A1GP - Trial for new format in September. Post entries now.

Samster · Post by **Samster** » 13 Nov 2015, 10:54

Remember my attempt at running an A1 Grand Prix from 1950 up till the present day? And how that didn't quite pan out? Well this time I'm bringing it back for the present era. We will erase the old version from the record books and start afresh.

Rules

1. First and foremost, this version will feature a real-time schedule. Meaning that the schedule will take place on or close to the dates shown below as if it was in the real universe. This means that the season itself will not begin till the new year though there will be some test sessions to take part in before then. The idea behind this for me is that it will make the series easier for me to keep up with.

There will also be yearly venue rotations. Also some venues are left as TBA as I'll be holding a vote for these later on.

2016 Schedule
1. January 31 - South African A1 Grand Prix - Durban Street Circuit
2. February 21 - Brazilian A1 Grand Prix - Autódromo José Carlos Pace
3. March 13 - Mexican A1 Grand Prix - Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
4. March 27 - United States A1 Grand Prix - Sonoma Raceway
5. April 10 - Canadian A1 Grand Prix - Circuit Gilles Villeneuve
6. May 1 - French A1 Grand Prix - Circuit Paul Ricard
7. May 15 - Italian A1 Grand Prix - Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari
8. May 29 - Belgian A1 Grand Prix - Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
9. June 12 - English A1 Grand Prix - Brands Hatch
10. June 26 - German A1 Grand Prix - Hockenheim
11. July 17 - Czech A1 Grand Prix - Masaryk Circuit
12. July 31 - Swedish A1 Grand Prix - Anderstorp Raceway
13. August 14 - Spanish A1 Grand Prix - Circuito de Jerez
14. August 28 - Turkish A1 Grand Prix - Istanbul Park
15. September 11 - Emirates A1 Grand Prix - Yas Marina Circuit
16. September 25 - Japanese A1 Grand Prix - Autopolis
17. October 9 - South Korean A1 Grand Prix - Korea International Circuit
18. October 23 - Australian A1 Grand Prix - Surfers Paradise
19. November 13 - Indian A1 Grand Prix - Buddh International Circuit
20. December 4 - Malaysian A1 Grand Prix - Sepang International Circuit

Venue Alternations
Round 2 and 3 - Brazil, Mexico and Argentina will share these two dates each missing one in every three seasons.
Round 8 - Belgium and Netherlands will alternate yearly.
Round 11 - Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary will alternate yearly.
Round 12 - Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland will alternate yearly.
Round 13 - Spain and Portugal will alternate yearly.
Round 14 - Turkey and Russia will alternate yearly.
Round 15 - U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain will alternate yearly.
Round 16 - South Korea and China will alternate yearly.
Round 19 - India and New Zealand will alternate yearly.
Round 20 - Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand will alternate yearly.

2. As this series takes place within the real universe, there will be date clashes with real universe series. For example a current Formula One driver would not be able to take part in an A1 Grand Prix that clashes with a Formula 1 Grand Prix. Drivers that are injured in real life also will not be able to take part here.

3. With a vast list of nations to choose from in this era, there will be three levels of competition with 26 nations each. A1, A2 and A3 Grand Prix featuring races of 300, 200 and 100 km respectively. The four test sessions held before the season begins will determine which nation will take part at which level. At the end of each season the bottom three nations of each level will be relegated and replaced with the top three nations of the level below.

4. As well as setting the fields for each level, the test sessions are also an opportunity to evaluate drivers for the upcoming season. Each of the four sessions will be held across three days and one driver can be used each day. That means you can test as many as 12 drivers across all the venues.

Test Venues.
1. November 24-26 Portimau, Portugal
Tuesday - DNK Kevin Magnussen
Wednesday - NZL Scott Dixon
Thursday - BRA Nelson Piquet Jr.

2. December 8-10 Dubai Autodrome, U.A.E.
Tuesday - AUS Daniel Ricciardo
Wednesday - FIN Kimi Raikkonen
Thursday - FIN Valtteri Bottas

3. January 5-7 Phillip Island, Australia
Tuesday - ESP Fernando Alonso
Wednesday - DEU Sebastian Vettel
Thursday - AUS Will Power

4. January 19-21 Circuit of the Americas, United States
Tuesday - ESP Fernando Alonso
Wednesday - DEU Sebastian Vettel
Thursday - AUS Will Power

So with the rules explained, all you need to do now is choose your nations and nominate your drivers for the first test venues by November 23rd. You will need to state whom will drive on which day. Drivers must be between the ages of 16-60 and not known to have retired from the sport. They must be non-fictional too of course.

