2005–06 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa

2005-06 A1GP of South Africa
Race Details
Race 7 of 11 in the 2005-06 A1 Grand Prix season
Date	29 January 2006
Location	Durban street circuit Durban, South Africa
Weather	Fine, 25 °C
Qualifying
Pole	France (Alexandre Premat)
Time	2'36.841 (1'18.246, 1'18.595)
Sprint Race
1st	France (Alexandre Premat)
2nd	Great Britain (Robbie Kerr)
3rd	Switzerland (Neel Jani)
Main Race
1st	The Netherlands (Jos Verstappen)
2nd	Switzerland (Neel Jani)
3rd	Portugal (Alvaro Parente)
Fast Lap
FL	Brazil (Nelson Piquet Jr)
Time	1'18.178, (Lap 39 of Main Race)
Official Classifications
Prac1 ·Prac2 ·Prac3 ·Qual ·SRace ·MRace

The 2005–06 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa was an A1 Grand Prix race, held on the weekend of 29 January 2006 at a street course in Durban, South Africa. This was the only street course of the 2005-06 A1 Grand Prix season.

Report

Practice

The first practice session was wet, and the second was wetter. Both were interrupted by several red flags. Ananda Mikola driving for A1 Team Indonesia was fastest in the first session with a time of 1:28.477. Will Davison from A1 Team Australia was fastest in the second session with a time of 1:30.520.

During the third practice, on Saturday, A1 Team Pakistan driver Adam Khan was involved in a serious crash, forcing a helicopter flight to the nearest hospital for precautionary CT scans. These scans showed negative, but Khan was unable to compete in the remainder of the weekend's events, replaced by A1 Team Italy's backup driver, Enrico Toccacelo but Pakistan would not score points.

Results

Qualification

Qualification took place on Saturday, 28 January 2006.

Pos	Team	Driver	Q1 Time	Q2 Time	Q3 Time	Q4 Time	Aggregate	Gap
1	France	Alexandre Premat	1'20.484	1'18.246	1'18.595	--	2'36.841	--
2	Great Britain	Robbie Kerr	1'20.647	1'19.158	1'18.921	--	2'38.079	1.238
3	Switzerland	Neel Jani	1'20.387	1'19.056	1'19.778	1'19.037	2'38.093	1.252
4	The Netherlands	Jos Verstappen	1'20.208	1'19.628	1'19.198	1'19.254	2'38.452	1.611
5	Ireland	Ralph Firman	1'20.342	1'19.258	1'19.251	1'20.340	2'38.509	1.668
6	Czech Republic	Tomáš Enge	1'19.591	--	1'19.285	1'19.256	2'38.541	1.700
7	New Zealand	Matt Halliday	1'19.842	1'20.018	1'19.331	1'19.525	2'38.856	2.015
8	Brazil	Nelson Piquet Jr	1'20.907	1'19.630	1'20.172	1'19.246	2'38.876	2.035
9	Canada	Sean McIntosh	1'21.905	1'19.349	1'19.647	--	2'38.996	2.155
10	Malaysia	Alex Yoong	1'20.498	1'19.652	1'19.875	1'19.545	2'39.197	2.356
11	Indonesia	Ananda Mikola	1'45.053	1'19.989	1'20.653	1'19.251	2'39.240	2.399
12	Germany	Timo Scheider	1'21.730	1'19.773	1'19.880	1'19.552	2'39.325	2.484
13	USA	Philip Giebler	1'20.867	1'19.762	1'19.593	--	2'39.355	2.514
14	Italy	Massimiliano Busnelli	1'20.503	1'19.640	--	1'19.779	2'39.419	2.578
15	Portugal	Alvaro Parente	1'20.198	1'19.924	1'19.953	1'19.747	2'39.671	2.830
16	South Africa	Stephen Simpson	1'21.557	1'20.570	1'20.737	1'19.623	2'40.193	3.352
17	Australia	Will Davison	1'22.481	1'20.969	1'20.566	1'20.086	2'40.652	3.811
18	Lebanon	Basil Shaaban	1'22.614	1'20.837	1'21.008	--	2'41.845	5.004
19	Mexico	David Martínez	1'22.600	1'20.810	1'21.076	1'21.036	2'41.846	5.005
20	China	Tengyi Jiang	1'22.976	1'21.286	1'21.538	1'23.357	2'42.824	5.983
21	Austria	Mathias Lauda	1'22.326	1'21.463	1'21.408	--	2'42.871	6.030
22	India	Armaan Ebrahim	1'25.020	1'23.393	1'23.487	--	2'46.880	10.039
23	Pakistan	Adam Khan *	--	--	--	--	--	--

Sprint Race Results

The Sprint Race took place on Sunday, 29 January 2006.

