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Qualifying Session 1 Results
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FRANCE 1'18.886 SWITZERLAND 1'19.337 NEW ZEALAND 1'19.786 MEXICO 1'19.876 NETHERLANDS 1'20.072 BRAZIL 1'20.324 PORTUGAL 1'20.635 GREAT BRITAIN 1'20.708 AUSTRALIA 1'20.777 PAKISTAN 1'20.837 ITALY 1'20.983 MALAYSIA 1'21.183 GERMANY 1'21.274 USA 1'21.274 CANADA 1'21.405 IRELAND 1'21.769 RUSSIA 1'22.068 SOUTH AFRICA 1'22.373 CZECH REPUBLIC 1'22.482 LEBANON 1'23.148 INDIA 1'23.188 JAPAN 1'23.218 CHINA 1'23.397 AUSTRIA |
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Qualifying session 2 has started.
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And here is the sprint race line-up:
1 FRANCE 2'37.036 2 PORTUGAL 2'37.526 +0.490 3 SWITZERLAND 2'37.636 +0.600 4 BRAZIL 2'38.082 +1.046 5 GREAT BRITAIN 2'38.122 +1.086 6 IRELAND 2'38.627 +1.591 7 CANADA 2'38.636 +1.600 8 NETHERLANDS 2'38.669 +1.633 9 MALAYSIA 2'38.720 +1.684 10 MEXICO 2'38.959 +1.923 11 ITALY 2'39.184 +2.148 12 GERMANY 2'39.379 +2.343 13 AUSTRALIA 2'39.402 +2.366 14 NEW ZEALAND 2'39.514 +2.478 15 SOUTH AFRICA 2'39.895 +2.859 16 CZECH REPUBLIC 2'40.109 +3.073 17 PAKISTAN 2'40.397 +3.361 18 RUSSIA 2'40.671 +3.635 19 JAPAN 2'40.889 +3.853 20 CHINA 2'41.781 +4.745 21 LEBANON 2'42.014 +4.978 22 USA 2'42.133 +5.097 23 AUSTRIA 2'42.142 +5.106 24 INDIA 2'42.546 +5.510 Portugal and Canada surprised me a lot. I thought Portugal would slip down the order again after the last home race at Estoril. Australia, New Zealand & the Czech Republic are very dissapointing if you ask me. Australia has been swopping drivers, I don't know who was driving the car during qualifying. I noticed Tomas Enge has also been replaced, that's probably the main reason for them ending up in 16th. |
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24 grid and each a different country. Wow. Good talent as well.
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Excellent performances from Portugal (Alvaro Parente), Ireland (Michael Devaney) and Canada (Sean McIntosh). Piquet was (for him) disapppointing unless he had some traffic problems off-camera. Much better effort from from Robbie Kerr after Estoril, but he must avoid getting involved with other cars in the Sprint race tomorrow.
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Another good solid qualifying performance from team GB, looking good for Sunday? Nice to see Canada doing well, Sean McIntosh has been fast over the last couple of rounds perhaps he will finish in the points again this weekend. Once again though Dams have shown that they are the team to beat.
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Some of my pics from today (click thumbnail to enlarge, then click to enlarge again if desired), full gallery is here:
Adrian Sutil (Germany) Adam Khan (Pakistan), absolute comedian. This is one of six lockups at the same corner (turn 6) in six consecutive laps. Allan Simonsen in this gorgeous Ferrari 360 came from 25th to 4th in 40 minutes during this afternoon's 1hr 'endurance' race. Stop tailgaiting me aight! Leanne Tander in F3. My mate Adam Khan, don't tell me he's locking up again? This time at turn 2, twice (or three times?) out of 4 qualifying runs. Will Davison with a small lockup at turn two. Click here to see the rest of the gallery! |
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5 Nov 2005, 19:24 (Ref:1452962) | #61 | |
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Aussie's and NZ doing fine
ahh, another great day at the track
alittle bit of rain but the rest was great. afew more people then thursday and and lotsa pitbabes walking around. i had a $5 pluto pup and a $4.50 pie and a $5.50 ham burger (i was hungry). Austalian merchandising stuff is great and will be avalible online as of next week. okay now for the serious stuff the times for the Australian and NZ qualifing look bad but they actually arent to bad. each team gets 4 sets of tyres for practice and qualifing. most teams use 2 sets for practice and then 2 sets for the qualifing. the tyres are only at their best for 1 flying lap the yah lose about a second. Will davision went out on his new set first up and stuffed up ( 120.7) he then did (120.7) on old tyers (119.4) on new tyres and a (119.9) on old again.. i think he had a 119 flat in him which would have put him in about 5 or 6th. NZ stuffed their second run on new tyres with a big lockup but by the looks of it JR probably had a 119.3 in him. so not all to bad. except for those frenchies. Ok ,who remembers Dick Johnson at Bathurst and that Big rock that someone chucked onto the track. Well the french car is red ,white and blue and if yah throw one at the right time we probably wont see the french back to race 6 |
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I suspect Portugal may have had the equal of France, if Parente hadn't missed that apex
I understand that the A1GP organisers may be contemplating banning testing at a track by any driver (not in the A1 car, but in any car) at a circuit on the A1 schedule, for a period of up to 6 months before the race. Subject to it forming part of a pre-existing race schedule of a driver. Tricky to police, perhaps, but a reasonable suggestion, given that some teams have more money than others, and are throwing everything at it to win. |
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I really hope that Portugal do good in the race.
