2006–07 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands

The 2006–07 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands was an A1 Grand Prix race, held on October 1, 2006 at the Circuit Park Zandvoort circuit in Zandvoort, Netherlands. This was the first race in the 2006-07 A1 Grand Prix season.

Layout of the Circuit Park Zandvoort

2006-07 A1GP of Netherlands
Race Details
Race 1 of 11 in the 2006-07 A1 Grand Prix season
Date	October 1, 2006
Location	Circuit Park Zandvoort Zandvoort, Netherlands
Weather	Overcast, rain at times
Qualifying
Pole	South Africa (Adrian Zaugg)
Time	2'55.531 (1'28.182, 1'27.349)
Sprint Race
1st	South Africa (Adrian Zaugg)
2nd	Mexico (Salvador Durán)
3rd	France (Nicolas Lapierre)
Main Race
1st	Germany (Nico Hülkenberg)
2nd	USA (Philip Giebler)
3rd	Australia (Ryan Briscoe)
Fast Lap
FL	South Africa (Adrian Zaugg)
Time	1'29.125, (Lap 7 of Sprint Race)
Official Classifications
Prac1-A ·Prac1-B ·Prac2 ·Prac3 ·Qual ·SRace ·MRace

Report

Qualifying

Qualification took place on Saturday, September 30, 2006

Pos	Team	Driver	Q1 Time	Q2 Time	Q3 Time	Q4 Time	Aggregate	Gap
1	South Africa	Adrian Zaugg	1'28.893	1'28.470	1'28.182	1'27.349	2'55.531	--
2	Mexico	Salvador Durán	1'28.504	1'28.572	1'27.966	1'27.670	2'55.636	0.105
3	France	Nicolas Lapierre	1'28.866	1'28.804	1'27.931	1'27.757	2'55.688	0.157
4	Germany	Nico Hülkenberg	1'28.793	1'29.438	1'27.661	1'28.144	2:55.805	0.274
6 → 5	Great Britain	Darren Manning	1'30.314	1'28.975	1'27.770	1'28.310	2'56.080	0.549
7 → 6	USA	Philip Giebler	1'30.129	1'27.884	1'29.017	1'28.404	2'56.288	0.757
8 → 7	Canada	James Hinchcliffe	1'29.079	1'28.641	1'28.333	1'27.974	2'56.307	0.776
9 → 8	Netherlands	Jeroen Bleekemolen	1'29.186	1'28.411	1'28.207	1'30.033	2'56.618	1.087
10 → 9	New Zealand	Matt Halliday	1'29.009	1'29.310	1'28.315	1'28.330	2'56.645	1.114
11 → 10	Malaysia	Alex Yoong	1'29.390	1'29.387	1'28.501	1'28.395	2'56.896	1.365
5 → 11	Switzerland	Sébastien Buemi	1'28.905	1'28.765	1'28.298	1'27.777	2'57.063*	0.544
12	Indonesia	Ananda Mikola	1'30.770	1'30.466	1'28.878	1'28.310	2'57.188	1.657
13	Australia	Ryan Briscoe	1'31.561	1'28.761	1'29.184	1'28.548	2'57.309	1.778
14	China	Congfu Cheng	1'31.499	1'28.817	1'29.357	1'28.630	2'57.447	1.916
15	Ireland	Michael Devaney	1'32.840	1'30.020	1'29.196	1'28.969	2'58.165	2.634
16	Brazil	Tuka Rocha	1'31.998	1'29.045	1'29.598	1'29.373	2'58.418	2.887
17	Italy	Alessandro Pier Guidi	1'30.100	1'29.786	1'29.131	1'29.336	2'58.467	2.936
18	India	Armaan Ebrahim	1:32.795	1'29.465	1'29.522	1'30.358	2'58.987	3.456
19	Lebanon	Basil Shaaban	1'33.008	1'30.147	1'30.268	1'29.861	3'00.008	4.477
20	Singapore	Christian Murchison	1'31.370	1'31.853	1'29.998	1'30.628	3'00.626	5.095
21	Greece	Takis Kaitatzis	1:31.861	1:31.561	1:29.821	1:41.652	3:01.382	5.851
22	Czech Republic	Tomas Kostka	1:31.583	1:30.643	1:30.930	1:32.039	3:01.573	6.042
23	Pakistan	Nur B. Ali	1:37.356	1:34.135	1:33.677	--	3:07.812	12.281

• After a technical oversight, the fastest time for A1 Team Switzerland was disallowed, adjusting their starting position from 5th to 11th.

Results

Sprint Race Results

The Sprint Race took place on Sunday, October 1, 2006

Pos	Team	Driver	Laps	Time	Points
1	South Africa	Adrian Zaugg	12	18'03.570	7
2	Mexico	Salvador Durán	12	+2.272	5
3	France	Nicolas Lapierre	12	+2.934	4
4	Germany	Nico Hülkenberg	12	+6.190	3
5	Great Britain	Darren Manning	12	+12.007	2
6	New Zealand	Matt Halliday	12	+14.940	1
7	USA	Philip Giebler	12	+22.438
8	Canada	James Hinchcliffe	12	+23.771
9	Netherlands	Jeroen Bleekemolen	12	+24.281
10	Switzerland	Sébastien Buemi	12	+24.778
11	China	Congfu Cheng	12	+25.325
12	Malaysia	Alex Yoong	12	+25.885
13	Australia	Ryan Briscoe	12	+26.666
14	Brazil	Tuka Rocha	12	+28.317
15	Ireland	Michael Devaney	12	+38.351
16	Lebanon	Basil Shaaban	12	+44.165
17	Czech Republic	Tomas Kostka	12	+44.763
18	Greece	Takis Kaitatzis	12	+1'09.669
19	Indonesia	Ananda Mikola	12	+1'14.939
20	Pakistan	Nur B. Ali	11	+1 lap
Not classified
21	Singapore	Christian Murchison	4	+8 laps
22	India	Armaan Ebrahim	0	+12 laps
23	Italy	Alessandro Pier Guidi	0	+12 laps

• Zaugg was awarded extra point for fastest lap out of the two races.

