2006–07 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands

Layout of the Circuit Park Zandvoort
2006-07 A1GP of Netherlands
Race Details
Race 1 of 11 in the 2006-07 A1 Grand Prix season
DateOctober 1, 2006
LocationCircuit Park Zandvoort
Zandvoort, Netherlands
WeatherOvercast, rain at times
Qualifying
Pole South Africa (Adrian Zaugg)
Time2'55.531 (1'28.182, 1'27.349)
Sprint Race
1st South Africa (Adrian Zaugg)
2nd Mexico (Salvador Durán)
3rd France (Nicolas Lapierre)
Main Race
1st Germany (Nico Hülkenberg)
2nd USA (Philip Giebler)
3rd Australia (Ryan Briscoe)
Fast Lap
FL South Africa (Adrian Zaugg)
Time1'29.125, (Lap 7 of Sprint Race)
Official Classifications
Prac1-A ·Prac1-B ·Prac2 ·Prac3 ·Qual ·SRace ·MRace

The 2006–07 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands was an A1 Grand Prix race, held on October 1, 2006 at the Circuit Park Zandvoort circuit in Zandvoort, Netherlands. This was the first race in the 2006-07 A1 Grand Prix season.

Report

Practice

Qualifying

Qualification took place on Saturday, September 30, 2006

Pos Team Driver Q1 Time Q2 Time Q3 Time Q4 Time Aggregate Gap
1 South Africa South Africa Adrian Zaugg 1'28.893 1'28.470 1'28.182 1'27.349 2'55.531 --
2 Mexico Mexico Salvador Durán 1'28.504 1'28.572 1'27.966 1'27.670 2'55.636 0.105
3 France France Nicolas Lapierre 1'28.866 1'28.804 1'27.931 1'27.757 2'55.688 0.157
4 Germany Germany Nico Hülkenberg 1'28.793 1'29.438 1'27.661 1'28.144 2:55.805 0.274
6 → 5 United Kingdom Great Britain Darren Manning 1'30.314 1'28.975 1'27.770 1'28.310 2'56.080 0.549
7 → 6 United States USA Philip Giebler 1'30.129 1'27.884 1'29.017 1'28.404 2'56.288 0.757
8 → 7 Canada Canada James Hinchcliffe 1'29.079 1'28.641 1'28.333 1'27.974 2'56.307 0.776
9 → 8 Netherlands Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen 1'29.186 1'28.411 1'28.207 1'30.033 2'56.618 1.087
10 → 9 New Zealand New Zealand Matt Halliday 1'29.009 1'29.310 1'28.315 1'28.330 2'56.645 1.114
11 → 10 Malaysia Malaysia Alex Yoong 1'29.390 1'29.387 1'28.501 1'28.395 2'56.896 1.365
5 → 11 Switzerland Switzerland Sébastien Buemi 1'28.905 1'28.765 1'28.298 1'27.777 2'57.063* 0.544
12 Indonesia Indonesia Ananda Mikola 1'30.770 1'30.466 1'28.878 1'28.310 2'57.188 1.657
13 Australia Australia Ryan Briscoe 1'31.561 1'28.761 1'29.184 1'28.548 2'57.309 1.778
14 China China Congfu Cheng 1'31.499 1'28.817 1'29.357 1'28.630 2'57.447 1.916
15 Republic of Ireland Ireland Michael Devaney 1'32.840 1'30.020 1'29.196 1'28.969 2'58.165 2.634
16 Brazil Brazil Tuka Rocha 1'31.998 1'29.045 1'29.598 1'29.373 2'58.418 2.887
17 Italy Italy Alessandro Pier Guidi 1'30.100 1'29.786 1'29.131 1'29.336 2'58.467 2.936
18 India India Armaan Ebrahim 1:32.795 1'29.465 1'29.522 1'30.358 2'58.987 3.456
19 Lebanon Lebanon Basil Shaaban 1'33.008 1'30.147 1'30.268 1'29.861 3'00.008 4.477
20 Singapore Singapore Christian Murchison 1'31.370 1'31.853 1'29.998 1'30.628 3'00.626 5.095
21 Greece Greece Takis Kaitatzis 1:31.861 1:31.561 1:29.821 1:41.652 3:01.382 5.851
22 Czech Republic Czech Republic Tomas Kostka 1:31.583 1:30.643 1:30.930 1:32.039 3:01.573 6.042
23 Pakistan Pakistan Nur B. Ali 1:37.356 1:34.135 1:33.677 -- 3:07.812 12.281
  • After a technical oversight, the fastest time for A1 Team Switzerland was disallowed, adjusting their starting position from 5th to 11th.

Sprint race

Main race

Results

Sprint Race Results

The Sprint Race took place on Sunday, October 1, 2006

Pos Team Driver Laps Time Points
1 South Africa South Africa Adrian Zaugg 12 18'03.570 7
2 Mexico Mexico Salvador Durán 12 +2.272 5
3 France France Nicolas Lapierre 12 +2.934 4
4 Germany Germany Nico Hülkenberg 12 +6.190 3
5 United Kingdom Great Britain Darren Manning 12 +12.007 2
6 New Zealand New Zealand Matt Halliday 12 +14.940 1
7 United States USA Philip Giebler 12 +22.438
8 Canada Canada James Hinchcliffe 12 +23.771
9 Netherlands Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen 12 +24.281
10 Switzerland Switzerland Sébastien Buemi 12 +24.778
11 China China Congfu Cheng 12 +25.325
12 Malaysia Malaysia Alex Yoong 12 +25.885
13 Australia Australia Ryan Briscoe 12 +26.666
14 Brazil Brazil Tuka Rocha 12 +28.317
15 Republic of Ireland Ireland Michael Devaney 12 +38.351
16 Lebanon Lebanon Basil Shaaban 12 +44.165
17 Czech Republic Czech Republic Tomas Kostka 12 +44.763
18 Greece Greece Takis Kaitatzis 12 +1'09.669
19 Indonesia Indonesia Ananda Mikola 12 +1'14.939
20 Pakistan Pakistan Nur B. Ali 11 +1 lap
Not classified
21 Singapore Singapore Christian Murchison 4 +8 laps
22 India India Armaan Ebrahim 0 +12 laps
23 Italy Italy Alessandro Pier Guidi 0 +12 laps
  • Zaugg was awarded extra point for fastest lap out of the two races.

