2005–06 A1 Grand Prix season

The 2005–06 A1 Grand Prix season was the inaugural season for the A1 Grand Prix series. It began on 25 September 2005, and finished on 2 April 2006 after eleven races.

Calendar

The first A1 Grand Prix season consisted of 11 rounds, all held in different countries. Each event ran over a three-day weekend, including a practice session on each of Friday and Saturday before a qualifying session on Saturday and two races on Sunday.

Round	Event	Circuit	Dates
1	A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Great Britain	Brands Hatch	23–25 September 2005
2	A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Germany	EuroSpeedway Lausitz	7–9 October 2005
3	A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Portugal	Circuito do Estoril	21–23 October 2005
4	A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Australia	Eastern Creek Raceway	4–6 November 2005
5	A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Malaysia	Sepang International Circuit	18–20 November 2005
6	A1 Grand Prix of Nations, United Arab Emirates	Dubai Autodrome	9–11 December 2005
7	A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa	Durban Street Circuit	27–29 January 2006
8	A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Indonesia	Sentul International Circuit	10–12 February 2006
9	A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Mexico	Fundidora Park	24–26 February 2006
10	A1 Grand Prix of Nations, United States	Laguna Seca	10–12 March 2006
11	A1 Grand Prix of Nations, China	Shanghai International Circuit	31 March–2 April 2006
Map
Brands Hatch Lausitz Estoril Eastern Creek Sepang Dubai Durban Sentul Fundidora Park Laguna Seca Shanghai

Calendar changes

• A race was scheduled to be held in Brazil at the Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba over the weekend of 10–12 February 2006, but was later cancelled.
• The Indonesian round had originally been scheduled to be held over 13–15 January 2006, but was postponed due to the death of Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The replacement date was set as 10–12 February 2006.

Entry list

25 teams, each representing a different country, signed up for the first A1 Grand Prix season. All teams used a control chassis (Lola A1GP), engine (Zytek) and tyre (Cooper Avon).^[1] The following teams competed in the 2005–06 championship:

Entrant (Team)	Driver	Events
A1 Team Australia Alan Docking Racing	Will Power	1
	Christian Jones	2, 6, 9
	Will Davison	3–7
	Marcus Marshall	8
	Ryan Briscoe	10–11
A1 Team Austria Team Rosberg	Mathias Lauda	1–8, 10–11
	Patrick Friesacher	9
A1 Team Brazil ART Grand Prix	Nelson Piquet, Jr.	1–7
	Christian Fittipaldi	8–11
A1 Team Canada John Village Automotive	Sean McIntosh	1–8
	Patrick Carpentier	9–11
A1 Team China Team Astromega	Tengyi Jiang	All
	Qinghua Ma	1, 9, 11
A1 Team Czech Republic Charouz Racing System	Jan Charouz	1
	Tomáš Enge	2–11
A1 Team France DAMS	Alexandre Prémat	1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11
	Nicolas Lapierre	2, 4, 6, 8, 10–11
A1 Team Germany Super Nova Racing	Timo Scheider	1–2, 5, 7–10
	Adrian Sutil	3–4, 6
	Sebastian Stahl	11
A1 Team Great Britain Arden International	Robbie Kerr	1–10
	Darren Manning	11
A1 Team India Akbar Ebrahim	Karun Chandhok	1–2
	Armaan Ebrahim	3–8
A1 Team Indonesia	Ananda Mikola	1–3, 5–11
A1 Team Ireland Status Grand Prix	Michael Devaney	1, 4, 11
	Ralph Firman	2–3, 5–10
A1 Team Italy Team Ghinzani	Enrico Toccacelo	1–6, 9, 11
	Massimiliano Busnelli	7–8
	Max Papis	10
A1 Team Japan Carlin Motorsport	Ryo Fukuda	1
	Hideki Noda	2
	Hayanari Shimoda	4–6, 8–9
A1 Team Lebanon Carlin Motorsport	Khalil Beschir	1–2, 5
	Basil Shaaban	1, 3–4, 6–8
	Graham Rahal	9–11
A1 Team Malaysia	Fairuz Fauzy	1, 3, 5
	Alex Yoong	1–2, 4–11
A1 Team Mexico DAMS	Salvador Durán	1, 3–4, 6, 8–11
	David Martínez	2, 7
	Luis Díaz	5
A1 Team Netherlands Racing for Holland	Jos Verstappen	All
A1 Team New Zealand West Surrey Racing	Matthew Halliday	1, 3, 5–11
	Jonny Reid	2, 4
A1 Team Pakistan Super Nova Racing	Adam Khan	1–7, 10–11
	Enrico Toccacelo	7
A1 Team Portugal Carlin Motorsport	Álvaro Parente	1–10
	César Campaniço	11
A1 Team Russia Russian Age Racing	Aleksey Vasilyev	1
	Mikhail Aleshin	3
	Roman Rusinov	4
A1 Team South Africa BCN Competicion	Stephen Simpson	1, 4–11
	Tomas Scheckter	2–3
A1 Team Switzerland DAMS	Neel Jani	1–9
	Giorgio Mondini	10–11
A1 Team USA David Price Racing	Scott Speed	1–3
	Bryan Herta	4–5, 9–10
	Philip Giebler	6–8, 11
Source:[1]

