07/10/2005
NEWS STORY
This is Sean's first visit to the German circuit other than on a Playstation. With being one of the relatively less experienced drivers A1 Team Canada was delighted by his performance in the first session when on lap 19 of 28 he set a time to just make the top ten, under one second from the fastest time set by A1Team.GBR. In the next session he put in another 22 laps and improved his time by 0.560 seconds.
Sean McIntosh: The car was quite good – we started to make little changes but I had to learn the circuit a bit too. It was a good start to the weekend. It was quite similar to the Playstation but some of the corners you can't cut so much. It's a bit slower than I thought. Quite a few little sections are second gear so it's more technical than some of the other sectors because they're slow and you can't make up the time. Between sessions we made a few adjustments and picked up about a half second in lap time and now it's quite close. It's the slow speed parts that we're working on. With one lap qualifying it's harder but we'll try in the morning practice and then hope to be somewhere in the top ten in qualifying. I think we're capable of that.