Team & Driver count rises:
Great Britain, India and Mexico, who were unable to participate in round one in Zandvoort, are kicking off their 08/09 season here in China. Due to not having tested their chassis prior to arriving in China, the latecomers were allotted extra testing time on Friday in preparation for the weekends events. Germany, Canada & Pakistan are still no shows on the season.

Making their A1GP driving debuts this weekend will be Danny Watts (Great Britain), former Champ Car driver Robert Doornbos (Netherlands) and current IndyCar driver Marco Andretti (USA).
“I’m really looking forward to making my debut for A1 Team Netherlands and representing my country for the first time,” said Doornbos. “It's a new experience for me to be representing my country in this successful A1GP series. I have never seen the circuit in Chengdu and have only tested the A1GP Powered by Ferrari car for 20-laps.”
Making their returns to A1GP competition Narain Karthikeyan for India and David Garza for Team Mexico.
The weekend's schedule is below (EST conversions in brackets)
Saturday November 8
Free practice - 11:00 – 12:00 (Friday Nov 7 10 - 11 pm EST))
Sprint Qualifying 1 - 15:45 – 15:55 (2:45 - 2:55 am EST)
Sprint Qualifying 2 - 16:00 – 16:10 (3:00 - 3:10 am EST)
Feature Qualifying 1 - 16:15 – 16:25 (3:15 - 3:25 am EST)
Feature Qualifying 2 - 16:30 – 16:40 (3:30 - 3:40 am EST)
Sunday November 9
Sprint race - 11.00 – 11.25 (Sat Nov 8 10:00 pm EST)
*Video to air just before feature race at 13:45* (Sun Nov 9 12:45 am EST )
Feature race 15.00 – 16.10 (2:00 - 3:10 am EST)
All Qualifying and Race sessions can be seen live via streaming video on the main A1GP website.
www.a1gp.com
Written 11-05-2008, 02:48 pm
Updated 11-08-2008, 11:15 am
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