Australia-Day2
カテゴリーが違ったら、全然違う意味になりかねないサブタイトルです。
(オーストラリアはF1、WRC、CCWS、そしてA1が今年開催…ラリーは最終戦なのでまだだが。)
本日は最後のフリー走行と予選が行われた。
最近知った事なのだが、予選はF1同様、1ラップアタックらしい。
Official Press
Date : Unknown,4 November
Title : A1 Team China suffers 80,000 pounds hitA1 Team Brazil's Nelson Piquet Jr was top of the pops in the 1st day of practice for the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Eastern Creek, but A1 Team China suffered a day of opposite fortune, ending up with an 80,000 pounds wreck and a night's work to build up their second car in time for Saturday's final practice session and qualifying. Tengyi Jiang lost control of the team's new car on a damp, claiming to have been tipped off after being unsettled by a bump, hitting the tyre wall side-on at Turn 5. The impact was measured at precisely 100mph and data-logging shows that the 20-year-old driver was exerting 1000psi of brake pressure on impact. Team engineer Rob Arnott said that trying to exert even as much as 750psi would normally feel hard enough to break your foot. Fortunately the impact was side-on, spreading the load, but it was still violent to wipe off the entire left-hand side of the car, the nosebox, front and rear wings and pretty much all of the bodywork. The gearbox was also written off and the engine damaged. Fortunately, the monocoque remained did its job perfectly in protecting Tengyi and remained undamaged. The only other parts that could be salvaged were the right-hand sidepod and radiator.タイトルは、「中国チームは8万ポンドの被害を受けた」
中国チームのテン・イー・ジャンがマシンを壊して、メカニックたちは夜もみっちりと働かされたと書いてある。(かなり大まかです)
彼はターン5のバンプでコントロールを失い、タイヤバリアにヒットしたとの事。
んで、土曜日(今日)の予選とフリー走行のために2台目のマシンを準備している。
詳しい事は訳しません、てか訳せないし。(汗)
Date : Eastern Creek,5 November
Title : Driver nominations for QualifyingA1 Team Australia had a good start to the weekend's final official practice session giving the home crowd something to cheer about. With Will Davison behind the wheel, they remained top of the fastest lap chart for the first part of the session before being nudged down to sixth place in the final chart. A1 Team Brazil's Nelson Piquet Jr recorded the fastest lap time this session, on overcast Eastern Creek Raceway. (フリー走行3回目の結果) All A1 Teams are usually allocated seven sets of tyres at the beginning of the race weekend, five slicks and two wets. Due to yesterday's rain and the uncertain weather forecast for tomorrow's race, A1 Grand Prix held back one set of slick tyres. As A1 Team Canada flat spotted their dry tyres during yesterday's practice sessions, they choose to preserve their tyres by not going out this morning. (予選出走ドライバー) Qualifying consists of four 15 minute sessions with a 10 minute break between each. Only one driver per A1 Team is allowed to take part in Qualifying but that driver must have completed at least three timed laps in an Official Practice session. Each driver is limited to 3 laps - effectively one "flying lap" - per session and must record at least two times, an aggregate of which will determine that A1 Team's position on the grid for Sunday's Sprint race. The grid for the Feature race will be determined by the outcome of the Sprint race.Practice-3
