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A spectacular 24-strong parachute drop over Main Beach this morning heralded the official launch of a ‘new era’ for Australia’s premier motorsport event – the Nitro SuperGP on Queensland’s Gold Coast – which will kick off Season Five of A1GP World Cup of Motorsport later this year. Now less than 100 days away from the [...]
Team Ireland came into the last event of the 2008-09 A1GP event at Brands Hatch with only a two point lead in front of last year’s champions Team Switzerland. Everything was set up for an epic battle between Adam Carroll and Neel Jani. But with two strong wins from Carroll the World Cup went to [...]
The final weekend of 2008/09 A1GP World Cup of Motorsport began at Brands Hatch in Kent today with A1 Team Netherlands’ Jeroen Bleekemolen setting the pace with a 1m 12.700s, over two seconds faster than the official A1GP lap record. Earlier in the day France’s Nicolas Prost topped the rookie session. This weekend is set [...]
The A1GP event at Mexico City scheduled for the 15th of March has been moved back a week to March 20-22. The reason? Radiohead were playing on the circuit! Well, not really on the actual circuit itself, but in a baseball stadium located at the track. Pete da Silva, CEO for A1GP, commented, “It is [...]
Round Five of the 2008/09 A1GP World Cup of Nations championship was supposed to take place at a new street circuit in Lippo Village in Indonesia. Ths event will now be dropped from the calendar as the street circuit has failed to meet the requisite completion deadlines in some aspects and as a result the [...]
