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Estoril-1

Round.3 Circuito Estoril, Portugal


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Time Schedule
時間はポルトガル時間(日本時間)

10月21日
13:00(21:00)-14:00(20:00) Practice 1 16:00(24:00)-17:00(25:00) Practice 2
10月22日
11:00(19:00)-12:00(20:00) Practice 3 14:00(22:00)-14:15(22:15) Qualifying 1 14:25(22:25)-14:40(22:40) Qualifying 2 14:50(22:50)-15:05(23:05) Qualifying 3 15:15(23:15)-15:30(23:30) Qualifying 4
10月23日
10:00(18:00)-10:15(18:15) Warm up (optional) 13:30(21:30)-14:00(22:00) Sprint Race (rolling start) 15:00(23:00)- Feature Race (standing start)
Offcial Press
Date : Estoril,21 October Title : A1GP of Nations, Circuito Estoril, Portugal A1 Teams nominate drivers
 In preparation for the two additional A1 Team test sessions to be held this morning at the Circuito Estoril, the A1 Teams have announced their drivers for the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Circuito Estoril, Portugal earlier than usual.

(エントリー表)

 Due to prior commitments made before joining the World Cup of Motorsport, A1 Team Japan will not take part in this weekend's event.
 Ahead of the first official practice session at 13:00 local time, the A1 Teams will get some additional track time in two 40 minute test sessions.
Driver's Line-up
Australia      Christian Jones, Will Davidson
Austria        Mathias Lauda
Brazil         Nelson Piquet Jr, Tuka Rocha
Canada         Sean McIntosh
China          Tengyi Jiang
Czech Republic Tomas Enge, Jan Charouz
France         Alexandre Premat, Nicolas Lapierre
Germany        Adrian Sutil
Great Britain  Robbie Kerr, Alex Lloyd
India          Armaan Ebrahim
Indonesia      Ananda Mikola
Ireland        Ralph Firman, Michael Devaney
Italy          Enricco Toccacelo, Matteo Cressoni
Lebanon        Basil Shaaban, Khalil Beschir
Malaysia       Fairuz Fauzy
Mexico         Salvador Duran
Netherlands    Jos Verstappen, Jeroen Bleekemolen
New Zealand    Jonny Reid, Matt Halliday
Pakistan       Adam Khan
Portugal       Alvaro Parente, Joao Barbosa
Russia         Alexander Truryumin, Mikhail Aleshin
South Africa   Stephen Simpson, Tomas Schekter
Switzerland    Neel Jani
USA            Scott Speed
初お目見えが数人いますね。 ロシアは開幕戦以来の出場。日本は2人ともレースで欠場。 3人目の出場はあるのか、そして誰なのか!?
Date : Estoril,21 October Title : Estoril, Portugal - Official Practice session results
 Atrocious weather conditions affected the 1st day's running of the A1 Grand Prix of Nations at the Circuito Estoril near Lisbon. While the morning's additional test sessions and the 1st official practice session were held on a wet to damp track, the final session of the day was delayed by 25 minutes due to standing water.
 It was local hero and newly crowned Formula 3 champion, Alvaro Parente who led the time sheet after the first test of the day. Two additional sessions were added to the race programme for Estoril and the Portuguese driver set a time of 1:54.918 in the first one that kicked off at 09:30. At the end of the second of the two 40 minute sessions, it was fellow Portuguese speaker Nelson Piquet Jr representing A1 Team Brazil who was fastest with a time of 1:51.916.
 A1 Team Portugal's Alvaro Parente said of his local track: "In 2002 I had my 1st and only race at Estoril, I know a lot of British tracks better than this one. I have done some testing here, I like the track and we seem to have improved on the car. There have been some changes that have been made which have improved the car a lot and I think that we can be competitive here."
 It was business as usual for A1 Team France who won both races in Germany but this time it was Alexandre Premat behind the wheel setting the fastest time of the day on a much drier but still damp track during the 1st official practice session. His best time of 1:33.024 was nearly seventh tenths of a second quicker than 2nd placed A1 Team Germany who for the first time this season, have Adrian Sutil as their race driver.
 Even though practice session two got away 25 minutes late, the conditions ensured that all the times were considerably slower. A1 Team France kept their momentum recording the fastest time in the second session as well at 1:52.037.
 Commenting on the day's action, A1 Team France's Alexandre Premat said: "Conditions were very difficult during the shakedown and practice sessions. For session one the track was bit wet and dry, which made it difficult sometimes, but I did a good time with the new tyres. In the second session we did a lot of work on the wet set-up, the car has not been good in the wet, the team did a really good job and now it is now much better. I am confident for qualifying tomorrow, although a lot of work still needs to be done."

(フリー走行結果)

 A1 Team Australia chose not to participate in the 2nd official practice session due to their concerns over the track conditions.
Official Practice-1
 1 France         1:33.024 Alexandre Premat
 2 Germany        1:33.700 Adrian Sutil
 3 Czech Republic 1:33.734 Tomas Enge
 4 Australia      1:34.065 Will Davison
 5 Brazil         1:34.085 Nelson Piquet Jr
 6 Portugal       1:34.699 Alvaro Parente
 7 Great Britain  1:35.283 Robbie Kerr
 8 Netherlands    1:35.302 Jos Verstappen
 9 Switzerland    1:35.590 Neel Jani
10 Malaysia       1:35.915 Fairuz Fauzy
11 Ireland        1:35.992 Ralph Firman
12 Italy          1:36.055 Enrico Toccacelo
13 Russia         1:36.367 Alexander Turumin
14 Canada         1:36.374 Sean McIntosh
15 Austria        1:36.482 Mathias Lauda
16 South Africa   1:36.777 Tomas Scheckter
17 USA            1:37.534 Scott Speed
18 Pakistan       1:38.978 Adam Khan
19 New Zealand    1:39.361 Matt Halliday
20 Lebanon        1:41.157 Basil Shaaban
21 Indonesia      1:44.914 Ananda Mikola
22 India          1:45.263 Armaan Ebrahim
23 China          1:45.388 Tengji Jiang
24 Mexico         1:45.400 Salvador Duran

Dry Condition
Official Practice-2
 1 France         1:52.037 Alexandre Premat
 2 Brazil         1:53.777 Nelson Piquet Jr
 3 Portugal       1:53.895 Alvaro Parente
 4 Switzerland    1:53.930 Neel Jani
 5 USA            1:54.316 Scott Speed
 6 Czech Republic 1:54.973 Tomas Enge
 7 Ireland        1:54.975 Ralph Firman
 8 South Africa   1:55.091 Tomas Scheckter
 9 Germany        1:55.483 Adrian Sutil
10 Indonesia      1:55.610 Ananda Mikola
11 Malaysia       1:56.084 Fairuz Fauzy
12 Canada         1:56.264 Sean McIntosh
13 Netherlands    1:56.424 Jos Verstappen
14 Italy          1:56.518 Enrico Toccacelo
15 Great Britain  1:57.805 Robbie Kerr
16 Austria        1:58.060 Mathias Lauda
17 New Zealand    1:58.552 Matt Halliday
18 Mexico         1:58.808 Salvador Duran
19 Pakistan       2:00.332 Adam Khan
20 India          2:00.695 Armaan Ebrahim
21 Russia         2:01.074 Alexander Turumin
22 China          2:02.105 Tengji Jiang
23 Lebanon        2:02.622 Basil Shaaban

Wet Condition
フリー走行2回目は雨の状況を見て、25分遅れでスタートしたそうです。