing result for us today. Robbie put in a decent lap in first qualifying for the sprint race but was not able to build on it in second qualifying. In the feature race qualifying we simply were not as quick as the guys at the front and Robbie had some problems with the car. The team will work now on some of the problems we experienced and we will work towards a better race performance tomorrow."

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