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Originally Posted by Tony Clifton
Article last year in the Wall Street Journal was about how the A1GP series is financially dying.
Maybe the series has changed for the better.
It would be good to see a series grow rather than die.
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They have attracted major backing from RAB capital, and are secure for the next couple of years. They also attracted Ferrari to supply the cars+engines and that is very good for the commercial side of the serie.
I do feel there are many flaws in the concept (the 'world cup of motorsports' sounds nice, but imho that's Jeff Gordon vs Michael Schumacher vs Sebastian Loeb. Not Jonathan Summerton vs Michael Ammermuller vs Loic Duval), and also what media-presence do they have? I'm from Holland which is one of their most succesfull countries, i'm a motorsport enthousiast, and i honestly don't know when the last race was and when the next is going to be.