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The most exciting racing series returns for round 2 of season 4 after a month long break. All cars are ready and there will be a full grid for this new venue on the Mickey Mouse track of Chengdu. Only Pakistan and Germany will be missing this race.

Grand Prix Information

Laps                              unknown
Circuit length                    3.367km / 2.019 miles
Turns                             13
Direction                         clockwise

Track Preview
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Timetable

Practice: Friday, 07 Nov, 2008 
Qualifying: Saturday, 08 Nov, 2008 2:00 PM (Local Time) 7:00 AM (CET)
Race: Sunday, 09 Nov, 2008 
Sprint race: 11:00 AM (Local Time) 4:00 AM (CET)
Feature race: 3:00 PM (Local Time) 8:00 AM (CET)

Current championship standings
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Pos    A1 Team    Points             Starts    Wins    Podiums    Top 10s    Poles    F.Laps
1   Malaysia   22      2   1   2   2   1   -
2   France   22      2   1   2   2   -   1
3   New Zealand   18      2   -   2   2   -   -
4   Netherlands   11      2   -   -   2   1   -
5   Australia   8      2   -   -   1   -   -
6   Monaco   5      2   -   -   1   -   -
7   Switzerland   4      2   -   -   1   -   -
8   Korea   4      2   -   -   1   -   -
9   South Africa   3      2   -   -   1   -   -
10   USA   3      2   -   -   2   -   1
10   Lebanon   3      2   -   -   2   -   -
12   Italy   2      2   -   -   1   -   -
13   China   2      2   -   -   1   -   -
14   Portugal   0      2   -   -   1   -   -
15   Indonesia   0      2   -   -   -   -   -
16   Brazil   0      2   -   -   -   -   -
17   Ireland   0      2   -   -   -   -   -
-   Canada   0      -   -   -   -   -   -
-   Germany   0      -   -   -   -   -   -
-   Great Britain   0      -   -   -   -   -   -
-   India   0      -   -   -   -   -   -
-   Mexico   0      -   -   -   -   -   -
-   Pakistan   0      -   -   -   -   -   -

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Entry List
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AUS: Martin
BRA: Guimaraes
CHN: TBA
FRA: TBA
GBR: Watts / Winslow
INA: Hermanto
IND: Karthikeyan
IRL: Carroll / Quinn
ITA: TBA
KOR: Hwang
LEB: Morad
MAL: Fauzy / Lim
MEX: Garza
MON: Piccione
NED: Doornbos
NZL: Van der Drift
POR: Albuquerque
RSA: Zaugg
SUI: Jani
USA: Andretti

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Thanks for the onboard lap, I've never seen before a lap on this track...

Why Germany is not here?

Quite curious, for one of the stronger teams.

Wili Weber threw a hissy fit claiming they didn't get their money and quit.

They wasn't planning to join in first, but they got a new seatholder so they will join (lucky).

They have? I haven't heard anything of that.

Yeah read it on a dutch website, apparently the new seatholder is now Rolf Beisswanger

http://www.racexpress.com/index.php?nav ... &nid=13221

Shame they are not racing at Beijing or Shanghai. But at least it could help them to raise awareness and publicity for the earthquake victims though.

What a really, really, really bad track.

So GBR, India, & Mexico will join in for Round 2, while Pakistan and Germany will join later on. So the only team lost from last season is Canada?

& Czech Republic... oops

Meh, forgot to do the first post on my style like usual. Well, maybe next time.

It's a Mickey Mouse circuit, so this will be a good test of the new A1 car to see if it can produce good racing.

Most of the top teams being back is good, I might actually watch the race this time.

Looking forward to this one, first race with almost the whole grid. Track doesn't look to good, hope A1 can solve this problem!

Damn, almost forgot, Doornbos will drive for team NED, go Roberto!!

what's a mickey mouse circuit?

Just watched the video, fantastic track. This will be awesome, the first weekend was already nice, A1GP is becoming one of the best categories.

A track with a twisty and slow layout

EDIT: and most of the time boring, that's why it is sarcastically called like that

It didn't seem slow to me, a couple of slow corners of course, but much better than most of the current F1 circuits imo.

Well I still need to see an onboard with a better angle.

The track looks a bit dull for me. But there are still some overtaking spots.

Earl Bamber made an impressive debut for NZL. Now it's time to see if van der Drift can do something like that. And another interesting debut is Marco Andretti for USA.

Most teams now ready for the race. Looks promising.

Finally here we go .... I have high hopes this year

It looks like this will be shown on interactive in the UK. Sky's EPG shows this starting at 0530 and then tennis at 0600.