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Van der Zande gets a chance at Team Netherlands

During the final three races of the A1GP season A1 Team Netherlands will see action with a different line up. Rookie driver Renger van der Zande will drive the upcoming A1GP Sprintrace in Mexico City and will also take on the qualifying on Saturday. After that Jeroen Bleekemolen will take over the wheel from Van der Zande for the Feature race.

The race after at Shanghai will be the first time that Renger will drive the entire weekend and in the final race at Brands Hatch Jeroen will again drive as usual this season. Renger will then only go out in the Rookie test on Friday morning.

A1 Team Netherlands team principal Jan Lammers took a number of significant factors into account when taking the decision to give Renger this chance to show himself in the 'World Cup of Motorsport': "Let one thing be very clear up front, we are not doing this because we are unhappy about the performance of Jeroen Bleekemolen. On the contrary, he is doing very well, both for us and for himself. That is also the theme at Racing for Holland and A1 Team Netherlands: 'Working on yourself together'. That is something that Jeroen understands very well and it is why he is cooperating and is giving Renger the opportunity to display himself under race conditions and the team the chance to introduce young talent. At the same time, we are getting a better picture of how having two drivers each doing one race is working out."

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