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A1GP World Cup of
Motorsport will have a maximum of 18 cars on the grid for its
first race of the 2008/09 season, A1GP Zandvoort, The
Netherlands.
“We cannot blame any of the missing teams for a lack of
effort. They all burnt the midnight oil and worked as hard as
humanly possible to make the grid, but the car build delays
just beat them,” said A1GP CEO, Pete da Silva.
The good news for the Dutch fans is their own A1 Team
Netherlands car will be there with Jeroen Bleekemolen at the
wheel. The teams also definitely racing, some of whom are
testing at Snetterton this week, are from Australia,
Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Monaco,
New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and the USA. The final
group of teams who are still working flat out and will have to
head straight to Zandvoort are Brazil, China, France, Portugal
and Switzerland. Meanwhile Canada, Germany, Great Britain,
India and Mexico will have to wait for the second event of the
season for their race debuts.
While all the missing teams are obviously disappointed,
they appreciate this will not seriously dent their
championship ambitions. This is due to the change in the
sporting regulations that means they can now drop their worst
weekend score and just count their best nine results from the
ten events.
A1GP Zandvoort, The Netherlands has, in the A1GP tradition,
proved an exciting event with close racing which has always
been well received by the enthusiastic Dutch fans. While
ticket sales have been strong there are still some grandstand
seats left.
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