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Official: Austria, Italy and Japan join A1 GP
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Well 25 cars on the grid, it didn't look like they could keep their promise but now they have. Although those teams have barely had any running, will see how fast they are come race weekend.
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I would like to see 30-35 cars on the grid. That would be cool!
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I would prefer to see just 26 on the grid with qualifying to elimimate the slower entrants.That way they would not get in the way of the quick ones. This system worked well in F1 until about 10 yrs ago.
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As for the Austrian outfit, I think Helmut Marko would be the better man to lead this team. But hey, Niki needs a job (and so does Matthias). But I really would have hoped for an actual Austrian team; Rosberg has come into the deal because he failed to get the German team. I hope it won't turn out to be a "take the money & run" effort.
Besides, we don't have a track!! Hello Mr. Bullschitz, if you want to spend some more money on motor racing then how about rebuilding the A1-Ring you have chosen to dig up!! But no, you had to buy a football team instead. Looks like Mad Mat Lauda is confirmed, so one seat remains to be filled. Mr. Clean who will seemingly be staying in F1 a while longer, and I would assume every F1 contract excludes other racing these days. Apart from Patrick Friesacher, Norbert Siedler is looking at ChampCars but I guess he won't mind an end-of-season gig. There is Andreas Zuber, the Lechner brothers, Marco Schärf, Christian Lietz, even old boys Karl Wendlinger and Philipp Peter - any number of drivers who would be up to the job. (And give Dieter Quester half a chance and he'll drive both cars ). |
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Yep one car, two drivers. Teams will probably be doing what Australia is doing with Jones racing the sprint race, and Power the long race on Sunday. Splitting the duo into the two races (courtesy of daddy).
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For the Japanese drive, it's a bit of a long shot, but Shimoda?
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Shimoda is certainly fast enough IMO, hes shown what he can do this year in the LMES and in the ALMS when he has a good car beneath him. Shimoda would defintly be on my short list of potential Japaneese drivers.
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A business conglomeration will run A1 Team Japan's car which today was shaken down by ex-F1 star Hideki Noda but will be driven by Ryo Fukuda at Brands Hatch. The team will be run by Carlin Motorsport, a team with a string of racing titles to their name, most recently the British Formula 3 championship title. Paul. |
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Fukuda is the ex-BAR F1 test driver! Hasn't really impressed since winning the 2001 French F3 title though:
http://www.speedsportmag.de/motorspo...l=f&driver=888 |
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