A1 Team Great Britain dominated today's free practice sessions at Sepang circuit in hot and humid conditions, as round three of the 2007/08 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport season kicked off in Malaysia.

23-year-old Oliver Jarvis set the pace, clocking an outstanding lap of 1m49.459s on worn tyres around the 5.54km circuit, slashing New Zealand's lap record of 1m53.343s which was set by Jonny Reid at last year's A1GP Sepang event in November 2006.

Jarvis was pleased with his team's start to the weekend but is adamant there is still work to be done and is targeting a strong qualifying performance tomorrow afternoon:

'It was a reasonable day. I would've liked a bit more pace early on in the session with the new tyres but I'm very happy with the lap time set at the end - for the age of the tyres it was fairly fantastic. But tomorrow's when it really counts and the guys will sit down tonight and analyse the data and hopefully we'll come back even stronger tomorrow.'

Switzerland's Neel Jani, whose driving style suits the smooth and flowing Sepang circuit, finished the day second fastest, just under half a second off the British car. Jani took over from Rahel Frey who was in the Swiss car this morning for the rookie session. Frey set the 13th quickest time and became the fifth female to drive an A1GP car during a race weekend.

France's Loic Duval set the third fastest time of the day while the fourth spot was taken by current championship leader New Zealand's Jonny Reid, closely followed by China and defending champion Germany in fifth and sixth place respectively.

Home nation Malaysia's Alex Yoong had a difficult session this afternoon and was not able to improve on 17th place due to the session being yellow flagged when Pakistan's Adam Khan spun off towards the end of the hour.

Commenting on his performance today and his team's chances this weekend, Yoong said:

'We're losing quite a bit of time through the middle sector - the medium and high speed corners are where we're struggling a bit. I was pleasantly surprised to see how much grip there is out there and they've done a good job resurfacing it - it doesn't feel at all like the track we had last year. We made a couple of changes to the car during the session in the right direction but there's still a lot of work to be done overnight. I don't think today's time is truly representative of where we are and we should be able to improve that quite a bit tomorrow. There are still a couple of things we can improve on the car for sure. I am feeling more confident since Brno but I'm not going to count my chickens before they've hatched and we've got to keep pushing and hopefully keep improving throughout the weekend.'

Official Practice Session 1 - Rookie drivers and developing nations only

POS	A1 TEAM	DRIVER	TIME	GAP FIRST
1	GREAT BRITAIN	Oliver JARVIS	01:52.013	+
2	BRAZIL	Sergio JIMENEZ	01:52.757	+0.744
3	AUSTRALIA	John MARTIN	01:52.806	+0.793
4	ITALY	Edoardo PISCOPO	01:53.161	+1.148
5	NEW ZEALAND	Earl BAMBER	01:53.682	+1.669
6	USA	Charlie KIMBALL	01:53.783	+1.770
7	CZECH REPUBLIC	Erik JANIS	01:53.787	+1.774
8	PORTUGAL	Joao URBANO	01:53.789	+1.776
9	MEXICO	Michel JOURDAIN	01:53.796	+1.783
10	IRELAND	Adam CARROLL	01:54.031	+2.018
11	SOUTH AFRICA	Wesleigh ORR	01:54.385	+2.372
12	CANADA	Robert WICKENS	01:54.695	+2.682
13	SWITZERLAND	Rahel FREY	01:55.102	+3.089
14	NETHERLANDS	Arie LUYENDYK	01:55.267	+3.254
15	MALAYSIA	Aaron LIM	01:55.278	+3.265
16	INDONESIA	Satrio HERMANTO	01:55.453	+3.440
17	INDIA	Parthiva SURESHWAREN	01:55.567	+3.554
18	CHINA	Marchy LEE	01:55.576	+3.563
19	GERMANY	Michael AMMERMÜLLER	01:57.400	+5.387
20	LEBANON	Chris ALAJAJIAN	01:57.684	+5.671

Official Practice session 2 (14.00 - 15.00)

POS	A1 TEAM	DRIVER	TIME	GAP FIRST
1	GREAT BRITAIN	Oliver JARVIS	01:49.459	+
2	SWITZERLAND	Neel JANI	01:49.911	+0.452
3	FRANCE	Loic DUVAL	01:50.094	+0.635
4	NEW ZEALAND	Jonny REID	01:50.320	+0.861
5	CHINA	Congfu CHENG	01:50.471	+1.012
6	GERMANY	Michael AMMERMÜLLER	01:50.641	+1.182
7	BRAZIL	Sergio JIMENEZ	01:50.753	+1.294
8	CANADA	Robert WICKENS	01:50.909	+1.450
9	INDIA	Narain KARTHIKEYAN	01:50.989	+1.530
10	NETHERLANDS	Jeroen BLEEKEMOLEN	01:51.006	+1.547
11	SOUTH AFRICA	Adrian ZAUGG	01:51.010	+1.551
12	IRELAND	Adam CARROLL	01:51.174	+1.715
13	PORTUGAL	Joao URBANO	01:51.266	+1.807
14	USA	Jonathan SUMMERTON	01:51.304	+1.845
15	AUSTRALIA	Ian DYK	01:51.387	+1.928
16	ITALY	Enrico TOCCACELO	01:51.513	+2.054
17	MALAYSIA	Alex YOONG	01:51.668	+2.209
18	CZECH REPUBLIC	Erik JANIS	01:51.830	+2.371
19	LEBANON	Chris ALAJAJIAN	01:52.076	+2.617
20	MEXICO	Michel JOURDAIN	01:52.201	+2.742
21	INDONESIA	Satrio HERMANTO	01:52.926	+3.467
22	PAKISTAN	Adam KHAN	01:52.993	+3.534

Reporting by A1GP.com