Talk:A1 Grand Prix

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: Germany/Italy

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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  so I just changed it to that and deleted the rest. Recury 18:50, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Drivers

message: 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 .
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)
replies: text: Same thing for John_Wickham. Felsir 09:25, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Stephen Watson 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  On linking "World Cup" 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Pictures 

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

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

message: 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)
thread_title: Problem in Introduction

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

text: 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)
thread_title: Team List

message: The world map image in the history section isn't accurate for the last season. Can we delete it or someone can update it ? The image must be replaced on the team section. - Rollof1 (talk) 09:14, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently Diniz made it, so maybe we could ask him to update it? I'm not the best at image editing, so I'm not going to go near it. However, I think we should wait until after Zandvoort before updating? TheChrisD Rants•Edits 11:10, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I ask Diniz in its talk page after Zandvoort. - Rollof1 (talk) 14:19, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  world map image 

message: The A1GP Safety Car is a Ferrari 599 GTB, driven by James McAlpine with the observer being Jerry Pyman.The A1GP Medical Car is a Masserati Quattroporte, driven by Lars Viljoen and carrying the series Medical Delegate Dr Paul Trafford and Paramedic John Bettley and a Doctor from the country where the race is being held.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.169.227.19 (talk) 21:14, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Safety and Medical Cars 

message: There is a very nice, freely-licensed set of photos from the recent race at Kyalami here.--Diniz(talk) 21:07, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos 

message: AutosportRacing.com later received articles about Mr Cherry's job at A1 GP, and there were many quotes from many clients who work with A1 saying that they were "confused by what his job actually was".
This is not elaborated upon, and he is not mentioned again within the article.  For that reason, I feel that the statement stands alone and has no relevance to the subject.  It appears to be a vaguely worded personal attack on either Mr. Cherry or the his employers and does not belong here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.26.130.228 (talk) 02:26, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  and your point is? 

message: Currently all A1GP event pages take on the naming system of "(Year) A1 Grand Prix of Nations, (Country)", which is how the events used to be named - for example, 2008-09 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Great Britain.
However in the last few years, they have been known as "A1GP (City), (Country)". This can be seen here, where it describes the event as "A1GP Brands Hatch, Great Britain".
Should we keep the old naming system going, for continuity purposes, or should we change it to what the events are now called? Arunby (talk) 22:47, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You right, A1GP name event like "A1GP Brands Hatch, Great Britain" (as in the stats zone of a1gp.com). If we choose to change event name, we have to rename all races articles and related links. - Rollof1 (talk) 12:04, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Recently (as in the last year or two), the series has been referring to the events at the A1GP Track, Country. However, the original naming scheme aws is currently used is mainly a carry-over from how they were originally referred to in the first couple of seasons, as well as how the original creators of the WikiPorject named them. I wouldn't have any objection to re-naming the articles for last season and this season to the new scheme, but I won't be the one doing it! (Way too much work for me, especially as I still have to update all the team pages...) TheChrisD Rants•Edits 17:08, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been updating a few team pages, I can help out with others too. As for event renames, I'll have to look back and see when they stopped referring to them as "A1 Grand Prix of Nations" and started referring to them as "A1GP" events - may even be the 2nd season. Arunby (talk) 18:13, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Event naming 

message: "RAB Capital's Special Situations fund, which lost its bet on A1GP, missed out on the market recovery of 2009 and its shareholders forced manager RAB to allow the entire fund to be put up for sale through a Dutch auction."
Is that an auction in The Netherlands, or a Dutch auction? The Machine (talk) 02:04, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous statement 

message: What happened in the auction? Antimatter31 (talk) 09:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The End of A1GP? 

message: All information from A1 Grand Prix pointscoring systems has been merged into this article. Northamerica1000(talk) 13:20, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger complete 

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message: I am advocating removing the broadcasters section - this is of zero relevance to the topic - akin to discussing who was the groundskeeper.  If someone feels different we can discuss but I see absolutely no need for the waste of space. 203.211.72.141 (talk) 01:18, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of broadcasters section