Formula Acceleration 1

[Marcel ten Caat]

You might know it under its former name...Rijeka. Hosted the Yugoslavian Moto GP round in the 80s.

[AlexBlakeley]

Originally Posted by Marcel ten Caat

Calendar updated..

It was....
• Portimao (POR) - 27th April 2014
• Navarra (ESP) - 4th May 2014
• TBA (GBR) - 8th June 2014 (which replaced Rockingham)
• Anderstorp (SWE) - 22th June 2014
• Slovakiaring (SVK) - 13th July 2014
• Nürbugring (GER) - 27th July 2014
• Paul Ricard (FRA) - 24th August 2014
• Hungaroring (HUN) - 31st August 2014
• Brno (CZE) - 9th September 2014
• Grobnik (CRO) - 21st September 2014

It is now
• Portimao (POR) - 6th April 2014
• Navarra (ESP) - 4th May 2014
• Nürburgring (GER) - 25th May 2014
• Monza (ITA) - 8th June 2014
• Slovakiaring (SVK) - 6th July 2014
• Zolder (BEL) - 20th July 2014
• Paul Ricard (FRA) - 24th August 2014
• Hungaroring (HUN) - 31st August 2014
• Grobnik (CRO) - 21st September 2014
• Assen (NLD) - 19th October 2014

The proposed Acceleration round at Anderstorp, Sweden was cancelled after the circuit was forced to cancel all racing in 2014 due to noise disputes.

[el_cat]

On the subject of FA1, has anybody noticed their website states they have confirmed teams from Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands? Or is this old news? Complete with imagery of how the cars will look (I defy anyone to differentiate the Belgian and German liveries in the blink of an eye!).

I imagine if there was to be speculation on teams involved, all things point to Performance Racing for Sweden and MP for Holland?

In a way I hope this gets off the ground as I used to enjoy the racing and the concept of A1GP in its prime - although I'm yet to be convinced by this latest offering.

[kipper]

Originally Posted by Rob29

What IMPORTANT series? I can only note F1 & the supporting GP2 & GP3? I can remember when we had 20+ F1 ,F2 F5000 meetings.

True; however, motorsport has moved on since these days (and not necessarily for the better).

In terms of international series, in my view it is only the WTCC (neither Brands or Donington could make it pay); DTM (would rather race in more significant markets) and Formula Renault 3.5 (Renault UK prefers to sponsor the Goodwood Festival) that miss out. I doubt that Formula Acceleration 1 will be termed an important, international series any time soon.

[AlexBlakeley]

Originally Posted by el_cat

On the subject of FA1, has anybody noticed their website states they have confirmed teams from Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands? Or is this old news? Complete with imagery of how the cars will look (I defy anyone to differentiate the Belgian and German liveries in the blink of an eye!).

I imagine if there was to be speculation on teams involved, all things point to Performance Racing for Sweden and MP for Holland?

In a way I hope this gets off the ground as I used to enjoy the racing and the concept of A1GP in its prime - although I'm yet to be convinced by this latest offering.

If anyone went to Autosport International, Acceleration were present. at the event they confirmed AccTeam.ESP, AccTeam.GBR and AccTeam.JPN complete with liveries.

[chunder]

I would imagine that somehow Bodelier has managed to sell this toa few tracks and these are paying for the priviliege of having this series at their tracks

The Spanish track,I dont know of it, Croatia same, so they will be surely paying.

He must have funding from somewhere, Lord knows where.

And lets afce it if you are a nudding bike racer wanting to race abroad, it might lok nice, but where are you going to get any notoreity? here or agaionst your peers and team bosses in BSB or WSB or even GP.

[AlexBlakeley]

Originally Posted by chunder

I would imagine that somehow Bodelier has managed to sell this toa few tracks and these are paying for the priviliege of having this series at their tracks

The Spanish track,I dont know of it, Croatia same, so they will be surely paying.

He must have funding from somewhere, Lord knows where.

And lets afce it if you are a nudding bike racer wanting to race abroad, it might lok nice, but where are you going to get any notoreity? here or agaionst your peers and team bosses in BSB or WSB or even GP.

The Circuito de Navarra, Spain was completed in June 2010 and held the final round of the 2010 Superleague Formula Season. The track also held rounds of the FIA GT1 World Series.

The Automotodrom Grobnik in Rijeka, Croatia is only really known as a motorcycle track made famous for hosting Yugoslavian rounds of the MotoGP or whatever they used to call it between 1978 and 1990.