The available nations are listed below. I have split them into three tiers based on the quality of their drivers. For now you must pick three nations each, one from each tier to keep everyone on a relatively even playing field.

Tier 1
Argentina - Ice1Racing
Australia - HawkAussie
Austria - peteroli34
Belgium - tommykl
Brazil - FantometteBR
Canada - V8fan12
Colombia
Denmark - RedEyes504
England - dr-baker
Finland - Ice1Racing
France - This
Germany - Klon
India - This
Italy - Wallio
Japan - WaffleCat
Mexico - Normal32
Netherlands - Bleu
New Zealand - AustralianStig
Portugal - Miguel98
Russia
Scotland - dr-baker
Spain - V8fan12
Sweden - tommykl
Switzerland - Reject_Dom
United States - Normal32
Venezuela

Tier 2
Chile - This
China - peteroli34
Cyprus - Klon
Czech Republic - Reject_Dom
Estonia - Ice1Racing
Hong Kong - peteroli34
Hungary - V8fan12
Indonesia - WaffleCat
Ireland - Bleu
Israel - Wallio
Macau - Miguel98
Malaysia - tommykl
Morocco - HawkAussie
Monaco - dr-baker
Northern Ireland - andrew
Norway - RedEyes504
Philippines - AustralianStig
Poland - Bleu
Puerto Rico
Romania - RedEyes504
San Marino - Wallio
Slovakia - FantometteBR
South Africa - FantometteBR
Thailand - WaffleCat
Uruguay - Pinkd56
United Arab Emirates - Normal32

Tier 3
Angola - Normal32
Azerbaijan - Normal32
Bahrain - Bleu
Belarus - AustralianStig
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria - This
Costa Rica
Croatia - Ice1Racing
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Georgia - andrew
Greece - Dexter249
Guatemala
Iran - HawkAussie
Jamaica
Jordan
Kazakhstan - andrew
Kenya
Kuwait - peteroli34
Latvia - andrew
Lebanon - WaffleCat
Lithuania - Reject_Dom
Luxembourg - HawkAussie
Madagascar - Dexter249
Malta
Oman - Pinkd56
Pakistan
Peru - Dexter249
Qatar - Klon
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia - Reject_Dom
Singapore - FantometteBR
Slovenia - Miguel98
South Korea - dr-baker
Sri Lanka
Syria
Taiwan - This
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey - V8fan12
Ukraine - RedEyes504
Wales - Wallio
Zimbabwe - tommykl

Currently Injured Drivers
Fernando Alonso - ESP
Kevin Swindell - USA

Recently Retired Drivers

2012
Rinaldo Capello - ITA
Dario Franchitti - SCT
Michael Schumacher - DEU

2013
Mark Martin - USA
Allan McNish - SCT

2014
Jeff Burton - USA
Tom Kristensen - DNK
Greg Murphy - NZL

2015
Jaime Alguersuari - ESP
Jeff Gordon - USA
Kenny Wallace - USA
Susie Wolff - SCT
Alexander Wurz - AUT

2016
Rickard Rydell - SWE

Post by **tommykl** » 13 Nov 2015, 11:22

I will pick Belgium, Malaysia and Zimbabwe

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 13 Nov 2015, 11:32

I'll go for England, Monaco, South Korea

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 13 Nov 2015, 11:46

Germany, Cyprus and Qatar for me, if you don't mind.

AustralianStig · Post by **AustralianStig** » 13 Nov 2015, 12:22

New Zealand, The Philippines and Belarus.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 13 Nov 2015, 14:23

USA, UAE and Angola to me

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 13 Nov 2015, 14:30

Russia, Ireland and Jamaica it is.

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 13 Nov 2015, 15:21

I take Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Lithuania.

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 13 Nov 2015, 15:51

Brazil, South Africa and Singapore

Wallio · Post by **Wallio** » 13 Nov 2015, 18:50

Italy, San Marino, and Wales, please.

