Yeah, what's up with that? I know they bought a bunch of content back when
Speedvision was formed, but it was mostly archival euro racing footage, like
Triumph as Le Mans.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Curry [mailto:spitlist@COX.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:10 PM
To: Bill Babcock; 'Dave Riddle'; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Newsflash From Ferrari-Now CART
Hey Bill,
You forgot to mention "Speed Racer". I wonder who the genius at Speed
Channel was who decided that we viewers would watch a cartoon show
regularly!
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Bill Babcock
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 3:29 PM
To: Dave Riddle; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Newsflash From Ferrari-Now CART
Watching them flog each other to death while the only thing on speed
channel
is yurpeens or bubba is not my idea of entertainment. We would have had
a
fighting chance at some decent American twisty course open wheel racing
if
IRL had got the keys. I simply don't see what Gentilozzi could do that
CART
couldn't before.
NASCAR is simply brilliant. Cars camera'ed up to within an ounce of
their
weight limit, cameras on the deck, every turn, every fifty feet of pit
row,
and in the starter's underwear as far as I can tell. If a kid drops his
ice
cream they can do an instant replay in slo mo from four angles and the
KidCam(tm). With all that technical brilliance, a track everyone can
see,
and a field separated by .5 seconds front to back no wonder it mints
money.
With that much effort you could make an afternoon at Costco into a
spectacle.
Contrast that to a CART or IRL race where you have a birds eye view from
a
blimp and a long shot somewhere in the stands. The entire front field
can be
wiped out while both cameras were aimed at the guy running 17th and all
the
announcers can do is say "what happened". So lame.
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