Autosport Club Racing Coverage

[TimD]

Remember we were chatting the other day about the relative merits of the club coverage offered by "In-Gear" magazine and its established rivals, Autosport and Motorsport News?

Well, last weekend I was at Mallory Park, watching an enjoyable Vintage Sports Car Club race meeting, the highlight of which, for me, was a breathtaking Edwardian Handicap, for pre-1918 cars. The racing was close, and the cars extraordinary. Some of the competitors were having to handle cars of over 10 litres capacity!

Four of these leviathans conspired to scramble past the line almost abreast, and I'll swear the ground shook as they did so.

Well, I couldn't help but look forward to the Autosport report, and was not surprised at the usual half-page of coverage, but I think their coverage of the Edwardian race is worth comment here, in the light of recent discussion.

"....while Clive Press' Peugeot won the equivalent event for Edwardian cars."

That's it. Eleven words tacked onto a sentence describing a different race.

By way of comparison, they reproduced a quote four times as long again, from the Daily Telegraph, in their "What The Papers Say" column.

Sometimes words fail me.