A1 Team Great Britain

A1 Team Great Britain
founding	2005/2006
Licensee	Tony Clements
Team boss	Katie Clements
Racing stable	own
Total seasons	4th
Race weekends in total	38
Championships	0
Victories (sprint / main)	5 (3/2)
2nd places (Sr./Hr.)	19 (8/11)
3rd places (Sr./Hr.)	4 (2/2)
Pole positions	5
Fastest laps	4th
Total points	343

The A1 Team Great Britain ( English stylization: A1Team.Great Britain ) was the British national team in the A1GP series. It was third in the championship in the 2005/2006 , 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 seasons.

history

A1 Team Great Britain in Kyalami 2009

A1 Team Great Britain was founded by Tony Clements and John Surtees , Formula 1 world champions from 1964 - the latter, however, withdrew from his business at the beginning of the third season, as he wanted to take care of the racing career of his son Henry ; The British Arden International team acted as the racing team in the first season , and has been using its own team since then.

In the first season , the British were among the top teams. Already in the main race of the premiere race weekend at Brands Hatch , a victory was within reach, but a technical defect forced the team to give up while in the lead. The first podium was finally achieved at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz with second place in the main race by Robbie Kerr , followed by a further seven podium positions (four second and two third places by Robbie Kerr and a third place by Darren Manning ). It ended the season in third place with 97 points.

In the following season , the team was able to maintain its position. After five podium places (two second places by Oliver Jarvis as well as two second and one third places by Robbie Kerr) Oliver Jarvis finally achieved the first victory for the British in the main race at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez . On the following race weekend in Shanghai Robbie Kerr celebrated a victory (in the sprint race), followed by a second place in the main race. He repeated this result at Brands Hatch, whereby the victory in the sprint race is particularly important, as the British were the first nation to achieve a victory in a home race. The team finished the season again in third overall with 92 points.

In the third season the team was again one of the best. It was able to achieve two victories - one in the main race in Zandvoort by Oliver Jarvis and one in the sprint race at Brands Hatch by Robbie Kerr - as well as another 6 podium positions (three second places by Jarvis and two second and one third places by Kerr). In the end, the third place overall was again, this time with 126 points.

The team had to skip the first race weekend of the fourth season due to the chassis delivery problems. On his return to Chengdu , Danny Watts immediately took two second places. Three more points resulted in the tenth overall position with 28 points.

A1 Team Great Britain took part in 38 race weekends of the A1GP series.

driver

A1 Team Great Britain fielded nine different drivers on race weekends, five of whom also took part in the races themselves. In addition, Alex Lloyd was used in the official tests at Silverstone and Le Castellet in 2005 .

Overview of the drivers

driver	RG	SR	MR	RS	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	PP	SRR	Pt.
Kerr, Robbie	46	23	23	-	3 (3/0)	11 (3/8)	4 (2/2)	4th	2	203
Jarvis, Oliver	14th	7th	7th	9	2 (0/2)	5 (3/2)	0 (0/0)	0	2	97
Watts, Danny	6th	3	3	4th	0 (0/0)	2 (1/1)	0 (0/0)	1	0	20th
Clarke, Dan	6th	3	3	1	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0	0	8th
Manning, Darren	4th	2	2	-	0 (0/0)	1 (1/0)	0 (0/0)	0	0	15th
Winslow, James	-	-	-	4th	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0	0	0
Tappy, Duncan	-	-	-	2	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0	0	0
Turvey, Oliver	-	-	-	1	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0	0	0
Steele, Aaron	-	-	-	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 3. 97 5 KER 16 KER 24 KER 2 KER 20 KER 12 KER 5 KER 2 KER 3 KER 20 KER 9 KER 2 KER 2 KER 20 KER 2 KER 10 KER 11 KER 6 KER 4 KER 3 KER 2 MAN 15 MAN 06/07 Zandvoort Brno Beijing Sepang Sentul Taupo Eastern C. Durban Mexico-S. Shanghai Brands H. 3. 92 5 MAN 7 MAN 9 KER 6 KER 7 JAR 2 JAR 5 KER 2 KER 3 KER 16 KER 8 KER 21 KER 19 KER 10 KER 9 KER 2 KER 2 JAR 1 JAR 1 KER 2 KER 1 KER 2 KER 07/08 Zandvoort Brno Sepang Zhuhai Taupo Eastern C. Durban Mexico-S. Shanghai Brands H. --- 3. 126 7 JAR 1 JAR 2 KER 17 KER 6 JAR 12 JAR 6 JAR 5 JAR 20 KER 19 KER 16 KER 3 KER 2 JAR 11 JAR 2 JAR 2 JAR 9 KER 9 KER 1 KER 2 KER 08/09 Zandvoort Cheng you Sepang Taupo Kyalami Algarve Brands H. --- --- --- --- 10. 28 3 WAT 3 WAT 16 WAT 16 WAT 12 CLA 12 CLA 19 WAT 7 WAT 11 CLA 7 CLA 13 CLA 7 CLA 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

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