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2008–09 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands

2008–09 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands

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The 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands was an A1 Grand Prix race, held at Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands. It was originally set to be the second race of the 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix season, but a delay in the build schedule of the new chassis forced the race at Mugello to be moved from the season opener. The same build delay meant that only seventeen of the twenty-three A1 teams participated in the race.

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This was the first race for South Korea A1 Team Korea (Hwang Jin-Woo), Monaco A1 Team Monaco (Clivio Piccione), and the new "Powered by Ferrari" A1GP car.

Drivers and teams

On 26 September, an article on the official A1GP website, detailed that a full grid of cars would not be on track at Zandvoort for the race weekend, due to the build schedule delay.[1] It was subsequently confirmed that a maximum of eighteen teams will be racing – Canada Canada, Germany Germany (Michael Ammermüller), United Kingdom Great Britain (Danny Watts), India India (Narain Karthikeyan) and Mexico Mexico (Davíd Garza Pérez) will thus make their season debut at the second round in China.[2] Germany Germany (Michael Ammermüller) did not, in fact, debut until round 5 in South Africa, while Canada Canada did not appear all season.

Subsequently, Pakistan Team Pakistan revealed that technical issues with their car were compromising the safety of their driver, Adam Khan – and thus, they too delayed the start of their season, leaving 17 teams to race.[3] Like Canada Canada, Pakistan Pakistan did not appear all season.

As several teams were still arriving as of Saturday morning, and were unable to shake down their cars before the start of the planned sessions, rookie sessions were not held.[4]

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Qualifying

As some teams had only arrived on Saturday morning, the qualifying format was changed for Zandvoort. In place of the usual four fifteen-minute, single-lap sessions, teams were given a one-hour session in which they could complete as many laps as they wished. Those times would set the grid for the Sprint race, while the results from the Sprint race would determine the grid for the Feature race.[4]

The pole position time, set by Netherlands the Netherlands (Jeroen Bleekemolen) was four seconds quicker than the fastest lap set the previous year in the Lola/Zytek cars.[14] Netherlands Bleekemolen lined up on pole, 0.316s ahead of New Zealand Earl Bamber and 0.338s ahead of Republic of Ireland Adam Carroll in third. Both Brazil Felipe Guimarães and China Ho-Pin Tung failed to set a time.

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Sprint Race

Owing to the treacherous conditions, the 12-lap Sprint Race was started behind the Safety Car. The newly introduced mandatory Sprint race pit-stop was removed for this race, to help the teams to conserve equipment.[4]

On Lap 2, the Safety Car pulled in, and the cars were released. On Lap 3, Republic of Ireland Adam Carroll spun at the final corner and was hit by Monaco Clivio Piccione, forcing both of their retirements. On Lap 3, Indonesia Satrio Hermanto also retired after a spin. On Lap 5, South Korea Hwang Jin-Woo retired, after colliding with Australia John Martin heading into the first corner. Martin managed to continue. On Lap 7, New Zealand Earl Bamber passed Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen for the lead, after a failed passing attempt led to Bleekemolen running wide and allowing Bamber to pass. On Lap 9, Malaysia Fairuz Fauzy passed New Zealand Bamber for the lead, and then began to build up a lead over the New Zealander. On Lap 11, China Ho-Pin Tung spun out of fifth place. On Lap 11, Brazil Felipe Guimarães also spun out.

The race was red-flagged on Lap 12, because of the treacherous conditions. Malaysia Fauzy won ahead of New Zealand Bamber, and France Loïc Duval. France Duval also set fastest lap.

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Race stopped after 12 laps because of the terrible conditions

Feature Race

South Korea Korea (Hwang Jin-Woo) were sent to the back of the grid for attempting to overtake under a yellow flag, and causing an avoidable collision in the Sprint race.[15]

The second pit-stop window was set to be between Laps 24 and 32. As conditions hadn't improved since earlier, the race was started behind the Safety Car.

The Safety Car pulled in at the end of Lap 2, to get the race underway. On Lap 5, Switzerland Neel Jani pulled into the pits and retires, while Republic of Ireland Adam Carroll spun out at Turn 6. On Lap 6, Italy Fabio Onidi spun and collected South Africa Adrian Zaugg, putting both out of the race. After the first set of pit-stops, France France (Loïc Duval) led from New Zealand New Zealand (Earl Bamber) and Portugal Portugal (Filipe Albuquerque).

A lot of action took place on Laps 16–17: Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen pulled into the pits with a steering wheel problem; Indonesia Indonesia (Satrio Hermanto) crashed out; South Korea Korea (Hwang Jin-Woo) spun and rejoined; and Portugal Portugal (Filipe Albuquerque) spun and crashed in the final turn. The Safety Car was deployed while the wrecks were cleared. At this point, all remaining cars in the race were guaranteed points-finishes, which means Monaco Monaco (Clivio Piccione) and South Korea Korea (Hwang Jin-Woo) would score on their debut, and Lebanon Lebanon (Daniel Morad) would score their first ever points.

On Lap 24, Lebanon Daniel Morad did a 360-spin and continues, losing a place to Australia John Martin. Meanwhile, Netherlands Netherlands (Jeroen Bleekemolen) were having gearshifting problems and lost a place to United States USA (Charlie Kimball). On Lap 31, United States Charlie Kimball retired after running off the track, but not before setting the fastest lap of the race. France France (Loïc Duval) still led after the second round of pit-stops.

On Lap 33, the Safety Car was deployed after Lebanon Morad lost control and spun into the back of China Ho-Pin Tung, sending both cars into the tyre wall at Tarzan corner. At this stage, the race had nearly reached the 69-minute time limit. Two laps later the time expired, and France France (Loïc Duval) took the chequered flag behind the safety car, ahead of Malaysia Malaysia (Fairuz Fauzy), and New Zealand New Zealand (Earl Bamber).

Brazil Brazil (Felipe Guimarães) joined the race late on, after being unable to make the start, as they were unable to repair the damage from their accident in the Sprint race in time.

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Scheduled for 45 laps but stopped earlier because of time limit

After race

At the first practice session, South Korea Korea (Hwang Jin-Woo) was warned due to their political insistence which the team put on the car: Dokdo is a territory of Korea.[16] However, they kept running the car with same insistence written in not English but Korean (Hangul) during the race weekend.[17] As a result, the team received a penalty of fine after the race.[16]

Notes

References

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    "A1GP 한국 대표에 재일교포 3세 이경우 발탁" (in Korean). Joins.com, Inc. 2009-02-03. Retrieved 2009-02-06. [dead link]
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