GP2 Teams- Which Drivers? - Page 12

Kidzer · 5 Feb 2005, 20:36 (Ref:1218393)

Impressive line-up without a doubt, no real slow drivers confirmed, I would hope that this championship goes right down to the wire, it certainly looks it from the quality involved

Mekola · 5 Feb 2005, 21:24 (Ref:1218412)

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Originally Posted by bradrive

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Originally Posted by Kidzer

Any news on GP2 TV Coverage? Will there be any live coverage?

Not yet 100% sure: Plan: Eurosport Sunday race LIVE with Saturday race resumed just before the Sunday race
Possibly also: Itv, Rtl, Tele5 and others in Europe live or delayed

And to complete the information Fernando Tornello is working hard to ensure the coverage of GP2 races for Spanish-speaking Latin Americans via Fox Sports, as he did with F3000 last year. I don't know what will happen in Brazil, but I'm sure that they will see GP2 too (they had the opportunity to see F3000 even when the rest of Latin Americans can't, for example in 2002 and 2003).

sceptic · 6 Feb 2005, 02:50 (Ref:1218555)

Eurosports plans for the first race are for about 20 minutes of highlights of race one on Sunday morning, followed by race 2 live.

Kidzer · 6 Feb 2005, 11:30 (Ref:1218681)

Sounds good - so long as Martin Haven doesn't say much...

jondownunder · 6 Feb 2005, 13:41 (Ref:1218754)

Well I for one would be seriously disappointed with that. Race 1 is the most important, what with it being 180km and awarding 10 points for the win (race 2 is 80km with 6 points for the win, as you all know).

I was worried with the 2-race format that fans would be short changed with TV coverage, and it seems that will be the case. I'm sure it wasn't just me that felt the same about Renault V6 (when you had to wait until mid-week to see highlights of the Sunday race).

With Eurosport 2 now launched, surely they can make the effort to show as many of the Saturday races live as possible, or failing that tape delayed on the day? I know Eurosport has to show a variety of sports, and you have to accept clashes sometimes, but there's no reason why they can't fit both races in when they have two channels. Unless it's purely a contractual issue?

jondownunder · 6 Feb 2005, 14:05 (Ref:1218765)

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Originally Posted by btracer

So at the moment this is the actually confirmed list.

ART: Rosberg, Premat

I didn't think Premat had been confirmed yet at ART? At least I haven't read a press release (only one about Rosberg).

sceptic · 6 Feb 2005, 14:10 (Ref:1218767)

You're correct.
And I would also disagree that Artam was 99% at I-Sport.

jondownunder · 6 Feb 2005, 14:27 (Ref:1218776)

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Originally Posted by Kidzer

Impressive line-up without a doubt, no real slow drivers confirmed, I would hope that this championship goes right down to the wire, it certainly looks it from the quality involved

I'd certainly agree the line-up is impressive, with real strength in depth. But a few are nothing special when you examine their CVs: Monfardini, Fauzy, Hernandez (if italiaracing.net is right in confirming him), Yoshimoto (if he signs). Hopefully the remaining free seats won't go to journeymen/women. Still, not much to complain about. There seem to be a lot of potential champions in the field... can't wait for the season to start!

jondownunder · 6 Feb 2005, 14:29 (Ref:1218778)

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Originally Posted by sceptic

You're correct.
And I would also disagree that Artam was 99% at I-Sport.

Thanks sceptic, thought I'd missed something for a second!

sceptic · 6 Feb 2005, 14:38 (Ref:1218782)

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Originally Posted by jondownunder

Hernandez (if italiaracing.net is right in confirming
him),

Italiaracing isn't just right, it is well behind the times.
Hernandez was confirmed by the team weeks ago.

Deybit · 6 Feb 2005, 14:49 (Ref:1218789)

Hernandez is confirmed at Campos Racing. Sure 100%

jondownunder · 6 Feb 2005, 14:53 (Ref:1218791)

Cheers, I hadn't noticed the announcement at any of the GP2 sites.

Deybit · 6 Feb 2005, 15:16 (Ref:1218808)

He (Hernandez) confirm this in a interview for a spanish magazine, i think he was confirmed a lot of weeks ago, but nobody published.

jondownunder · 7 Feb 2005, 23:19 (Ref:1219858)

Excellent news about TV coverage for those of us with Eurosport and Eurosport2 - both races will be shown live:

http://www.formula-2.net/newsdisplay...sid=2005020702

Kidzer · 8 Feb 2005, 17:08 (Ref:1220584)

Quality stuff, should be really good then, assuming they don't take too many breaks during the races. Annoyed me a lot last year with the FRv6 Races

BillyT · 8 Feb 2005, 18:56 (Ref:1220682)

Thats great news.

strider · 9 Feb 2005, 11:13 (Ref:1220866)

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Originally Posted by jondownunder

I didn't think Premat had been confirmed yet at ART? At least I haven't read a press release (only one about Rosberg).

Premat has been officially confrmed by the team today. Incidentally, the name of the team is ART Grand Prix, which is interesting...

DanFlag · 9 Feb 2005, 12:31 (Ref:1220918)

9 February 2005
• Alexandre Prémat joins ART Grand Prix
• iSport join forces with Advanced Dynamic Systems

Daisy · 9 Feb 2005, 12:33 (Ref:1220924)

I read something about Ralph Firman and Super Nova?

Good news btw that Premat is coming to series, another strong driver for the GP2 grid, which is pretty strong already

DanFlag · 10 Feb 2005, 00:50 (Ref:1221523)

Apparantly he his in discussion with SuperNova

Kicking-back · 10 Feb 2005, 06:28 (Ref:1221630)

I hope that comes off.

Ralph's a quality driver - who is much better than his time at Jordan showed.

skyblue · 10 Feb 2005, 09:34 (Ref:1221748)

he he, just squint a bit

http://photobucket.com/albums/v671/s...urrent=gp2.jpg

skyblue · 10 Feb 2005, 09:40 (Ref:1221755)

Oh KB, only 5 years to win in Nippon, I agree...he's excellent. I'm surprised you let *some* people away with mediocrity. What's the connection?

Kidzer · 10 Feb 2005, 10:05 (Ref:1221773)

skyblue....i don't get it?

Kicking-back · 10 Feb 2005, 10:43 (Ref:1221804)

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Originally Posted by skyblue

Oh KB, only 5 years to win in Nippon, I agree...he's excellent. I'm surprised you let *some* people away with mediocrity. What's the connection?

I have no connection with Ralph.

You need to look at the cars he was driving in Nippon.

I remember being ultra impressed with him as long ago as 1995 and his first ever F3 race.

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