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Atom A1GP's clearly in a lot of trouble. In August, we were assured everything was fine despite word of financial difficulties dating back to earlier in the summer.
Then came the bad news. Firstly Ferrari cut its contract with A1GP early, presumed to be for financial reasons. This left the one-make series with no chassis or engines only weeks before the start of the season was scheduled to occur.
It was no surprise when the first round, at Surfer's Paradise, was cancelled - there was no way there were going to be two dozen cars ready in time and the farce when some teams couldn't participate in the opening rounds of the 2008/2009 A1GP due to manufacturing delays was considerable. The worrying thing was that the reason actually cited was that A1GP's parent company had gone into liquidation.
There's supposedly some sort of manuever being planned to save A1GP financially. The trouble is that two more races, in Zhuhai and Sepang, have been cancelled too. If the financial problems are not resolved soon (and it's not clear there can be), then there might not be an A1GP to save. It's a pity, because A1GP was a series that at least tried to be different to the usual identikit development formula. Granted, the nationalism idea never quite worked out, but it gave the opportunity for people to race at times of the year when they normally wouldn't get the chance, drivers from completely different parts of the world to compete on the same track relatively early in their careers and enabled the mixing of wildly differing levels of skill without complete disaster occurring (or at least, not often).