Great Britain's Robbie Kerr has admitted the third year of A1GP has not lived up to his team's pre-season expectations ahead of the final round at Brands Hatch this weekend.

After starting the season with a victory at the season-opener at Zandvoort, Team GBR were many punters' tip to wrest the title from reigning champions Team Germany.

But a succession of on-track incidents and retirements have curtailed Britain's challenge, and they are winless since that first feature race of the season.

A pair of second-placed finishes in Mexico last month by Kerr's team-mate Oliver Jarvis stopped the rot and breathed new life into GBR's bid to finish the season in the championship's top three, but a shot at the title has long since gone begging.

Series leaders Switzerland are on the verge of wrapping up the title with a 29-point cushion at the summit and a maximum of 32 points available to nearest challengers New Zealand - the only team that can overhaul them.

But Kerr feels that with a bit more luck Team GBR could still have been in with a chance of claiming the biggest prize in front of their home fans this weekend.

He said: "We've had plenty of ups and downs throughout the year with little things going wrong and getting caught up in incidents that have taken us out.

"So we've lost points in that way and we've lost touch with the title chasers.

"It's definitely disappointing and we're annoyed about it but we've got to now focus on the race at Brands Hatch and try and repeat the result from last year."

Twelve months ago, Kerr was on scintillating form in front of his home fans at Brands, claiming pole position, fastest lap and sprint race victory only to be edged into second place in the feature after a wonderful scrap with champion Nico Hulkenberg.

The 28-year-old from High Wycombe knows what he is capable of on the Kent track, and has set his sights on dragging fourth-placed Team GBR to somewhere approaching the summit this weekend.

"We've got to focus on Brands Hatch and do the best possible job," he continued.

"That's our aim every time we get in the car.

"Obviously it is our aim to finish third or better, but obviously we can't control what the other guys are doing. We've just got to look at ourselves and focus on that.

"If we're at the front doing well, then we're giving ourselves a good opportunity to finish third, if not second should New Zealand have a terrible weekend."

Kerr added that Team Switzerland driver Neel Jani would fully deserve the plaudits should he bring home the handful of points the Swiss need to take the title.

"Neel has been in the car pretty much full-time for three years and so he knows it pretty well," Kerr said.

"It is difficult, it's not an easy championship by anybody's standards. The level is raised and it's getting closer and closer.

"Are they worthy champions? Well you always want to win the title, but they have done the best job this year."

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