A1GP

Team Ireland Silverstone test 2007-09-18

Positive day for Belmayne A1 Team Ireland at Silverstone Silverstone, Tuesday 18th September 2007; Ralph Firman completed a productive days running for Belmayne A1 Team Ireland at Silverstone today. The 32 year old ...

Published: Sep 19, 2007, 9:11 PM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

Positive day for Belmayne A1 Team Ireland at Silverstone

Silverstone, Tuesday 18th September 2007; Ralph Firman completed a productive days running for Belmayne A1 Team Ireland at Silverstone today. The 32 year old completed 113 laps posting the 7th fastest time in the afternoon session. The team ran through a range of set ups in preparation for the opening round of the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport at Circuit Park Zandvoort on September 30th. Just half a days running tomorrow remains before the car and equipment are packed up to be transported to Holland.

Team members will continue to work into the evening as they carry out pit stop practices, even more vital for season three as there will now be two pit stops during the feature race. The Irish crew have a well earned reputation as being amongst the quickest in the pit lane and intend to maintain this status.

Dan Walmsley, Race Engineer: "Overall a very positive day. We're focusing now on the first race and the main aim is to give Ralph a car he's comfortable with. We made some good changes over the course of the days running and P7 is a comfortable position to be in, we can use tomorrow morning to try and find a few more tenths. The team worked very well together, very smoothly with no problems at all which was another key objective."

Ralph Firman: "I'm happy with how today went, we found half a second against the ultimate pace in the afternoon session and I'm sure there's more to come. I'm still getting used to being back in a single seater but the team have worked really well together and I'm confident that we're moving in the right direction. I hope the weather holds out tomorrow so we can get plenty more running in preparation for Zandvoort."

-credit: team ireland

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

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article Team Ireland Silverstone final test preview

Next article Team USA Silverstone test 2007-09-18

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

What the Brazilian GP revealed about F1's ability to cope with rain

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1

Sao Paulo GP

What the Brazilian GP revealed about F1's ability to cope with rain

Francesco Bagnaia undergoes successful surgery on double foot fracture

MotoGP

MGP MotoGP

Qatar GP

1 h

Francesco Bagnaia undergoes successful surgery on double foot fracture

Samantha Busch full speech as she accepts Kyle Busch's Most Popular Driver award

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup 8 h

Samantha Busch full speech as she accepts Kyle Busch's Most Popular Driver award

Kyle Busch posthumously wins NASCAR Cup Most Popular Driver Award

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup

Homestead-Miami

8 h

Kyle Busch posthumously wins NASCAR Cup Most Popular Driver Award

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