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The Boss
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Join Date: Sep 2008
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Due to having a website to run here I took advantage of the Live Feed offered by A1GP over the internet.
It seems to me that the quality of the picture this season is better than last season, could be HD cameras, even though the weather was atrocious.
The coverage continued throughout without missing a beat -- usually with most live feeds there is at least a few periods of buffering, it happens with the ITV-F1 online feed -- so that was a positive.
The Qualifying at Zandvoort had been changed to one session due to lack of track time for the teams -- so a little less drama of the one hotshot lap -- even so a few teams couldn't even get on track for this so some more rules were 'greased' to allow them to start from the back of the grid in the Sprint race. It helps when the A1Team.NED grabs pole for the first ever A1GP 'powered by Ferrari' race at their home track.
At this point I have to give a Huge Thumbs Up to the Fans who turned out in their thousands even though the weather gods were doing their best to either Drown them or Blow them into the sea or Both!
The racing started on time and it seemed at times more like motorboat racing than motorcar racing -- cars were spinning everywhere -- cars were hitting each other -- cars were driving on parts of the track they have never driven on before -- none of it could be blamed on the drivers -- however 2 drivers stood out -- Earl Bamber in the A1Team.NZL car showed his class and Fairuz Fauzy in the A1Team.MAL car proved to be the best in the monsoon weather which eventually led to a Red Flag close to the race.
After this first race it was good to see the Feature race start behind the Safety car and again it was a repeat of the Sprint with car carnage right through to the end where it finished behind the Safety car with just 5 cars completing full race distance and A1Team.FRA crossing the line first.
The fact that A1GP managed to get 17 cars to the start line and run both races in such awful weather was just a miracle considering all the doom and gloom predicted beforehand.
I think everyone should get a pat on the back -- from the unsung heroes like team mechanics burning the midnight oil to construct their cars -- the decal guys doing the same [seems they recruited some A1Fans to help out] -- the drivers for literally putting their lives at risk racing in such conditions in brand new cars -- the fans who never wavered in their support throughout the weekend!
Apart for the Live Timing going absent during the Feature race it was a hugely enjoyable experience for me watching the start of Season 4 on my computer courtesy of A1GP.
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