Feature race grid

New for the 2006/07 season is the way to determine the feature race order. The grid is determined on three factors:

  1. The driver’s grid position for the Sprint race.
  2. The driver’s final position in the Sprint race.
  3. The fastest lap time in the Sprint race.

Points are awarded for each element. If a driver started the Sprint race on pole, he would be awarded one point, if he started the race second he would get two points, right down to the 23rd on the grid who will get 23 points.

The same occurs for the race positions – the winner gets one point, the runner-up two and third three points, right down to the last finisher who scores 23. Similarly for the fastest laps; the fastest gets one point, the second two and so on.

The points are all added together after the end of the sprint race; the driver with the lowest number of points will start the Feature race on pole.

If two teams finish on the same number of points after the calculations, the driver who achieved a higher finish position in the Sprint race will be awarded the better starting position.

Pos Team Driver Sprint Grid Sprint Race Sprint F.L. Total
1 South Africa South Africa Adrian Zaugg 1 1 1 3
2 Mexico Mexico Salvador Durán 2 2 2 6
3 France France Nicolas Lapierre 3 3 3 9
4 Germany Germany Nico Hülkenberg 4 4 4 12
5 United Kingdom Great Britain Darren Manning 5 5 5 15
6 New Zealand New Zealand Matt Halliday 9 6 6 21
7 United States USA Philip Giebler 6 7 8 21
8 Canada Canada James Hinchcliffe 7 8 13 28
9 Switzerland Switzerland Sébastien Buemi 11 10 7 28
10 Netherlands Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen 8 9 15 32
11 Malaysia Malaysia Alex Yoong 10 12 10 32
12 China China Congfu Cheng 14 11 11 36
13 Brazil Brazil Tuka Rocha 16 14 9 39
14 Australia Australia Ryan Briscoe 13 13 14 40
15 Republic of Ireland Ireland Michael Devaney 15 15 12 42
16 Indonesia Indonesia Ananda Mikola 12 19 16 47
17 Lebanon Lebanon Basil Shaaban 19 16 18 53
18 Czech Republic Czech Republic Tomas Kostka 22 17 17 56
19 Greece Greece Takis Kaitatzis 21 18 20 59
20 Singapore Singapore Christian Murchison 20 21 19 60
21 India India Armaan Ebrahim 18 22 22 62
22 Italy Italy Alessandro Pier Guidi 17 23 23 63
23 Pakistan Pakistan Nur B. Ali 23 20 21 64

Main Race Results

The Main Race took place also on Sunday, October 1, 2006.

Pos Team Driver Laps Time Points
1 Germany Germany Nico Hülkenberg 41 1:10'31.238 10
2 United States USA Philip Giebler 41 +7.870 9
3 Australia Australia Ryan Briscoe 41 +33.619 8
4 Netherlands Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen 41 +35.873 7
5 Mexico Mexico Salvador Durán 41 +40.321 6
6 Italy Italy Alessandro Pier Guidi 41 +42.616 5
7 United Kingdom Great Britain Darren Manning 41 +54.333 4
8 Switzerland Switzerland Sébastien Buemi 41 +59.382 3
9 China China Congfu Cheng 41 +1'29.659 2
10 Indonesia Indonesia Ananda Mikola 41 +1'14.939 1
11 New Zealand New Zealand Matt Halliday 41 +1'49.139
12 Brazil Brazil Tuka Rocha 40 +1 lap
13 Canada Canada James Hinchcliffe 40 +1 lap
14 Republic of Ireland Ireland Michael Devaney 40 +1 lap
15 Greece Greece Takis Kaitatzis 40 +1 lap
16 Singapore Singapore Christian Murchison 40 +1 lap
17 Malaysia Malaysia Alex Yoong 37 +4 laps
Not classified
18 India India Armaan Ebrahim 34 +7 laps
19 France France Nicolas Lapierre 31 +10 laps
20 Czech Republic Czech Republic Tomas Kostka 25 +16 laps
21 Lebanon Lebanon Basil Shaaban 18 +23 laps
22 Pakistan Pakistan Nur B. Ali 17 +24 laps
23 South Africa South Africa Adrian Zaugg 0 +41 laps

Total Points

Total points awarded:

Team Points SR MR FL
Germany Germany 13 3 10
Mexico Mexico 11 5 6
United States USA 9 9
Australia Australia 8 8
Netherlands Netherlands 7 7
South Africa South Africa 7 6 1
United Kingdom Great Britain 6 2 4
Italy Italy 5 5
France France 4 4
Switzerland Switzerland 3 3
China China 2 2
Indonesia Indonesia 1 1
New Zealand New Zealand 1 1
Brazil Brazil
Canada Canada
Czech Republic Czech Republic
Greece Greece
India India
Republic of Ireland Ireland
Lebanon Lebanon
Malaysia Malaysia
Pakistan Pakistan
Singapore Singapore

References

http://www.a1gp.com/news/index.php?flashNavId=1&newsid=391
http://www.a1gp.com/news/index.php?flashNavId=1&newsid=388

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