South Africa’s distinctively-liveried contender in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport, Vulindlela, with 22-year-old Adrian Zaugg at the wheel, will start Sunday’s feature race at Taupo in New Zealand in 16th place, 1,7 sec off the pole position time of Ireland’s Adam Carroll.
Zaugg struggled in Saturday afternoon’s official qualifying and could do no better than record the 11th fastest lap time for Sunday morning’s sprint race. He was 1,4 sec off the pole position time, which also went to Ireland. Carroll, the form man in A1GP in the series’ fourth season, led the Netherlands (Robert Doornbos) and Portugal (Felipe Albuquerque) in the top three qualifying positions for each race.
A1 Team France (Loic Duval), with whom South Africa shares a technical support team, qualified fifth and seventh, 0,8 sec and 1,0 sec behind Ireland.
Saturday’s qualifying will be broadcast live on SABC3 from 03h00 to 05h00 and Sunday’s sprint and feature races will be broadcast from 03h00 to 05h30 (the recorded sprint race will be screened from 03h00 while the feature race will be live from 04h00).
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