A1 Grand Prix

[Katsuya]

Qualifying Show starts now, on Sky Sports 3 (UK). Looks good, and it has Verstappen (underratd F1 driver by miles), Alex Yoong (good Malaysian, ex F1 driver), as well as Nelson Piquet Jr.

All the same cars, same engines, same tires. Simply upto the drivers.

And allready, I have no idea what the hell the rules are. Apparently 5 Qualifying Sessions, and then tommorow is a sprint race which decides positions for the actual race.

[TMM]

While I don't find racing cars remotely entertaining, I might check this out. Seems like it's going to more interesting than F1 (which ain't hard).

I do like the idea of everyone driving pretty much the same car.

[Farmer Reil]

The only problem with A1 is, if you make all the cars the same, and include Jos Verstappen, nobody else will stand a chance

Verstappen > *. It's just a shame he was stuck at Arrows. If you put Hakkienen or Raikkonen in an Arrows it'd still lose (If you put Schumacer in an Arrows it'd have engine trouble and retire).

[Summers]

Yeahh!

Racing will rock, yes it will.

[MDK]

I'm gonna be at work during this which sucks because I was looking forward to watching this. Anyway, it does sound rather exciting.

[Thomas]

i dont work because i win at poker so i can watch gutted

[MDK]

But at least I don't support Everton >_>

[Malenko]

The only problem with A1 is, if you make all the cars the same, and include Jos Verstappen, nobody else will stand a chance

Verstappen > *. It's just a shame he was stuck at Arrows. If you put Hakkienen or Raikkonen in an Arrows it'd still lose (If you put Schumacer in an Arrows it'd have engine trouble and retire).

[Summers]

I <3 Trulli.

He lacks race pace, though.

[Katsuya]

Jos crashed in the first race...

And in the second race, he never used his Power Boost, not even once (when he was right behind Alex Yoong too)

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Jos Verstappen was in A1?! Ooooh.

This is certainly a great concept, and with some big family names (like Piquet) and good national rivalries between teams, it's looking exciting.

On a side note, hasn't an English man just won the US racing cars series thing whatever it's called? He's a complete non-celebrity over here...He's looking to move to F1...

[TAFKA Castroneves]

I think Dan Wheldon just won the Indycars, I'm pretty sure thats who you are talking about - although I didn't know he had won it until you mentioned it.

[Sir Alan LCSugar]

He could have won the Indy 500, i know he did something special. Does anyone know how the Brit did in this thing?

[Summers]

Robbie Kerr was likely to win, then he had engine trouble and had to retire.

[Malenko]

Yeah, Dan Wheldon won the IRL. He was second last year. And yes, he won the Indy 500 and 5 other races this year. There's still one race to go but he has a 92 point lead i think with a maximum of 53 points per race.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I know that all he had to do in the last race was just go and complete a single warm up lap, therefore getting him onto the start grid and as in the US you get something like 10 points for coming last, that's all he needed...He wouldn't even need to turn up on the day...