2005–06 A1 Grand Prix season

The 2005-2006 A1 GP season is the first season of the A1 GP championship. It began on 25 September 2005 and ended on 2 April 2006.

## Calendar

The 2005-2006 A1 Grand Prix season has 11 race. Each race ran unrolled a three-day weekend. This included a practice session on Friday another one on Saturday follow up a qualifying session. On Sunday, there are two races.
|Round|Event|Circuit|Dates|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Great Britain|Brands Hatch|||
|A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Germany|EuroSpeedway Lausitz|7–9 October 2005||
|A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Portugal|Circuito do Estoril|21–23 October 2005||
|A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Australia|Eastern Creek Raceway|4–6 November 2005||
|A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Malaysia|Sepang International Circuit|18–20 November 2005||
||Dubai Autodrome|9–11 December 2005||
|A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa|Durban Street Circuit|27–29 January 2006||
|A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Indonesia|Sentul International Circuit|10–12 February 2006||
|A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Mexico|Fundidora Park|24–26 February 2006||
|A1 Grand Prix of Nations, United States|Laguna Seca|10–12 March 2006||
|A1 Grand Prix of Nations, China||31 March–2 April 2006||
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- A race was scheduled to be held in Brazil at the Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba over the weekend of 10–12 February 2006, but was later cancelled.
- The Indonesian round had originally been scheduled to be held over 13–15 January 2006, but was postponed due to the death of Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The replacement date was set as 10–12 February 2006.

## Entry list

26 teams, each representing a different country, signed up for the first A1 Grand Prix season. Here is the list of participants for the 2005-2006 A1GP season:

|Entrant (Team)|Driver|Events||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="5"|A1 Team Australia|Will Power|1|
|Christian Jones|2, 6, 9|||
|Will Davison|3–7|||
|Marcus Marshall|8|||
|Ryan Briscoe|10–11|||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team Austria|Mathias Lauda|1–8, 10–11|
|Patrick Friesacher|9|||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team Brazil|Nelson Piquet, Jr.|1–7|
|Christian Fittipaldi|8–11|||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team Canada|Sean McIntosh|1–8|
|Patrick Carpentier|9–11|||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team China|Tengyi Jiang|All|
|Qinghua Ma|1, 9, 11|||
|rowspan="2"||Jan Charouz|1|
|Tomáš Enge|2–11|||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team France|Alexandre Prémat||
|Nicolas Lapierre|2, 4, 6, 8, 10–11|||
|rowspan="3"|A1 Team Germany|Timo Scheider|1–2, 5, 7–10|
|Adrian Sutil|3–4, 6|||
|Sebastian Stahl|11|||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team Great Britain|Robbie Kerr|1–10|
|Darren Manning|11|||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team India|Karun Chandhok|1–2|
|Armaan Ebrahim|3–8|||
|A1 Team Indonesia|Ananda Mikola|1–3, 5–11||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team Ireland|Michael Devaney|1, 4, 11|
|Ralph Firman|2–3, 5–10|||
|rowspan="3"|A1 Team Italy|Enrico Toccacelo|1–6, 9, 11|
|Massimiliano Busnelli|7–8|||
|Max Papis|10|||
|rowspan="3"|A1 Team Japan|Ryo Fukuda|1|
|Hideki Noda|2|||
|Hayanari Shimoda|4–6, 8–9|||
|rowspan="3"|A1 Team Lebanon|Khalil Beschir|1–2, 5|
|Basil Shaaban|1, 3–4, 6–8|||
|Graham Rahal|9–11|||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team Malaysia|Fairuz Fauzy|1, 3, 5|
|Alex Yoong|1–2, 4–11|||
|rowspan="3"|A1 Team Mexico|Salvador Durán|1, 3–4, 6, 8–11|
|David Martínez|2, 7|||
|Luis Díaz|5|||
|rowspan="3"|A1 Team Monaco|Bruno Jaquinera|1-2|
|Luca Badoer|3-6|||
|Antony Davidson|7-11|||
|A1 Team Netherlands|Jos Verstappen|All||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team New Zealand|Matthew Halliday|1, 3, 5–11|
|Jonny Reid|2, 4|||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team Pakistan|Adam Khan|1–7, 10–11|
||7|||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team Portugal|Álvaro Parente|1–10|
|César Campaniço|11|||
|rowspan="3"|A1 Team Russia|Aleksey Vasilyev|1|
|Mikhail Aleshin|3|||
|Roman Rusinov|4|||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team South Africa|Stephen Simpson|1, 4–11|
|Tomas Scheckter|2–3|||
|rowspan="2"|A1 Team Switzerland|Neel Jani|1–9|
|Giorgio Mondini|10–11|||
|rowspan="3"|A1 Team USA|Scott Speed|1–3|
|Bryan Herta|4–5, 9–10|||
|Philip Giebler|6–8, 11|||

- Enrico Toccacelo replaced Adam Khan at A1 Team Pakistan in Durban after the latter was injured in a practice session. As Toccacelo is not Pakistani, he was ineligible to score points for the team.
- A1 Team Indonesia was unable to participate in Australia as the team did not find a replacement driver for Ananda Mikola.
- A1 Team Monaco driver Luca Badoer is replaced by Bruno Jaquinera starting at the Portugal round
- A1 Team Monaco driver Bruno Jaquinera is replaced by Anthony Davidson starting at the South African round

