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Posted 27 February 2009 - 11:24 AM

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Members of A1 Teams Malaysia and Ireland have become embroiled in a public war of words following the pairs' controversial collision in the Feature race in Gauteng last weekend.
Ireland’s Adam Carroll and Malaysia’s Fairuz Fauzy came together on the opening lap of Sunday’s Feature race, which resulted in Ireland’s Carroll spinning into the gravel trap and retiring. With Switzerland going on to win the race, it meant that the emerald green team lost the lead of the championship standings. Malaysia recovered from the initial accident, however a separate collision with New Zealand caused damage which ultimately hampered the team’s progress.

Ireland made no bones about who it thought were to blame for the initial accident, with both driver and management coming out fighting on Sunday.

"I'm pretty annoyed, pretty angry with the Malaysia driver [Fauzy]," said Carroll. “I made a good start and had already made up positions and we were having a battle. Malaysia was slow coming onto the back straight so I used my PowerBoost button and I knew I was ahead. I even turned in quite late to give him some room and he just hit me in the back right corner. That's very disappointing for everybody in the team and it's cost us the lead in the championship.”

Ireland team principal Mark Gallagher described the contact as unacceptable. He said: “Frankly, I'm disgusted. We're pushing to win a championship and it's not the only time that this driver has caused incidents, doing the same thing to New Zealand later in the race. That's cost us the championship points lead that we fought so hard to create.

"We were on course to consolidate our points lead today but for a piece of poor driving. A1 Team Malaysia is one of the very best in A1GP, but today their driver has cost us dearly.”

Although the incident was investigated by stewards following the race, no punishment or penalties were handed out to either team.

A Malaysia team statement issued today reacted to Ireland’s stinging criticism, addressing it head on, saying: “The incident was clearly a racing incident. Video footage only showed that a collision took place, but given the manoeuvre that the Team Ireland driver carried out in attempting to overtake the A1 Team Malaysia car, there was a high risk of a collision unless Fairuz Fauzy pulled over and did not try and defend his position.”

Malaysia chief executive Jack Cunningham backed up his team’s stance. He said: "It's understandable that A1 Team Ireland was feeling emotional and frustrated after this incident, considering also that they lost the lead in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport.

“However, to blame Fairuz for the incident is unfair and we think the Irish team should stick to trying to win races rather than blaming others for their misfortune. A1 Team Ireland is a highly respected team, but on this occasion their comments are ill-judged."


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Posted 14 July 2010 - 01:57 PM

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QUOTE (ForumAdmin @ Feb 27 2009, 11:24 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Members of A1 Teams Malaysia and Ireland have become embroiled in a public war of words following the pairs' controversial collision in the Feature race in Gauteng last weekend.
Ireland’s Adam Carroll and Malaysia’s Fairuz Fauzy came together on the opening lap of Sunday’s Feature race, which resulted in Ireland’s Carroll spinning into the gravel trap and retiring. With Switzerland going on to win the race, it meant that the emerald green team lost the lead of the championship standings. Malaysia recovered from the initial accident, however a separate collision with New Zealand caused damage which ultimately hampered the team’s progress.

Ireland made no bones about who it thought were to blame for the initial accident, with both driver and management coming out fighting on Sunday.

"I'm pretty annoyed, pretty angry with the Malaysia driver [Fauzy]," said Carroll. “I made a good start and had already made up positions and we were having a battle. Malaysia was slow coming onto the back straight so I used my PowerBoost button and I knew I was ahead. I even turned in quite late to give him some room and he just hit me in the back right corner. That's very disappointing for everybody in the team and it's cost us the lead in the championship.”

Ireland team principal Mark Gallagher described the contact as unacceptable. He said: “Frankly, I'm disgusted. We're pushing to win a championship and it's not the only time that this driver has caused incidents, doing the same thing to New Zealand later in the race. That's cost us the championship points lead that we fought so hard to create.

"We were on course to consolidate our points lead today but for a piece of poor driving. A1 Team Malaysia is one of the very best in A1GP, but today their driver has cost us dearly.”

Although the incident was investigated by stewards following the race, no punishment or penalties were handed out to either team.

A Malaysia team statement issued today reacted to Ireland’s stinging criticism, addressing it head on, saying: “The incident was clearly a racing incident. Video footage only showed that a collision took place, but given the manoeuvre that the Team Ireland driver carried out in attempting to overtake the A1 Team Malaysia car, there was a high risk of a collision unless Fairuz Fauzy pulled over and did not try and defend his position.”

Malaysia chief executive Jack Cunningham backed up his team’s stance. He said: "It's understandable that A1 Team Ireland was feeling emotional and frustrated after this incident, considering also that they lost the lead in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport.

“However, to blame Fairuz for the incident is unfair and we think the Irish team should stick to trying to win races rather than blaming others for their misfortune. A1 Team Ireland is a highly respected team, but on this occasion their comments are ill-judged."


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