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Dutch hope for more than seventh next year

A1 Team Netherlands has ended the third A1GP season in seventh. In the final races of the season the team finished ninth in the Sprint race and sixth in the Feature race. With that result the points total of the team this season comes to 87 points.

Jeroen Bleekemolen commented, "In the first race I had a good start, from 11 to 9. There wasn't much more I could do. The car was a bit hard to drive and everyone was going at about the same pace. It was a bit of a procession, that was clear. After the start we were ninth, so we finished ninth. In the second race I had another good start. Just not good enough to finish on the podium. Of course we would have wanted to finish the season with a better final result. Seventh is not what we set out for at the start."

Jan Lammers added, "After qualifying I was in a pretty foul mood. But when you look at the Sprint race and you see that we are right behind New Zealand who are high up in the Championship. You also are in front of France and Germany. Then I realized that this Championship is terribly close. You also see how close the racing is up front, for instance between Great Britain and India. I think that the Championship has improved very much as far as drivers are concerned. There are at least 20 absolute world class drivers competing here. That is very good for the Series. Jeroen just did a good job during the race. The times he set at the end were about the same as the front runners. We are still losing it in qualifying and the free practice sessions. So be it. This was the season. We were not able to do better than this. We will have to learn from this and take the necessary measures for next year to be a team that can win races regularly."

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