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A1 Team New Zealand
Founded	2005
Seat holder	Colin Giltrap
Team principal	Bob McMurray
Race driver(s)	Jonny Reid Matt Halliday
First race	2005-06 Great Britain
Events entered	24
Championships	0
Sprint race victories	2
Main race victories	3
Pole positions	3
Fastest laps	5
Total points	252
2007-08 position	1st (82 pts)
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The A1 Team New Zealand is the New Zealand team of the international racing series, A1 Grand Prix. Its car was presented to the public at New Zealand House in London. Named Black Beauty, it is painted a glossy black which is the traditional colour for New Zealand sporting teams (albeit not the traditional color used for New Zealand in auto racing), and has the silver-fern design prominently displayed. Because the series is a competition between countries, the A1 cars will display country recognition codes rather than numbers which traditionally identify drivers. A1 Team New Zealand has NZL in white on the car, but the Kiwis hope this will be in gold lettering next year, (the defending champion country will have the right to use the gold colour). Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_New_Zealand. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jonny Reid was born on 18 October 1983 in Auckland, New Zealand. ... Matthew Halliday is an auto racing driver from New Zealand born July 14, 1979. ... The 2007-08 A1 Grand Prix Season will be the 3rd season in the relatively short history of the championship. ... A1GP (formerly A1 Grand Prix) is an open-wheel auto racing series. ... New Zealand House, London New Zealand House is a building located in The Haymarket, London, off Pall Mall. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... From the beginning of the 20th century until the late 1960s, before sponsorship liveries came in use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in racing colors (which sometimes resembled political national colors). ... For international phone dialing codes, see List of country calling codes. ...

Owners

The team was formed by and is owned by prominent Auckland businessman Colin Giltrap, well known for this car dealerships. The team is managed by Kiwi Bob McMurray who retired last year after nearly 30 years involvement with the McLaren Formula One racing team. The car is run by David Sears' organisation, Super Nova Racing, as is the A1 Team Germany car, meaning that the two teams are often thought of as one. For other uses, see Auckland (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Kiwi (disambiguation). ... McLaren, founded in 1963 by Bruce McLaren (1937–1970), is a racing team based in Woking, England, which is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed in the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, Canadian-American Challenge Cup, and 24 Hours of Le Mans. ... F1 redirects here. ... Super Nova Racing is a British racing team that has competed in Formula 3000/GP2 and the A1 Grand Prix series. ... The A1 Team Germany is the German team of A1 Grand Prix. ...

Sponsor

The major sponsor is Fisher and Paykel, a longtime appliance manufacturer in New Zealand. The company was formed in 1934 by Woolf Fisher and Maurice Paykel who sold surplus refrigerators. They began manufacturing a few years later, and gradually expanded operations over the years to become an exporter in the late 1960s and to become a public company in 1979. The company has restructured several times, introduced innovative and diversified appliance product lines, and now exports to more than 80 countries. Fisher & Paykel is a major appliance manufacturer located in Auckland, New Zealand. ...

Halliday chases Team Mexico at Brands Hatch.

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Drivers

Jonny Reid and Matt Halliday are the two nominated drivers for the team. In testing for the first event, Reid was fractionally quicker than Halliday, but as Halliday was available for the second round in Germany because of Bathurst 1000 commitments, he was selected to drive in the opening event. It has been postulated that Scott Dixon may drive at the end of the IRL season on tracks he has raced on previously. Dixon is a seasoned road racer and coincidentally, on the day of the first A1 GP, he won the IRL road race at Watkins Glen in the US. There were reports that the car may be driven in the Australian round at Eastern Creek by Greg Murphy who is a noted New Zealand driver resident in the Australia who has single-seat racing experience and success. The team has an internal policy (likely only between Reid and Halliday) that a driver attaining a podium finish will retain the seat for the next round. The Bathurst 1000 (currently officially known as the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000) is a 1,000-kilometre touring car race held annually at Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. ... Scott Ronald Dixon (born July 22, 1980) is a New Zealand motor racing driver who won the Indy Racing League (IRL) championship in 2003 at his first attempt. ... The Indy Racing League, better known as IRL, is the sanctioning body of a predominantly American based open-wheel racing series. ... Watkins Glen International (nicknamed The Glen) is an auto race track located near Watkins Glen, New York at the southern tip of Seneca Lake. ... Eastern Creek is a suburb in Western Sydney, Australia, and is adjacent to Erskine Park and Rooty Hill. ... Greg Murphy (23 August 1972) is a New Zealand racing driver. ...

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2005-06 Team New Zealand results

• A1 GP Great Britain. Chief executive McMurray said a few days before this first race at Brands Hatch on September 25 that although Reid and Halliday had been in the top five during shakedown tests of the Lola race cars, they would be disadvantaged at Brands because neither had ever raced there and he expected the team to gradually improve performance during the season. In qualifying, Reid was unlucky to strike a wet track, but in the dry Halliday was able to put the car on the front row of the grid beside polesitter Nelson Piquet Jr of Brazil. Halliday was chopped off on a corner early in the sprint race but managed a creditable third place. His engine stalled at the start of the warmup lap for the main race and he had to start from the pit lane, at the very back of the field. Piquet's excellent driving to win both races was clearly dominant, but Halliday's drive through the strung-out field to take fourth place was a standout performance which left New Zealand in third place overall after both races. See here for comprehensive results of this race.
• A1 GP, Germany. While Halliday was downunder racing in the V8 Supercar series in Australia, Jonny Reid was trying to find a balance in the car during qualifying at EuroSpeedway Lausitz. He managed only fourtheenth place on the grid, but the car was seemingly running reliably. However, during the warmup session on race morning, Reid experienced a major gearbox failure, and a rebuilt spare gearbox had to be hurriedly fitted. Reid made a remarkable start from 14th in the sprint race. He was seventh going into the first corner, and exited it in fourth place, courtesy of a bingle between USA, GBR and PAK. He was fractionally down on speed but maintained a smooth race pace to take fourth place. In the main race, Reid had a poor start but at one stage had improved to third. While carrying out his compulsory pit stop for tyres he was passed by GBR and CAN, and cruised to the finish for another fourth. His seven points from each of the two races took Team New Zealand to second place overall, which was beyond the expectation of the team so early in the series. Team New Zealand is the only team to finish all four races in the series so far.

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Complete A1 Grand Prix Results

(key), "spr" indicate a Sprint Race, "fea" indicate a Main Race.

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External links

• A1gp.com Official A1 Grand Prix Web Site
• West Surrey Racing Web Site
• Official Team Website - A1 Team New Zealand