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Taupo: Teams nominate qualifying drivers
SUPERPOINTS A1GP TAUPO, NEW ZEALAND DRIVERS NOMINATED FOR QUALIFYING Taupo - It was all change at the top of the timing sheets for the final practice session of the SuperPoints A1GP Taupo, New Zealand with the home team topping the table ahead of ...
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SUPERPOINTS A1GP TAUPO, NEW ZEALAND DRIVERS NOMINATED FOR QUALIFYING
Taupo - It was all change at the top of the timing sheets for the final practice session of the SuperPoints A1GP Taupo, New Zealand with the home team topping the table ahead of Germany and Ireland.
New Zealand moved up from eighth place in the first two official practice sessions, shaving over two seconds off yesterday's overall fastest lap, clearly showing the effect that home crowd support can have on a team. The addition of new engineer, Gary Anderson, appears to be paying off so far for A1 Team Ireland who is now looking set to add to its one championship point scored in Malaysia, with a strong start to this weekend's campaign.
While the likes of Ireland and India are no doubt delighted with their performance here this weekend, earlier championship leader, A1 Team Mexico and Brno race winners Malaysia have found themselves towards the bottom of the table, over one and a half seconds off the pace.
Nominated drivers for Qualifying - SuperPoints A1GP Taupo, New Zealand
A1 Team
Driver
Australia
Karl Reindler
Brazil
Raphael Matos
Canada
James Hinchcliffe
China
Ho-Pin Tung
Czech Republic
Tomas Enge
France
Loic Duval
Germany
Nico Hulkenberg
Great Britain
Robbie Kerr
India
Narain Karthikeyan
Indonesia
Ananda Mikola
Ireland
Richard Lyons
Italy
Enrico Toccacelo
Lebanon
Alex Khateeb
Malaysia
Alex Yoong
Mexico
Salvador Duran
Netherlands
Jeroen Bleekemolen
New Zealand
Jonny Reid
Pakistan
Nur Ali
Singapore
Christian Murchison
South Africa
Alan van der Merwe
Switzerland
Sebastien Buemi
USA
Ryan Hunter-Reay
Qualifying consists of four 15 minute sessions with a 5 minute break between each. Only one driver per A1 Team is allowed to take part in Qualifying and that driver must have completed at least three timed laps in an Official Practice session. Each driver is limited to three laps - effectively one "flying lap" - per session and must record at least two times, an aggregate of which will determine that A1 Team's position on the grid for Sunday's Sprint race. The grid for the Feature race will be determined by the outcome of the Sprint race.
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