A1 Team Australia

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A1 Team Australia
Founded	2005
Seat holder	Alan Docking
Team principal	Alan Jones
Race driver(s)	Ryan Briscoe Karl Reindler Ian Dyk
First race	2005-06 Great Britain
Events entered	32
Championships	0
Sprint race victories	0
Main race victories	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
Total points	96
2007-08 position	17th (20 pts)
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A1 Team Australia is the A1 Grand Prix national team representing Australia. Australia took part in all eleven rounds of the first A1 Grand Prix season.

The team chairman is former-Formula One world champion Alan Jones, backed by general manager and former NASCAR driver Peter Nolan. The seat is owned by Formula One talent-spotter come principal engineer Alan Docking through his eponymous racing team organisation.

[edit] 2005-06 season

Will Power was the team's driver for the opening round at Brands Hatch, scoring a fourth place in the Sprint Race and a second in the Main Race, beaten only by Nelson Angelo Piquet who dominated the weekend. Power amassed 16 points for these two results; however, he had already signed for Champ Cars' Team Australia and made no further appearance in A1GP. His replacement was seat owner Jones' son Christian Jones, who did not fare so well; round two in Germany provided no points and a best finish of fourteenth place.

The uncompetitive Jones was replaced with Will Davison for round three in Portugal, and despite a qualifying performance of 18th place and a first-lap retirement in the Sprint Race, secured sixth place and five points in the Main Race. Davison was maintained for the home round at Eastern Creek Raceway, and again provided a sixth-place Main Race result. Davison consistently scored better in the Main Race in his drives, securing a one-point tenth place in the UAE round, although retiring from the main race in Durban.

Contract obligations again caused a driver change when Davison switched to V8 Supercars; Australia's fourth driver of the season was Marcus Marshall, who scored the team's first podium since the opening round with a third-place finish in Indonesia. He also moved into V8 Supercars however, and the driver's seat reverted to Christian Jones, who was again uncompetitive.

The seat for the last two rounds was awarded to Ryan Briscoe, who matched Power and Marshall's podium feat in the final round in China, with a main race third-place finish. In total, Australia's best results were a second place and two third places, for a total of 51 points and 13th place in the first-ever A1GP championship.

[edit] 2006-07 season

Australia are currently competing in the 2006-07 season with Ryan Briscoe and Karl Reindler driving.

[edit] 2007-08 season

On June 25th 2007, Team Australia announced they would be using Ian Dyk as their main driver in the 2007-08 season.[1]

[edit] Overall Driver Breakdown

[edit] Complete A1 Grand Prix Results

(key), "spr" indicate a Sprint Race, "fea" indicate a Main Race.

[edit] References

• A1 GP news story about Ian Dyk

[edit] External links

• A1gp.com Official A1 Grand Prix Web Site
• Official Team Website - A1 Team Australia

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