Talk:A1 Grand Prix

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[edit] India 16th ? I don't think so

Someone put India in 16th in the 06/07 season while actually they were 19th, messing with the whole table.


[edit] Was shootout held

The article says ''The United Kingdom team announced that drivers Ralph Firman, Robbie Kerr, James Rossiter and Alex Lloyd will be competing in a "shoot-out" test to determine who will get the seat. The test will occur at Brands Hatch on May 23-24". If that shootout has actually taken place the page could do with an update.Moriori July 4, 2005 03:16 (UTC)

The test occurred, but the decision has not been made yet... apparently all were "very impressive". See A1 Team Great Britain. I've updated the page accordingly.

[edit] Germany/Italy

I haven't seen Germany or Italy mentioned anywhere as having teams yet. Can anyone point me to a source for this? Otherwise I think we should move them down to that "countries allotted a franchise" table. Recury 23:45, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

I think I was the one who added them and the reason was that they became displayed on the A1 GP website on the right where the list of teams are. This was shortly after A1GP announced "two major European nations" were on the brink of signing up. Strange thing is, the website says here that there are 20 teams now signed up, but there are 21 countries in the list. AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 07:49, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
Yeah, that is weird. I guess it'd probably be best to wait for the season to start before doing anything major. Recury 22:34, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Drivers

What's the deal with the massive amounts of drivers listed? There seem to be about 1000 listed for Mexico especially. I think we should not put any speculated drivers in, and just wait until they are confirmed, as the lists have gotten a bit out of hand. Thoughts? AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 13:39, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

I agree, the Mexico section is out of hand, I don't know where all of those names came from. As each team is launching at a different time though, I'm not sure we should wait until drivers are confirmed - if a driver has tested for a team, that definitely qualifies them for the table in my opinion. David 5000 16:21, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
I had put a lot of the unconfirmed drivers on there, but I limited it to two drivers per team simply because any more than that made the table look pretty bad. I'm sure whoever added the Mexico ones was going by the official A1 Team Mexico site where they had a list of 8-10 potential drivers up. Either way, Mexico has announced the two official drivers [1] so I just changed it to that and deleted the rest. Recury 18:50, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Team info

Where can we slot in info about teams? For instance, the NZ team has a quandary because both Reid and Halliday were lapping Paul Ricard at almost exactly the same times so they aren't sure who will get the seat in the first race. Also, the kiwis were particularly impressive in that altho they had only the fourth fastest individial time, Reid and Halliday were faster than any two drivers in any other team. Stuff like that. Also, Halliday can't drive in Germany October 9 because he is contracted to race the Bathurst 500 in Oz. It appears Scott Dixon might get a release from the IRL for that weekend. Moriori 02:23, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

the A1 Team New Zealand page probably.
Right. I concede it is early days yet, but simple navigation of a page is paramount, and having to go to the very bottom of the page to a bunch of pretty pictures to find a team link is user unfriendly. In the Competing Countries box (NZ entry), in the Team column I have linked West Surrey Racing to A1 Team New Zealand. Ok, sometime in the future they may possibly need separate entries, but at the moment they don't, and finding your way to info about the team is much easier. Oh, and although there isn't anything in the NZ team space yet, there will be. There will be. Moriori 03:15, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Stephen Watson

The article linked to Stephen Watson, an South Afrikan poet. I'm pretty sure this isn't the same man. From the A1GP site I gather that he is a former Formula One test driver and former F3000 driver. I also found a reference that he was with the Arrows team [2]. The thing is I have no clue what the correct Wikipedia article should be: "Stephen Watson (driver)" or "Stephen Watson (racing)" (or something else). It also appears there is a soccer player Steve Watson. What should the Stephen Watson article be? Felsir 09:20, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Same thing for John_Wickham. Felsir 09:25, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
It's usually Stephen Watson (racing driver), but the exact thing you put there doesn't really matter as long as you link to it from the Stephen Watson article. AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 20:07, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] On linking "World Cup"

Regarding the recent revesion of the linking of World Cup: I don't think disambiguation is a reason to immediately discount all incoming links. Furthermore, while the World Cup article is a disambiguation page, its opening paragraph is not typical of such and provides relevant information on the use of the term World Cup:

  • A world cup is a type of global sporting competition...
  • Certain sports do not have a world cup...
  • Often, the use of the term cup or championship in this sense is just a choice of words.

which make linking useful.

All, of course, in my humble opinion. Erath 16:51, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia does have a policy of avoiding links to disambiguiation pages, but you do have a point. I think the main problem here is the World cup page, not necessarily your link. The concept of world cups in general is notable/important enough to have its own full-fledged article instead of the dab/stub/list thing it is now and that new article should probably be what we link to. Recury 18:25, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
Fine points. I thought about attempting to make a seperate article for "World cup", but without some more research it would be a little stub... Perhaps the 'disambiguation plus' is the best bet... Erath 20:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

You may find some stuff here you can use: www.flickr.com.

Be sure to check the license tags against Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags 4u1e 06:49, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reference links to A1 GP website

All the reference links to the A1 GP website are broken. - DH85868993 14:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

All updated following the recent a1gp.com web site upgrade. One link was removed as I could not find the story on the A1GP web site relating to the original release of the 06/07 calendar. All other links have been moved to their new locations on the official site or in one case to another external site. --Jsydave 23:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fourth Season dates

I have the dates for the Fourth Season if anyone is interested. Moriori 21:08, 1 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Problem in Introduction

This is incorrect: "A1GP (formerly A1 Grand Prix)" should be "formally A1 Grand Prix" as this is the formal name for the series and still is the name for the series. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.147.195.158 (talk) 21:08, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Team List

Is the team list in a particular order or are they random.MotorSportMCMXC 22:29, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

It's in the alphabetic order. But all teams are not registerd (Russia, Greece). This table isn't useful I think, and a better way to introduce A1 Team can be make. - Rollof1 09:09, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
I suggest replace in "Team" section, the table with all teams final positions by the synthetized table in List of A1 Grand Prix' seasons. All racing series article have their list of champions in their main page. I've added a participative nations table in this section, therefore, the table with all team standings (not really easy to read) is anymore helpful. - Rollof1 (talk) 10:48, 17 November 2007 (UTC)