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Race Schedule
April 26-27 Monza, Italy
May 3-4 Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
May 24-25 Monaco
June 7-8 Silverstone, England
July 5-6 Hungaroring, Hungary
August 30-31 Nurburgring, Germany
Sept 6-7 Le Mans, France
Sept 27-28 Estoril, Portugal
Oct 18-19 Barcelona, Spain

 

Latest News
BREAKING NEWS - A1GP Awards - Accolades for Robert
Robert receives awards for Best Rookie and Best Overtaking Manoeuvre

May 05 , 2008 - A1GP held their awards banquet today in London to wrap up the 07/08 season. As part of the ceremonies, awards were handed out in a variety of categories and Robert would be recognized for his outstanding performance since joining the team in Malaysia. Robert would score Canada's first sprint race win and rack up a total of five podiums on the year. He would be the series' youngest ever pole-sitter and he has one fastest lap to his credit.

In addition to Best Rookie honours, Robert was also recognized for his amazing pass in the pouring rain at Eastern Creek, Sydney. Not a surprise for anyone who has seen Robert race karts in the rain, but this pass was the long way around the outside, on a long, fast left-hand er ... ON SLICKS.

Click here [ A1GP.com ] for the complete press release and comments from Robert.

World Series Renault FR3.5 Race 2 – SPA, Belgium
May 02 , 2008 - Robert will be hoping for a better weekend after being taken out of both races of round one at Monza last week. A cut tire in race one ended his day and he was the victim of contact in race two. In both races he was showing good speed at the front of the field and in podium position at the time.

We will post results from Friday practice as soon as possible. Qualifying this weekend will also feature the superpole shootout.

World Series Renault FR3.5 Race 1 – Monza, Italy
April 24 , 2008 - Robert is in Italy this weekend at the famed Monza circuit for the first round of the 2008 World Series by Renault. After strong tests in Barcelona in the brand new 535 bhp FR3.5, Robert and his Carlin Motorsport crew are looking for a good first outing. Testing takes place Thursday and Friday with Qualifying and race meetings on Saturday. WSR conducts double-race meetings. We will be monitoring results and posting updates as available.

A1GP Shanghai
Robert scores another podium - P2 in the Sprint Race
UPDATE April 13, 2008 01:15 hrs Sprint Race - Robert would take another podium in the series with a second-place finish in the sprint race. We do not have all of the details - we're waiting for the video replay at 02:00 hrs, but it sure looks like the lead trio had a good start and broke away from the pack in the ten lap race. Robert picked up enough points to vault A1 Team Canada to eighth place in the standings.

The Feature race will star at 03:00 hrs this morning.


UPDATE April 12, 2008 00:05 hrs Second Free Practice - Arriving late to the track on Friday after flying in from Barcelona, Robert would get his first run at the Shanghai circuit in today's 60-minute practice session. He would start out slowly to learn the track over the first half-dozen laps. After a short pit stop he would be back on track and immediately start to pick up times in each sector. After a few more laps it was back into the pits for adjustments.

With thirty-five minutes to go in the session, Robert was back and his sector one times dropped with each successive lap. On lap 14 Robert would put in the ultimate lap going blue in each sector (blue denotes personal best time) putting him P7. One more stop in the pits and with eight minutes left Robert put on another charge, improving his sector times each lap and settling on a best lap of 1:36.082 at 172.5 Kmh. He ended the session P7, just 6/10ths back

Next up is the Hot Lap qualifying for the Sprint and Feature races. This will take place at 02:15 hrs. We will have a report in the morning.

World Series Renault FR3.5 test, Barcelona, Spain
Update April 10, 2008 - Robert would be on track for the morning session only today and would certainly make the most of it. In perfect conditions and building on two solid days in the car so far, Robert would leave the track with the fastest time overall for the three days. The only driver to break into the 1:32's (1:32.971) with an average speed of 180.2 KmH, Robert reported that he was very happy with his Carlin Motorsport FR3.5. He is very happy with his own performance and the support he receives from everyone at Carlin Motorsport.

Robert left the track immediately after the first session to catch a flight to Shanghai for the A1GP event. He will be in the car for saturday's practice and qualifying sessions.

April 08 , 2008 - It is the first day of testing at Barcelona today for the World Series Renault drivers and Robert would end the day third fastest in collective testing. Robert would have a great second session in changing conditions to take his Carlin Motorsport FR3.5 to a lap of 1:33.798 at an average speed of 178.7 KmH around the Barcelona circuit.

"We are happy with our performance today" Robert said. "Things went much better that our last session at Valencia where the weather controlled us. We are hoping for some more improvements through the rest of the week."