Team Japan to Miss Estoril Race
A1 Team Japan will miss this weekend's round of the series at the Estoril circuit, organisers announced on Friday
The Japanese squad, lying in 13th place with six points after the first two events, will skip this weekend's race "due to prior commitments made before joining the World Cup of Motorsport".
There will still be 24 teams, however, as Team Russia will return to action after having missed the second round in Germany.
Nominated drivers for Estoril:
A1 Team Driver 1 Driver 2
Australia Christian Jones Will Davison
Austria Mathias Lauda
Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr Tuka Rocha
Canada Sean McIntosh
China Tengyi Jiang
Czech Republic Tomas Enge Jan Charouz
France Alexandre Premat Nicolas Lapierre
Germany Adrian Sutil
Great Britain Robbie Kerr Alex Lloyd
India Armaan Ebrahim
Indonesia Ananda Mikola
Ireland Ralph Firman Michael Devaney
Italy Enrico Toccacelo Matteo Cressoni
Lebanon Basil Shaaban Khalil Beschir
Malaysia Fairuz Fauzy
Mexico Salvador Duran
Netherlands Jos Verstappen Jeroen Bleekemolen
New Zealand Jonny Reid Matt Halliday
Pakistan Adam Khan
Portugal Alvaro Parente Joao Barbosa
Russia Alexander Truryumin Mikhail Aleshin
South Africa Stephen Simpson Tomas Scheckter
Switzerland Neel Jani
USA Scott Speed
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