A1GP Eastern Creek

[Mr Vti]

so now that eastern creek will hold the A1gp event how many of you Sydney siders will go out and check it out.

[LUD02C]

The day you can buy tickets i'm at the gate waiting to buy.
Getting the 4 day pass thurs/fri/sat/sun
I can't wait.

Alan Jones is a great business man and knows his shit, best thing about him is that he knows a lot of people and has great experience.

I can say I don't agree with the driver, but who cares.
Sydney has a major international motorsport event.

I envy QLD.
With Indy and a few weeks later they will have the WRC BASTARDS!
I think that starts in 2007

[JDM.Power]

anyone know the offical date of the A1 GP at eastern creek?

[Mr Vti]

sometime in November not to sure on the official date but. Yeh i think this series will be good.

[nEUROtic]

Who is the driver?

[Mr Vti]

I think its Christian Jones

[LUD02C]

Driver is Christian Jones, which is Alan Jones's son.

When second week of November I think, not confirmed but in November.

[pornstar]

jase, can u confirm? id like to go to sydney and watch the first race :)

[LUD02C]

I'm sure race day is 13th of November, but they might move it to the 20th.
Thats why its not confirmed.

OzHonda meet there I reckon!

[Mr Vti]

damn i think it had the date in the Blacktown paper that i get.But i throw it out. But i think LUD02C is right its sometime mid November

[LUD02C]

The problem they are having is WRC is in November and they don't want to be in competition with it, and then there is the World Cup Qualifyer in November as well for the Sydney siders!

Busy month November!

[Mr Vti]

yep i will be going to that world cup Qualifyer as well i hope its not on the same day

[LUD02C]

I reckon it will be saturday practice, then Qualifying watch the support races and then go really quickly to Homebush to watch the Australia thump Columbia, Chile or Uraguay!

[Mr Vti]

Bout time Sydney got some Football

[LUD02C]

Sydney siders, who is coming to A1GP?
Also, interstate people make the trip.

[Mr Vti]

i will go for sure only live like 5 mins from track

[LUD02C]

Where abouts are you mate?
I'm 10-15 from Eastern Creek in Kings Langley

[Mr Vti]

i'm in Huntington Heights doonside area its sort of a new estate like woodcroft.

[Vivski]

If I have the funds for a trip to watch some motorsport, I'll be going to Perth for the WRC. If the race was at Phillip Island however...

[slim]

the cars are crazy like F1's on 18's

[LUD02C]

the cars are crazy like F1's on 18's

Sort of.
Some major difference between them but they do sound and go impressivly!

[LUD02C]

Looks like the man Eddie Jordan is going to be "team principle" for Team Ireland.
This man loves his motorsport.

[LUD02C]

Check this video out, its a rolling start of them.

http://www.a1gp.com/main.php?hf=Yes

Also, these are the latest times from pitpass.com

final test results



A1 GP Test Times - Paul Ricard 26-08
26/08/2005
Pos Country Driver Time Gap
1 Ireland Firman 1:24.561 109.966 mph
2 Switzerland Jani 1:24.617 0.056
3 Netherlands Verstappen 1:24.646 0.085
4 New Zealand Halliday 1:24.800 0.239
5 France Lapierre 1:25.012 0.451
6 Portugal Parente 1:25.067 0.506
7 Australia Power 1:25.312 0.751
8 Brazil Piquet 1:25.378 0.817
9 Pakistan Khan 1:25.472 0.911
10 South Africa Simpson 1:25.509 0.948
11 Malaysia Fauzy 1:25.620 1.059
12 Mexico Duran 1:25.626 1.065
13 Britain Lloyd 1:26.268 1.707
14 Indonesia Mikola 1:26.291 1.730
15 USA Fleming 1:26.424 1.863
16 Lebanon Shaaban 1:26.496 1.935
17 India Chandok 1:26.579 2.018
18 Russia Rusinov 1:26.805 2.244
19 China Jiang 1:27.113 2.552

