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Originally Posted by Turkey Machine
Considering A1GP's a dying series anyway due to admin incompetencies, late payments to teams and abandoned races, I think F1 in the winter has a much better chance of being more successful series. 
The twilight races is a terrible idea, especially in Malaysia because it accelerates the chances of a race being stopped for good early on. Last weekend's race was the 5th time in 60 years of F1 that half points has been given out instead of the full whack because a race has been halted for good early (other times are Spain (Montjuich Park) 1975, Austria 1975, Monaco 1984 and Australia 1991). Even in the monsoons of Japan 1994 they did a 2-parter, but had the race been a couple of hours earlier in the day this weekend, they'd have done 56 laps and been wet on the podium. |
They say late starts are to capture a bigger audience, but I used to love waking up in the very early hours to watch races. It made it much more of an event for me. I didn't realise the Malaysian Grand Proxwas going to start so late, I was expecting to have to wake up at 4am for the start of the show.