A1 Grand Prix History
On Tuesday, November 11, 2008 after extensive negotiations with the IRL broke down, the Queensland Government reached a new five-year deal with A1 Grand Prix to stage a race at Surfers Paradise. The first A1GP race was supposed to take place on the weekend of the 22–25 October 2009. To accommodate the new link with the A1GP series and subsequent removal of the Indy name (which is a registered trademark of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway), the entire 4 day event called Nikon SuperGP. However, on October 17, 2009, A1GP Chairman Tony Teixeira announced that the UK operating arm of the series went into liquidation in June. Access to the A1GP cars and the ability to pay its suppliers has been impeded. That caused the cars could not leave the UK to be on track in Surfers Paradise on the 22 October. A1GP had been forced to withdraw from participation in the Nikon SuperGP. A1 Grand Prix subsequently failed to arrive and were removed from the program, replaced with additional V8 Supercar races.
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