Best Times To Date
Date Country Driver Time Gap
25-Aug USA Speed 1:24.177 110.467 mph
25-Aug France Premat 1:24.392 0.215
26-Aug Ireland Firman 1:24.561 0.384
25-Aug Brazil Piquet 1:24.574 0.397
25-Aug New Zealand Reid 1:24.590 0.413
26-Aug Switzerland Jani 1:24.617 0.440
26-Aug Netherlands Verstappen 1:24.646 0.469
25-Aug Portugal Parente 1:24.738 0.561
25-Aug Malaysia Fauzy 1:24.987 0.810
25-Aug Lebanon Beschir 1:25.012 0.835
25-Aug Britain Kerr 1:25.104 0.927
25-Aug Germany Scheider 1:25.211 1.034
24-Aug Mexico Duran 1:25.296 1.119
24-Aug Australia Power 1:25.312 1.135
25-Aug Pakistan Khan 1:25.374 1.197
26-Aug South Africa Simpson 1:25.509 1.332
26-Aug Indonesia Mikola 1:26.291 2.114
26-Aug India Chandok 1:26.579 2.402
26-Aug Russia Rusinov 1:26.805 2.628
26-Aug China Jiang 1:27.113 2.936

[LUD02C]

All A1GP races LIVE on Fox Sports 1.

Best news ever!
LIVE RACES....

[Mr Vti]

A1gp this weekend guys 10pm sunday night cant wait.

[Vivski]

Awesome. I really hope this thing works. We need a change, some good motorsport which isn't the Raikkonen-Alonso show.
And it's on at a sensible time!! 10PM and the F1 is on at 3AM!!

[^^v]

damn i dun have foxtel ><:

[^^v]

[24/09/05 - 00:18]
http://f1.racing-live.com/img/vide.gif
A real mixed bag on the A1 GP debut
A steep learning curve for some...
http://f1.racing-live.com/img/l3.gif
http://f1.racing-live.com/img/vide.gif

Asian drivers struggled to make an impact as the new A1 Grand Prix series got off to a chaotic start at Brands Hatch on Friday. The new championship, which is billed as a World Cup of motorsport, pits nation against nation on the track, with a key feature being the arrival of countries so far unused to the sport.

But that grand design backfired as rookie drivers found the going tough. In the first practice session, India's Karun Chandhok caused the most spectacular accident when he turned in on ex-Formula One driver Jos Verstappen. The two cars made contact, pitching Chandhok into the air and badly damaging his car.

Chandhok had already allowed another Formula One refugee, Alex Yoong of Malaysia, to pass him but failed to notice the bright orange Netherlands car of Verstappen, causing the pile-up.

China's drivers have struggled to match their more experienced rivals in testing and again were caught out in practice. Their nominated driver Qinghua Ma spun at the fast Paddock Hill bend and brought out the red flags once again.

Collisions are rare in practice, with drivers concentrating on finding the perfect set-up for their cars, but the A1 GP debut bucked that trend. The problems continued in the second session, with Japan's Ryo Fukuda and Czech driver Jan Charouz both spinning off in quick succession. Russia's Nikolay Fomenko followed countryman Vasilev's lead by spinning first and then crashing into the barriers. Germany's Adrian Sutil almost collected the stricken Russian car, bringing out more red flags.


Even more red flags followed when Tengyi Jiang crashed the Chinese entry before Christian Jones finally stopped the session for good 18 minutes before the scheduled end when he slammed his car into the barriers.

Despite promises of an equal playing field with even drivers from countries with little motorsport pedigree being able to compete, the timing sheets at the end of first practice told a different story.

Scott Speed set the pace for the United States, setting a fastest lap of one minute 16.875seconds in the first session. Speed's GP rival Nelson Piquet Jr was a quarter of a second behind for Brazil while Frenchman Nicolas Lapierre took third. Britain's Robbie Kerr was fourth while Yoong was fifth.

Chandhok had little chance to set a decent time having only completed two laps but Chinese driver Ma clocked 13 and was still over nine seconds off the pace. His countryman Jiang was over 10 seconds down in the second session.

Source AFP

[LUD02C]

Go Will Power, qualified 4th.
What a gun, I can't wait.

[LUD02C]

http://www.a1teamaus.com/

Good site for the team we are all going for!

[aaronng]

Haha, just watched the first half of the race. The track was so narrow and tiny! But the cars are so leveled that it is difficult to overtake based on power alone. Those that manage to overtake are good (or the driver in front is worse than he is). Nelson Piquet's son won the first race!!!! WOO!!!!!!!

[Vivski]

Interesting racing. But they really need blue flags.... NO BLUE FLAGS!! A guy 3 laps down held up a long train of drivers on the lead lap... 3rd -> 7th were all in convoy behind him. There was also some dangerous inexperienced driving, but you'll get that.

