Ex-F1 world champions Alan Jones and Nigel Mansell are just two of the drivers talking to the organisers of a proposed single-seater series designed to replicate the success of the Seniors tours of golf and tennis.<\/p>\n
The championship, to be known as Grand Prix Masters, could be as little as a month away from a public unveiling, but details of a one-make series for high-tech 600bhp cars are emerging now. The plan appears to be to put together a grid of highprofile former grand prix drivers to race the identical machines.<\/p>\n
Jones, world champion in 1980, has made no secret of his desire to take part in the series, which would kick off with a short run of races at the end of 2005. Mansell is known to have been approached, as have Jean Alesi, Johnny Herbert, Keke Rosberg and Stefan Johansson.<\/p>\n
“This looks like being a really great championship and I hope it goes ahead,” said 57-year-old Jones. “I’m going to be throwing myself into the gym and altering the lifestyle a little bit.”<\/p>\n
Both the chassis and engines are being built by Zytek Engineering in Britain and the first car should be up and running by May 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[34236,167,192,34623,34532,34317,34321],"issue_decade":[121591],"issue_year":[121637],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/29469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/29469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248496,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/29469\/revisions\/248496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29469"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=29469"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=29469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}