Teams
25 teams, each representing a different country, signed up for the first A1 Grand Prix season. All teams used a control chassis (Lola), engine (Zytek) and tyre (Cooper Avon). The following teams competed in the 2005–06 championship:
| Team | Race Team | Seat holder | Race drivers | Others drivers |
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| A1 Team Australia | Alan Docking Racing | Alan Jones | Will Power Christian Jones Will Davison Marcus Marshall Ryan Briscoe |
Karl Reindler |
| A1 Team Austria | Team Rosberg | Niki Lauda with Lauda Motorsport Management |
Mathias Lauda Patrick Friesacher |
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| A1 Team Brazil | ASM F3 | Ronaldo Emerson Fittipaldi |
Nelson Piquet, Jr. Christian Fittipaldi |
Fabio Carbone João Paulo de Oliveira Tuka Rocha |
| A1 Team Canada | John Village Automotive | Wade Cherwayko | Sean McIntosh Patrick Carpentier |
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| A1 Team China | Team Astromega | Liu Yu | Tengyi Jiang Qinghua Ma |
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| A1 Team Czech Republic | Charouz Racing System | Antonin Charouz | Jan Charouz Tomáš Enge |
Jaroslav Janiš |
| A1 Team France | DAMS | Jean Paul Driot | Alexandre Prémat Nicolas Lapierre |
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| A1 Team Germany | Super Nova Racing | Willi Weber | Timo Scheider Adrian Sutil Sebastian Stahl |
Sebastian Vettel |
| A1 Team Great Britain | Arden International | Tony Clements John Surtees |
Robbie Kerr Darren Manning |
Alex Lloyd Katherine Legge |
| A1 Team India | Akbar Ebrahim | Atul Gupta | Karun Chandhok Armaan Ebrahim |
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| A1 Team Indonesia | A1 Team Indonesia | N/A | Ananda Mikola | |
| A1 Team Ireland | A1 Team Ireland | Mark Kershaw | Michael Devaney Ralph Firman |
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| A1 Team Italy | Team Ghinzani | Piercarlo Ghinzani | Enrico Toccacelo Max Busnelli Max Papis |
Nino Piccoli Richard Antinucci Matteo Cressoni Andrea Montermini Raffaele Giammaria |
| A1 Team Japan | Carlin Motorsport | conglomerate | Ryo Fukuda Hideki Noda Hayanari Shimoda |
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| A1 Team Lebanon | Carlin Motorsport | Tameem Auchi | Kalil Beschir Basil Shaaban Graham Rahal |
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| A1 Team Malaysia | A1 Team Malaysia | Alex Yoong | Fairuz Fauzy Alex Yoong |
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| A1 Team Mexico | DAMS | Juan Cortina Julio Jáuregui |
Salvador Durán David Martínez Luis Diaz |
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| A1 Team The Netherlands | Racing for Holland | Jan Lammers | Jos Verstappen | Jeroen Bleekemolen |
| A1 Team New Zealand | West Surrey Racing | Colin Giltrap | Matt Halliday Jonny Reid |
Scott Dixon |
| A1 Team Pakistan | Super Nova Racing | Arif Hussain (racing) | Adam Khan Enrico Toccacelo(1) |
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| A1 Team Portugal | Carlin Motorsport | Luís Figo Carlos Queiroz |
Álvaro Parente César Campaniço |
João Urbano João Barbosa |
| A1 Team Russia | Russian Age Racing | Svetlana Strelnikova Frederic Dor |
Alexey Vasilyev Mikhail Aleshin Roman Rusinov |
Nikolai Fomenko Alexander Tyuryumin |
| A1 Team South Africa | BCN Competicion | Tokyo Sexwale | Stephen Simpson Tomas Scheckter |
Gavin Cronje |
| A1 Team Switzerland | DAMS | Max Welti | Neel Jani Giorgio Mondini |
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| A1 Team USA | David Price Racing | Rick Weidlinger | Scott Speed Bryan Herta Philip Giebler |
- (1) Enrico Toccacelo drove the Pakistan car in Durban after Adam Langley-Khan was injured during practice sessions. However, Pakistan would have not scored any points if Toccacelo had finished in top 10.
- (2) A1 Team Indonesia could not participate in the Australian Race due to Ananda Mikola having raced in the Asian F3 Series in Batangas.
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