Cooper’s second A1GP season ends at Brands Hatch

The A1 Grand Prix series is returning to its ‘spiritual home’ of Brands Hatch on April 29 for the grand finale to its second season. And with it comes Cooper Tires, the sole supplier of rubber to the A1GP series since it began on the Kent track in September 2005 with a race that drew a crowd of 80,000 spectators, the largest attendance at the ex-Grand Prix venue since its last Formula 1 World Championship race in 1986.

Earlier this year, the championship topped an enormous 250,000km of race distance on Cooper bespoke racing tyres, and the tyremaker will continue to supply the series on an exclusive basis during its third season, which starts later on 2007. The organisers of A1GP believe the series, with national teams fighting for a ‘World Cup of Motorsport’, is a unique concept, and are confident that the action and overtaking present in each race makes a refreshing change from the processional nature of modern Formula One.

A1 Team Germany has already sealed the title but, with victories in each of the last two rounds A1 Team GBR will be returning to home soil on a high, and will enjoy the added benefit of huge partisan support from local followers.

Tickets to the race event at Brands Hatch on April 29 are available by calling 0870 950 9000 or logging onto www.brandshatch.co.uk. Tickets for raceday cost £30 in advance or £35 on the gate.