A1GP Team Malaysia would start 4th for Feature Race Tomorrow 3pm at Sepang F1 Circuit

Tomorrow, 23rd November 2008, at Sepang F1 Circuit, Malaysia A1 GP Team would be going into the race as the leading team, with 28 points after the first two races. The next contenders are Ireland and France at 23 points, and then New Zealand and Netherland at 20 points.

For tomorrow, Team Malaysia would start at position 13th for Sprint Race and 4th at Feature Race. We were unlucky not to have a good placing for Sprint Race, due to the Red Flag that was out and also traffic.

For feature race, 3pm tomorrow the grid looks like the following:-
Pos A1 Team Time
1 Ireland 1'47.124
2 Great Britain 1'47.340
3 Lebanon 1'47.645
4 Malaysia 1'47.648
5 Portugal 1'47.680
6 Netherlands 1'47.825
7 India 1'47.848
8 USA 1'47.866
9 France 1'47.993
10 China 1'48.126
11 Monaco 1'48.242
12 Brazil 1'48.323
13 Australia 1'48.586
14 Indonesia 1'48.839
15 New Zealand 1'48.866
16 Switzerland 1'48.980
17 South Africa 1'49.061
18 Mexico 1'49.537
19 Italy 1'49.885
20 Korea -

The Sprint Race, 11am tomorrow the grid would be as follow:-
1 Switzerland 1'47.154
2 France 1'47.747
3 New Zealand 1'47.779
4 Portugal 1'48.930
5 Italy 1'49.007
6 Great Britain 1'49.076
7 Ireland 1'49.197
8 Mexico 1'49.293
9 Netherlands 1'49.323
10 India 1'49.350
11 South Africa 1'49.528
12 USA 1'49.650
13 Malaysia 1'49.753
14 Australia 1'49.998
15 Brazil 1'50.085
16 Monaco 1'50.171
17 China 1'50.274
18 Lebanon 1'50.382
19 Indonesia 1'51.423
20 Korea -

The full standing after the first 2 races in Netherlands and China are:-
Malaysia - 28 Points
Ireland - 23 Points
France - 23 Points
New Zealand - 20 Points
Netherland - 20 Points
Portugal - 18 Points
Switzerland - 17 Points
Great Britain - 16 Points
Australia - 13 Points
South Africa - 9 Points
Monaco - 8 Points
USA - 6 Points
Korea - 4 Points
Lebanon - 3 Points
Italy - 2 Points
India - 2 Points
China - 1 Point
Indonesia - 0 Point
Brazil - 0 Point
Mexico - 0 Point

Malaysia is obviously the only Asian countries that are really fighting for honour in this A1 GP.

Quoting from A1GP.com

The A1GP race weekend consists of two separate races.

Sprint Race
The Sprint Race runs from 11.00 local time on the Sunday morning for a maximum of 24 minutes (plus one lap) with a rolling start. The race contains one mandatory pit stop.

Points are awarded to the top eight finishers as follows.

First Place – 10 Points
Second Place – 8 Points
Third Place – 6 Points
Fourth Place – 5 Points
Fith Place – 4 Points
Sixth Place – 3 Points
Seventh Place – 2 Points
Eighth Place – 1 Points

Feature Race

The Feature race is a maximum of 69 minutes (plus one lap) in duration with standing start and two mandatory pit stops. The Feature Race runs from 15.00 to 16.10 local time on the Sunday afternoon. Points are awarded to the top ten finishers for the Feature race as follows:

First Place – 15 Points
Second Place – 12 Points
Third Place – 10 Points
Fourth Place – 8 Points
Fith Place – 6 Points
Sixth Place – 5 Points
Seventh Place – 4 Points
Eighth Place – 3 Points
Ninth Place – 2 Points
Tenth Place – 1 Points

A bonus point is awarded to the fastest lap achieved by a team during the Sprint Race and Feature Race.

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Based on that calculation, if all teams maintain their standing as of today's qualifying, they would be ranked as following.

Ireland - 41 Points
Malaysia - 36 Points
France - 33 Points
Great Britain - 31 Points
Portugal - 29 Points
Switzerland - 28 Points
New Zealand - 26 Points
Netherland - 25 Points
Australia - 13 Points
Lebanon - 13 Points
South Africa - 9 Points
USA - 9 Points
Monaco - 8 Points
Italy - 6 Points
India - 6 Points
Korea - 4 Points
China - 2 Point
Mexico - 2 Point
Indonesia - 0 Point
Brazil - 0 Point

With that, the gap between the top 8 countries would be even wider with the rest, with Ireland, Malaysia, France, Great Britain, Portugal, Switzerland, New Zealand, Netherlands. 6 of those are top European nations, with Malaysia and New Zealand make up the rest.

This really shows our Malaysia Boleh spirit! Lets hope that Fairuz Fauzy would do Malaysia proud tomorrow. To know more about him and Team A1GP Malaysia, go to here .

So, why wait? Tomorrow be there at Sepang F1 Circuit to support our Malaysia Team there. I'll be there by 8am wearing Team A1GP Malaysia shirt with JobStreet.com and Autoworld.com.my.

Don't forget to wear your yellow shirt there, as that's our National colour! The Sprint Race would be 11am and Feature Race would be 3pm.

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