With four rounds of the season gone, Team GB sits second in the A1GP World Cup of motorsport after strong performances from all three drivers to have taken to the track this season.
Back-to-back podiums for Oliver Jarvis and Robbie Kerr in China and Malaysia leave the British squad six points behind leaders Germany going into the fifth round of the season in Indonesia next month.
Here, team principal John Surtees looks back over the season to date…
Q:
Four races into the new season of A1GP, are you satisfied with the progress of A1 Team GBR to-date?
John Surtees:
Yes! I think the team has come together extremely well. We’ve not necessarily had the best of fortune but at the same time we’ve come home with some sound results. We were plagued with some technical problems in the first couple of races, not of our making, which required a lot of additional work but we came through them. It obviously disrupted our preparations a little but all things considered our drivers, Darren, Oliver and Robbie ave all performed very well in the race seat!
Q:
With continuity usually a bonus in motorsport, was the team disadvantaged to run three different drivers over the first three events?
JS:
To be honest we didn’t really have any option for the first race. Our regular driver, Robbie, wasn’t available for Zandvoort so Darren came in, picking up where he had left off at the final round of last season in China. Robbie was back for the Czech Republic and Oliver we opted to run in Beijing as it was a new track for everyone, and therefore more of a level playing field, so we wanted to get the benefit of the additional rookie hour although events didn’t transpire that way with the circuit issues swallowing valuable track time.
