Well you did it. I hear you saying it to yourself looking at the title of this weekly column. The FIA killed autosport. There will be a lot of you who disagree with this opinion. Or don’t understand the title. Does he mean racing in shitty countries with Formula One cars? No, i actually mean that the FIA killed the opportunity for young drivers to develop themselves. Right now you
Last year in February i published an article about the AFRIX Pan-African race series that was to be launched soon. In 2015 - 2016 AFRIX acquired the fleet of Ferrari-powered A1GP cars a few years ago. The plan was to race in the season 2020 – 2021. The AFRIX series was announced four years ago in the media. Sadly, up to today the cars are still waiting to active their
Perhaps im a bit late with publishing this news, though years ago the news was spread that AFRIX GP of South Africa bought the remaining A1GP Powered by Ferrari cars. Including spare parts, engine, steering wheels, basically the complete packages. Sadly, the cars did not re-appear on any circuit on the Africa continent. Earlier this year AFRIX GP announced that, the cars would at least appear on the tracks during
Currently there are rumours in the paddock, or Liberty Media and the FIA already agreed, stating the F1 qualification session completely renewed. The knockout session as we know now in the Formula 1, were the five slowest will drop, will be replaced by an qualification race. Better said; A sprint race will be held on Saturday, which will determine the grid positions for the race on Sunday. So yes, you
Can you remember the A1GP series held between 2006 and 2009? I bet you do, the series was broadcast in the winter seasons so we had all year long great motor sports to watch on the television. A Sheikh from Dubai with a long name, Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Maktoum Al Maktoum, created the series in a period that Dubai was internationally growing on several markets. The same sheikh however was
