A1 Team Portugal

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A1 Team Portugal
Portugal
Founded 2005
Seat holder Luís Figo
Carlos Queiroz
Team principal Luís Vicente
Race driver(s) João Urbano
Filipe Albuquerque
First race 2005-06 Great Britain
Events entered 26
Championships 0
Sprint race victories 0
Main race victories 0
Pole positions 0
Fastest laps 0
Total points 135
2007-08 position 11th (59 pts)
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The A1 Team Portugal is the Portuguese team for A1 Grand Prix, an international racing series. A1 Team Portugal became the first country in continental Europe to unveil its A1GP car in May 30, 2005.

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[edit] Owners

The A1 Team Portugal team owners were the well know football player, Luís Figo, and coach Carlos Queiroz. The team's operations were run by CEO Luís Vicente, manager of the Fundação Luís Figo.

[edit] Team Manager and Drivers

In 2005-06, the main driver for the Portuguese team was 2005 British F3 International Series champion Álvaro Parente, who took part in all but the season finale, in which Cesar Campanico drove; João Urbano was the reserve driver. Pedro Lamy had originally been appointed as main driver, but never took part in any race. The team manager was Trevor Carlin, who put his Carlin Motorsport team in charge of technical support. In the 2006-07 Season Portugal and Parente returned under the Team Astromega and Parente proved that time out of the car did not affect him, as he finished in the points in Portugal's first feature race back.

[edit] FPAK A1GP Portugal Junior Team

The Federação Portuguesa de Automobilismo e Karting and the A1 Team Portugal create in November 2007 the FPAK A1GP Portugal Junior Team to encourage portuguese drivers into A1GP[1]. This project, give to Portuguese Cup and Open Racing Series in Portugal drivers, the opportunities to take part in the rookie sessions. The first driver to benefit from this Junior Team is Gonçalo Araújo will take part in the rookie session at Zuhai during the fourth round of the 2007-08 season.
Except Gonçalo Araújo, Bruno Serra and Frederico Duarte will take part of Junior Team.

[edit] Race drivers

Name Seasons Races
(Starts)		 A1GP Title Wins Sprint
wins		 Main
wins		 2nd 3rd Poles Fastest
Laps		 Points
Filipe Albuquerque 2007-08 4(8) 1 2 54
César Campaniço 2005-06 1(2) 0
Álvaro Parente 2005-06, 2006-07 13(26) 1 2 76
João Urbano 2006-07, 2007-08 7(14) 5

[edit] Complete A1 Grand Prix Results

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

Year Racing
team		 Chassis,
Engine,
Tyres		 Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Points Rank
2005-06 Carlin Motorsport Lola,
Zytek,
Cooper Avon		 GBR spr GBR fea GER spr GER fea PRT spr PRT fea AUS spr AUS fea MYS spr MYS fea ARE spr ARE fea ZAF spr ZAF fea IDN spr IDN fea MEX spr MEX fea USA spr USA fea CHN spr CHN fea 66 9th
Álvaro Parente 8 Ret Ret 11 6 5 2 7 9 18 8 4 8 3 19 Ret Ret 10 3 4
Cesar Campanico 13 12
2006-07 Team Astromega Lola
Zytek
Cooper Avon		 NED spr NED fea CZE spr CZE fea BEI spr BEI fea MYS spr MYS fea IDN spr IDN fea NZ spr NZ fea AUS spr AUS fea ZAF spr ZAF fea MEX spr MEX fea SHA spr SHA fea GBR spr GBR fea 10 17th
Álvaro Parente 8 5 14 7 11 11
João Urbano 19 13
2007-08 Team Astromega Lola
Zytek
Cooper Avon		 NED spr NED fea CZE spr CZE fea MYS spr MYS fea ZHU spr ZHU fea NZ spr NZ fea AUS spr AUS fea ZAF spr ZAF fea MEX spr MEX fea SHA spr SHA fea GBR spr GBR fea 59 11th
João Urbano 11 Ret 9 18 13 Ret 19 12 8 12 12 16
Filipe Albuquerque 7 3 6 7 3 2 6 7

[edit] References

  1. ^ Portugal names next three rookies a1gp.com (December 03, 2007)

[edit] External links

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