Mid-season changes

• Enrico Toccacelo replaced Adam Khan at A1 Team Pakistan in Durban after the latter was injured in a practice session. As Toccacelo is not Pakistani, he was ineligible to score points for the team.
• A1 Team Indonesia was unable to participate in Australia as the team did not find a replacement driver for Ananda Mikola.

Results and standings

Results summary

Round		Event	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winner	Report
1	S	Great Britain	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Alexandre Prémat	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Report
	F			Nelson Piquet Jr.	Nelson Piquet Jr.
2	S	Germany	Nicolas Lapierre	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Nicolas Lapierre	Report
	F			Nelson Piquet Jr.	Nicolas Lapierre
3	S	Portugal	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Alexandre Prémat	Alexandre Prémat	Report
	F			Alexandre Prémat	Alexandre Prémat
4	S	Australia	Nicolas Lapierre	Nicolas Lapierre	Nicolas Lapierre	Report
	F			Nicolas Lapierre	Nicolas Lapierre
5	S	Malaysia	Neel Jani	Alexandre Prémat	Alexandre Prémat	Report
	F			Jos Verstappen	Alexandre Prémat
6	S	United Arab Emirates	Neel Jani	Neel Jani	Neel Jani	Report
	F			Ralph Firman	Nicolas Lapierre
7	S	South Africa	Alexandre Prémat	Ralph Firman	Alexandre Prémat	Report
	F			Nelson Piquet Jr.	Jos Verstappen
8	S	Indonesia	Robbie Kerr	Nicolas Lapierre	Nicolas Lapierre	Report
	F			Ralph Firman	Sean McIntosh
9	S	Mexico	Alexandre Prémat	Jos Verstappen	Alexandre Prémat	Report
	F			Alexandre Prémat	Alexandre Prémat
10	S	United States	Salvador Durán	Salvador Durán	Salvador Durán	Report
	F			Nicolas Lapierre	Salvador Durán
11	S	China	Alex Yoong	Alex Yoong	Alex Yoong	Report
	F			Salvador Durán	Tomáš Enge