1 Brazil 1:19.476 Nelson Piquet Jr 2 Malaysia 1:19.840 Alex Yoong 3 Great Britain 1:19.871 Robbie Kerr 4 Portugal 1:19.886 Alvaro Parente 5 Germany 1:19.922 Adrian Sutil 6 Australia 1:20.029 Will Davidson 7 Ireland 1:20.185 Michael Devaney 8 Italy 1:20.325 Enrico Toccacelo 9 New Zealand 1:20.502 Jonny Reid 10 South Africa 1:20.768 Stephen Simpson 11 France 1:20.799 Nicolas Lapierre 12 Czech Republic 1:20.862 Tomas Enge 13 Austria 1:21.143 Mathias Lauda 14 Russia 1:21.196 Roman Rusinov 15 Switzerland 1:21.254 Neel Jani 16 Mexico 1:21.415 Salvador Duran 17 India 1:21.678 Armaan Ebrahim 18 Lebanon 1:22.008 Basil Shaaban 19 Japan 1:22.013 Hayanari Shimoda 20 China 1:22.013 Tengyi Jiang 21 Netherlands 1:22.165 Jos Verstappen 22 USA 1:22.379 Bryan Herta 23 Pakistan 1:22.458 Adam Khan 24 Canada -:--.--- Sean MacIntosh Dry ConditionNominated drivers for Qualifying
A1GP of Nations, Eastern Creek, Australia - Saturday 5 NovemberAustralia Will Davidson Austria Mathias Lauda Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr Canada Sean McIntosh China Tengyi Jiang Czech Republic Tomas Enge France Nicolas Lapierre Germany Adrian Sutil Great Britain Robbie Kerr India Armaan Ebrahim Ireland Michael Devaney Italy Enricco Toccacelo Japan Hayanari Shimoda Lebanon Basil Shaaban Malaysia Alex Yoong Mexico Salvador Duran Netherlands Jos Verstappen New Zealand Jonny Reid Pakistan Adam Khan Portugal Alvaro Parente Russia Roman Rusinov South Africa Stephen Simpson Switzerland Neel Jani USA Bryan Hertaカナダチームは昨日走った分のタイヤがパンクし、決勝用の余裕を持たせるために走らなかったらしい。
Date : Eastern Creek,5 November
Title : Qualfying results and Sprint Race gridIt was a cliff-hanger finish to qualifying for the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Eastern Creek, Sydney with A1 Team France sitting in the garage waiting to see if they had to go out for the final session to defend their pole position. Current Formula 3 champion, Alvaro Parente put in A1 Team Portugal's best-ever qualifying performance, placing them 2nd on the Sprint race grid for the first time while Neel Jani continued A1 Team Switzerland's strong performance to date, rounding up the top 3. France's stunning performance knocked even more time off the outright lap record for the New South Wales circuit putting in a 1:18.150 lap in the 2nd qualifying session. With all the A1 Teams set for two fiercely competitive races tomorrow, it looks almost certain that an A1 race car will set a new lap record as by the end of the 3rd qualifying session, all 24 A1 Teams had put in times under the existing record. Commenting on A1 Team France's 3rd pole position of the Series, A1 Team France's Nicolas Lapierre said: "We did enough to laps to get the time we wanted, we wanted to save tyres for tomorrow. So far so good, we have had a very good weekend so far, we have a good car for tomorrow on some new tyres. The 1st lap out was pretty safe but then my engineer told me to push very hard on the 2nd lap and I had a very good lap and then after recording some good times we had to wait and see it was good enough. Yes there is pressure on me and I have to keep pushing because I want to hand the car back to Alex on top of the championship in the next race." A1 Team Portugal's Alvaro Parente went on to say: "I am happy with this 2nd place because we were struggling in free practice. We