{"id":290,"date":"2009-05-03T20:01:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T07:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2009-05-14T11:27:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T22:27:37","slug":"a1gp-final-round-brands-hatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"A1GP Final Round &#8211; Brands Hatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the scheduled last round of Mexico being cancelled due to the current swine flu pandemic, Brands Hatch was brought up as the final round, with three teams still in the running for the title. However Ireland&#8217;s Adam Carroll had other feelings, by storming through to clinching both wins from pole position, and the title for Team Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some highlights from the weekend, with link through to the gallery of 150 shots, featuring A1GP action, grid girls and support races.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/may_0444.jpg\" title=\"A1GP Team New Zealand\" alt=\"A1GP Team New Zealand\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA1GP Team New Zealand driven by Earl Bamber<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/may_0564.jpg\" title=\"A1GP Grid Girl Team New Zealand\" alt=\"A1GP Grid Girl Team New Zealand\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGrid girl for Team New Zealand<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/may_0621.jpg\" title=\"A1GP Grid Girl Team Great Britain\" alt=\"A1GP Grid Girl Team Great Britain\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGreat Britain Grid Girl<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/may_0687.jpg\" title=\"A1GP Team USA Brands Hatch\" alt=\"A1GP Team USA Brands Hatch\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTeam USA during Qualifying<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/may_0925.jpg\" title=\"Porsche GT3 Spins at Brands Hatch\" alt=\"Porsche GT3 Spins at Brands Hatch\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLeft rear wheel collapses on exit of turn one of this Porsche GT3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/may_1499.jpg\" title=\"A1GP Pit Crew\" alt=\"A1GP Pit Crew\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTeam Mexico practicing pit stops shortly before a race<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/may_1985.jpg\" title=\"Adam Carroll - Team Ireland A1GP in cockpit\" alt=\"Adam Carroll - Team Ireland A1GP in cockpit\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAdam Carroll concentrating before the important feature race<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/may_2016.jpg\" title=\"Team USA on Grid\" alt=\"Team USA on Grid\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTeam USA on the grid &#8211; note the steep lateral incline on track<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/may_2017.jpg\" title=\"Team USA - JR Hildebrand on the grid of Brands Hatch\" alt=\"Team USA - JR Hildebrand on the grid of Brands Hatch\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTeam USA &#8211; JR Hildebrand on the grid<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/may_2066.jpg\" title=\"A1GP New Zealand Brands Hatch\" alt=\"A1GP New Zealand Brands Hatch\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/may_2096_2.jpg\" title=\"A1GP South Africa on Grid Brands Hatch\" alt=\"A1GP South Africa on Grid Brands Hatch\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSouth Africa&#8217;s A1GP car on grid<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/may_2138.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFirst lap carnage with the Indian car<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/2009\/may_2623.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFinal race of weekend, fun historics<\/p>\n<p>The full gallery can be viewed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.warrenwilliams.co.nz\/a1gp <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the scheduled last round of Mexico being cancelled due to the current swine flu pandemic, Brands Hatch was brought up as the final round, with three teams still in the running for the title. However Ireland&#8217;s Adam Carroll had other feelings, by storming through to clinching both wins from pole position, and the title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorsport","category-people","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warrenwilliams.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}