A1gp Round 3 Estoril

[Lusitano]

Sprint
A1 Team Driver Time
1 France Alexandre Premat 27.46.488
2 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr 27.48.543
3 Switzerland Neel Jani 27.49.777
4 Netherlands Jos Verstappen 27.59.973
5 Czech Republic Tomas Enge 28.00.416
6 Portugal Alvaro Parente 28.05.149
7 Canada Sean McIntosh 28.07.785
8 Malaysia Fairuz Fauzy 28.18.641
9 Indonesia Ananda Mikola 28.23.855
10 South Africa Tomas Scheckter 28.26.210
11 Italy Enrico Toccacelo 28.26.581
12 Germany Adrian Sutil 28.28.314
13 USA Scott Speed 28.28.403
14 New Zealand Matt Halliday 28.29.666
15 Russia Mikhail Aleshin 28.38.156
16 Austria Mathias Lauda 28.53.215
17 India Armaan Ebrahim 28.55.302
18 Lebanon Basil Shaaban 29.02.610
19 Ireland Ralph Firman 17 laps
20 Great Britain Robbie Kerr 5 laps
21 China Tengyi Jiang 1 lap
22 Australia Will Davison 0 laps
23 Mexico Salvador Duran 0 laps
24 Pakistan Adam Khan 0 laps


Feature
A1 Team Driver Time
1 France Alexandre Premat 1.01.05.054
2 Switzerland Neel Jani 1.01.12.971
3 Ireland Ralph Firman 1.01.21.387
4 USA Scott Speed 1.01.24.477
5 Portugal Alvaro Parente 1.01.32.774
6 Australia Will Davison 1.01.40.228
7 Italy Enrico Toccacelo 1.01.41.083
8 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr 1.01.41.719
9 Czech Republic Tomas Enge 1.01.43.184
10 Austria Mathias Lauda 1.01.56.834
11 Lebanon Basil Shabaan 1.02.04.187
12 Great Britain Robbie Kerr 1.02.07.401
13 India Armaan Ebrahim 1.02.10.998
14 China Tengyi Jiang 1.02.16.035
15 Pakistan Adam Khan 1.02.21.971
16 New Zealand Matt Halliday 35 laps
17 Russia Mikhail Aleshin 35 laps
18 Canada Sean McIntosh 20 laps
19 Netherlands Jos Verstappen 18 laps
20 Germany Adrian Sutil 17 laps
21 Malaysia Fairuz Fauzy 15 laps
22 South Africa Tomas Schekter 14 laps
23 Indonesia Ananda Mikola 3 laps
24 Mexico Salvador Duran 2 laps

Well not a bad race in my view i wnt and see it live, got to meet some very happy dutch guys, well at least only after the first race then they where a bit disapoited.

[mingmarwoc]

davison must have stormed through the pack..... good on him, very australian of him

[webBAAR]

Yes indeed, unlike that daft prick Christian Jones who can't differentiate between too slow, and plain slow.

[mingmarwoc]

yeah, that guy is a tool..... far to slow to be in that category. He's only racing cause his dad's involved in the team.

For anyone wonering where Will power was, he was driving indy car on the gold coast..... was taken out by his team mate too..... pretty poor race from team australia.

boy indy car sucks!

[Absolute]

Terrible weekend for New Zealand. Had a 2 minute pitstop in the feature race for some reason that was never explained in the coverage - which put us a lap behind.

To be honest guys Davison didn't really have any carspeed but he kept out of trouble and had a smart strategy that got him high up after the pit-stops and then did a good job on really old tyres of fighting off the faster guys coming from behind... although Parente slipped by him to the delight of the home crowd. (all 5 of them it seemed - they really have to hope for better crowds once they get out of Europe).

Joss the Boss made himself aquainted with the gravel again in a dreadful attempt at breaking for a corner - and took out Germany with him.

France really are the class of the field at the moment and will be difficult to stop for the championship. Only Brazil seem to have a chance on pace, but Piquet Jr so far seems very incident prone. Stalled again on the grid of the feature race - then did a heroic drive to make back a lap and get into the points.

All in all the best round of the season so far I think. A good track and a lot of close racing. Cars actually looked pretty good on a track like that.