After this weekend Oliver will have completed more than six races for A1 Team GB making him ineligible to take part in any further rookie tests.  He continued his strong form this afternoon setting the quickest time on lap six, which he improved in the dying moments of the hour, clocking a 1:49.459 on lap 20. 

Oliver Jarvis: “Participating in the rookie session this morning of course helped to some extent, but the fact that we set the quickest lap at the end of the day shows that we were improving throughout the day.  Our pace, particularly at the end of the afternoon session was excellent, though I’m disappointed that we didn’t set a quicker lap time earlier on in the afternoon session with the new tyres, as of course in qualifying it’s all about one lap.  It’s certainly hot and humid here which will be difficult for the drivers, but we train hard so hopefully it shouldn’t be too much of a problem.  We’ve now got to keep working hard as for sure, other teams will improve overnight and it’s up to us not to rest on our laurels and keep working at it.” 

Katie Clements, Team Principal: “Quickest in each session today is the best start we could have hoped for.  We’re really happy with the progress we’ve made and confident that we can achieve a good result this weekend.  Last event we had a puncture in the Feature Race which hampered our progress, but we’ve already shown this year that Team GB is a team capable of winning and we’re hoping we can add to that win tally this weekend.” 

Saturday’s Qualifying starts at 1415 local time (0615 GMT) with Sunday’s 20 minute Sprint race starting at 1100 local time (0300 GMT) and the 70 minute Feature race starting at 1500 local time (0700 GMT).  Sky Sports 3 will broadcast all the live action from Malaysia from 0600 on Saturday 24 November and Sunday 25 November. 

GBR – Rookie Practice 1

Laps: 17

Position: 1^st

Fast Lap 1:52.013

GBR – Free Practice 2 

Laps: 21

Position: 1^st

Fastest Lap: 1:49.459