2005-06 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa

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2005-06 A1GP of South Africa
Race Details
Race 7 of 11 in the 2005-06 A1 Grand Prix season.
Date January 29, 2006
Location Durban street circuit
Durban, South Africa
Weather Fine
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 a A1 Grand Prix race, held on the weekend of January 29, 2006 at a street course in Durban, South Africa. This was the only street course of the 2005-06 A1 Grand Prix season.


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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.

The Netherlands (Jos Verstappen) passing Switzerland (Neel Jani) on the last lap to take victory

Qualification took place on Saturday, January 28, 2006.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Team Points SR MR FL
Flag of Switzerland Switzerland 17 8 9 --
Flag of France France 13 10 3 --
Flag of New Zealand New Zealand 12 5 7 --
Flag of Portugal Portugal 11 3 8 --
Flag of Netherlands The Netherlands 10 -- 10 --
Flag of United Kingdom Great Britain 9 9 -- --
Flag of Republic of Ireland Ireland 7 7 -- --
Flag of Czech Republic Czech Republic 6 6 -- --
Flag of South Africa South Africa 6 -- 6 --
Flag of Italy Italy 5 -- 5 --
Flag of Austria Austria 4 -- 4 --
Flag of Germany Germany 4 4 -- --
Flag of Brazil Brazil 3 -- 2 1
Flag of Australia Australia 2 2 -- --
Flag of Canada Canada 1 -- 1 --
Flag of Mexico Mexico 1 1 -- --
  • Fastest Lap: A1 Team Brazil (1'18.178 / 151.2 km/h, lap 39 of Main Race)

A1 Grands Prix of Nations
2005-06
season		 Great Britain • Germany • Portugal • Australia • Malaysia •
United Arab Emirates • South Africa • Indonesia • Mexico • USA • China
2006-07
season		 Netherlands • Czech Republic • Beijing, China • Malaysia • Indonesia • New Zealand •
Australia • South Africa • Mexico • Shanghai, China • Great Britain


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