Premier 1 Grand Prix
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Premier 1 Grand Prix was intended to be a new motor racing series which had intended to have each car branded with the colours of a particular football team.
It was intended that up to thirty football clubs were interested in being included as teams in Premier 1 Grand Prix and it had included R.S.C. Anderlecht, Leeds United, Benfica, Olympique Lyonnais, Chelsea F.C., Valencia and Feyenoord to have included cars in a race series which intened races on fifteen racing circuits in Europe, Latin America and Asia.
The cars in the series were intended to have the same power in effort to encourage higher competition. They were to have 6-speed pneumatic semi-automatic paddle-operated sequential gearbox and a 4-litre V10 engine giving in excess of 750 brake horsepower (560 kW). The total weight of the car and driver was to have been approximately 650 kg.
It had been set up by investors in 2000 but had collapsed in 2003 without staging a single race.
In 2005, the concept of Premier 1 Grand Prix became the Superleague Formula, which will start it's first race in 2008.
