A1 Team Germany

A1 Team Germany
founding	2005/2006
Licensee	unknown
Team boss	Rolf Beisswanger
Racing stable	GU racing
Total seasons	4th
Race weekends in total	35
Championships	1
Victories (sprint / main)	11 (4/7)
2nd places (Sr./Hr.)	5 (3/2)
3rd places (Sr./Hr.)	2 (1/1)
Pole positions	4th
Fastest laps	4th
Total points	251

The A1 Team Germany ( English stylization: A1Team.Germany ) was the German national team in the A1GP series. It won the title in the 2006/2007 season .

history

A1 Team Germany in Kyalami, South Africa 2009

The A1 Team Germany was founded by Willi Weber , Michael Schumacher's manager ; The British team DS Motorsport Ltd from David Sears , which among other things (under the name Super Nova International ) is active in the GP2 series , has acted as racing team since the beginning . At the end of September 2008 it became public that Weber had ended his engagement as a Seatholder, whereupon the team initially no longer appeared. The return to the racetrack took place, now under the direction of Rolf Beisswanger and supervised by the German GU Racing team, at the 2009 race weekend in Kyalami .

In the first season the results were rather mediocre. Although Timo Scheider was able to score the first point at the premiere event at Brands Hatch (main race) , there was largely no visible increase on the following race weekends. Unfortunate circumstances often prevented the team from getting better placements, for example at the race weekend in Estoril , when the Dutchman Jos Verstappen drove into the rear of Adrian Sutil , who was fifth , or in Durban , when Timo Scheider had five laps before the end In third place the suspension broke - judging by the rest of the race, even the first victory would have been possible. With second place in the main race in Laguna Seca by Timo Scheider, the first podium was finally celebrated in March 2006. In the final standings, the team finished 15th with 38 points.

In the following season things went much better for A1 Team Germany. On the first race weekend in Zandvoort , Nico Hülkenberg had his first victory in the main race, followed by the second in the fourth race of the season in Sepang (main race). In Taupo , the 19-year-old finally achieved the first pole position for the team, whereupon he won both the sprint and the main race and also drove the fastest race lap, which corresponds to 17 points (= maximum number of points per weekend). He repeated this “feat” on the following race weekends in Eastern Creek and Durban. After the tenth round of the season in Shanghai , the German team could no longer win the championship; At the end of the season at Brands Hatch, Nico Hülkenberg was able to celebrate another victory in the main race. With nine wins, three second, three third places and a total of 128 points, the German team won confidently ahead of Team New Zealand and Team Great Britain. Only after the race weekend in Beijing did it have to hand over the overall lead to Team Mexico at short notice.

The third season was changeable for the team. Christian Vietoris and Michael Ammermüller took turns competing for Germany and celebrated two victories in total. Ammermüller scored the first in the sprint race in Zhuhai after he had secured pole position, and the second Vietoris in the main race in Taupo, after he had already finished second on the podium in the sprint race. In addition to these successes, there were further positions in the points, mainly achieved by Christian Vietoris, but also two disqualifications by Ammermüller. The team finished the season in eighth place overall with 83 points.

In the fourth season , the team did not initially appear due to internal restructuring. After his comeback in Kyalami, André Lotterer achieved the only point result in the main race in Portimão with ninth place . With these two points, the team finished the season in 21st place overall.

driver

Germany's most successful A1GP driver Nico Hülkenberg in Sepang in 2006

A1 Team Germany fielded nine different drivers on race weekends, seven of whom also took part in the races themselves.

The team’s most successful driver is Nico Hülkenberg, who is third in the series’s record list with a total of nine individual wins (three in sprint races, six in main races).

Overview of the drivers

driver	RG	SR	MR	RS	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	PP	SRR	Pt.
Hulkenberg, Nico	20th	10	10	3	9 (3/6)	3 (2/1)	2 (1/1)	3	3	126
Scheider, Timo	14th	7th	7th	-	0 (0/0)	1 (0/1)	0 (0/0)	0	0	38
Ammermüller, Michael	18th	9	9	4th	1 (1/0)	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	1	0	41
Vietoris, Christian	8th	4th	4th	6th	1 (0/1)	1 (1/0)	0 (0/0)	0	1	44
Sutil, Adrian	6th	3	3	-	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0	0	0
Lotterer, André	2	1	1	1	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0	0	2
Steel, Sebastian	2	1	1	-	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0	0	0
Holzer, Marco	-	-	-	1	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0	0	0
Little Michael	-	-	-	1	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0	0	0

Legend: RG = total race; SR = sprint race; HR = main race; RS = rookie sessions; PP = pole position; SRR = fastest race lap

Results

season 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 rank Points 05/06 Brands H. EuroSpeed. Estoril Eastern C. Sepang Dubai Durban Sentul Monterrey Laguna S. Shanghai 15th 38 14 SCH 10 SCH 5 SCH 10 SCH 12 SUT 20 SUT 23 SUT 22 SUT 12 SCH 8 SCH 22 SUT 12 SUT 7 SCH 11 SCH 12 SCH 12 SCH 8 SCH 4 SCH 7 SCH 2 SCH 15 STA 18 STA 06/07 Zandvoort Brno Beijing Sepang Sentul Taupo Eastern C. Durban Mexico-S. Shanghai Brands H. 1. 128 4 COVER 1 COVER 23 CASE 4 COVER 5 COVER 15 SLEEVE 2 COVER 1 COVER 5 COVER 2 COVER 1 COVER 1 COVER 1 COVER 1 COVER 1 COVER 1 COVER 21 VIE 9 VIE 3 COVER 3 COVER 2 COVER 1 COVER 07/08 Zandvoort Brno Sepang Zhuhai Taupo Eastern C. Durban Mexico-S. Shanghai Brands H. --- 8th. 83 6 VIE 9 VIE 7 VIE 8 VIE 16 AMM DSQ AMM 1 AMM 4 AMM 2 VIE 1 VIE 4 AMM 7 AMM DSQ AMM 20 AMM 22 AMM 20 AMM 6 AMM 10 AMM 11 AMM 19 AMM 08/09 Zandvoort Cheng you Sepang Taupo Kyalami Algarve Brands H. --- --- --- --- 21st 2 14 AMM 11 AMM 19 LOT 9 LOT 11 AMM 16 AMM Legend colour abbreviation meaning gold - victory silver - 2nd place bronze - 3rd place green - Placement in the points blue - Classified outside the point ranks violet DNF Race not finished (did not finish) NC not classified red DNQ did not qualify DNPQ failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) black DSQ disqualified White DNS not at the start (did not start) WD withdrawn Light Blue PO only participated in the training (practiced only) TD Friday test driver without DNP did not participate in the training (did not practice) INJ injured or sick EX excluded DNA did not arrive C. Race canceled   no participation in the World Cup other P / bold Pole position SR / italic Fastest race lap * not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered () Streak results underlined Leader in the overall standings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weber leaves ( Memento from May 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) motorsport-aktuell.com (now in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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