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| GPM: New old drivers join revised GPM series |
by Mathias Olaf Uncertain
4th Jan 2007 |
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Little Gianni Erberti and Alessandro Ne-Ne-Na-Na-Na-Na-Nu-Nu are two of four new drivers that will compete in Grand-Pa MotorsportGPMASTERS
 The Road from F1™, yesterday. Not to be confused with Grand Prix Masters, GP Masters (short for Grand Prix Masters) was a short-lived single-seater series that featured cars driven by the former greats of Formula 1 (Grand Prix Masters, on the other hand, features people driving the former greats of Formula 1). The series ran over two seasons in 2005 and 2006, covering a marathon 3 events in 2 countries. And, oh god, I don't know I just can't be bothered any more.
 Autosport in the days when headlines were a bit easier to write. For a significant part of the population, Thursday isn't just that annoying day that you have to get through to reach Friday, but Autosport day. That's the day when "the world's fastest magazine" plops onto the doormats of motorsport fans worldwide and gives them something to read in the smallest room for the coming week. The magazine boasts some of the industry's most highly regarded journalists, a handful of star contributors in the shape of current and former drivers, pictures from the sport's best photographers and a cartoonist who makes us laugh about one week in ten. The Autosport empire also includes autosport.com, a site to which dotdotdotcomma is clearly hugely endebted, as well as the McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver Award for young British racing talent (yes, Susie Stoddart, we're looking at you) and the Autosport International show, to which we once somehow got tickets for press day.
The brace of Grand Prix winners will be joined by a couple of F1 hardly-weres, Two-One-Two Maureen-O and Razzle Dazzle in the revised series that increasingly distances itself from the word "Masters". A packed international schedule of four races is likely to take place this year.
The cars will use Meccabingo engines instead of the previous Notworth units which caused so much disruption at Silverstone in August, leading to the unforgivably pitiful sight of Il Limone being unable to compete in his old people's home Grand Prix in front of grandstands packed with empty seats. The series will also switch from DingDong to Michellecollins tyres, further shifting the series in a distressingly gallic direction.
The series will race around the streets of Bucharest in May, when the FIA GT and British F3 championships will also be in attendance, and it will return to the scene of its successful opening race at Kyalami in September. There will be a race at Qatar's Losail circuit on a date still to be confirmed, and at a fourth venue which is promised to be a 'big surprise'.
It will certainly come as a 'big surprise' if it's not a British circuit, and we have a sneaking suspicion that france might be involved somehow. However, the clever money here at dotdotdotcomma's local bookie is on Birmingham.
Ever-popular Gianni Erberti's return to single-seater racing has been hailed by many in such terms as "long awaited" and "eagerly anticipated" and "where can I buy a ticket?", although GPM's insurers* have erred on the side of "ah" and "oh dear" and "hadn't we better put the premium up?"
* Saga.
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