ブランズハッチ1日目・公式プレス
Date : Brands Hatch,23 September
Title : A1GP of nations, Brands Hatch, Great Britain A1 Teams nominate drivers for 1st race weekendThe inaugural event in the World Cup of Motorsport is underway with every national A1 Team nominating their drivers for the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Brands Hatch, Great Britain. With the pride of their nation at stake, each A1 Team will take to the track for the first official practice session this afternoon at 13.00 local time. A second official practice session will follow at 16.00 before a final practice session and qualifying tomorrow and the Sprint and Feature races on Sunday. Adding an additional layer of excitement to the A1 Grand Prix series, A1 Teams can nominate different drivers for each race weekend. With all series points going to the national team, the A1 driver line-up will not only vary between qualifying, the Sprint race and the Feature race but also from week to week.一部カットしました。
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Date : Brands Hatch,23 September
Title : A1GP of Nations, Brands Hatch, Great Britain official Practice Session results25 A1 cars each racing for the pride of their nation took to the track today for the first time in two one-hour official practice sessions for the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Brands Hatch, Great Britain. A1 Grand Prix Founder, President and Chairman Sheikh Maktoum said: "We had an interesting day and saw a lot of action in two very different sessions. It is obviously early days but I'm very happy with what I have seen. I think the 25 teams have put on a professional show which looked impressive on television. We are also delighted that the fans turned up to watch the track action here at Brands Hatch today and know from ticket sales that we will get a big crowd on Sunday." A1 Team USA recorded the fastest lap time for the day in the first official practice session. A1 Driver, Scott Speed commented: "I'm quite happy with the way things have come together considering it has all been put together very fast and obviously it is quite encouraging to start a new season so quick. I last raced on this Grand Prix track in 2003 but I might as well have come to a new circuit as I didn't remember any of it! It's not so complicated actually but the car is quite a handful especially if you want to drive it at the absolute limit. It is quite easy to get 90 per cent out of it but the last 10 per cent is quite difficult. We have a very strong dry set up but we struggled a bit in the wet for a few reasons and we are hoping to sort that out for Sunday if it rains." Home driver, A1 Team Great Britain's Robbie Kerr said: "It has been a tricky day but it has gone well so we have to be happy. We are still learning about the car so have changed it quite a bit but the good thing is that we are going in the right direction. We have been working together now as a team for about a month and a half but in reality we have only worked together for five days so I am even happier about how well it is all coming together. Even though it is my home race, there are a lot of drivers here who know the track better than I do. I love Brands, I think it is a brilliant track and after talking to some drivers who had never been here before, after the first session they told me they loved the place. It is a brilliant venue to start the first A1 in the world." Nelson Piquet Jr. recorded the fastest lap in the second official practice session which ran in wet weather. Piquet commented: "We were a bit unlucky because we had some problems in the first practice session but it was no disadvantage as I was fastest in the second session. We don't have any major problems and the Team is working well but it really is too early to tell how quick we are going to be. I think qualifying and the Sprint race will say a lot about this weekend. It could be the true pointer for how the weekend is going to be. Obviously it is equal for everybody so it is good to be quick early on however I have a good history on this track as I have raced here on the long track in Formula 3 and won."Practice-1 (13:00-14:00)
1 USA 1:16.516 Scott Speed 2 Brazil 1:17.156 Nelson Piquet Jr 3 France 1:17.216 Nicholas Lapierre 4 Great Britain 1:17.463 Robbie Kerr 5 Malaysia 1:17.579 Alex Yoong 6 Australia 1:17.673 Will Power 7 Switzerland 1:17.731 Neel Jani 8 Portugal 1:17.740 Alvaro Parente 9 Netherlands 1:17.970 Jos Verstappen 10 Mexico 1:17.997 Salvador Duran 11 New Zealand 1:18.157 Matt Halliday 12 Germany 1:18.344 Timo Scheider 13 Canada 1:18.470 Sean MacIntosh 14 South Africa 1:18.640 Stephen Simpson 15 Japan 1:18.859 Ryo Fukuda 16 Pakistan 1:18.932 Adam Khan 17 Czech Republic 1:19.396 Jan Charouz 18 Lebanon 1:19.491 Basil Shaaban 19 Ireland 1:19.542 Michael Devaney 20 Austria 1:19.674 Mathias Lauda 21 Indonesia 1:20.126 Ananda Mikola 22 Russia 1:22.905 Alexey Vasiliev 23 Italy 1:25.320 Enrico Toccacelo 24 China 1:26.555 Quinghua Ma 25 India 1:28.607 Karun Chandhok Dry ConditionPractice-2 (16:00-17:00)
1 Brazil 1:25.122 Nelson Piquet Jr 2 Great Britain 1:25.361 Robbie Kerr 3 Portugal 1:25.639 Alvaro Parente 4 South Africa 1:26.294 Stephen Simpson 5 France 1:26.328 Nicolas Lapierre 6 Canada 1:26.346 Sean MacIntosh 7 Ireland 1:26.540 Michael Devaney 8 USA 1:26.665 Scott Speed 9 Germany 1:26.817 Adrian Sutil 10 Switzerland 1:26.947 Neel Jani 11 Mexico 1:27.553 Salvador Duran 12 Pakistan 1:27.738 Adam Khan 13 Italy 1:27.890 Enrico Toccacelo 14 Japan 1:28.109 Ryo Fukuda 15 Australia 1:28.154 Christian Jones 16 Malaysia 1:28.193 Alex Yoong 17 Indonesia 1:28.241 Ananda Mikola 18 New Zealand 1:28.350 Jonny Reid 19 Netherlands 1:28.594 Jos Verstappen 20 Lebanon 1:28.806 Khalil Beschir 21 Czech Republic 1:28.827 Jan Charouz 22 Austria 1:29.346 Mathias Lauda 23 Russia 1:30.207 Nikolay Fomenko 24 China 1:35.767 Tengyi Jiang 25 India No Time Karun Chandhok Wet Condition1日目の結果です。