V8fan12 · Post by **V8fan12** » 13 Nov 2015, 19:52

Canada, Hungary, and Turkey please

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 13 Nov 2015, 20:23

Austria, Hong Kong and Kuwait

Ice1Racing · Post by **Ice1Racing** » 13 Nov 2015, 20:59

May I take Finland, Estonia & Croatia

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 14 Nov 2015, 00:25

I would like to take Australia, Morocco and Luxembourg

RedEyes504 · Post by **RedEyes504** » 14 Nov 2015, 00:32

I'll go with Denmark Norway & Ukraine

WaffleCat · Post by **WaffleCat** » 14 Nov 2015, 00:56

I'll take Japan, Thailand and good old Lebanon.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 14 Nov 2015, 10:36

Tier 1: Colombia
Tier 2: Puerto Rico
Tier 3: Guatemala

Old habits die hard.

Post by **Miguel98** » 14 Nov 2015, 10:48

Portugal, Macau and Slovenia for me

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 16 Nov 2015, 20:25

I take Netherlands, Poland and Bahrain.

Samster · Post by **Samster** » 17 Nov 2015, 20:46

Since entries seem to be dying down and there are still plenty of good nations left I shall allow you all to pick a fourth team from whichever tier you want. I would like all of the tier 1 nations to have an owner at least. You have until November 23rd to choose a fourth team if you wish. Anything remaining will be ran by myself until someone new wants them or will withdraw depending on the amount of drivers available to them.

You also need to nominate drivers you would like to drive for you during the Portimau test running between the 24th to 26th. State who you would like on each day. You can run the same driver for all three days or switch each day. Remember because this is right before the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, any drivers competing in Formula 1 and its support races will be unavailable for this test venue.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 17 Nov 2015, 20:50

I'll take France as my fourth nation. Drivers to be announced shortly.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 17 Nov 2015, 21:04

I'll have Scotland as I have a particular driver in mind for that drive...

V8fan12 · Post by **V8fan12** » 17 Nov 2015, 21:17

Lets go with Spain.

Post by **Ataxia** » 17 Nov 2015, 21:21

Since France is now taken, I'll go for Mexico, Uruguay and Georgia please.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 17 Nov 2015, 21:32

Drivers for Portimao:

France

Day 1: Jean-Éric Vergne
Day 2: Stéphane Sarrazin
Day 3: Sébastien Bourdais

Russia

Day 1: Vitaly Petrov
Day 2: Mikhail Aleshin
Day 3: Roman Rusinov

Ireland

Day 1: Niall Murray
Day 2: Peter Dempsey
Day 3: Ralph Firman

Jamaica

Day 1: Thomas Issa
Day 2: Joel Jackson
Day 3: Brian Fowler

RedEyes504 · Post by **RedEyes504** » 17 Nov 2015, 21:43

I'll take Romania as my 4th, drivers to follow

V8fan12 · Post by **V8fan12** » 17 Nov 2015, 21:45

Drivers for the Portimao test

Canada
Jacques Villeneuve - Day 1
Scott Hargrove - Day 2
James Hinchcliffe - Day 3

Spain
Dani Clos - Day 1
Oriol Servia - Day 2
Victor Garcia - Day 3

Hungary
Ferdinand Zvonimir von Habsburg - Days 1 & 2
Tamas Pal Kiss - Day 3

Turkey
Jason Tahincioglu - Day 1
Aytac Biter - Day 2
Mert Aytug - Day 3

Post by **Nuppiz** » 17 Nov 2015, 21:45

I'll run a different driver on each day, in the following order:

Colombia
Óscar Tunjo
Julián Leal
Gabby Chaves

Venezuela
Rodolfo González
Samin Gómez
Alex Popow

Puerto Rico
Félix Juan Serrallés IV
Victor Gonzalez, Jr.
Bryan Ortiz

Guatemala
Andrés Saravia
Sebastián Arriola
Ian Geoffrey Rodriguez

Post by **Ataxia** » 17 Nov 2015, 21:51

We'll run different drivers on each day for Mexico, but Uruguay and Georgia will use one driver each.

MEX: Esteban Gutierrez, Salvador Duran, Diego Menchaca
URU: Santiago Urrutia
GEO: Davit Kajaia

AustralianStig · Post by **AustralianStig** » 17 Nov 2015, 21:58

Three nations is plenty for me, thanks.

Drivers for Portimao:

New Zealand

Day 1: Brendon Hartley
Day 2: Scott Dixon
Day 3: Shane van Gisbergen

The Philippines

Day 1: Michele Bumgarner
Day 2: Gaby Dela Merced
Day 3: Marlon Stöckinger

Belarus

Day 1: Dmitry Suranovich (originally raced under a Russian licence but then retired, aged 17, so this is his comeback racing as a Belarusian

)
Day 2: Alexander Talkanitsa Jr.
Day 3: Yury Krauchuk

Wallio · Post by **Wallio** » 17 Nov 2015, 22:03

Israel isn't taken yet? I'll grab it then.

