Brits on Pole

Two brave stand-in performances for Fisichella Motorsport International, including putting the car on pole for the team in Istanbul, have not been enough to secure Ireland’s Adam Carroll a drive for the remainder of this season.

The A1GP website recently invited fans to send in their questions for Adam Carroll, the Northern Irish GP2 ace who also drives in the series for Team Ireland. Here are the results.

Hoping to get all the latest hot gossip and intrigue from the Monaco GP2 paddock? The series blog has two episodes of a promised three-parter on the subject live and published. Since there’s no Canada race, and the next slice of GP2 action will be taking place in France in 19 days’ time, fans will need something to keep themselves occupied in the meantime - and this may be the perfect distraction.

Mike Conway, gifted pole position in GP2’s second Monaco race after being unceremoniously dumped out of the first one, took advantage with a dominant drive to victory.

Mike Conway was robbed of a podium finish by a piece of last-lap idiocy in a GP2 feature race that saw the name Senna once again on the top step of a Monaco podium.

The GP2 series will be staging a double race at Monaco this year for the first time since its inception in 2005. The feature race is due to take place tomorrow (Friday) morning while the sprint race will take place on Saturday afternoon.

Adam Carroll’s hopes of winning the GP2 Turkish sprint race from pole ended with an early gearbox failure - but the prize for unlucky exits went to Bruna Senna, eliminated from the race after he hit a stray dog on the track.

Adam Carroll will start on pole in tomorrow’s GP2 sprint race after his return to the series saw him squander an impressive qualification performance in the feature race to finish eighth.

Adam Carroll will be back behind the wheel for Fisichella Motor Sport International at this weekend’s Istanbul event and for the following race in Monaco.

The A1GP World Cup of Motorsport celebrated the end of its 2007/08 season on Monday evening with a gala dinner at the Hilton on Park Lane Hotel in London. Teams, drivers, sponsors and officials gathered to mark the season’s successes, including Switzerland’s championship win, Ireland’s status as the most improved team and Canadian Robert Wickens’ victory as the top-performing rookie.