Motor Authority (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
A1GP’s management has dropped the opening round of the series’ fourth season - which was to have been held at Mugello, Italy, next month - because the development of a new chassis won’t be complete in time. The first round will now start on October 4 at Zandvoort in the Netherlands. Earlier this year the A1GP [...]
Crash.Net (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
The fourth A1 GP season will start in October at Zandvoort, rather than Mugello.
pitbitch (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
The opening round of the 2008/09 A1GP series, scheduled to take place at Mugello on 21 September, has been postponed due to technical difficulties with the new car. The series will now kick off at Zandvoort on 4/5 October.
Brits on Pole (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
A1GP's planned season opener at Ferrari's Mugello circuit has been postponed after its newly-designed car failed in testing, causing a crash that left driver Patrick Friesacher with three crushed vertebrae.
TotalF1.com (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
New Ferrari-powered chassis not ready..... A1GP World Cup of Motorsport has moved A1GP Mugello, Italy from the opening round of the 2008/09 championship following a delay in the build schedule of the new 'Ferrari-powered' chassis...
Full Throttle (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
The pressure will be even greater for the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport national teams when they go to Mugello, Italy for the start of season four in September.
TotalF1.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Extra pits stops and points allocation changes. The pressure will be even greater for the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport national teams when they go to Mugello, Italy for the start of season four in September...
AutoMotoPortal.com (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Wind tunnel testing has been a key element in the development of the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport Powered by Ferrari car for season four. The car that had its first public running at the Mugello circuit was the product of many hours spent by the A1GP technical team in wind tunnels at the University of Southampton’s School of Engineering Sciences.
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
The third and final day of testing, before the well deserved summer break, for Vittoriano Guareschi and Niccolo Canepa concluded today at Mugello. Vittoriano continued working on the scheduled development of the GP9. Niccola completed two long runs despites of the hot conditions and recorded a best time of 1.51.2.
Brits on Pole (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
The A1GP series has announced that tickets to its opening event, due to be held at Italy's Mugello circuit in September 21 this year, are about to go on sale.
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The three-day test session at the Tuscan track of Mugello has concluded in a positive fashion for Sete Gibernau. The Spanish rider has clocked up a great deal of kilometres on track (around 800kms in total) first with the GP9, then with the GP8, finishing with a final exit on the GP9 for a back to back comparison. In this, only his second test session after nearly two years away from the tracks, Gibernau...
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
A three-day session for the Ducati Test Team began today at Mugello, where factory test rider Vittoriano Guareschi was joined for the first time by Sete Gibernau. Gibernau clocked up twenty laps with the Desmosedici GP9, recording a best time of 1'53.7 before the session was interrupted by rain. Despite a long absence from the sport and the opportunity to complete only a handful of laps today, the...
Sportnetwork (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Valentino Rossi had won three in a row in the 2008 MotoGP World Championship, moving to the head of the standings with his works Fiat Yamaha. His round six win had been at home in the Italian GP at Mugello, but now it was back to Spain for round seven, giving home advantage to his two main rivals. Would Dani Pedrosa or Jorge Lorenzo do the job in the Catalunya Grand Prix?
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
After the Italian GP at Mugello last Sunday, the MotoGP circus moves to Spain to race on Sunday June 8th at the GP of Catalunya on the Barcelona circuit. JiR Team Scot is ready to confirm the positive signals shown by Andrea Dovizioso in MotoGP and redeem the fortunes of Yuki Takahashi in 250, who fell while he was fighting for third at the Italian Grand Prix. The Spanish track is characterised by...
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Colin Edwards and James Toseland catapulted the Tech 3 Yamaha team into third place in the coveted Team World Championship standings today after both produced fantastic top six results in front of 96,252 fans at the Italian GP. Edwards produced by far his best Mugello result with fifth place, beating his previous best effort of ninth after he completed a terrific fightback from ninth place in the...
