Well, there is hope for an A1GP (The series known as the World Cup of Motorsport for which I was a huge fan of which once ran from 2005 until 2009 in which drivers competed for their country instead of racing against each other where it stopped as a result of the global financial economic recession (And France (Their drivers were both future DTM & Supercars Championship driver who would gone on to win the Bathurst 1000 in 2019 with Scott McLaughlin of Alexandre Premat & future World Endurance Championship competitor Nicolas Lapierre) were the champions in the inaugural season in 2005-06 followed by Germany (Which featured a young, promising future F1 star of Nico Hulkenberg & future DTM driver Christian Vietoris) in 2006-07, then Switzerland (Which also featured former F1 test driver of Indian origin of Neel Jani who competed in Champ Cars at the time as well as a future competitor of the WEC) in 2007-08 & finally, Ireland (Who had future Formula E competitor Adam Carroll as their main driver) were the most recent champions in A1GP in 2008-09 in which was the one & only season to be powered by the Italian motor racing icon Ferrari) revival as 100 million dollars needed to be required to resurrect the series with British billionaire Keith Mills setting it up as well as having ex-Alpine F1 team principal Marcin Budkowski being involved in the project & if it happens, the series would commence from December next year until July 2025 but it must take place during the Formula 1 winter off season while 20 countries are expected to compete with both drivers in one team will represent their country (One who is experienced & the other who is a young prospect) with FIA Grade 2 circuits in the Asia-Pacific region needed to be held but here is the list of the dream grid for an A1GP return:
Australia: Will Power (Indycar) & Daniel Ricciardo (Formula 1 (Test & reserve driver)
Belgium: Stoffel Vandoorne (Formula E) & Laurens Vanthoor (World Endurance Championship)
Brazil: Helio Castroneves (Indycar) & Felipe Drugovich (F1 (Test & reserve driver)
Canada: Lance Stroll (F1) & Jacques Villeneuve (WEC)
Denmark: Christian Lundgaard (Indycar) & Kevin Magnussen (F1)
Finland: Valtteri Bottas (F1) & Kimi Raikkonen (NASCAR (Part time (Road courses only)
France: Romain Grosjean (Indycar) & Sebastien Ogier (Endurance racing)
Germany: Nico Hulkenberg (F1) & Mick Schumacher (F1 (Test & reseve driver)
Great Britain: Lewis Hamilton (F1) & George Russell (F1)
India: Jehan Daruvala (Formula 2) & Kush Maini (F2)
Italy: Raffaele Marciello (GT3 racing) & Valentino Rossi (GT3 racing)
Japan: Kamui Kobayashi (Super Formula) & Yuki Tsunoda (F1)
Mexico: Pato O'Ward (Indycar) & Sergio Perez (F1)
The Netherlands: Nyck de Vries (F1) & Max Verstappen (F1)
New Zealand: Scott McLaughlin (Indycar) & Shane van Gisbergen (Supercars Championship & NASCAR (Part time (Road courses only)
South Africa: Kelvin (FE (Substitute driver) & Sheldon van der Linde (DTM)
Spain: Fernando Alonso (F1) & Alex Palou (Indycar)
Sweden: Mattias Ekstrom (World Rallycross Championship) & Marcus Ericsson (Indycar)
Switzerland: Sebastien Buemi (FE) & Simona de Silvestro (Porsche factory driver)
& United States: Kyle Larson (NASCAR) & Josef Newgarden (Indycar)
And I tried setting up an international table hockey competition in 2006 in a similar fashion to A1GP as well as the cricket, football & rugby world cups, but there was only one Table Hockey World Cup unofficially in which my country of New Zealand, Denmark & Canada (Who my mate & old mentor Leon represented instead of Morocco) competed in which was known as the Table Hockey Tri Nations, but I'm setting up an Air Hockey World Cup even if I both purchase an mini air hockey table & a sports trophy to go along that awards the winner of which I will name it as the Wiremu Ngapo Memorial Trophy in memory of my late brother Wiremu (But I didn't want it engraved by the way), but I wanted least 3 countries to compete in the Air Hockey World Cup in order to grow a success (I will always be playing for my country which is New Zealand while Leon is from Morocco now but Carole could represent Great Britain even though she is a New Zealander despite holding a British passport but there is a New Zealand Air Hockey provincial championship that I'm trying to establish with me representing Wanganui while Pops could be playing for Thames Valley & Dad is from Tasman (Despite originally being born there).
And news coming straight out of America that retired American pop star of Britney Spears who is in Las Vegas as she lodges a complaint to Las Vegas police about attempting to meet the rookie NBA player who was the number 1 draft pick in this year's NBA draft of Victor 'Wemby' Wembanyama to wish him good luck by tapping him on the shoulder but one of Wembanyama's bodyguards who are in fact, silly hypocrites had grabbed her, therefore triggering an incident which alerted them (And the bodyguards of Wembanyama had warned to Spears afterwards in a stern message that Victor is not to be approached unlike the footballers who are playing in the German Bundesliga are not to be approached, security warn when the pandemic began in 2020) but American sports news that I've missed such as the Denver Nuggets led by Serbian of Nikola 'the Joker' Jokic winning their maiden NBA championship after winning 4 - 1 in the NBA finals best of 7 first to 4 series against Jimmy Butler & the Miami Heat + the Vegas Golden Knights have celebrated their historic first ever NHL Stanley Cup after their hard fought finals series win against the Florida Panthers 4 - 1 in the best of seven first to four series.
So that is my 507th blog of the year 2023 (MMXXIII) & my 31st of this year, viva Ukraine.
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