AJ:
I really don’t know; that is a tricky one. I personally believe he will.
Q:
Changing tack a little, we’re here now at
Brands Hatch for the 2007/08 A1GP finale. Australia has had a tough season, hasn’t it, but by the same token you’ve got a very promising young driver in the team in John Martin..?
AJ:
We’ve had a pathetic season! We started off with another driver, but John really impressed us as a rookie. He on more than one occasion proved to be the quickest rookie in the rookie sessions, up against some pretty talented people, but since then for one reason or another he just hasn’t been able to put it together.
Q:
And like the weather in the end at Brands, it’s been a bit of a damp squib climax to the campaign, hasn’t it?
AJ:
Yeah; I obviously predicted Switzerland was going to win the championship, but it would have been really nice for Great Britain to have taken the event. He [Robbie Kerr] won the sprint race, but for them to have won the feature as well would have been a great finish to the season, particularly for England on home soil.
Q:
A1GP hasn’t traditionally been part of the upcoming part of a driver’s career like the stable Formula
Renault, Formula Ford, Formula 3 categories… How good a training ground do you believe it is for young drivers?
AJ:
Well Formula Renault, Formula 3 and all the rest of them have been around slightly longer than A1GP, so give us time!
Formula 1 has been here for 50 years – we haven’t been here for 50 months, but already we’ve seen [Nico] Hülkenberg go out of here to become a
Williams test-driver, and Neel Jani has done a great job.
![A1 Team Australia seat holder and 1980 Formula 1 World Champion Alan Jones at Brands Hatch [pic credit: Gary Parravani/www.xynamic.com]](http://pix.crash.net/thumbs/437342.jpg)
