A1 Team Japan

A1 Team Japan

founding	2005/2006
Licensee	unknown
Team boss	-
Racing stable	Carlin Motorsport
Total seasons	1
Race weekends in total	7th
Championships	0
Victories (sprint / main)	0 (0/0)
2nd places (Sr./Hr.)	0 (0/0)
3rd places (Sr./Hr.)	0 (0/0)
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
Total points	8th

The A1 Team Japan ( English stylization: A1Team.Japan ) was the Japanese national team in the A1GP series.

history

The founder of A1 Team Japan is unknown; The British team Carlin Motorsport acted as racing team .

In the first season the team was below average. After it was able to score its first points with eighth place in the main race at Brands Hatch by Ryō Fukuda, two more points followed on the second race weekend at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz with tenth place in the sprint and ninth place in the main race by Hideki Noda . It did not take part in the race weekend in Estoril because Fukuda and Noda were unable to attend due to races in Formula Renault 3.5 and Formula Nippon and a replacement driver was not determined in time. In Eastern Creek , the team caused a sensation with a horror accident in the main race. The car piloted by Hayanari Shimoda came off the track for an unexplained reason in the first quick left turn after start / finish, overturned, missed the tire wall and hit a concrete wall with the airbox first. Although it broke into two parts in the impact between the engine and the monocoque and the roll bar was destroyed, Shimoda was virtually uninjured. This accident is the worst in the A1GP series. The team did not take part on the race weekend in Durban because no replacement could be found for Shimoda, whose contract had expired at this point. But on the following race weekend in Sentul he started again and achieved the fourth point result for the Japanese with ninth place in the sprint race. The team was again absent on the last two race weekends in Laguna Seca and Shanghai . It ended the season in 21st place overall with eight points.

In the second season , the team did not appear again.

A1 Team Japan took part in seven A1GP series racing weekends.

driver

A1 Team Japan fielded four different drivers on the race weekends, all of whom also took part in the races themselves.

Overview of the drivers

driver	RG	SR	MR	RS	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Pt.
Shimoda, Hayanari ( 下田隼成 )	10	5	5	-	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	2
Fukuda, Ryō ( 福田良 )	2	1	1	-	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	3
Noda, Hideki ( 野田英樹 )	2	1	1	-	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	0 (0/0)	3

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		21st	8th
05/06	12 FUK	8 FUK	10 NOD	9 NOD			18 SHI	16 SHI	14 SHI	13 SHI	14 SHI	15 SHI			9 SHI	23 SHI	20 SHI	DNS SHI					21st	8th

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)
violet	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
red	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
White	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
Light Blue	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