Feature race grid

New for the 2006/07 season is the way to determine the feature race order. The grid is determined on three factors:

1. The driver’s grid position for the Sprint race.
2. The driver’s final position in the Sprint race.
3. The fastest lap time in the Sprint race.

Points are awarded for each element. If a driver started the Sprint race on pole, he would be awarded one point, if he started the race second he would get two points, right down to the 23rd on the grid who will get 23 points.

The same occurs for the race positions – the winner gets one point, the runner-up two and third three points, right down to the last finisher who scores 23. Similarly for the fastest laps; the fastest gets one point, the second two and so on.

The points are all added together after the end of the sprint race; the driver with the lowest number of points will start the Feature race on pole.

If two teams finish on the same number of points after the calculations, the driver who achieved a higher finish position in the Sprint race will be awarded the better starting position.

Pos	Team	Driver	Sprint Grid	Sprint Race	Sprint F.L.	Total
1	South Africa	Adrian Zaugg	1	1	1	3
2	Mexico	Salvador Durán	2	2	2	6
3	France	Nicolas Lapierre	3	3	3	9
4	Germany	Nico Hülkenberg	4	4	4	12
5	Great Britain	Darren Manning	5	5	5	15
6	New Zealand	Matt Halliday	9	6	6	21
7	USA	Philip Giebler	6	7	8	21
8	Canada	James Hinchcliffe	7	8	13	28
9	Switzerland	Sébastien Buemi	11	10	7	28
10	Netherlands	Jeroen Bleekemolen	8	9	15	32
11	Malaysia	Alex Yoong	10	12	10	32
12	China	Congfu Cheng	14	11	11	36
13	Brazil	Tuka Rocha	16	14	9	39
14	Australia	Ryan Briscoe	13	13	14	40
15	Ireland	Michael Devaney	15	15	12	42
16	Indonesia	Ananda Mikola	12	19	16	47
17	Lebanon	Basil Shaaban	19	16	18	53
18	Czech Republic	Tomas Kostka	22	17	17	56
19	Greece	Takis Kaitatzis	21	18	20	59
20	Singapore	Christian Murchison	20	21	19	60
21	India	Armaan Ebrahim	18	22	22	62
22	Italy	Alessandro Pier Guidi	17	23	23	63
23	Pakistan	Nur B. Ali	23	20	21	64

Main Race Results

The Main Race took place also on Sunday, October 1, 2006.

Pos	Team	Driver	Laps	Time	Points
1	Germany	Nico Hülkenberg	41	1:10'31.238	10
2	USA	Philip Giebler	41	+7.870	9
3	Australia	Ryan Briscoe	41	+33.619	8
4	Netherlands	Jeroen Bleekemolen	41	+35.873	7
5	Mexico	Salvador Durán	41	+40.321	6
6	Italy	Alessandro Pier Guidi	41	+42.616	5
7	Great Britain	Darren Manning	41	+54.333	4
8	Switzerland	Sébastien Buemi	41	+59.382	3
9	China	Congfu Cheng	41	+1'29.659	2
10	Indonesia	Ananda Mikola	41	+1'14.939	1
11	New Zealand	Matt Halliday	41	+1'49.139
12	Brazil	Tuka Rocha	40	+1 lap
13	Canada	James Hinchcliffe	40	+1 lap
14	Ireland	Michael Devaney	40	+1 lap
15	Greece	Takis Kaitatzis	40	+1 lap
16	Singapore	Christian Murchison	40	+1 lap
17	Malaysia	Alex Yoong	37	+4 laps
Not classified
DNF	India	Armaan Ebrahim	34	+7 laps
DNF	France	Nicolas Lapierre	31	+10 laps
DNF	Czech Republic	Tomas Kostka	25	+16 laps
DNF	Lebanon	Basil Shaaban	18	+23 laps
DNF	Pakistan	Nur B. Ali	17	+24 laps
DNF	South Africa	Adrian Zaugg	0	+41 laps

Total Points

Total points awarded:

Team	Points	SR	MR	FL
Germany	13	3	10
Mexico	11	5	6
USA	9		9
Australia	8		8
Netherlands	7		7
South Africa	7	6		1
Great Britain	6	2	4
Italy	5		5
France	4	4
Switzerland	3		3
China	2		2
Indonesia	1		1
New Zealand	1	1
Brazil
Canada
Czech Republic
Greece
India
Ireland
Lebanon
Malaysia
Pakistan
Singapore

• Fastest Lap: Adrian Zaugg, A1 Team South Africa, 1'29.125 (186.9 km/h) on lap 7 of Sprint Race

References

http://www.a1gp.com/news/index.php?flashNavId=1&newsid=391
http://www.a1gp.com/news/index.php?flashNavId=1&newsid=388

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