The Automotodróm Slovakia Ring and Automotodrom Grobnik are both FIA Grade 3 circuits. The former of the two was downgraded from Grade 2 due to a bump on one of the straights which caused cars to completely flip over on occasions.

[chunder]

I do know of Rijeka, they held GP's there diring the 90's and the safety was appalling, riders were treated like animals and dumped on stretchers etc.

Also was super hot there I recall, was not missed at all when it was left out of the calendar, but this was during Warsaw Pact days and stuff, so maybe no surprise.

Other than that, they do sound like pay tracks that will do anything to get so called big events there, I suppose you have to start somewhere!

[jondownunder]

The "official calendar" was sent in an email from them this morning:

April 04/05/06	Portugal	Portimao
May 02/03/04	Spain	Navarra
May 23/24/25	Germany	Nürburgring
June 06/07/08	Italy	Monza *
July 04/05/06	Slovakia	Slovakiaring **
July 18/19/20	Belgium	Zolder
August 22/23/24	France	Paul Ricard
August 29/30/31	Hungary	Hungaroring
September 19/20/21	Croatia	Grobnik ** (subject to FIA homologation)
October 16/17/18	Netherlands	Assen

* excluding European Stock 600 & 1000
** excluding FA1

Wim Coekelberg (Team Azerti/Racing for Belgium) has been announced as franchise holder for AccTeam.BEL

[Formulahistory]

Where do you have this from with Team BEL? Read nothing about it on their website...

[jondownunder]

It was on their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/AccelerationEvents

There's also a new site, which I assume to be unofficial (?), which although very shabby in design seems to be better updated than acceleration14.com -

http://www.acceleration-online.com/news/index.php/en/

Other news, though not remotely surprising, is that Performance Racing will run the Sweden team.

[Formulahistory]

thank you

[the insider]

Have any team be announced apart from mp manor and performance? You would of thought with such a project they would have a better website and info?!

[jondownunder]

Agreed - hardly inspires confidence. The amateur fansite (I see that's now confirmed) is better, but suffers from not dating the news posts.

No mention on the official site, but Acceleration's Facebook recently confirmed that GU-Racing will run 3 cars, including the German team.

[jondownunder]

Vincenzo Castorino announced as Team Italy manager. He seems to be an engineer from MP Motorsport.

David Hasselhoff looks set to headline some of the "entertainment" off-track at the Acceleration events.

[Bezzen]

Originally Posted by jondownunder

David Hasselhoff looks set to headline some of the "entertainment" off-track at the Acceleration events.

Seen on a picture at the event launch together with Twenty 4 Seven and Venga Boys.

Fresh!

[Juntos]

Hasselhof? Just when you think you're walking off into the sunset, a lightning bolt may strike you down.

[AlexBlakeley]

Originally Posted by jondownunder

It was on their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/AccelerationEvents

There's also a new site, which I assume to be unofficial (?), which although very shabby in design seems to be better updated than acceleration14.com -

http://www.acceleration-online.com/news/index.php/en/

Other news, though not remotely surprising, is that Performance Racing will run the Sweden team.

Thank you for your very unnecessary comment.
Unofficial but fully approved!

[AlexBlakeley]

GP2 racer and former HRT F1 Team Dani Clos is the Country Manager for Spain.

[Formulahistory]

Originally Posted by AlexBlakeley

GP2 racer and former HRT F1 Team Dani Clos is the Country Manager for Spain.

That's very interesting. Perhaps he will also stay at MP in GP2...

[RichardRenes]

From their own statements, Provily Racing is going to run the tech side of team NED. No surprise there as team Provily owner Gerben Provily used to be one of the mechanics in A1GP team Netherlands, so he knows the car quite a bit.

Having said that, half the Dutch autosports world was at the press conference, including people like Bas Koeten and Frans Verschuur.

[RichardRenes]

Reading the AutoGP entry list for this year, and I see no MP Manor there, eventhough AutoGP insists every team from 2013 returned...

I guess canceling the Zandvoort round didn't help there...

[ger80]

So how many cars do they and AutoGP have?

[Formulahistory]

I don't know how many cars Coloni have, but FA1 World Series have 18 cars of their own (but that are not the same as in Auto GP because Coloni had developed them), but they are keen to see 26 cars on the grid for owners, who also had cars.

[Juntos]

Is Lola still selling spare parts for those cars?