Malaysians Flood A1GP Official Site

More than 1 million Malaysia originated hits over a weekend.

A1GP's official website at www.A1GP.com has tracked more than 1,200,000 hits from excited Malaysian fans over the weekend of the inaugural A1 Grand Prix opening round at Brands Hatch in the UK and a further 960,000 hits during the second event which took place in the Eurospeedway in Lausitz, Germany.

In total, the site received over 30,000,000 hits during the three exciting days of the UK race at 23-25th September 2005.

Malaysians were the 8th highest generator of hits to the official website worldwide.

Jack Cunningham, of A1 Team Malaysia, referring to the million hits from Malaysia said: “That’s extremely impressive and a sign that Malaysians are eager to follow the success of A1 Team Malaysia. It's also an encouragement to those potential sponsors in Malaysia who are assessing the commercial value of partnering with the team, and utilizing the opportunities for brand exposure via the total A1 GP medium.”

Owen Leed, Commercial Director of the Malaysian team, echoed: “The website figures are very encouraging and will be useful to us in our efforts to encourage the corporates of Malaysia to join with us in commercial efforts around the Team. This level of interest will also help us and SIC (Sepang International Circuit) and PMG (Parallel Media Group), the promoters of the A1 race at Sepang on November 20. Some interesting things will be done on and around that race and an active website interest will help us enormously as we seek to spread the word about the efforts and successes of the team and of the event itself. The total of 1,200,000 hits from Malaysia represents 4% of the total hits generated during the first race weekend, with Malaysia being the 9th highest generator of hits to the website worldwide.”

The third round of the A1 Grand Prix of nations will take place at Estoril, Portugal 21-23 October 2005, followed by Eastern Creek in Australia 2 weeks later.

The fifth round of the series will take place at Sepang International Circuit over the weekend of 18-20 November 2005. The ticket prices for the Malaysian round are: Mall Area Grandstand - US$50.00, Grandstand K1 - US$25.00, Hillstands C2 - US$7.00, Hillstands K2 - US$7.00, Paddock Pass - US$37.00 (additional to entry tickets).

To book tickets to the Sepang A1 Grand Prix of Nations please visit "AIGP Malaysia Tickets".

Telecasts notes: The qualifying and races for Portugal will be shown live over StarSports on Saturday and Sunday evenings Malaysian time while 8TV will carry delayed telecasts on the same days. For programme schedule go to StarSports and 8TV.

Max Revson