I enjoyed the racing. Brands is a great drivers track, but not good for passing. Should get a better idea of the cars when we get to more overtaking friendly tracks. Great to see the cars moving around though. Getting sideways everywhere, no traction control, etc.

It needs a bit of work, (so do the pit crews, lol!!) but it has a good foundation on which to build. I'd say we'll see a few A1GP drivers in F1 before long. It really shows off the drivers' talents. And I wouldn't be surprised if we see some more F1 or ex-F1 drivers getting involved in A1GP... Takuma Sato maybe? :p

Man, I wish I had a pit with Nelson Piquet and Christian Fittipaldi working on setting up my car!! No wonder they had the thing running perfectly. It was absolutely on rails the entire 2nd race.

Will Power 4th and 2nd is a great start. I wonder if he'll drive most of the races for us. GO TEAM OZ!!

[LUD02C]

The idea is great, but some things to me are going to kill this.

1/ Some rules
- Power boost (4 options during each race to use it)
- Sprint race then normal race (to many races)
- Points system is stupid (10-1 points for positions 1-10)
- Pit crew, need an extra guy for the tyres like F1.

2/ The drivers
- I personally think this is the biggest problem in A1, that the old F1 or not so talented ones (Sato) will go there and the great A1 drivers like Piquet Jnr will be stolen by mid-class F1 teams (Red Bull, Williams)

3/ Some of the tracks
- Just saw some of the tracks they are going to, F1 left most of these tracks because they weren't up to scratch, that or they couldn't handle it.

Overall, I did like it.
Abit long and boring at some stages.
Scott Speed, Will Power, Piquet Jnr and the NZ driver are AMAZING!

[Miss Chanel]

Haha.. "not so talented ones (Sato)"... thats so true. But if f1 drivers do go there they'd thrash everyone (well, we'll hope for sato's sake he will).

But its not about the drivers its about the teams... half of the ppl watching it have no interest in motor sports and just want their country to win, sorta like the Olympics. :)

[^^v]

not so talented ones (Sato) will go there

n dont forget Webber :D :p

imo i dont think this series will go very far... well it certainly wont have the high profile of f1... i jus dun see that happening...
theres just a too big a gap from the good n not so good drivers... something lik 8-9 secs?

[j3z3z]

a1gp 4th 5th 6th november at eastern creek!!!

[Vivski]

Give it a few races to get itself sorted out. I like the concept. I think it could definitely work but it does need fine-tuning. The points system really is stupid.

I was encouraged by the overtaking. Can you imagine an F1 making an overtake at Brands Hatch?! I dont think so. Just wait 'til they get to better tracks for overtaking and tracks where it's easier to set up the cars. The top teams hit the ground running, 'cos they knew how to set up the car for Brands.

[bigteethygrin]

i got my tickets to A1GP eastern creek!:D

[Mr Vti]

well i found it pretty good to watch. Much better then the scripted F1 race.

[LUD02C]

i got my tickets to A1GP eastern creek!:D

So do I :D :D :D

[un_majstk]

where did you guys get the tickets? and how much?
i didn't see the price on ticketek.

[LUD02C]

Anyone watch the A1GP from Euro Speedway in Germany?
It looked like there was no one there.
The race format has to be changed.

As for tickets and that for it go here:
http://www.eastern-creek-raceway.com/pdf/A1%20Grand%20Prix%20Final%20Poster.pdf

No one is advertising it, damm Sydney.
Its full of stupid tree hugging hippies who don't like Sport.

[LUD02C]

Look at the line up for A1GP, all the support catergies.
Should be a great 3 days out there
http://www.eastern-creek-raceway.com/pdf/A1%20Grand%20Prix%20Program.pdf

[Vivski]

A1 would be quite a good series if it had:
- better drivers
- better commentators
- better marshals
- better organisation
- better wheel-nuts
- more car reliability
- better tracks

The fundamental idea is very good. It's just everything else is wrong. It has the potential to be a really good series in it's second season.

[Vivski]

Sneak preview for Sydney-siders...
http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=26383

[Vivski]

Looks like Will Power's going to be Aussie's next big open-wheel racer. He and Davison certainly have some talent. I just saw Power win a race in Formula Renault and he's a clear second in that championship.