Wednesday, July 15, 2026

MotorCup des Nations – Missing Groups

As it’s All Rock ‘n Roll to me…

 

For those of you still following along? Yesseree Uncle Albert, Err bob, Oh Never Mind! I’m getting closer to the chase, Uhm, my riveting Knockout Follies.

 

Although some of you Hardcore “Stick ‘n Ball” Fans will have noticed I only had 40 teams from my 52 Nations, and this year’s World Cup has swelled to 48 Countries playing in the tournament.

 

So here’s my two missing brackets, which I’ve internally tabbed as the M&M Divisions. Since “Sometimes You Feel like a Nut. Sometimes You don’t”, Hya!

 

Lost Brackets

 

Group M              Group N

Alpine Conference  Mediterranean Conference

Bulgaria                      Angola

Liechtenstein              Portugal

Sweden                       South Africa

Switzerland                 Sri Lanka

 

While I’ll confess, I just wanted a reason to reference Liechtenstein, Hya! With no disrespect to Mattias Kaiser. (ALMS)

 

Bulgari’s Nikola  Tsolov (F2) won the con toss vs. Romania’s Razvan Umbrarescu. (WEC)

 

As the Red Bull Junior Driver is apparently being linked to graduating to Formula 1 at Racing Bulls next year at Liam Lawson’s expense…

 

Angola’s Rui Andrade (WEC)  and Sri Lanka’s Yevan David (F3) played to a Nil-Nil draw.

 

Failed to Qualify (DNQ)

Along with Liechtenstein and Romania, Hong Kong’s Antares Au (WEC)  Also failed to qualify. Whilst Estonia’s Tonis Kasenets, (IMSA) Juri vips, (IMSA) Ralf Aron, (IMSA) Paul Aron (F1 also failed to advance.

 

As Kasenets had planned to show up for the selection tourney in Daytona, but couldn’t get His Visa worked out and had to pull the plug on their entry. As the Aron brothers looked on in amused indifference, while Juri Vips was left High ‘N Dry again! As Estonia didn’t even make it off the “Cutting Room’s” floor…

 

And with that, I should have successfully cobbled together 48 of the 52 Nations with current racing drivers participating in motorsports to begin the tourney’.

 

For a list of all Racing Series abbreviations, please visit the following No Fenders link below.

 

MotorCup syllabus