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BUT. What will be interesting to see in the shake-up is whether the BBC are covering the Canadian race. That opens them up to take people to Le Mans with the Brundles and hopefully DC. That's assuming they are still even connected with the BBC come the start of next year. |
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List of Motorsports according to the BBC:
F1 F1 F1 F1 Top Gear Challenges F1 MotoGP F1 MotoGP F1 F1 F1 Whatever dull sprint spec F1 support race they bother to mention or highlight. So I doubt we will see this championship on the BBC. |
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You can add Le Mans to that when someone crashes. In fact, Huffy could win the WTCC and BBC will ignore it. Same could be said for the WRC or the BTCC.
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Yes, but who cares about real motorsports and british teams/drivers winning when you can cover Nico Rosberg picking his nose before the Nigerian Grand Prix, which is what they are more likely to cover.
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29 Jul 2011, 15:09 (Ref:2932752) | #332 | |
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The sad thing is that it's true. Unbelievable headline news on Autosport's front page right now, apparently there will be no ad breaks during Sky's upcoming F1 broadcasts... OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111 |
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I'm not surprised by that as they don't have ad breaks on their movie channels.
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1 DAYS, 20 HOURS, 40 MINUTES AND 37 SECONDS BEFORE THE HUNGARIAN GP Hopefully with the sky deal more people in the UK will go to local meetings and BTCC weekends instead of watching F1 on TV. You could probably attend the entire BTCC season for about the same price as the Grand Prix at Silverstone with a good seat. Same thing with visiting WEC/Le Mans, SBK races ect as well as British Superbike. |
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Autosport should really consider changing their name to something more fitting, like "F1 Fanboy's Collective" or "Mark Hughes's Eternal Love for Spec Racing"
Btw I believe Sky does have some ads during IndyCar? |
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It does. They should try to coincide them with full course yellows if they can, like Versus do, which is where they largely get their feed from.
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29 Jul 2011, 19:04 (Ref:2932922) | #337 | |
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I thought this thread was about Aston Martin, not dump on F1 because it's shown on TV while other motorsports aren't. F1 is known worldwide and is the fastest motorsports. LeMans racing sadly isn't as popular. Hopefully that changes when the WEC comes to light.
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As for popularity, I honestly hope that sports car racing or touring cars never get anywhere near as popular as F1, it would ruin the sport and especially the experience for those attending. No more paddock visits for sure, keeping us evil commoners out. |
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The problem Eurosport has is that they commit to so many sports that coverage of a 6 Hour race is impossible, because they also have to do WTCC/motorbikes/youth athletics/global tiddlywinks etc. The BBC has a similar problem, as a non-commerical broadcaster they have to do the sort of things that no commerical broadcaster would touch with a bargepole (e.g. most of BBC4's output and things like Radio 3), so something like F1 has to give. Personally I think that in the UK Channel 4 would be a good fit for WEC. Channel 4 has more of a - for want of a better word - educated audience which would fit with the technical nature of sportscars. They could broadcast the races in full on More4 and have highlights on C4 itself. |
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Coverge will increase as the series profile and the quality of it's grids does.
To make headway sportscar racing needs to put on a mini Le Mans at each of it's WEC rounds. For too long regular LMS rounds have been unrecognisble from the spectacular show Le Mans provides. |
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Eurosport is the highest profile channel that will give Le Mans 24hr coverage.
Anything less is uncceptable, WEC coverage can be covered by a mix of broadcast and streaming from Eurosport and manufactuers own sites. |
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You can start by ensuring the best teams are competing at each round.
You wouldn't turn up to the British GP to find Ferrari and Mclaren missing. There has been talk about teams possibly being put off competing in the WEC due to the challenge of beating factories, but the rewards are relative. Would Rebellion or Pescarolo get greater satisfaction and publicity winning the LMS title, or challenging for podiums in the WEC.* *Assume the diesel/petrol issue is resolved. Last edited by JAG; 30 Jul 2011 at 18:49. |
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Try and recreate some of the pageantry of Le Mans as well, the flags drpaed over the cars, the national anthems, the drivers running across to the cars for the lap before they form up on the grid etc. Promote the life out of it locally, let kids in for free as well. Have plenty of funfair style activities behind the grandstands and some live music after the race as well. |
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If they get the petrol/diesel thing sorted then it would be a great crowd-drawing exercise to see a privateer getting a shot at beating some works cars. |
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For the love of god, will somebody PLEASE let me know what the gap should be between
a full factory car developed to the current rules run by a factory team compared to a privateer car that is at least 2 years old but based on a design which is several years older run by a good but by no means factory effort team If anyone can demonstrate through FACTS that a privateer team should be able to compete with a serious factory team then I would love to hear it |
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A privateer team should have a chance to pick up the pieces when the works team gets something wrong (strategy, reliability, pitstops, accidents). With 10 sec per lap advantage the diesels can have a tea break every hour and still win comfortably.
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I apologize if this reality check is upsetting to anyone, but if that is the case, I suggest that you stop watching this form of racing and maybe spend your weekend watching youth soccer. You know, the youth soccer leagues where they don't keep score and everyone gets a trophy. |
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