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Originally Posted by Moneyseeker
But did it take off? The series has lost serious amounts of money, teams have come and gone, private investors have funded country teams - where is the return, where are the sponsors, would TV companies ever pay to have rights to A1GP?
Personally I never bought the nation v nation concept, motorsport is about drivers, individual performances. Sure there is an overall team performance in terms of preparing and running the car, but on track it's all about the driver.
If the concept were to work at all it should be 10 teams running 2 cars each, running under country flags with 2 national drivers from each with both a drivers and 'international' championship table.
But having said that, contrived championships are very difficult to make work.
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In season 1 & 2 the series made huge but expected losses, in season 3 it broke even, and had it continued in that form for a further year, with more efficiencies and the proposed stronger TV coverage and growing following would have been a success. Unfortunately people who knew nothing about the racing business and saw A1 as a huge Ego trip got control of it, and ruined it. (It must be said that the responsibilty for allowing (TT control) this to happen lies at the feet of all involved in A1GP.