A1 Team Germany
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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
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
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. |
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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
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Weber leaves ( Memento from May 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) motorsport-aktuell.com (now in the Internet Archive )