Superleague Formula

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Superleague Formula was an open wheel single seater formula racing series held from 2008 to 2011. The league introduced team sponsorship by association football clubs, using the slogan The Beautiful Race: Football at 300 km/h. By 2011 the link with football had fading as more than half the teams were no longer associated with football teams. The season ran between April and November at the same time as most other European race series, and unlike the rival A1 Grand Prix. Every team used identical Panoz DP09 racecars with 750-horsepower 4.2-liter V12 engines. The series was founded by businessmen Alex Andreu and Robin Webb. On 19 May 2010, Andreu stepped down in his role as series president, with Alfredo Brisac named as his successor not many weeks later. The Sonangol Group was the series' title sponsor from June 2009 until the end of the 2010 season. The future of the championship was in doubt after the cancellation of over three-quarters of 2011 season events. In April 2012, when most European...

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