Yea - I'm off to the UK tomorrow and am looking
forward to driving the skidpads (roundabouts) again.
There's a newish magazine called "F1-magazine," not
"F1 Racing" that has an eye-popping amount of
content, probably about the same as 2 years worth of
"Racer"
Donington Park? Never heard of it :-) I'm headed for
Sivlerstone in 2 weeks :-)
Craig
--- Darren Madams <darren@madams.com> wrote:
> 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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