A1 Team Australia
A1 Team Australia (English stylization: A1Team.Australia ) was the Australian National Team in the A1GP series.
History
A1 Team Australia was founded by Alan Jones, Formula 1 World Champion of 1980; as a team functioned since the beginning of the Australian team Alan Docking Racing.
In the first season the team was mediocre. On the first race weekend at Brands Hatch was able to achieve the best result of the season with second place in the feature race by Will Power. Other highlights of the season presented the third place of Marcus Marshall in the main race in Sentul and third place Ryan Briscoe in the feature race in Shanghai Represents the team finished the season in 13th place with 51 points.
The following season it was unchanged. The team, in turn, get three podium finishes, namely each third place Ryan Briscoe in the feature race at Zandvoort, by Karl Reindler in the feature race in Beijing and Ian Dyk in the sprint race in Mexico City. It finished the season again on the 13th place overall with 25 points.
The third season introduced the worst of the team represents only five points finishes were achieved, the best result was about a fifth place by John Martin at the main event in the local Eastern Creek. The team finished the season at the 17th position overall with 20 points.
In the fourth season a clear upward trend could be seen. With three fourth places and a total of seven points results, all of them scored by Martin, the team finished at the end of eight place overall with 36 points.
A1 Team Australia has participated in all 39 race weekends of the A1GP series.
Driver
A1 Team Australia put on race weekends a ten different drivers, eight of whom also took part in the race itself. In addition, the official test at Silverstone 2006 Barton Mawer and the first official test of 2007 was the same place Daniel Ricciardo used.
Rider overview
( Legend: RG = Race total SR = sprint races; HR = main race; RS = rookie sessions, PP = pole position; SRR = fastest lap )