This is a great thought and I don't want to be a wet rag, but I'd
bet they would not recognize the skill required to drive an
autocross course _without_ spinning out and to the general public
the appeal to watch would be less.
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-----Original Message-----
From: MBStevens1@aol.com <MBStevens1@aol.com>
To: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: Why not? (kinda long)
>Adam Popp wrote:
>
>> So those are the top 10 reasons shy autocrossing
should be on
>> television. Only the big races like pro solos, national tours
and the
>> Solo II nationals would be televised because that's where all
the big
>> named autocrossers and sponsors, are all together, in one. If
I owned a
>> television station, I defentely would have autocrossing on my
station.
>> So that's what I think and I would like to know what you
fellow
>> autocrossers think about it! If my message was a little long,
I'm sorry,
>> but next time it won't be. I'm out!!!
>
>I turned on the WB station the other morning and there was a
"RealTV" show on.
>For those who have never seen it, RealTV is a program where they
show real
>video clips of funny or amazing or scary things happening.
They've long since
>used up the funniest, most amazing, and scariest things, so
they've moved on
>to content that is maybe less intense, but still interesting.
Anyway, on this
>episode they had a segment about two girls and a guy who were
supposedly
>aspiring actors and they had enrolled in this amateur
stunt-driving school in
>Arizona. The school was held over the course of a weekend on a
large parking
>lot (sound familiar?) and since it was a stunt-driving school,
it included
>action stuff like spin-outs, near misses, and the like. But
other than that
>it looked an awful lot like autocross.
>
>During an interview clip with one of the girls, she said, "This
is so amazing!
>No where else can you drive like this in a parking lot without
getting in a
>lot of trouble!"
>
>That comment resonated in my head and I immediately thought
about this thread!
>That is the talk of someone obviously unenlighted about autox!
So if RealTV
>will show a segment on that stunt driving school, maybe I should
contact them
>and point out the error of that statement -- I could tell them,
"All across
>the country, on almost any weekend, average people like you and
me can drive
>like that in parking lots without getting in any trouble!"
Maybe we can get
>RealTV interested to do a segment on autocrossing. It
definitely has the
>thrill value, it's a whole lot more "Real" than watching NASCAR
or CART, and
>it would have mass appeal simply because it's something that
obviously too
>many people don't know anything about! (After all, how many
bungie jump
>scenes have they shown?!)
>
>I think they usually want video tape submissions, but their
coverage of the
>stunt driving school was onsite, so it is not out of the
question that they
>might just want to do their own footage. But, I know some of
you out there
>must have some great video from a ProSolo (or even the snow
events), so if
>that is what RealTV wants, I may be sending a solicitation to
the list for
>people to send in videos.
>
>This might not end up with whole Solo II events being regularly
broadcast on a
>network or national station, but at least it could get us a
couple of minutes
>of airtime on a national show! Who knows?
>
>I'm heading off now to realtv1.com to see how I can submit my
suggestions.
>I'll let you all know if anything comes of it...
>
>Yours in speed,
>Mike Stevens
>ES Altima SE
>
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