A1gp

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But that grand design backfired as rookie drivers found the going tough. In the first practice session, India's Karun Chandhok caused the most spectacular accident when he turned in on ex-Formula One driver Jos Verstappen. The two cars made contact, pitching Chandhok into the air and badly damaging his car.

Chandhok had already allowed another Formula One refugee, Alex Yoong of Malaysia, to pass him but failed to notice the bright orange Netherlands car of Verstappen, causing the pile-up.

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The two cars made contact, pitching Chandhok into the air and badly damaging his car.

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but failed to notice the bright orange Netherlands car of Verstappen, causing the pile-up.

how's that not crashing?!

anyway, seeing the qually results i'm starting to think it will not be as interesting as i previously thought. this qually system they use, how's that work?

I think the point is that Jos was an innocent victim.

However that doesn't get around his slow pace.

Here's the qualifying system, it's a bet of a mess tbh.

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A1 GP qualifying has been designed to fit into a two-hour broadcasting slot and is broken into four, 15-minute quarters. Each nation is allowed to complete only one flying lap in each of the four sessions. The fastest two are added together to determine the grid positions for the series' sprint race tomorrow, with the grid for the feature race determined by the finishing order of the sprint race.

The qualifying is acceptable, but I don't understand the purpose of this "sprint" race - or whether they even get points for it.

QUOTE (lgaquino @ Sep 24 2005, 11:45 PM)

how's that not crashing?!

Engine fails on take off... do you blame the pilot if the plane crashes?

Lazy ******* clearly wasn't pedaling hard enough.

You're all just jealous!

of jos yes

They're just afraid of him, that's why they crashed into him in the 3rd corner of lap 1 already

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Fortunately Piquet Jr. is half Dutch as well, so what can we lose?

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Pos Driver Team T Laps Gap
1 Brazil Piquet 18 23:17.266
2 France Premat 18 + 0:02.441
3 New Zealand Halliday 18 + 0:02.900
4 Australia Power 18 + 0:11.458
5 Great Britain Kerr 18 + 0:12.798
6 Mexico Duran 18 + 0:17.273
7 Pakistan Khan 18 + 0:18.033
8 Portugal Parente 18 + 0:18.190
9 Switzerland Jani 18 + 0:20.851
10 Ireland Devaney 18 + 0:21.057
11 USA Speed 18 + 0:23.866
12 Japan Fukuda 18 + 0:25.193
13 Malaysia Fauzy 18 + 0:25.352
14 Germany Scheider 18 + 0:25.907
15 India Chandhok 18 + 0:27.794
16 Italy Toccacelo 18 + 0:35.522
17 Indonesia Mikola 18 + 0:40.332
18 Czech Rep Charouz 18 + 0:40.348
19 Canada Macintosh 18 + 0:42.622
20 Austria Lauda 18 + 0:55.293
21 China Jiang 18 + 0:58.194
22 Lebanon Beschir 18 + 0:59.092
23 Russia Vasiliev 17 + 1 Lap
24 South Africa Simpson 17 + 1 Lap
25 Netherlands Verstappen 0 + 18 Laps

bahh crashed or get crashed into. i meant he was as usual involved in some kind of debris and gravel trip. omg, DNF in the race too?

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how was the race for those who could watch it? too slow?

Hahahaha, good ol' Jos...

very good, i have to admit though i was watching goodwood when the best action of the feature race was taking place

Me too, it was quite tricky trying to watch both. A1Gp looked pretty good though, some questionable driving at times though...

ow dear...

The moment of the action for me (apart from the racing) was discovering that there is indeed someone worse in interviews/pc than Kimi Raikkonen. Will Power..... oh dear. Kimi you have been pwned.

After Kerr broke down, I was kinda glad that Piquet put the manners on the Aussies

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25 Netherlands Verstappen 0 + 18 Laps

He's back!