For test drivers:

Italy: Alex Zanardi
Israel: Chanoch Nissany
San Marino: Giancarlo Fisicella
Wales: Elfyn Evans

Post by **tommykl** » 17 Nov 2015, 22:09

And I shall have Sweden.

Belgium
Day 1: Laurens Vanthoor
Day 2: Max Defourny
Day 3: Jérôme d'Ambrosio

Malaysia
Day 1: Jazeman Jaafar
Day 2: Weiron Tan
Day 3: Alex Yoong

Zimbabwe
Day 1 & 2: Axcil Jefferies
Day 3: Peter Ball

Sweden
Day 1: Björn Wirdheim
Day 2: Felix Rosenqvist
Day 3: Mattias Ekström

Samster · Post by **Samster** » 17 Nov 2015, 22:42

Wallio wrote:Israel isn't taken yet? I'll grab it then.

For test drivers:

Italy: Alex Zanardi
Israel: Chanoch Nissany
San Marino: Giancarlo Fisicella
Wales: Elfyn Evans

Fisichella as far as I'm aware has never been associated with San Marino so he is ineligible. If you are struggling there is a list of drivers here. https://www.driverdb.com/countries/san-marino/

I may be wrong but Nissany and Zanardi I think are officially retired from racing now.

AustralianStig · Post by **AustralianStig** » 17 Nov 2015, 23:26

AustralianStig wrote:Day 1: Dmitry Suranovich (originally raced under a Russian licence but then retired, aged 17, so this is his comeback racing as a Belarusian )

Samster wrote:I may be wrong but Nissany and Zanardi I think are officially retired from racing now.

Am I ok for Suranovich? He's officially retired but I figured that was more to funding issues and he's young enough to make a comeback?

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 17 Nov 2015, 23:38

For a 4th team i will take China, all team will run 3 drivers in the Portimao listed in order of the days they will test.

Austria
Christian Klien
Mathias Lauda
Lucas Auer

Hong Kong
Marchy Lee
Darryl O Young
Jim Ka To

China
Martin Cao
Ho-Pin Tung
David Cheng

Kuwait
Khaled Al Mudhaf
Hesham Ali
Ahmad Al Ghanem

Ice1Racing · Post by **Ice1Racing** » 17 Nov 2015, 23:50

May I take Argentina

Samster · Post by **Samster** » 17 Nov 2015, 23:52

AustralianStig wrote:
AustralianStig wrote:Day 1: Dmitry Suranovich (originally raced under a Russian licence but then retired, aged 17, so this is his comeback racing as a Belarusian )
Samster wrote:I may be wrong but Nissany and Zanardi I think are officially retired from racing now.

Am I ok for Suranovich? He's officially retired but I figured that was more to funding issues and he's young enough to make a comeback?

Yeah he's of plausible age that he'd return if given the opportunity.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 17 Nov 2015, 23:53

To complement my Latin American choices, I'll pick Venezuela as my 4th nation. I've updated my driver picks here: viewtopic.php?p=351188#p351188

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 18 Nov 2015, 01:49

I will take Slovakia as my 4th choice and these are my choices

Brazil
Day 1 - Helio Castroneves
Day 2 - Bruno Senna
Day 3 - Nelsinho Piquet

South Africa
Day 1 - Jayde Kruger
Day 2 and 3 - Adrian Zaugg

Singapore
Day 1 and 2 - Weng Sun Mok
Day 3 - Andrew Tang

Slovakia
Day 1 - Richard Gonda
Day 2 and 3 - Veronika Vanyova

WaffleCat · Post by **WaffleCat** » 18 Nov 2015, 02:49

Tests for my nations:

Japan

Day 1: Hiroaki Ishiura
Day 2: Kamui Kobayashi
Day 3: Kazuki Nakajima

Thailand

Day 1: Tin Sritrai
Day 2: Tor Graves
Day 3: Alexander Albon

Lebanon

Day 1: Noel Jammal
Day 2: Graham Rahal (He did race for A1 Team Lebanon…if not allowed, I'll have Jammal run another day)
Day 3: Tani Hanna

I'll take Indonesia in case someone still wants to enter with India.

Indonesia

Day 1-3: Ananda Mikola (cause why not?)