The inaugural event in the World Cup of Motorsport is underway with every national A1 Team nominating their drivers for the A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Brands Hatch, Great Britain.

Each A1 Team will take to the track for the first official practice session this afternoon (Friday) at 13:00 (BST). A second official practice session will follow at 16:00 before a final practice session and qualifying tomorrow and the Sprint and Feature races on Sunday.

The drivers for this weekend are as follows:

Australia: Will Power and Christian Jones
Austria: Mathias Lauda
Brazil: Nelson Piquet Jr. and Joao Paulo de Oliveira
Canada: Sean MacIntosh
China: Qinghua Ma and Tengyi Jiang
Czech Republic: Jan Charouz
France: Nicholas Lapierre and Alexandre Premat
Germany: Timo Scheider and Adrian Sutil
Great Britain: Robbie Kerr and Alex Lloyd
India: Karun Chandhok and Armaan Ebrahim
Indonesia: Ananda Mikola
Ireland: Michael Devaney
Italy: Enrico Toccacelo and Nino Piccoli
Japan: Ryo Fukuda
Lebanon: Basil Shaaban and Khalil Beschir
Malaysia: Alex Yoong and Fairuz Fauzy
Mexico: Salvador Duran
Netherlands: Jos Verstappen and Jeroen Bleekemolen
New Zealand: Matt Halliday and Jonny Reid
Pakistan: Adam Khan
Portugal: Alvaro Parente and Joao Urbano
Russia: Alexey Vasiliev and Nikolay Fomenko
South Africa: Stephen Simpson and Gavin Cronje
Switzerland: Neel Jani
USA: Scott Speed