2008–09 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, South Africa

A1 Team Korea failed to participate the race as the organiser of the series could not supply electrical units and fuel tank due to mistake of the transportation from New Zealand.

[1][2] The team had planned the debut of 2008 Macau Grand Prix winner Keisuke Kunimoto (Lee Kyung-Woo), a Japanese driver of Korean descent, as rookie driver on the weekend.

[3] Following the race, the team principals of both Ireland and Malaysia issued statements regarding the on-track incident on the first lap of the Feature Race, which resulted in Ireland spinning out into retirement, and subsequently losing the championship lead to Switzerland.

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.

Jeroen Bleekemolen won the race from pole position for A1 Team the Netherlands , his first win in the series.
A1 Team Switzerland 's Neel Jani won the race, and after Adam Carroll 's earlier error, acquired the championship lead.
A1 Team Malaysia 's Fairuz Fauzy recorded the fastest lap of the race.