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It highlights the identity problem that A1GP has. It's a sideshow not relevant to the motorsports pyramid so it's drivers will be fed back in anywhere into that pyramid.
Adam Carroll into GP2, Franky Cheng, Vietoris and Hulkenberg into F3, Wickens to WSR, Jonny to Indy Lights etc etc etc.
The problem is that A1GP is neither a top level series, nor a feeder to anything else. So it's most successful drivers still have nowhere next to go. It's the same problem that the Champ Car series had in the USA, although that had the accompanying problem of it believing it was a top-line series in motorsports generally.
The GP2 series champion most naturally ends up in F1. F3 Euroseries to GP2. Indy Lights to IRL. Nationwide to NASCAR. A1GP to errmm....the job centre?
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