The A1GP was a popular series back in the day, even if it didn't survive the test of time. With former Alpine and FIA man Marcin Budkowski leading the effort to resurrect A1GP, we spoke to the drivers that were involved in the original championship:
We’ve been here before, of course. Multiple times in fact. Talks of reviving the A1GP ‘World Cup of Motorsport’ since its demise in 2009 have invariably led to nothing down the years, the closest thing to a resurrection coming in the form of the even more short-lived Formula Acceleration 1 series won by Dutchman Nigel Melker in 2014.
“I would love to see it be revived,” said Oliver Jarvis, twice a winner for Team Great Britain. “If you speak to anybody that actually drove in it, we had the best time ever. The racing was fantastic, a lot of very good drivers came through, and it helped to progress their careers. Overall, it was a great concept and a lot of fun.”
“It was super big in South Africa, Indonesia, people knew us at passport control!” remembers Jani. “I still remember entering the country, they were like ‘ah, Team Switzerland’. Filipe Albuquerque, a race winner for Portugal, adds: “I remember very well back then that people connected just simply because it’s the country. It makes sense. I enjoyed it a lot going to different countries, representing your country.”The eclectic blend of circuits that A1GP visited was a core appeal too.
“It was very popular back then,” says Albuquerque. “And because I was driving in the front, I think it helped [with lifting profile] as well. It was obviously good for me and I had massive fun.” “It was great fun, whenever you're successful you enjoy those,” he says. “But for me that was the start of an international career or travel as well, the first time to travel abroad, first time in different continents, it was very exciting times.”
“It was one of the most fabulous and exciting phases of my life, of my career, but it is going to be unbelievably difficult to revive that,” he says. “When it happened, it happened at the right time with maybe the right people.
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