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2008-09 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands

Flag of the Netherlands.svg 2008–09 A1GP of the Netherlands
Zandvoort.svg
Race Details
Race 1 of 7 in the 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix season
Date October 5, 2008
Location Circuit Park Zandvoort
Zandvoort, Netherlands
Weather Wet, Heavy Rain 12°C
Sprint race
Qualifying
Pole Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands (J.Bleekemolen)
Time 1'24.213
Podium
1st Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia (Fairuz Fauzy)
2nd Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand (Earl Bamber)
3rd Flag of France.svg France (Loïc Duval)
Fastest Lap
FL Flag of France.svg France (Loïc Duval)
Time 1'45.939, (Lap 6)
Feature race
Qualifying
Pole Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia (Fairuz Fauzy)
Time none
Podium
1st Flag of France.svg France (Loïc Duval)
2nd Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia (Fairuz Fauzy)
3rd Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand (Earl Bamber)
Fastest Lap
FL Flag of the United States.svg USA (Charlie Kimball)
Time 1'47.115, (Lap 30)
Official Classifications
PDF Booklet

The 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands was an A1 Grand Prix race, held at Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands. It was originally set to be the second race of the 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix season, but a delay in the build schedule of the new chassis forced the race at Mugello to be moved from the season opener. The same build delay meant that only seventeen of the twenty-three A1 teams participated in the race.

This was the first race for South Korea A1 Team Korea (Hwang Jin-Woo), Monaco A1 Team Monaco (Clivio Piccione), and the new "Powered by Ferrari" A1GP car.

On 26 September, an article on the official A1GP website, detailed that a full grid of cars would not be on track at Zandvoort for the race weekend, due to the build schedule delay. It was subsequently confirmed that a maximum of eighteen teams will be racing – Canada Canada, Germany Germany (Michael Ammermüller), United Kingdom Great Britain (Danny Watts), India India (Narain Karthikeyan) and Mexico Mexico (Davíd Garza Pérez) will thus make their season debut at the second round in China.Germany Germany (Michael Ammermüller) did not, in fact, debut until round 5 in South Africa, while Canada Canada did not appear all season.


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