A1GP

Beijing: Team India Saturday report

NEW CHALLENGE FOR A1 TEAM INDIA IN BEIJING A1 Team India continued its campaign today in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport, in what was an eventful day in Beijing, China. A1 Team India driver Armaan Ebrahim will start tomorrow's Sprint race from ...

Published: Nov 12, 2006, 5:54 PM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

NEW CHALLENGE FOR A1 TEAM INDIA IN BEIJING

A1 Team India continued its campaign today in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport, in what was an eventful day in Beijing, China. A1 Team India driver Armaan Ebrahim will start tomorrow's Sprint race from 19th on the grid, after only 14 laps around the new street circuit. Due to problems with a manhole cover in the street circuit's racing line, organisers were forced to cancel the third official practice and qualifying sessions for tomorrow's Sprint race. Under the terms of Sporting Regulation 144, in the event that qualifying does not take place, the lap times set in Practice will be taken as the grid positions for the Sprint Race.

A1 Team India driver, Armaan Ebrahim said, "I'm a bit frustrated that we have ended up 19th on the grid for tomorrow's Sprint race. I know we could have improved our time dramatically as I was just concentrating on bedding in the brakes and finding a balance on the car. There is still a lot of speed to be found in the car and I'm confident that we will be able to move up the field tomorrow." Yohann J Setna, Seat holder for A1 Team India added, "Armaan did a great job today, and managed to learn this difficult circuit quickly. Unfortunately, the team were working on getting the car to optimal temperature rather than pushing for very fast lap times. I don't think this gird position is reflective of the team's pace and I'm sure we will be able to improve on it in the Sprint race tomorrow."

The A1GP Beijing feature race will commence at 07.00 GMT as planned, while the Sprint race may be moved to allow for an additional practice period.

-credit: team india

We want your opinion!

What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?

Take our 5 minute survey.

- The Motorsport.com Team

Read and post comments

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article Beijing: Sprint race starting lineup

Next article Beijing: Sprint race results

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

Honda Racing US echoes Porsche urgency over unified 2030 rules framework

IMSA

IMSA IMSA 56 min

Honda Racing US echoes Porsche urgency over unified 2030 rules framework

Toto Wolff: Two sponsors left Mercedes after promoting Kimi Antonelli into F1

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1

Mexican GP

1 h

Toto Wolff: Two sponsors left Mercedes after promoting Kimi Antonelli into F1

Winners and losers from the penultimate round of 2026 NASCAR Cup season at Martinsville

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup

Martinsville II

1 h

Winners and losers from the penultimate round of 2026 NASCAR Cup season at Martinsville

Cadillac to investigate high-speed Mexico GP failure that led to angry Valtteri Bottas reaction

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1

Mexican GP

1 h

Cadillac to investigate high-speed Mexico GP failure that led to angry Valtteri Bottas reaction

Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.

From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.

You have 2 options:

Become a subscriber.
Disable your adblocker.

Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here

Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page

Manage Alerts