Eurosport signs Champ Car coverege for 2005

[Rob29]

4 x 3 inch screen does not sound very promising,and I doubt that it would work at all on my ancient PC. Though I hope to have a new one before the start of the season,and we are promised broadband by July 1st.

[Speedworx]

There is also LIVE Timing, because I watched it during the free races at the start of the year.

[Kicking-back]

I've put a call in to some people who should be able to shed some light on the situation with British Eurosport - and I'll report back here if I hear anything concrete.

[rustyfan]

This should be interesting - from January 10th Eurosport2 will be available via the digital cable provider I have here in Sweden. It's going to replace Eurosport News.

I currently don't have Eurosport News selected in my customised package (if I had I would have gotten Eurosport2 automatically), but I'll make sure to get it included so I get it in February (all changes made to customised packages are carried out at the end of each month).

It's being describes as "...will give the viewers more choices, in-depth features and the chance to see even more LIVE sports focused on winter sports, tennis and motorsports."

Just a shame we'll have to wait until April 10th to see how Eurosport plan on doing with their Champ Car coverage, but then again, I'm happy I'll be all set well in time for the season to start

[Kicking-back]

Sadly, I understand only seven races are planned to be live.

I'm not happy about this - given that I had every race live in 2004.

[macdaddy]

Off-topic, but there has still been no word regarding Canada's package...

[Kicking-back]

Sadly not.

I can understand your frustration.

[rustyfan]

Originally Posted by Kicking-back

Sadly, I understand only seven races are planned to be live.

I'm not happy about this - given that I had every race live in 2004.

Really? I thought one of the conditions was that Eurosport was to show all races live?

Well, if there are races that aren't shown live, I hope they are at least shown in full a few hours later, tape delayed.

Also, are MotorsTV going to lose their coverage or something?

[codename_47]

Originally Posted by rustyfan

Really? I thought one of the conditions was that Eurosport was to show all races live?

Well, if there are races that aren't shown live, I hope they are at least shown in full a few hours later, tape delayed.

Also, are MotorsTV going to lose their coverage or something?

Yep........but there's always race director as a backup!

Only the fact I knew Motors TV would be showing the races on time last year stopped me from getting it, but this development, coupled with the ability to watch the races when I'm on my laptop at Uni will swing the decision RD's way this year!

Clever old Champcar, they accepted Eurosports outbidding for Champcars, now they'll accept yet more money from frustrated Eurosport viewers rushing to the race director in droves...

Who says the Trioka aren't good businessmen!

[Hazard]

Lose one series, gain another (Aussie V8's). I'm not sure that's a fair trade off. The 'European' public are more discerning - and if they don't get a decent opportunity to watch the series, they'll abandon it.

Okay, if the series itself was fantastic like it was a few years ago...better effort would be made - but tape delayed highlights of uninteresting races won't cut it. I doubt I'll switch to Race Director - if they turn that one race trial on, I'll see if it's worth it - but cutting up bandwidth to watch a race on my monitor isn't my idea of fun.

Hopefully the 'not live' races will be tape delayed by not much, and full events. What I can't stand is 'edited' highlights...I'd much rather have the full race at 5am (hey, I have a VCR!) then 45 mins in prime time.

I won't forgive Eurosport for that race in 2003, where I sat watching a tape delay of a rain prevented start for about 1hr 30 - just to find out the live race had already taken place!!!