A1 GRANDPRIX™ OF NATIONS — 2005⁄2006 Fan eBook
Rules and Guidelines:
This is a Nations' World Cup of Motorsport, not a drivers' championship.
Participants: A1 GP 25 National Teams (representing 80% of the World's population), running 520bhp V8-engined cars, painted in each Team's national colors.
Drivers must be citizens of the nation they represent. Every A1 Team can add drivers or change their driver line-up between race weekends. But drivers' names submitted to A1, for one country, may not be submitted to race under another nation's flag.
Up to 3 drivers per A1 Team (nominated in writing on the Thursday afternoon) may be signed on for each A1 race weekend. Although only one driver per team per session is allowed, the choice of drivers for practice, qualifying or either race is at the discretion of the Team manager.
Any of the A1 Team’s drivers who have set a practice time within 102 per cent of the team’s fastest qualifying lap are in with a chance to race.
Each weekend GP features two races: a Sprint Race and a Main Race—the former, 20-30 minutes long, the latter, 40-60 minutes long and including a mandatory pitting for tires.
Qualifying is decided by aggregate times: the best two times posted in the four qualifying sessions. These aggregate times are to be available almost instantly, as Qualifying goes on.
No car is forced to go out in every Qualifying session, in each of which a car is allowed a single run: an out lap, a flying lap, and then an in lap. When to go out, in each of the four qualifying sessions, is left at the discretion of each Team. There is no pre-established order, nor any limit to the number of cars that may be going for their single lap, at the same time.
In principle, each car needs to achieve two Qualifying results, at least—that is, take part in at least two of the four Qualifying sessions, though it is expected that most Teams will be going out in every session, in search of the best times they can produce.
Should weather, accident, or whatever other force majeure situation result in the canceling of one or more of the qualifying sessions, the starting order for Sprint Race will be based on the times from the sessions that have been run.
In the worst of scenarios (that is, a single qualifying session has been possible), the order for Sprint Race will then be based on the times from that sole session that has been run.
Starting order and mode: the Sprint Race has a rolling start, the starting position based on Saturday's qualifying sessions (aggregate times), whereas the Main Race has a standing start, the grid order decided by the results of the Sprint Race.
Points are awarded to countries and not to individual racers, whose cars finish 1st to 10th: 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points per race (Sprint or Main, equally). An extra point is awarded to the car (country) delivering the fastest race lap of the day, in either race.
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