Team Mexico switches drivers for China round

A1 Team Mexico is to switch driver for this weekend’s race in Shanghai – with NASCAR and sportscar racer Jorge Goeters coming in to replace David Garza.

Goeters has much experience in American racing, having raced in the NASCAR Sprint and Nationwide series and is a former champion of the NASCAR Mexico series.

Garza has opted to make himself unavailable for selection for the final rounds of the series, to focus on commitments in the United States.

He said he hoped to return to the team next season. He said: “Sincerely I hope that this won't be a goodbye, but just a see you later and that in a near future I have the opportunity to get back to the team and fight for the championship under different circumstances. It was a great honor to represent my country, but better was to see the great response and to feel the support of the people in the Mexican race. That is something that I will always cherish in my heart."

Goeters will set an unenviable A1GP record however – by becoming the oldest driver to start an A1GP race. At 37 years and 10 months, he beats the previous record, set by A1 Team Japan's Hideki Noda, who was more than a year younger when he raced in 2005.