improved quite a bit with some new tyres on the car, we still have to improve, but we will keep working to catch A1 Team France. We are working hard and fighting to improve. I made a small mistake on the 2nd flying lap but we have to find a balance now on the old tyres for the race tomorrow." A1 Team Switzerland's Neel Jani said: "It's a really tough car to drive and the last 3 or 4 days including today I haven't been very well, so I have really been feeling it in the car. So I'm quite happy with 3rd place. Unfortunately I lost 2nd place at the last minute but I'm looking forward to tomorrow. We'll be making changes before the race to try and improve and get closer to France." (予選結果) Despite a regulation which allows A1 Teams to switch drivers between qualifying and the Sprint race, all teams have decided to retain their qualifying selection and there will be no driver changes. The Sprint race will be contested over 50 miles lasting up to 30 minutes in duration. With a rolling start at 13:30 EDST, tomorrow's race will be run over 20 laps at the Eastern Creek Raceway on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia. The outcome of the race determines the grid position for the Feature race which will start at 15:00 BST with a standing start. The Feature race will be run over 100 miles (40 laps) lasting up to 60 minutes in duration.Qualifying Results
Po Country Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total Driver 1 フランス *78.886 *78.150 79.565 --.--- 2'37"036 ニコラス・ラピエール 2 ポルトガル 80.635 *78.944 *78.582 79.685 + 0"490 アルヴァーロ・パレンテ 3 スイス 79.337 *78.850 80.035 *78.786 + 0"600 ニール・ジャニ 4 ブラジル 80.324 *78.964 79.323 *79.118 + 1"046 ネルソン・ピケ・ジュニア 5 イギリス 80.708 *79.095 *79.027 80.679 + 1"086 ロビー・カー 6 アイルランド 81.769 *79.022 80.011 *79.605 + 1"591 マイケル・デヴァニー 7 カナダ 81.405 81.126 *79.786 *78.850 + 1"600 シーン・マッキントッシュ 8 オランダ 80.072 *79.239 80.441 *79.430 + 1"633 ヨス・フェルスタッペン 9 マレーシア 81.183 79.660 *79.594 *79.126 + 1"684 アレックス・ユーン 10 メキシコ 79.876 *79.556 80.154 *79.403 + 1"923 サルヴァドール・デュラン 11 イタリア 80.983 *79.779 80.622 *79.405 + 2"148 エンリコ・トカチェロ 12 ドイツ 81.274 *79.876 80.390 *79.503 + 2"343 エイドリアン・スーティル 13 オーストラリア 80.777 80.737 *79.445 *79.957 + 2"366 ウィル・デビッドソン 14 ニュージーランド *79.786 80.523 *79.728 80.434 + 2"478 ジョニー・レイド 15 南アフリカ 82.373 *80.106 80.460 *79.789 + 2"859 ステファン・シンプソン 16 チェコ 82.482 *80.549 80.696 *79.560 + 3"073 トーマス・エンゲ 17 パキスタン 80.837 *80.134 *80.263 --.--- + 3"361 アダム・ハーン 18 ロシア 82.068 81.507 *80.046 *80.625 + 3"635 ロマン・ルシノフ 19 日本 83.218 *80.365 *80.524 81.022 + 3"853 下田隼成 20 中国 83.397 *80.946 81.497 *75.062 + 4"745 テン・イー・ジャン 21 レバノン 83.148 *80.942 81.439 *77.522 + 4"978 バシル・シャーバン 22 アメリカ 81.274 81.598 *81.156 *80.977 + 5"097 ブライアン・ハータ 23 オーストリア --.--- *81.197 81.620 *80.945 + 5"106 マティアス・ラウダ 24 インド 83.188 82.807 *81.123 *81.423 + 5"510 アーマン・イブラヒム予選1回目〜4回目の結果は秒単位、総合結果は分(差は秒単位)
*が総合結果の適用タイム。(ベストタイムの2つの合計が予選結果になる)
明日のレースの周回数は、スプリントレースが20周、本レースが40周です。スプリントのスタートは12時半から、本レースは14時から。(私の時差が当たっていれば…某サイトでは私のよりも1時間早いと見ています、どちらが正しいかは知りません…願わくば私のほうが正しいと思いたいのですが)
んにしても、パレンテ、お前は偉い!!よくぞ3位を獲った。1位のラピエールと3位のジャニはGP2、しかしパレントは今年のイギリスF3チャンプ。うん、本当に素晴らしい。
下田さんが19位。本レースでのポイント獲得を祈る。
また、オセアニア対決はオーストラリアがコンマ1秒の差でリード。問題は明日のレースだが、どちらが良い順位でゴールできるか。そして、獲得ポイントはどちらが多いのか。
ニュージーランドが8点リードしている。オーストラリアは逆転できるのか!?
