Newsgroup: it.sport.formula1.moderato
Titolo: [ENG] The confused world below F1

Source: 
grandprix.com
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns14019.html
The plethora of novice championships surrounding Formula 1 is very
confusing - even to the experienced race fan. There was a time when the
racing world was neatly structured with Formula 1, Formula 2 and Formula
3. The disappeared in the 1980s when the FIA adopted the illogical
concept of Formula 3000 to differentiate the new series from the old F2.
Now the FIA has abandoned Formula 3000 and agreed to let a
privately-owned (although who knows by whom) championship called GP2 take
over the role of being the primary feeder series to Formula 1. This has
attracted 12 teams but must now prove its viability by delivering (and
maintaining) 24 cars. Most of the teams seem to be dependent on drivers
bringing money and there is currently something of a dearth of youngsters
wandering around with the kind of money needed for GP2.
DAMS will be running Jose Maria Lopez and Fairuz Fauzy. The new HiTech
Piquet Racing will feature Nelson Piquet Jr and probably Xandinho Negrao.
The BCN team has signed Venezuela's Ernesto Viso and been testing Nico
Rosberg and Rob Austin and will soon test Japan's Hiroki Yoshimoto.
Rosberg is expeced to sign for either BCN or Racing Engineering. The
latter is expected to field the new Spanish Formula 3 Champion Borja
Garcia. Campos Motorsport will probably run Sergio Hernandez and may also
run Roldan Rodriguez. The team ASM-Todt team is likely to have Alexandre
Premat but there is currently no official word on Arden International,
Coloni, Super Nova Racing, David Price Racing, Durango and iSport.
GP2 will be seen at most of the European Grands Prix this year but has a
decent rival in the new Formula Superfund which has attracted some of the
old Formula 3000 teams such as Ma-Con, Astromega and GP Racing plus teams
which will switch from the Euro 3000 series. These will probably include
John Village Automotive, Euronova and Draco. There will also be a new
team called Bradrive. Some of the old Euro 3000 teams cannot afford to
move to Formula Superfund and instead plan to run in a series called the
3000 ProSeries. The series will run with the existing cars and will keep
the same regulations until the end of 2007. To complicate matters some of
the Formula Superfund teams will be running their old cars in this
series. In addition to this there is to be a new Italian Formula 3000
Championship which will take in the teams that continue to run older
F3000 machinery.
The merger of the Nissan World Series with the Renault V6 Eurocup has
created another choice for rising stars. The new World Series by Renault
will feature a mixture of the team Nissan and Renault teams which have
not moved up to GP2. These include Nissan champions Pons Racing, Carlin
Motorsport, Epsilon Euskadi, Draco, Eurointernational, GD Racing,
Interwetten, Cram Competition, KTR, Signature and RC Motorsport.
And, of course, we have the new A1 Grand Prix series which will start in
September 2005 and will run through the winter of 2005-2006. Many of
these cars will be run by teams mentioned above, A1 providing them with a
good chance to improve their cash-flow over the winter and (hopefully)
bringing new drivers and new money into the sport from countries which
traditionally have not had any involvement in the sport.
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 over the role of being the primary feeder series to Formula 1. This has
Io ero rimasto che la F.3000 tornava a chiamarsi F.2 e che a questa si
sarebbero affiancate altre serie, ma che comunque la FIA avrebbe portato
avanti ancora un campionato "cadetto".
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