### Results summary

|colspan="2"|Round|Event|Pole Position|Fastest Lap|Winner|Report|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="2"|Great Britain|Nelson Piquet Jr.|Alexandre Prémat|Nelson Piquet Jr.|rowspan="2"|Report|
||Nelson Piquet Jr.|Nelson Piquet Jr.|||||
|rowspan="2"|Germany|Nicolas Lapierre|Nelson Piquet Jr.|Nicolas Lapierre|rowspan="2"|Report|
||Nelson Piquet Jr.|Nicolas Lapierre|||||
|rowspan="2"|Portugal|Nelson Piquet Jr.|Alexandre Prémat|Alexandre Prémat|rowspan="2"|Report|
||Alexandre Prémat|Alexandre Prémat|||||
|rowspan="2"|Australia|Nicolas Lapierre|Nicolas Lapierre|Nicolas Lapierre|rowspan="2"|Report|
||Nicolas Lapierre|Nicolas Lapierre|||||
|rowspan="2"|Malaysia|Neel Jani|Alexandre Prémat|Alexandre Prémat|rowspan="2"|Report|
||Jos Verstappen|Alexandre Prémat|||||
|rowspan="2"|United Arab Emirates|Neel Jani|Neel Jani|Neel Jani|rowspan="2"|Report|
||Ralph Firman|Nicolas Lapierre|||||
|rowspan="2"|South Africa|Alexandre Prémat|Ralph Firman|Alexandre Prémat|rowspan="2"|Report|
||Nelson Piquet Jr.|Jos Verstappen|||||
|rowspan="2"|Indonesia|Robbie Kerr|Nicolas Lapierre|Nicolas Lapierre|rowspan="2"|Report|
||Ralph Firman|Sean McIntosh|||||
|rowspan="2"|Mexico|Alexandre Prémat|Jos Verstappen|Alexandre Prémat|rowspan="2"|Report|
||Alexandre Prémat|Alexandre Prémat|||||
|rowspan="2"|United States|Salvador Durán|Salvador Durán|Salvador Durán|rowspan="2"|Report|
||Nicolas Lapierre|Salvador Durán|||||
|rowspan="2"|China|Alex Yoong|Alex Yoong|Alex Yoong|rowspan="2"|Report|
||Salvador Durán|Tomáš Enge|||||

### Championship standings

|valign="middle"|Pos|width="100" valign="middle"|Team|width="105" valign="middle"|Drivers|valign="middle"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|valign="top"|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size: 85%"|||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|France|align="left"|Alexandre Prémat|||||
|align="left"|Nicolas Lapierre|||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|Switzerland|align="left"|Neel Jani|||||
|align="left"|Giorgio Mondini|||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|Great Britain|align="left"|Robbie Kerr|||||
|align="left"|Darren Manning|||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|New Zealand|align="left"|Matthew Halliday|||||
|align="left"|Jonny Reid|||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|Malaysia|align="left"|Fairuz Fauzy|||||
|align="left"|Alex Yoong|||||||
|rowspan="3" align="left"|Monaco|align="left"|Bruno Jaquinera|||||
|align="left"|Luca Badoer|||||||
|align="left"|Antony Davidson|||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|Brazil|align="left"|Nelson Piquet, Jr.|||||
|align="left"|Christian Fittipaldi|||||||
|align="left"|Netherlands|align="left"|Jos Verstappen|||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|Ireland|align="left"|Michael Devaney|||||
|align="left"|Ralph Firman|||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|Portugal|align="left"|Álvaro Parente|||||
|align="left"|César Campaniço|||||||
|rowspan="3" align="left"|Mexico|align="left"|Salvador Durán|||||
|align="left"|David Martínez|||||||
|align="left"|Luis Díaz|||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|Canada|align="left"|Sean McIntosh|||||
|align="left"|Patrick Carpentier|||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"||align="left"|Jan Charouz|||||
|align="left"|Tomáš Enge|||||||
|rowspan="5" align="left"|Australia|align="left"|Will Power|||||
|align="left"|Christian Jones|||||||
|align="left"|Will Davison|||||||
|align="left"|Marcus Marshall|||||||
|align="left"|Ryan Briscoe|||||||
|rowspan="3" align="left"|Italy|align="left"|Enrico Toccacelo|||||
|align="left"||||||||
|align="left"|Max Papis|||||||
|rowspan="3" align="left"|Germany|align="left"|Timo Scheider|||||
|align="left"|Adrian Sutil|||||||
|align="left"|Sebastian Stahl|||||||
|rowspan="3" align="left"|United States|align="left"|Scott Speed|||||
|align="left"|Bryan Herta|||||||
|align="left"|Philip Giebler|||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|South Africa|align="left"|Stephen Simpson|||||
|align="left"|Tomas Scheckter|||||||
|align="left"|Indonesia|align="left"|Ananda Mikola|||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|Austria|align="left"|Mathias Lauda|||||
|align="left"|Patrick Friesacher|||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|Pakistan|align="left"|Adam Khan|||||
|align="left"||||||||
|rowspan="3" align="left"|Japan|align="left"|Ryo Fukuda|||||
|align="left"|Hideki Noda|||||||
|align="left"||||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|China|align="left"|Tengyi Jiang|||||
|align="left"|Qinghua Ma|||||||
|rowspan="3" align="left"|Lebanon|align="left"|Khalil Beschir|||||
|align="left"|Basil Shaaban|||||||
|align="left"|Graham Rahal|||||||
|rowspan="2" align="left"|India|align="left"|Karun Chandhok|||||
|align="left"|Armaan Ebrahim|||||||
|rowspan="3" align="left"|Russia|align="left"|Aleksey Vasilyev|||||
|align="left"|Mikhail Aleshin|||||||
|align="left"|Roman Rusinov|||||||
|}|valign="top"|||||||

## Other websites

- Officials season standings and results at _results.a1gp.com_