Pos	Team	Driver	Laps	Time	Points
1	France	Alexandre Premat	20	31:06.730	10
2	Great Britain	Robbie Kerr	20	+0.243	9
3	Switzerland	Neel Jani	20	+5.850	8
4	Ireland	Ralph Firman	20	+6.160	7
5	Czech Republic	Tomáš Enge	20	+8.506	6
6	New Zealand	Matt Halliday	20	+9.623	5
7	Germany	Timo Scheider	20	+10.112	4
8	Portugal	Alvaro Parente	20	+14.066	3
9	Australia	Will Davison	20	+22.099	2
10	Mexico	David Martínez	20	+32.780	1
11	Pakistan	Enrico Toccacelo	20	+36.575
12	Canada	Sean McIntosh	20	+39.260
13	USA	Philip Giebler	20	+42.131
14	India	Armaan Ebrahim	20	+1'25.715
15	Austria	Mathias Lauda	20	+1'27.136
16	The Netherlands	Jos Verstappen	19	+1 Lap
17	Lebanon	Basil Shaaban	18	+2 Laps
18	China	Tengyi Jiang	17	+3 Laps
19	Brazil	Nelson Piquet Jr	16	+4 Laps
20	South Africa	Stephen Simpson	13	+7 Laps
21	Indonesia	Ananda Mikola	0	+20 Laps
22	Italy	Massimiliano Busnelli	0	+20 Laps
23	Malaysia	Alex Yoong	0	+20 Laps

Main Race Results

The Main Race took place on Sunday, 29 January 2006.

Pos	Team	Driver	Laps	Time	Points
1	The Netherlands	Jos Verstappen	40	1'00:46.099	10
2	Switzerland	Neel Jani	40	+1.774	9
3	Portugal	Alvaro Parente	40	+1.965	8
4	New Zealand	Matt Halliday	40	+4.352	7
5	South Africa	Stephen Simpson	40	+9.433	6
6	Italy	Massimiliano Busnelli	40	+10.735	5
7	Austria	Mathias Lauda	40	+30.123	4
8	France	Alexandre Premat	40	+37.217 *	3
9	Brazil	Nelson Piquet Jr	40	+1'03.631	2
10	Canada	Sean McIntosh	36	+4 Laps	1
11	Germany	Timo Scheider	35	+5 Laps
12	China	Tengyi Jiang	35	+5 Laps
13	Pakistan	Enrico Toccacelo	31	+9 Laps
14	Mexico	David Martínez	30	+10 Laps
15	Lebanon	Basil Shaaban	27	+13 Laps
16	Malaysia	Alex Yoong	25	+15 Laps
17	Ireland	Ralph Firman	14	+26 Laps
18	India	Armaan Ebrahim	10	+30 Laps
19	Indonesia	Ananda Mikola	10	+30 Laps
20	Great Britain	Robbie Kerr	9	+31 Laps
21	Czech Republic	Tomáš Enge	7	+33 Laps
22	Australia	Will Davison	2	+38 Laps
23	USA	Philip Giebler	2	+38 Laps

* Team France 25 seconds penalty by steward's decision.

Total Points

Team	Points	SR	MR	FL
Switzerland	17	8	9	--
France	13	10	3	--
New Zealand	12	5	7	--
Portugal	11	3	8	--
The Netherlands	10	--	10	--
Great Britain	9	9	--	--
Ireland	7	7	--	--
Czech Republic	6	6	--	--
South Africa	6	--	6	--
Italy	5	--	5	--
Austria	4	--	4	--
Germany	4	4	--	--
Brazil	3	--	2	1
Australia	2	2	--	--
Canada	1	--	1	--
Mexico	1	1	--	--

• Fastest Lap: A1 Team Brazil (1'18.178 / 151.2 km/h, lap 39 of Main Race)

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