A1GP Half Term Good or Bad??

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People from Zandvoort have spoken with Sheik Maktoum last weekend and I expect a race at Zandvoort.

[Kicking-back]

Correct.

My understanding is the three European rounds will be Brands, Zandvoort and France or Czech Republic

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Originally Posted by SALEEN S7R

Lets hope not! Somewhere like Silverstone or even Donnington would be far better IMO. Brands is just too narrow, it showed that this season.

Doningtons not much wider anyway, and the feature race was brilliant.

And Brands is good for spectators.

[SALEEN S7R]

Donnington is signifcantly wider than Brands and is also good for spectators, there are just as many good viewing points at Donnington that there are at Brands GP layout. Also Donnington will have a brand new pits complex which will be a heck of a lot better than the somewhat outdated facilites at Brands.

[Paddockman]

Originally Posted by SALEEN S7R

Lets hope not! Somewhere like Silverstone or even Donnington would be far better IMO. Brands is just too narrow, it showed that this season.

Only my opionion but I would definately like to see the race stay at Brands.

For one the crowd can get nearer the action than at Donnington or Stalag Silverstone and after all if you don,t want to be close as possible to the cars to hear and literally smell them like you can on the GP loop then you might as well watch on TV.

Brands may not create the best racing because of the width but other factors far outway that.

I could go on for ever on this subject but I won't and as you can see IMO it has to be Brands.

[Milanostah]

I love the racing. The only thing I'd do would be to put the teams into divisions, with (if expansion to 30 correct) 6 divisions of 5 nations, with the top 2 in each getting races (although, there'd have to be a point where this ends... the 9th weekend of the year, I guess.)

[Marcel ten Caat]

For those of you that understand Italian. If this report is correct A1GP could be in trouble.

[ScotsBrutesFan]

Originally Posted by Paddockman

Only my opionion but I would definately like to see the race stay at Brands.

For one the crowd can get nearer the action than at Donnington or Stalag Silverstone and after all if you don,t want to be close as possible to the cars to hear and literally smell them like you can on the GP loop then you might as well watch on TV.

Brands may not create the best racing because of the width but other factors far outway that.

The biggest factor Brands has going for it is the size of Jonathon Palmer's wallet.
But watch for the GP circuit closing completely with all of it's big events transfering to Snetterton on the completion of it's extension and up-grade.

I'd like to see the A1GP event more around Britain to a different venue each year.

[Woolley]

Big bunches of cars scrapping for placings, old fashioned slipstreaming and slippy-sliding through the corners. Best of all, the drivers that look quickest actually are.

Yep, proper racing.

Not quite sure I've got into this nations idea, though, and I think that having to use different drivers for the two races would help.

[hotwheels]

Originally Posted by Woolley

and I think that having to use different drivers for the two races would help.

Yeah! two different drivers should be great!

[BootsOntheSide]

Generally it's been very good. There are a few things I'd change - the points system doesn't reward success or adventurous driving enough, and the qualifying system is a bit convoluted, but the quality of racing has been fantastic, and the TV/media coverage is perhaps the most that any first-year series has ever had. Well done and thank you to everyone involved.