I've got to let my British side show a little bit (hey, once a year).
We used to live 10 minutes from Donnington Park and used to get to
see all kinds of racing year round. My parents just got back from
England and brought me all the usual car magazines! Great stuff!!!!
I really enjoy the British Touring Car Challenge (BTCC) though it's
being dominated by Vauxhall this year. Cool cars, awesome battles
and just the right length races. The season recap videos are pretty
cool!
Also, the Beetle Cup races... both the English one and the one here
look like a lot of fun... I'm not a fan of spec series in general,
but those guys seem to go at each other 100%.
In the US, definitely the Speedvision Touring cars. Whatever happened
to the Motorola Cup? Any of the Star Mazda series races (or even the
Formula Mazdas at local SCCA races) are pretty good too!
The Speedvision Touring Cars are cool because I've met, or have heard
of about half the drivers. I wonder if anybody needs a crew person :)
--Darren
p.s. I already emailed John, but Fox Sports Bay Area (FSBA) has been
playing the Touring car races at random times (Sunday at 12:00pm is
the next one). Check your local listings!
You wrote:
> what is the best racing today? i mean, besides *US* of course.
>
> people say F1 is boring- no overtaking.
>
> CART is full of bozos and amateurs
>
> IRL is worse
>
> NASCAR, well to me they aint race cars and ovals bore me.
>
> the chance of seeing anything else is pretty remote for me.
>
> -james c
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Giles Douglas <giles@vy.com>
> To: John J. Stimson-III <john@idsfa.net>
> Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 11:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Speedvision to become NASCAR channel?
>
>
> > Fox owns 33% of speedvision, and are trying to buy the rest. Hopefully the
> > remainder of the shareholders will say no.
> >
> > NASCAR sucks. The speedvision programming is much more interesting, and
> > closer to what I used to get to watch when I lived in England. I'd just
> > got used to watching Formula 1, Touring cars and motorcycle racing again
> > :(
> >
> > Giles
> >
> > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, John J. Stimson-III wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:51:58 -0700
> > > From: "John J. Stimson-III" <john@idsfa.net>
> > > To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > > Subject: Speedvision to become NASCAR channel?
> > >
> > > This doesn't look so good. Fox (who owns Speedvision) wants to create
> > > a NASCAR channel, with mostly NASCAR and NASCAR related programming
> > > (which for some weird reason seems to include Golf). They're planning
> > > to do it by renaming Speedvision.
> > >
> > > http://charlotte.bcentral.com/charlotte/stories/2001/06/25/story1.html
> > >
> > > I wrote my response to this to info@speedvision.com. I don't know if
> > > that's the best address to use. Maybe programming@speedvision.com, or
> > > someone at Fox.
> > >
> > > If this happens, then I'll no longer be annoyed that AT&T in Sunnyvale
> > > doesn't offer Speedvision. I'll just be annoyed that Speedvision
> > > doesn't even exist.
> > >
> > > Who wants to start a motorsports-oriented network with diverse
> > > programming? We could do a WWF-style miniseries on SFR Solo2 Street
> > > Mod, complete with pre-event trash talk. Plus the purple car should
> > > give us a boost in ratings. It sure worked for "Night Man"...Navid,
> > > how would you feel about wearing blue plastic body armor?
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > john@idsfa.net John Stimson
> > > http://www.idsfa.net/~john/ HMC Physics '94
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