Remember the A1 GP? The race touted to be the 2nd fiddle to F1 could be dead if not already dead yet. I enjoyed the race simply because it ran similar spec cars and it was a even playing field. So with some good team work and a good driver can win you races, so that means if you had money bags alone.. It doesn’t mean you can finish on top of the podium.
Recently there hasn’t been much news about the A1 GP so i decided to have a check on what was up with the races. To my surprise, the A1 GP website is dead! So i went looking for news about the race and there wasn’t much?!
A1GP’s British arm has been wound up in the High Court after creditors chasing unpaid bills applied for it to be shut down, leaving 40 staff working without pay and lending new urgency to the series’ planned restructuring.
The series is blaming cash flow problems for its inability to pay suppliers such as Essex-based Shakespeare Engineering, which applied on May 12th for an order to wind up the UK company A1 Grand Prix Operations Ltd.
Source : Britsonpole
So there you have it, A1 Gp owes big time money to suppliers, which include the likes of Ferrari and others. The race is off indefinitely and hopefully it comes back soon because it was pretty entertaining “The World Cup” of motor sports was a nice concept!
From the Shelves of Delirium
Digging up the files…
…that’s why there is no A1GP in Malaysia at the end of the year 2009, thanking 4 sharing