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Thanks Ed, apparantly these cars can get up close behind without problems. It could be fun.

As will all single make series, you always get close racing.

In Australia the race tomorrow will be on Fox Sports 2 live at 10 PM (EST)

For TV broadcast around the world check the Television Listings page(on the A1 GRand Prix site)

For information on the A1 Car, check out the rules page here (on the A1 GRand Prix site)

Qualifying times and sprint race starting grid. Times are aggregate over four sessions. for more info http://www.a1gp.com/news/index.php?flas ... &newsid=54

1 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr 2.30.789
2 New Zealand Matt Halliday 2.31.117
3 France Alexandre Premat 2.31.206
4 Australia Will Power 2.31.388
5 Great Britain Robbie Kerr 2.31.714
6 Switzerland Neel Jani 2.31.729
7 Mexico Salvador Duran 2.32.307
8 Pakistan Adam Khan 2.32.596
9 Malaysia Alex Yoong 2.32.632
10 Japan Ryo Fukuda 2.32.689
11 Portugal Alvaro Parente 2.32.705
12 Ireland Michael Devaney 2.32.811
13 Germany Timo Scheider 2.32.981
14 Netherlands Jos Verstappen 2.33.075
15 South Africa Stephen Simpson 2.33.086
16 Italy Enrico Toccacelo 2.33.232
17 USA Scott Speed 2.33.317
18 Indonesia Ananda Mikola 2.33.424
19 India Karun Chandhok 2.34.126
20 Czech Republic Jan Charouz 2.34.786
21 Canada Sean McIntosh 2.36.656
22 Austria Mathias Lauda 2.36.878
23 Lebanon Khalil Beschir 2.37.104
24 China Tengyi Jiang 2.38.750
25 Russia Alexey Vasiliev 2.41.303

thanks for that RAH

Australia and NZ did well.

Results from the Feature Race.

The laps refer to how many laps completed.

1 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr 55.01.910
2 Australia Will Power 55.13.240
3 Mexico Salvador Duran 55.25.035
4 New Zealand Matt Halliday 55.25.615
5 Malaysia Alex Yoong 55.26.262
6 South Africa Stephen Simpson 55.26.762
7 Netherlands Jos Verstappen 55.27.540
8 Japan Ryo Fukuda 55.28.129
9 Canada Sean McIntosh 55.29.089
10 Germany Timo Scheider 37 laps
11 Austria Mathias Lauda 37 laps
12 China Tengyi Jiang 37 laps
13 Pakistan Adam Khan 35 laps
14 Czech Republic Jan Charouz 24 laps
15 Russia Alexey Vasiliev 18 laps
16 Great Britain Robbie Kerr 17 laps
17 USA Scott Speed 14 laps
18 Lebanon Khalil Beschir 13 laps
19 Italy Enrico Toccacelo 13 laps
20 Portugal Alvaro Parente 1 lap
21 Switzerland Neel Jani 1 lap
22 Ireland Michael Devaney 0 laps
23 Indonesia Ananada Mikola 0 laps
24 France Alexandre Premat DNS
25 India Karun Chandhok DNS

First place comments:

A1 Team Brazil?s Nelson Piquet Jr: ?We had problems with the pit stop and Power managed to leave in front of me so I got a bit worried. My team told me to push very hard until the end so I did and eventually managed to overtake him which I never expected. The car was really good, excellent in the second race and I could have pushed much harder if I wanted.?

Second Place:

A1 Team Australia?s Will Power: I?m happy with second as it is a really good result for Australia to be on the Podium. At the end of the day we weren?t quick enough to win it and it would have been hard to keep Nelson behind me the whole way. I suffered from oversteer but I tried to do neat and consistent laps. When Nelson passed me it was a very good manoeuvre at the end of the day he was by me and there was no use banging wheels.?

Third Place:

A1 Team Mexico?s Salvador Duran: ?I think we were very quick but I had two cars in front of me who had been lapped making it difficult for me to pass. I managed to keep Matt behind me which was hard as he is a very good driver at the end of the day it was an awesome result for Mexico. It was a first for me as I have never done a pit stop.?

All info and more on http://www.a1gp.com/news/index.php?flas ... &newsid=56

looks like it was a good race for the top nine, not too much between them
PK Jr must be wrapt
Would that have been the highest finish by Yoong in any formula?

Julian Mayo wrote:looks like it was a good race for the top nine, not too much between them
PK Jr must be wrapt
Would that have been the highest finish by Yoong in any formula?

I bit of a battle at the front as well. Shame I couldn't see it.

I agree, he might just be like his dad.

Nice to see Alex get there. I think he may be the only person on the grid with F1 racing experience. He has tried in heaps of categories but never got success. It will be interesting to see how he goes throughout the season.

It was good to see Will getting second. He started from 4th on the grid. Might just get him noticed in F1 circiles a bit more. I bet Will Davidson is just gagging to get in the car. Those two are probably going to race most of the mainstream tracks and Jones will probably race the Asian tracks.

Jos Verstappen may be a bit miffed that you didn't notice him

Julian Mayo wrote:Jos Verstappen may be a bit miffed that you didn't notice him

Yeah maybe, but you know what those Dutch are like.

Would that have been the highest finish by Yoong in any formula?

Julian, Yoong raced ChampCars back in 2003(at least a couple of races)....here were his finishes for Dale Coyne Racing:
Monterrey--9th(out of 19 cars)
Long Beach--19th(out of 19 cars)
Brands Hatch--18th(out of 19 cars)
EuroSpeedway--17th(out of 19 cars).

Maybe a season of A1Gp'll give him a chance to get back into a couple of other series next year.

Thanks rah for the update!

Next A1 race is on the 9th of October at the Euro Speedway, Lausitz in Germany

The top 10 countries in the championship:

1 BRAZIL 21
2 AUSTRALIA 16
3 NEW ZEALAND 15
4 MEXICO 13
5 FRANCE 9
6 GREAT BRITAIN 6
7 MALAYSIA 6
8 SOUTH AFRICA 5
9 PAKISTAN 4
10 NETHERLANDS 4

Full results from the A1GP site here

On how the scoring system works, click here

Ed wrote:Thanks rah for the update!

Next A1 race is on the 9th of October at the Euro Speedway, Lausitz in Germany

No probs mate, just trying to make your job a little easier.