A new international single-seater race series between national teams.

A10 World Series will travel the world during the ‘off’ season from late in the year to early in the following year.

Each race weekend, 10 planned on 5 continents, will consist of 2 races each.

An A10 World Series weekend covers 2 days, Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday: Two Practice sessions in the morning and Three Qualifying sessions in the afternoon.
Sunday: First up is the shorter Sprint Race followed later by the full length Feature Race.

Practice Sessions:
There will be two practice sessions on the Saturday.

Details to follow

Qualifying:
There will be three qualifying sessions on the Saturday.

Details to follow

A10 World Series Races:
An A10 World Series race weekend consists of two separate races on Sunday, a Sprint race and Feature race.

The Sprint race is 20 minutes.

The Feature race is 65 minutes.

Details to follow

Race Pit Stops:
In the shorter Sprint Race there will be one pit stop – In the longer Feature Race there will be two pit stops.
During the pits stops, 5 person crew, the teams change all four tyres, one person per side changing both front and rear wheels, but in A10ws there is no refuelling — the cars start with the fuel for the complete race.

Details to follow

Points Allocation:

Each race allocation: All points go to the team, drivers don’t score points, with a maximum of 36 points per race day, per team, available.

Welcome to GPGrid.com.

Way back as the new century was dawning I was complaining about the websites covering Formula One, long time fan, and someone said that I should stop complaining and start my own website. Little did I realise the journey I would start.

Life started with F1podium where I put my ideas into practice, until that is, when I was contacted by FOM lawyers with a ‘cease and decist’ order [threat] which I could not resolve. In a very depressed mood I was reading a news story on pitpass about a proposed new single seater series called A1 Grand Prix and was suddenly very excited again.

In 2004 I started a new website, one page to be precise, called A1podium and soon realised that I was the very first independent specialist website covering the series. Needless to say I finished with F1podium.

Over the coming weeks, months, years the website expanded with more and more features. I was first to connect two seperate pieces of information at the start of season three, of now called A1GP, and announce to the world that it looked a very strong possibility that the series would be partnering with Ferrari for season four. Also during chatroom conversations I pointed out that in my opinion if this did happen it would be a mistake for A1GP.

By the end of season three the deal had been done and so had I — having covered every pre-season test session and BritishGP since the start I found out that no longer would I be receiving trackside press pass because all the main stream media now wanted to cover A1GP powered by Ferrari and I had to move aside to make room for them. When questioned why the oldest A1GP website couldn’t remain accredited they told me it was because I was only a ‘fan site’ and they needed to bring new people to races. Later during season four they started acting like FOM had all those years earlier – then at the final round at Brands Hatch, UK, I attended as a paying fan for the very last race ever for A1GP. A very sad day for the fans.

I had already prepared the ground for the new rules — must cover more than just A1GP — by starting GPGrid in the vain hope of getting my press accreditation back.

Following the finish of season four everything imploded on A1GP but I continued reporting on all the twist and turns over the coming months not realising at the time it would turn into years.

I never lost faith, hope, that the A1 concept of Nation vs Nation would return although it has turned out that A1GP is too far down to be brought back there is a new version coming called A10 World Series.

This website is designed for my harshest critic – Me – it must be unique so as soon as you see it you know where you are, it must be fully up to date with latest news, it must have other features of interest, it must be easy to use, it must be easy to read, it must have interactivity, it must be free to use, it must be clear of advertising and therefore it must fit within my meager budget.

If I have met all these aims you will judge it worthy of your time, or not. Much feedback from users has gone into the design – I do listen.

I aim to continue, and improve, with A10 World Series and You over the coming years.

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Martin [The Boss]