A1GP
Taupo: Team Brazil Saturday notes
A1 Team Brazil's Felipe Guimaraes today qualified for this weekend's A1GP Taupo event at the Taupo Motorsports Park in New Zealand. He will begin tomorrow's Sprint race from the seventh row of the grid and the Feature race from the sixth row. The ...
Published: Jun 19, 2009, 7:38 PM
Copy link
Share on Viber
A1 Team Brazil's Felipe Guimaraes today qualified for this weekend's A1GP Taupo event at the Taupo Motorsports Park in New Zealand. He will begin tomorrow's Sprint race from the seventh row of the grid and the Feature race from the sixth row.
The day kicked off with a final practice session, which the team used to continue preparations and set-up work ahead of the afternoon qualifying. At the fifteen minute mark Felipe briefly topped the table, but as the session progressed he slipped down the standings. With twenty minutes to go he was back up to sixth but a late flurry of fast laps, and four teams bolting on a fresh set of rubber put Felipe down to 12th position with a time of 1:16.695 after completing 29 laps on the 3.32km track.
In the Sprint race qualifying, he set a lap of 1:16.346 in the first segment and was sitting in provisional eighth spot. He improved his time in the second segment by three tenths to record a time of 1:16.074, but as other drivers improved further, he was relegated to 13th spot by the end of the session, setting himself up on the seventh row of the grid for the 25-minute Sprint race tomorrow morning.
Heading out late into first segment of qualifying for the Feature race, Felipe set a time of 1:16.305 to take provisional 12th. Although improving his time by more than half a second in the fourth and final segment, his lap of 1:15.812 was not enough to move up the table and he remained in 12th spot, so will line up on the sixth row for the Feature.
Felipe Guimaraes: "This morning was a little better than yesterday and we made improvements with the brakes and other things. Unfortunately qualifying was not what I was hoping it to be. I thought we would be in the top ten at least. Now we have to work on the data, see what the problem is and hope to have a good race tomorrow."
Emerson Fittipaldi, Team Principal: "We are off pace and unfortunately are a second behind the leaders so something is wrong on the basic set-up. We are running strong on old tyres but don't make as much of an improvement on new tyres as other teams. We need to work on the set-up and find a jump in the lap times by tomorrow."
-credit: brazil
We want your opinion!
What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?
Take our 5 minute survey.
- The Motorsport.com Team
Read and post comments
Read also :
Share Or Save This Story
Copy link
Share on Viber
Previous article Taupo: Practice 3 times
Next article Taupo: Team Monaco Sunday notes
Top Comments
There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?
View More & Comment
More from
Emerson Fittipaldi
Team Penske and Chevrolet announce multi-year extension of IndyCar partnership
IndyCar
IndyCar
Team Penske and Chevrolet announce multi-year extension of IndyCar partnership
Emerson Fittipaldi on Jochen Rindt’s death and how he became Team Lotus’ F1 leader
Formula 1
Formula 1
Emerson Fittipaldi on Jochen Rindt’s death and how he became Team Lotus’ F1 leader
Latest news
Max Verstappen slams “unacceptable” bumps at Austin F1 track: “It's out of control”
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
United States GP
5 h
Max Verstappen slams “unacceptable” bumps at Austin F1 track: “It's out of control”
Kimi Antonelli ready to "finish the job" as first F1 title chance beckons at US GP
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
United States GP
5 h
Kimi Antonelli ready to "finish the job" as first F1 title chance beckons at US GP
How to watch NASCAR at Talladega II: Weekend schedule, start time, entry list, TV
NASCAR Cup
NAS NASCAR Cup
Talladega II
6 h
How to watch NASCAR at Talladega II: Weekend schedule, start time, entry list, TV
Peterson Racing addresses online abuse after parting ways with Austin Green
NASCAR O'Reilly
NOAP NASCAR O'Reilly
Talladega II
6 h
Peterson Racing addresses online abuse after parting ways with Austin Green
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
You have 2 options:
- Become a subscriber.
- Disable your adblocker.
Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here
Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page
Manage Alerts
Subscribe