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Had a great day at the A1. Took my 11 year old son who whilst being experienced at my race meetings, had never seen this sort of a show, he had a ball.
Good racing, good classes and a brilliant effort by the rescue team to attend to the Japanese driver with speed and care just 20 metres away from us. We'll be there next year as I'm sure many others will |
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7 Nov 2005, 01:57 (Ref:1453805) | #66 | ||
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Great weekend of racing. Went down both Saturday and Sunday. Great racing, great value and by Sunday we finally got some good weather. Action packed racing, a few bonehead moves but all in all a brilliant display. Looking foward to Malaysia and also to when A1 comes to the Creek again in 06.
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7 Nov 2005, 02:58 (Ref:1453817) | #67 | |
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Anyone have the crowd numbers?
It seems the Australian public has taken to it...I think A1GP have a winning series on their hands. waiting for Malaysia and then the rest, I'm sure they will all do us pround with great events. I find myself watching and respecting the talent of some of the not so well know racing countries, who will learn a lot from racing with the know ones. The scraps back in the pack are more entertaining that watching someone lead from the front. |
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what a brilliant day,hats of to the Organisers as you probably already heard 51000 people can , nearly double to what they were expecting. the australian commentators were extatic, it was like the had just found the holy grail. the drivers signing at 11am showed some real commitment to the crowds. Will Davision, Brian Herta , Alex Young ,Jos the Boss and the the others were their signing Autographs . the racing was spectacular ,the cars are loud and fast ,they move around ,they have colour and every one of them had passionate followers. Will Davision might normally have acouple of 1000 people at a race who follow him, if he's really really lucky ,this time 51000 people knew who he was and cheared. Whoever doesnt want to be involoved in this is crazy . Will is now on the same side of the fence as the cricket team ,thorpy ,hewit ,he's an Australian rep and once other drivers realise this theyl be lining up to take his seat. dont worry about A1 GP ,its gonna be a biggy , nothin will stop it |
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Maybe a different venue, that 51,000 was for the several days., 30,000 on Sunday I cannot see Eastern Creek making money on those figures. How about replacing Champcar with A1GP? at Surfers...the place would be packed.
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nah definately not the gold coast.sydney needs a big international motor race so it needs to stay in sydney, besides the fact that 15minute drive is really conveniant for me
the big talk going around is that they were tring to get a different venue but the logistics were to much to hadle at this early stage. theirs one place in sydney that has the roads and infrastructure to handle 250-300 thousand. good old homebush bay |
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I'm sure Adelaide could handle it this time of the year...lol
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My wife and i had a great day on Sunday we had no problems getting into the Circuit traffic was heavy but moving.The racing and entertaiment was good, we camped on the fence at top of the straight good spot to see most of the track,crowds where great and bigger than i expected (loved the National flags) around the place it gave ti a great atmosphere .
I spoke to a few people and the all seemed to love the idea and gave the impression that they would be back 2006.As one chap said to me it beat driving to Melbourne spending time and money to get there and back.The racing was GREAT love the restarts those car sure get up and mombo on a fast track like "The Creek ",I took ear plugs for my wife but she said (I love the Noise). At work today two people told me they want to come with me next year afdter seeing it on TV and thats a good sign .It was a pleasure to see cars sliding about getting out of shape under brakes ,young driver making mistakes and getting back on the blackstuff and into it again ,it reminded me of F5000 days ,except the did not blow up.To see them go 3 abreast through turn 1 was great that take BALL's. I know where i be getting my FIX for speed next year ,I liked the way they went into the pit road at full speed made the other racing they have here look SLOW, and very boreing compared to these A1 racers.Bring on 2006. |
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Did you see the amount of defromation in the rollover hoop...scary stuff, but it obviously worked well enough. I was on the fence just seconds after the hit and he was a shaken boy. The car was, as you've no doubt seen, a broken mess.
At last a series that makes the driver drive, not be a high speed computer programmer. Don't get me wrong I'll be at Albert Park in March, but really enjoyed what I saw on Sunday and the whole concept of the series. |
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