A1 Gp

[Muzorewa]

Anyone know if there is any internet live timing available for this event?

Nothing on www.a1gp.com and on the mst live timing site there's a section for this meeting but, bizarrely, not that event. Do we really need live timing for the Ginettas?

And is there a definitive driver lineup rather than the list of 10 possibles for Mexico, for instance.

 

[Muzorewa]

I'll take that as a "No" then.

It seems the mst timing site will put the live timing up from 1-2pm and 4-5pm today for the free practice sessions, but there's nowhere for them to later publish a summary of the times. Strange.

 

[ZBOYD]

Dunno if anything will appear in here.

http://www.a1gp.com/results/

 

[orca]

Anyone going to the event? I'm off there i think traffic will be murder though.

 

[Muzorewa]

Dunno if anything will appear in here.

http://www.a1gp.com/results/

I had a look there but I think that's just for the overall result on Sunday. The lad wants to know if Roberto González is driving for Mexico, one of his heroes

 

[ZBOYD]

They had a feature in Autosport this week, but can't say i noticed. Got engrossed with the tributes to Michael Park, and the aftermath of the BTCC.

 

[ZBOYD]

Confirmed Entry List

A1 Team Driver 1 Driver 2
Australia Will Power Christian Jones
Austria Mathias Lauda
Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. Joao Paulo de Oliveira
Canada Sean MacIntosh
China Qinghua Ma Tengyi Jiang
Czech Republic Jan Charouz
France Nicholas Lapierre Alexandre Premat
Germany Timo Scheider Adrian Sutil
Great Britain Robbie Kerr Alex Lloyd
India Karun Chandhok Armaan Ebrahim
Indonesia Ananda Mikola
Ireland Michael Devaney
Italy Enrico Toccacelo Nino Piccoli
Japan Ryo Fukuda
Lebanon Basil Shaaban Khalil Beschir
Malaysia Alex Yoong Fairuz Fauzy
Mexico Salvador Duran
Netherlands Jos Verstappen Jeroen Bleekemolen
New Zealand Matt Halliday Jonny Reid
Pakistan Adam Khan
Portugal Alvaro Parente Joao Urbano
Russia Alexey Vasiliev Nikolay Fomenko
South Africa Stephen Simpson Gavin Cronje
Switzerland Neel Jani
USA Scott Speed

 

[ZBOYD]

Formatting is a bit ****, but it also says this on Autosport.

Teams are allowed to nominate up to three drivers for the weekend, who they can alternate between the free practice and race sessions.

 

[mark sheerin]

A1 Team Driver 1 Driver 2
Australia Will Power Christian Jones
Austria Mathias Lauda
Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. Joao Paulo de Oliveira
Canada Sean MacIntosh
China Qinghua Ma Tengyi Jiang
Czech Republic Jan Charouz
France Nicholas Lapierre Alexandre Premat
Germany Timo Scheider Adrian Sutil
Great Britain Robbie Kerr Alex Lloyd
India Karun Chandhok Armaan Ebrahim
Indonesia Ananda Mikola
Ireland Michael Devaney
Italy Enrico Toccacelo Nino Piccoli
Japan Ryo Fukuda
Lebanon Basil Shaaban Khalil Beschir
Malaysia Alex Yoong Fairuz Fauzy
Mexico Salvador Duran
Netherlands Jos Verstappen Jeroen Bleekemolen
New Zealand Matt Halliday Jonny Reid
Pakistan Adam Khan
Portugal Alvaro Parente Joao Urbano
Russia Alexey Vasiliev Nikolay Fomenko
South Africa Stephen Simpson Gavin Cronje
Switzerland Neel Jani
USA Scott Speed

Any betting odds?
My money would be on Jos Verstappen , Timo Schieder or Piquet Jr

 

[Muzorewa]

Formatting is a bit ****, but it also says this on Autosport.

Teams are allowed to nominate up to three drivers for the weekend, who they can alternate between the free practice and race sessions.

Cool, thanks for that.

 

[ZBOYD]

Scott Speed has been going well in GP2

 

[mark sheerin]

Scott Speed has been going well in GP2

Sorry yes I had Scott speed in my head when I wrote the above list but forgot to put him down...

Our boys Robbie Kerr and Alex Lloyd have the talent but the others have more experience...
plus Because its nationality based you just know the British team are going to do badly due to crashes and mechanicals..

I'd love them to win but I wouldn't bet on it.

Jos is a well known quantity..but he may not be able to cope with some of the younger drivers stupidity..
Timo is ex DTM and a good one there as well so he has plenty of close racing experience
Piquet Jr went very well in F3 or did he just have a good team..these equal cars will answer that one..
and Scott Speed...who can write this guy off..young gun with the right attitude...and previous single seater experience in infiniti pros
As for some of the other nations Malaysia ad India..

 

[Muzorewa]

FFS - the live timing is showing the nations rather than the drivers. with Holland setting the early pace.....

I don't think Lebanon have their wheels on yet

 

[Craig Senior]

Anyone going to the event? I'm off there i think traffic will be murder though.

It's a sell out. So should be very busy.

 

[Muzorewa]

The Italian team are still having pizza. Sorry Carlo!

 

[ZBOYD]

Im going to watch it on Sky this weekend.

 

[mark sheerin]

FFS - the live timing is showing the nations rather than the drivers. with Holland setting the early pace.....

I don't think Lebanon have their wheels on yet

Holland =..Jos Verstappen..

 

[ZBOYD]

Bit of a ding dong going on at the moment, with the UK and USA

 

[Muzorewa]

Tight at the top between GB, USA and Australia. I think the Italian team are still on the M25

 

[CupraUK]

I've got tickets for Sunday... yey!