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15 Feb 2009, 11:35 (Ref:2397781) | #51 | ||
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A1 has been very exposed to the Credit crunch due to the fact they have not been able to secure funds to underwrite the new car/engine/Ferrari deal over a 3 year term. It must also be embarrassing for A1 to have to put extra finacial burden on those who are "paying there way". ie Colin Giltrap having to bail out the cars to get to Taupo. |
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16 Feb 2009, 16:33 (Ref:2398563) | #52 | |
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Pakistan were due to test at Phakisa (ex MotoGP venue) today ..... will post more when I know more.
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I hear 1st plane full of cars has left NZ, but 2nd only due to arrive Wed.
BTW - all A1GP staff have been warned not to speak to media/anyone at all, that's why its so difficult to get info. Pakistan car str8 from Europe Last edited by rychard; 16 Feb 2009 at 19:19. |
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16 Feb 2009, 19:18 (Ref:2398635) | #56 | |
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Quote: BTW - all A1GP staff have been warned not to speak to media/anyone at all, that's why its so difficult to get info.
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17 Feb 2009, 11:53 (Ref:2398978) | #58 | ||
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The cars are not at Kyalami! |
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17 Feb 2009, 12:13 (Ref:2398984) | #60 | |
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All I want to know is where the cars are, but its a secret!
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17 Feb 2009, 13:04 (Ref:2399015) | #61 | ||
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It is none of our business where the cars are. I feel that you are trying to stir up a story where none exists.
We will know in a day or two where the cars are. Stop panicking. |
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18 Feb 2009, 06:35 (Ref:2399449) | #63 | |
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Pakistan tested at Phakisa on monday & tues with hordes of Ferrari technical people also there, must've been over 20 of them. Car doing 1:23 sec.
Kiwi, lately each race is 'almost' not happening so it would be nice to know if the cars are comming. As of this morning they are still not at Kyalami. That leaves 48 hours to get them to the track and prepared for the rookie sessions |
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18 Feb 2009, 08:57 (Ref:2399497) | #64 | ||
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I think the fact that they've flown Pakistan's car there especially from the UK is a fairly strong sign that Kyalami is happening (not to mention the various driver announcements). Good that Pakistan are there, I had expected them to drop out altogether.
Hopefully there will be an excellent crowd this weekend, which will give everyone a boost. |
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18 Feb 2009, 17:10 (Ref:2399758) | #66 | |
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I found this .........
A1GP cars to arrive on Thursday Written by sw Tuesday, 17 February 2009 Despite being delayed, due to freight problems, the A1GP cars will be at Kyalami and the A1GP, Gauteng will take place as scheduled although the Rookie session has been moved to Friday afternoon to give teams more time to prepare. According to Stephen Watson, CEO of promoters Gauteng Motorsport Company, the fleet of Ferrari powered cars and the equipment will be arriving on Thursday via Air Malaysia, "one aircraft early morning and the other at midday," he confirmed today. It has also been confirmed that the Team Pakistan car was lapping at the 1 minute 23 seconds mark during vital testing at Phakisa today, after completing instalation laps yesterday. |
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22 Feb 2009, 05:35 (Ref:2401665) | #67 | ||
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I've edited the name of this thread a bit as although a month ago there was a report of a new investor or major sponsor, it seems there isn't one.
Very, very interesting interview with Tony Texeira here: http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEditi...aspx?id=944369 A bit of a misleading headline, he does not make the quote that F1 wants to be like A1GP. He is clearly in A1GP to make money as the last quip about Bernie buying him out suggests, although it also very much suggests he is in it for the long term. He answers a few criticisms:
Questions that brings to mind is therefore:
While raising as many questions as answering them, I think A1GP would have done itself a big favour by issuing a press release at the end of last year along the lines of "A1GP's response to the financial crisis", to explain a lot of the issues that discussed in here. I also get the impression that Tony T is resigned to funding it himself and getting a return in the long run (or finding someone to buy him out), in the short term if he kept a stable calender surely it would be a lot easier to find sponsors to partly fund it. Is this his mining industry mentality getting in the way, or is he being realistic about it being unrealistic to find sponsors at the moment anyway? |
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22 Feb 2009, 05:43 (Ref:2401669) | #68 | |
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I like A1 and I hope they hang in there and make it work. I think the concept has a lot of potential.
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Mexico is surely down to the FIA, not money or viability - they have had big crowds and it was voted "Best Event" last season.
The FIA want some stupid new chicanes installed, and refused to allow A1GP to run there on the 22nd of March due to the WTCC in Mexico on the same weekend (the FIA don't want A1 taking fans away from their own championship). So it seems they are switching it to 24th May, which the site selling the tickets is now advertising. |
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23 Feb 2009, 11:11 (Ref:2402330) | #70 | |
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The financial security of the serie will be totally up to how long the shareholders are willing to pay for it.
It costs an enormous amount of money to run an world-wide autosport serie, while the cars are also extremely expensive to run ($3 million+ a year to run 1car). This can only be funded by either manufacturers (like dtm) and/or sponsors. Ferrari isn't going to pay, and sponsors won't pay millions with coverage on networks like ABmoteurs, Premiere and sky sports in major markets france, germany and uk. |
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23 Feb 2009, 11:38 (Ref:2402345) | #72 | |
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For me the problem is that some of the Seat Holders do not do the work to develop the product, they just wait for the money to come from A1 GP to run the cars
We're at season 4 but A1 GP is not developping enough in countries like Germany, France, Italy, England... What we can see is that when the work is well done, it works (Netherlands, New Zealand, Ireland, etc...) |
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23 Feb 2009, 12:35 (Ref:2402388) | #73 | ||
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I've read an interview with the guy of RTL holland that made the decision to pick up the serie and show it on tv. The main reason for going with A1GP was the presence of Jos Verstappen. According to the RTL-guy a new/unknown sport/serie is an investment for a network, because it takes time before people know the sport and are willing to follow it. With Verstappen in the mix they had a driver that was still very popular in holland and therefor it became interesting for RTL. He literally said he had seen the A1GP stand at SPORTEL in Monaco, looked at it for a couple of minutes and didn't see anything in it (of course all before verstappen joined). It seems to me this can be translated to many other countries and networks. |
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23 Feb 2009, 14:26 (Ref:2402481) | #74 | ||
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Provided of course that they do have a JV-popular driver available which is not always easy. Ok for UK Button could do, if ex-Honda doesn't make it, but can you see a French or Italian or German driver with such profile?
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23 Feb 2009, 16:47 (Ref:2402543) | #75 | ||
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In 2005 (a1's first season) the addition of the likes of HH Frentzen, Mika Hakkinen, Olivier Panis or Jean Alesi could have been possible. They were at that time not long out of F1, would be interesting out of an publicity viewpoint and wouldn't cost that much (I think i read that Alesi and/or HH were around 1 million euro in dtm). I don't know the spanish and austrian markets, but maybe Alexander Wurz, Pedro de la Rosa or Marc Gene could have had a huge impact on these markets at the time. Nowadays/in the next 2 years i could think of Ralf Schumacher, David Coulthard, Giancarlo Fisichella, Sebastian Bourdais, Rubens Barrichello that could have such an impact. |
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