Championship standings

Pos Team Drivers GBR GER POR AUS MYS UAE RSA INA MEX USA CHN Pts S F S F S F S F S F S F S F S F S F S F S F 1 France Alexandre Prémat 2 DNS 1 1 1 1 1 8 1 1 7 172 Nicolas Lapierre 1 1 1 1 7 1 1 8 2 Ret 6 2 Switzerland Neel Jani 9 Ret 2 5 3 2 6 3 2 2 1 Ret 3 2 5 5 2 3 121 Giorgio Mondini 16 13 Ret Ret 3 Great Britain Robbie Kerr 5 Ret Ret 2 Ret 12 5 2 3 Ret 9 2 2 Ret 2 10 11 6 4 3 97 Darren Manning 2 15 4 New Zealand Matthew Halliday 3 4 14 16 6 6 15 13 6 4 8 7 Ret 8 8 12 8 4 77 Jonny Reid 4 4 14 8 5 Malaysia Fairuz Fauzy 13 8 Ret 8 74 Alex Yoong 5 6 16 8 5 QO 5 10 Ret Ret Ret 4 2 7 11 Ret 10 1 2 6 Brazil Nelson Piquet, Jr. 1 1 3 Ret 2 8 3 9 4 10 Ret Ret Ret 9 71 Christian Fittipaldi 20 4 14 12 13 Ret 10 Ret 7 Netherlands Jos Verstappen Ret 7 Ret 7 4 Ret 7 4 5 16 11 9 16 1 7 6 4 2 14 Ret Ret 17 69 8 Ireland Michael Devaney 10 Ret 4 14 4 Ret 68 Ralph Firman 9 6 19 3 7 9 4 Ret 4 Ret 6 Ret Ret Ret 5 6 9 Portugal Álvaro Parente 8 Ret Ret 11 6 5 2 7 9 18 8 4 8 3 19 Ret Ret 10 3 4 66 César Campaniço 13 12 10 Mexico Salvador Durán 6 3 Ret Ret Ret Ret 18 8 3 Ret Ret Ret 1 1 3 8 59 David Martínez 8 13 10 Ret Luis Díaz 19 15 11 Canada Sean McIntosh 19 9 7 3 7 Ret 9 Ret 15 Ret 5 6 12 10 Ret 1 59 Patrick Carpentier 9 15 6 5 Ret 7 12 Czech Republic Jan Charouz 18 Ret 56 Tomáš Enge 11 Ret 5 9 Ret Ret 16 3 3 Ret 5 Ret 10 13 5 7 18 Ret 6 1 13 Australia Will Power 4 2 51 Christian Jones 15 14 QO 16 Ret Will Davison Ret 6 11 6 Ret 11 21 10 9 Ret Marcus Marshall 16 3 Ryan Briscoe 10 8 9 3 14 Italy Enrico Toccacelo 16 Ret 17 Ret 11 7 10 Ret 17 4 2 11 3 4 16 9 46 Massimiliano Busnelli Ret 6 14 Ret Max Papis 19 7 15 Germany Timo Scheider 14 10 5 10 12 8 7 Ret 12 12 8 5 7 2 38 Adrian Sutil 12 Ret Ret Ret Ret 12 Sebastian Stahl 15 18 16 United States Scott Speed 11 Ret Ret Ret 13 4 23 Bryan Herta 15 10 10 7 6 13 9 Ret Philip Giebler 13 Ret 13 Ret 15 9 14 10 17 South Africa Stephen Simpson 24 6 Ret Ret Ret 12 12 3 Ret 5 Ret 11 Ret 18 11 Ret 11 14 20 Tomas Scheckter 12 Ret 10 Ret 18 Indonesia Ananda Mikola 17 Ret 14 8 9 Ret Ret 14 6 Ret Ret Ret 11 14 12 16 Ret Ret 5 Ret 16 19 Austria Mathias Lauda 20 11 13 15 16 10 19 Ret 18 Ret 17 7 16 7 13 Ret 12 9 Ret 13 14 Patrick Friesacher 10 9 20 Pakistan Adam Khan 7 13 Ret 12 Ret 15 12 11 13 Ret 16 Ret WD 15 11 12 5 10 Enrico Toccacelo 11 Ret 21 Japan Ryo Fukuda 12 8 8 Hideki Noda 10 9 Hayanari Shimoda 18 Ret 14 13 14 15 9 Ret Ret Ret 22 China Tengyi Jiang 21 12 18 17 Ret 14 16 Ret 20 Ret 19 5 Ret Ret Ret Ret 15 17 17 Ret QO 6 Qinghua Ma QO QO 14 16 23 Lebanon Khalil Beschir 22 Ret Ret 18 Ret 17 0 Basil Shaaban QO 18 11 Ret 12 Ret 16 17 Ret 17 Ret Graham Rahal 13 14 Ret Ret 18 11 24 India Karun Chandhok 15 DNS 16 Ret 0 Armaan Ebrahim 17 13 17 13 11 EXC 20 14 14 Ret 18 15 25 Russia Aleksey Vasilyev 23 Ret 0 Mikhail Aleshin 15 17 Roman Rusinov 13 Ret Pos Team Drivers S F S F S F S F S F S F S F S F S F S F S F Pts GBR GER POR AUS MYS UAE RSA INA MEX USA CHN Sources:[2][3]

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Finished, in points Green Retired, in points Blue Finished, no points Purple Did not finish (Ret) Not classified (NC) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Blank Did not participate Injured (INJ) Excluded (EX) Bold Pole position * Fastest lap spr Sprint Race fea Feature Race

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2005–06 A1 Grand Prix season.

• Officials season standings and results at results.a1gp.com

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