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Old 03-26-2010, 03:48 AM   #1
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Default Want to start your own race series?
How about buying A1GP?

The whole lot, consisting of 20 Ferrari-engined cars, 14 of the older Lolas, plus safety car, medical car and various other bits and pieces are up for sale through the administrators:

http://www.go-dove.com/event-14131/A...content=header

No idea how much it's going for..
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Old 03-26-2010, 03:53 AM   #2
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I get paid tomorrow so we'll have to see.
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Old 03-26-2010, 06:50 AM   #3
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Yeah, sure....I'm sure I have enough loose change floating around on the floor of my truck to buy the whole thing
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Old 03-26-2010, 07:54 PM   #4
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With all these one-make racers either being pensioned off or their series going bankrupt maybe someone should just go round buying two of each and creating a new series that doesn't actually suck so much?
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Old 03-26-2010, 08:28 PM   #5
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This news didn't generate much interest in the A1GP Series forum
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Old 03-26-2010, 08:46 PM   #6
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The A1GP concept was brilliant, but failed to deliver. Pity, cause it had all the ingredients to become a great series.

The A1GP street races held on our Durban streets were great fun for me, the closest to F1 we get over here besides the Renault F1 Roadshows.
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Old 03-26-2010, 08:58 PM   #7
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I quite enjoyed A1GP, but I did find it felt a slightly soulless event. Seeing a row of identical, white, prefab buildings behind the pits instead of liveried race trucks was one symptom of it.

Their safety car was very nice though, a Ferrari 599; and the doctor's car was a rather tasty Maserati.
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Old 03-26-2010, 09:15 PM   #8
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This news didn't generate much interest in the A1GP Series forum
I didn't even know we had one!
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Old 03-26-2010, 10:32 PM   #9
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The A1GP concept was brilliant, but failed to deliver. Pity, cause it had all the ingredients to become a great series.
No it wasn't.

It was Reject Road Racers World Series.
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Old 03-26-2010, 11:34 PM   #10
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one of us should place a serious bid of £1 plus 20% of all annual profits the series makes, and see where we end up
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Old 03-27-2010, 07:27 AM   #11
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With all these one-make racers either being pensioned off or their series going bankrupt maybe someone should just go round buying two of each and creating a new series that doesn't actually suck so much?
LOL. That's some funny $#it right there.....

Seriously though, grab them, Superleague and what's left of the fleet of DP01 Champcars and you might actually have an interesting series.
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Old 03-27-2010, 10:26 PM   #12
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Maybe IRL should buy these cars, I mean they are from 2008...
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Old 03-29-2010, 04:01 AM   #13
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I think I would like to buy a racing series. I helped fund an R/C car racing series several years ago. But I'm not sure if I want to buy the IRL for $50 or A1GP for $55.
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Old 03-29-2010, 01:39 PM   #14
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No it wasn't.

It was Reject Road Racers World Series.
Yes it was. Equal cars, nation vs nation with driver skill and setup only being the difference, unlike F1 etc where cars are vastly faster/slower than the other. The racing should have been excellent.

The concept was great, but the execution was cr@p.
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Old 03-29-2010, 10:34 PM   #15
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Yes it was. Equal cars, nation vs nation with driver skill and setup only being the difference, unlike F1 etc where cars are vastly faster/slower than the other. The racing should have been excellent.

The concept was great, but the execution was cr@p.
That's what GP2 is there for. The nations thing was a silly gimmick, just as SuperLeague/football teams
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Old 03-30-2010, 01:41 PM   #16
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That's what GP2 is there for. The nations thing was a silly gimmick, just as SuperLeague/football teams
Yes, but GP2 is mainly a feeder series for F1 and not a top flight racing formula. A1GP was offering something different to the boring racing that F1 normally produces these days. The OZ 2010 F1 race last weeknd was the exception to the rule of no overtaking and processional racing. Pity A1GP could not take off and offer a better show
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Old 03-30-2010, 08:59 PM   #17
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Yes, but GP2 is mainly a feeder series for F1 and not a top flight racing formula. A1GP was offering something different to the boring racing that F1 normally produces these days.
ROFLMAO!!

An F3 driver aiming to race A1GP!

Where did Piquet Jr, and Hulkenberg progress to?

A1GP is the equivalent of scraping the barrel: Robbie Kerr was a top F3 driver, Darren Manning was kicked out of Ganassi/IRL, Adam Carrol had enough of GP2 because it got him no where and needed a new environment.
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