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Disappointment for Dutch

A1 Team Netherlands was not on form today during the final qualifying sessions of this A1GP season. In a heavily fought qualifying for the Sprint race, where the intervals were extremely small Jeroen Bleekemolen had to settle for an 11th fastest time with a lap of 1'15.338. In the Feature race qualifying A1 Team Netherlands finished in tenth place.

Of course Jeroen Bleekemolen was dissapointed about the result; "We wanted to be up front of course. It is a shame, we just came up short every outing. We did not manage to get the balance of the car completely right. It was under - and oversteer, every time a little bit of one or the other. No matter what we did, we did not make progress in our times. Because everyone is close together you might say that overtaking will be difficult tomorrow, with the difference in pace being this small. But on the other hand that, especially because these are the final races of the season, people will go the extra mile and will give it all. I think that we might well see cars coming by on less than four wheels."

Jan Lammers was very clear in his analysis and he thinks a good dose of self reflection is necessary; "I normally can accept loosing, but this aggrevates me. Regardless how the races will go tomorrow, we can be lucky and maybe gain something with good pitstops, everyone of us has to take this result very personal. Without some measures we cannot compete up front, that much is clear. Getting the car balance right is a skill that we should already own and if we want to start saying that we are able to win races there is quite a bit we will have to do first." 

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