A1GP MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – DRIVERS NOMINATED FOR QUALIFYING
24 March 2007 - A1GP

Mexico City, Mexico – Rookie drivers Oliver Jarvis and Renger van der Zande set the pace in the final practice session for this morning’s A1GP Mexico City, Mexico this morning with Great Britain and the Netherlands topping the timing sheets and setting a strong challenge for the regular race drivers.

In a shake up of yesterday’s results, India, Brazil, the Czech Republic and Portugal all made dramatic improvements to move up the timing sheets with the usual race leaders New Zealand and Germany coming in fourth and 11th respectively. The 2006/07 championship title is within reach of both teams and a strong performance from Germany could see them leave Mexico City with the title sown up. Both will be looking to improve on this morning’s performance ahead of this afternoon’s Sprint race qualifying session.

For Great Britain and the Netherlands, qualifying will pose new challenges to both drivers with neither having taken part in this stage of an A1GP weekend before. Van der Zande is also set to take part in his first A1GP race, driving in tomorrow’s Sprint race before handing the wheel back to main driver Jeroen Bleekemolen for the Feature race.

The teams now have to decide on their set up before qualifying for the Sprint race begins at 14.15 this afternoon. Qualifying consists of four 15 minute sessions with a five 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.

Official Practice Session 3

POS DRIVER
A1 TEAM
TIME
GAP_FIRST
KPH
LAPS

1
Oliver JARVIS
GREAT BRITAIN
01:27.641
-
183
21

2
Renger VAN DER ZANDE
NETHERLANDS
01:27.694
+0.053
183
26

3
Narain KARTHIKEYAN
INDIA
01:27.807
+0.166
182
23

4
Jonny REID
NEW ZEALAND
01:28.090
+0.449
182
24

5
Bruno JUNQUEIRA
BRAZIL
01:28.115
+0.474
182
22

6
Janis JAREK
CZECH REPUBLIC
01:28.199
+0.558
182
22

7
Alvaro PARENTE
PORTUGAL
01:28.278
+0.637
181
24

8
Ian DYK
AUSTRALIA
01:28.293
+0.652
181
24

9
Jean Karl VERNAY
FRANCE
01:28.327
+0.686
181
26

10
Salvador DURAN
MEXICO
01:28.353
+0.712
181
20

11
Christian VIETORIS
GERMANY
01:28.442
+0.801
181
23

12
Enrico TOCCACELO
ITALY
01:28.464
+0.823
181
23

13
Alex YOONG
MALAYSIA
01:28.525
+0.884
181
22

14
Ho-Pin TUNG
CHINA
01:28.642
+1.001
181
24

15
Jonathan SUMMERTON
USA
01:28.740
+1.099
180
29

16
Adrian ZAUGG
SOUTH AFRICA
01:28.944
+1.303
180
23

17
James HINCHCLIFFE
CANADA
01:29.054
+1.413
180
26

18
Marcel FASSLER
SWITZERLAND
01:29.120
+1.479
180
23

19
Ananda MIKOLA
INDONESIA
01:29.190
+1.549
180
25

20
Richard LYONS
IRELAND
01:29.467
+1.826
179
18

21
Allam KHODAIR
LEBANON
01:30.188
+2.547
178
20

22
Nur ALI
PAKISTAN
01:30.447
+2.806
177
29

Nominated drivers for Qualifying – A1GP Mexico City, Mexico

A1 Team Driver

Australia
Ian Dyk

Brazil
Bruno Junqueira

Canada
James Hinchcliffe

China
Ho Pin Tung

Czech Republic
Janis Jarek

France
Jean Karl Vernay

Germany
Christian Vietoris

Great Britain
Oliver Jarvis

India
Narain Karthikeyan

Indonesia
Moreno Soeprapto

Ireland
Richard Lyons

Italy
Enrico Toccacelo

Lebanon
Allam Khodair

Malaysia
Alex Yoong

Mexico
Salvador Duran

Netherlands
Renger van der Zande

New Zealand
Jonny Reid

Pakistan
Nur Ali

Portugal
Alvaro Parente

South Africa
Adrian Zaugg

Switzerland
Marcel Fassler

USA
Jonathan Summerton

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