|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
17 Jan 2011, 23:31 (Ref:2817107) | #26 | ||
Racer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 207
|
Quote:
|
||
__________________
David Matthew Neil. |
18 Jan 2011, 02:47 (Ref:2817156) | #27 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 6,885
|
The whole thing sounds pretty amateur to me, so far.
I can't see the point of it either with Superleague out there doing a great job. |
|
__________________
Wolverines! |
18 Jan 2011, 07:35 (Ref:2817202) | #28 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 1,589
|
I can. There are always rich kids with rich dads out there willing to pay for drives. Hence why we have so many junior formulae. I just don't know if we have reached saturation yet...
|
||
|
18 Jan 2011, 19:20 (Ref:2817453) | #29 | |
Racer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 207
|
However nobody actually see's the point of it. They even had to put national flags on the cars for the china races because the chinese didn't understand what they were watching, and wanted A1GP instead!
|
|
__________________
David Matthew Neil. |
18 Jan 2011, 19:23 (Ref:2817458) | #30 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 1,767
|
||
|
18 Jan 2011, 23:37 (Ref:2817580) | #31 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 6,885
|
Who is Paul Cherry, the name sounds familiar?
|
|
__________________
Wolverines! |
19 Jan 2011, 23:19 (Ref:2818039) | #32 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2001
Posts: 2,223
|
||
|
19 Jan 2011, 23:44 (Ref:2818044) | #33 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 1,680
|
And F3000 team owner does a bit of analysis on Indycar on Sky.
|
||
|
19 Jan 2011, 23:57 (Ref:2818050) | #34 | |
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 6,885
|
||
__________________
Wolverines! |
20 Jan 2011, 12:28 (Ref:2818265) | #35 | |||
Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 1,965
|
Quote:
And I'm not a marketing person but even I can see that "A10 World Series" is a ridiculously bad name. I'd love to see A1GP back, but sorry, but this is hardly a promising start. |
|||
|
20 Jan 2011, 12:30 (Ref:2818266) | #36 | |||
Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 1,965
|
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/89003
Quote:
|
|||
|
20 Jan 2011, 17:26 (Ref:2818405) | #37 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 3,351
|
Half a page of print in todays issue of Autosport,with no more info.Hope something comes of this as a winter series is certainly needed-nothing serious to watch until march.6 pages devoted to Massa-only single seater racing reported one paragraph on NZ Toyota series.F1 drivers used to race in NZ in January.
|
||
__________________
Do it in the streets! |
20 Jan 2011, 18:35 (Ref:2818446) | #38 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 6,885
|
Quote:
I doubt this ever makes it off the ground. It sounds like one of those things people throw up at the ceiling to see if it sticks i.e. investors come out of the woodwork. |
||
__________________
Wolverines! |
21 Jan 2011, 11:41 (Ref:2818740) | #39 | ||
Racer
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 394
|
Quote:
We see all these new series arrive, but if these guys just looked at the (recent) history of the sport they would know that simply showing up with an idea isn't enough. If you look at the somewhat higher calibre autosportseries then there are 2 businessmodels that seem to be working: 1.) You are a low cost serie (as in operating costs of the serie) that can survive by entrance fees and some small sponsorship & track sanction fees (a la british f3). That means offer something that is valuable to junior drivers: a relatively low amount of money to run a car in this serie and if you are succesfull you have a good chance to get close to f1. 2.) You are a high cost serie (as in operating costs of the serie and more then likely also running costs of the cars) a la indycar, DTM, WRC, etc.. You can survive by manufacturer involvement, tv-revenues & high tv-exposure, attendance and sponsorship. If you want to be succesfull in this you have to offer something unique that will attract these items. Indycar has indy, DTM has the support from the german manufacturers because they are the german #1 autosport serie, etc. I see nothing in this A10 website that would suggest that either they will be a better solution to a current succesfull junior serie, and i certainly do not think they have the unique position and the finances to be succesfull at business model 2. |
||
|
21 Jan 2011, 13:20 (Ref:2818797) | #40 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 10,701
|
A also accounts for being the first letter of the alphabet (e.g. "alpha male").
|
||
__________________
Nitropteron - Fly fast or get crushed! by NaBUrean Prodooktionz naburu38.itch.io |
23 Jan 2011, 14:12 (Ref:2819526) | #41 | ||
Veteran
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 5,100
|
The thing is that a nations cup event of motorsport is a great idea, just that the A1GP implementation was a bad one, and only one I can genuinely think of as being possible would require a fair bit of political will and FIA/ASN involvement. The latter would be needed to make it a valid competition, the A1GP franchise system lead to some major motorsport countries being missed out; Spain, Finland and Sweden never had A1GP teams, Japan went away early on. I'm not going to bore you and suggest how I think it could be done (unless you want me to). A motor racing would cup, if done in a way it could claim the limelight once a year rather than be part of the background ten times, could make motorsport a more popular thing in some countries by allowing people to latch on to a national team (and by that I mean a team, not one driver).
|
||
__________________
Marbot : "Ironically, the main difference between a Red Bull and a Virgin is that Red Bull can make parts of its car smaller and floppier." |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
SVG With SBR until 2012 | V8Bobby | Australasian Touring Cars. | 21 | 24 Apr 2010 08:19 |
ALMS will return to Infineon/Sonoma/Sears Point in 2011! | WMUCarGuy | North American Racing | 40 | 12 Apr 2010 02:56 |