Brazil

A1 Team Brasil's 2006/07 season came to a unfortunate end today when Bruno Junqueira crashed out on lap nine of the feature race at Brands Hatch in England. Earlier on in the day he had finished the sprint race in 12th, and was aiming for a strong points finish in this afternoon's race, but a brake issue from the start proved problematic, and in the end caused his demise from the race.

After switching to a new chassis before qualifying yesterday, Bruno had to get used to a new car with just four flying laps. He qualified in 16th position, lining up on the eighth row of the grid for this morning's 15-lap sprint race. He remained 16th after the rolling start, but was able to move up the rankings after accidents involving New Zealand, China, South Africa and Switzerland. He crossed the line in 12th, meaning a sixth row start for the feature race.

The 50-lap sprint race got off to a thrilling start with Teams GBR and Germany dicing for the top spot during the opening part of the lap. Unfortunately a safety car was deployed on lap one after a collision between South Africa and Australia. The safety car was out for a lengthy time while a tyre wall was rebuilt and when racing restarted it was just two laps later, on lap nine, when Team Brasil retired from 14th position after putting a wheel on the kerb after suffering from brake vibration, which sent Bruno backwards into the Armco barrier, ending his race.

Bruno Junqueira: "The car in the sprint race was really good, it's just difficult to make up ground in such a race and then I really don't know why we had this problem this afternoon. We put new brakes on the car and there was just so much vibration. I was unbalanced going into turn four because of the vibration, the car was really hard to drive. I went a little bit wide and the car went onto the kerb on the exit of the corner. Then I just spun and hit the barrier. It's such a shame we had the problem."

Emerson Fittipaldi: "Bruno had some problems in the race with the brakes, which is a shame, because he could have done a good race. This year has been a very difficult season for many different reasons, but now we have to look to next year and hope that we can come back like the first season."

Canada

A1 Team Canada scored a tenth place Sprint finish and 14th place Feature finish on Sunday as the 2006-07 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport concluded at the Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit in Great Britain. Sean McIntosh cracked the top-ten in the morning having started 14th in the Sprint following a disappointing qualifying session but a tire issue robbed the Vancouver-native of a potential top-six finish in the afternoon's 50-lap Feature.

With the team failing to score at the final round of the nation versus nation series, Canada missed out on emulating last season's feat of a top-ten finishing position in the A1GP Nations Standings. Things could have looked very different had the outcome of the Feature race been different, the Canadian team ending the sophomore season 11th overall just two points behind tenth placed Mexico (35-33).

Sunday morning's 15-lap Sprint race brought little in the way of drama and an error-free run from McIntosh produced another top-ten outing for the Canadian racer and a fifth row grid-slot for the afternoon's Feature race. Gaining a spot as the 22-strong field dashed to Paddock Hill bend at the start of the Sprint, Sean then climbed to 12th a lap later. Cracking the top-ten just after the half-way marker, the 21-year-old held on to take the checkered tenth. Great Britain's Robbie Kerr made series history from pole, his Sprint race victory the first for an A1GP nation on home soil with Germany's Nico Hülkenberg second and Italy's Enrico Toccacelo third.

Up two places by the end of the Feature's opening lap, Sean held station through to the end of lap nine when he headed to the pits behind race leader Hülkenberg. A close call exiting the pits, where he successfully avoided contact with America's Jonathan Summerton, was soon followed by a steering issue. The culprit was soon deemed to be a tire related issue and it wasn't long before the Canadian's front-right tire began to blister. Sitting seventh McIntosh was then passed in quick succession by the French, New Zealand and Malaysian cars before the tire eventually let loose forcing a second trip to the pits.

With twenty laps remaining Sean was back on-track but languishing down in 17th. A relatively lonely end to the race, albeit with a competitive car, was the result of his earlier tire problems, Sean placing 14th at the checkered and moving to 12th following the post-race exclusions of Ireland and Switzerland. Hülkenberg scored Germany's ninth win of the year, the championship winning team beating home favorite Kerr to the win after a thrilling race-long battle with Toccacelo in third.

"Well that's just racing," said McIntosh reflecting on his tire woe. "I made a good start; I gained a couple of places before coming in for my pit-stop. I managed to stay ahead of the American car exiting the pits but after that every time I tried to turn left I knew there was something wrong with the car. I guess the tire wasn't made properly as it started to delaminate."

He continued, "I managed to stay on the pace for the next five laps but I could see a black line starting to form on the tire. Eventually it just let go so I came back into the pits for the change. I managed to put in some pretty quick laps, up there with the likes of Germany and Great Britain. It's too bad as otherwise we could have been looking at a top-six finish!"

France