A1 Team Switzerland
| A1 Team Switzerland | |
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| Founded | 2005 |
| Seat holder(s) | Max Welti |
| Team principal | - |
| Race driver(s) | Neel Jani |
| Car nickname | - |
| First race | 2005-06 Great Britain |
| Rounds entered | 39 (78 starts) |
| Championships | 1 |
| Sprint race victories | 5 |
| Feature race victories | 5 |
| Pole positions | 10 |
| Fastest laps | 8 |
| Total points | 438 |
| 2008-09 position | 2nd (95 pts) |
A1 Team Switzerland is the Swiss team of A1 Grand Prix, an international racing series. The team were the A1 Grand Prix champions for the third season, 2007-08.
A1 Team Switzerland owner is Max Welti.
In the inaugural season, Team Switzerland were "best of the rest", with a victory and ten podiums, finishing 2nd in the championship.
Team Switzerland lost their competitive edge in 2006-07, with only a single race victory, and finishing 8th in the championship.
After a spectacular 2007–08 season, Neel Jani single-handedly clinched the championship for Team Switzerland, with four victories and seven podiums.
In 2008–09, after having scored 4 wins and 3 other podium finishes, Neel Jani scored a total of 95 points for Team Switzerland. At the end of the season, the team finished second in the championship, 17 points behind the champions, Team Ireland, and just 3 points ahead of Team Portugal.
Rahel Frey and Natacha Gachnang were the two first females to drive an A1 Grand Prix car during a race weekend.
They first drove as test drivers during a test session at Silverstone. Natacha Gachnang drove in the rookie sessions in the 2007-08 Czech round, on October 12, 2007; and Rahel Frey in the 2007-08 Malaysian rookie sessions, on November 23, 2007.
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