The Motorsport Thread 2013

Ah that's right...CA.

JJLehto wrote: Ah that's right...CA. I was gunan say 5 am wtf? But those darned time zones. What do you do for the Asian races which sometimes end up keeping me up till 3!? You actually stay up till 6 to catch it? If so that's impressive dedication.   Yes, good ol Spa. Can't wait, and all these weeks in advance I'll call a Kimi win! I've been solid thus far.

Well, it seems Speed is no more. (OR will be as of next weekend) Fox is switching it to Fox Sports 1, which I fear will be packed full of other sports...like soccer and baseball. But perhaps I'm just jumping the gun.

Either way, Windtunnel has officially come to an end. A show that I must admit I haven't watched as much as I should (esp since it became a 30 min, once a week show). But nevertheless, I have found memories of it from when I was younger.

Also, Speed Center will come to a close as well, and I only hope that FS1 will have some sort of motorsport news show (like Speed Center) in it's new lineup so I can get some racing news/highlights outside of Nascar.

Well, FS1 will definitely have some racing as they've done a deal for the Formula E championship that starts next year.

Man With Hat wrote: Well, it seems Speed is no more. (OR will be as of next weekend) Fox is switching it to Fox Sports 1, which I fear will be packed full of other sports...like soccer and baseball. But perhaps I'm just jumping the gun. Either way, Windtunnel has officially come to an end. A show that I must admit I haven't watched as much as I should (esp since it became a 30 min, once a week show). But nevertheless, I have found memories of it from when I was younger. Also, Speed Center will come to a close as well, and I only hope that FS1 will have some sort of motorsport news show (like Speed Center) in it's new lineup so I can get some racing news/highlights outside of Nascar.

Holy crap, missed all this.

Edited by JJLehto - August 14 2013 at 10:49

JJLehto wrote: Man With Hat wrote: Well, it seems Speed is no more. (OR will be as of next weekend) Fox is switching it to Fox Sports 1, which I fear will be packed full of other sports...like soccer and baseball. But perhaps I'm just jumping the gun. Either way, Windtunnel has officially come to an end. A show that I must admit I haven't watched as much as I should (esp since it became a 30 min, once a week show). But nevertheless, I have found memories of it from when I was younger. Also, Speed Center will come to a close as well, and I only hope that FS1 will have some sort of motorsport news show (like Speed Center) in it's new lineup so I can get some racing news/highlights outside of Nascar. Holy crap, missed all this.     Is a shame about Speed :( Wow, Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain? Yeah I've not watched that in YEARS. I recall it being changed to a time that didn't work, and I just generally fell out of racing as well but yeah I used to love that guy. He was truly the motorsport god, what didn't he cover? There are STILL to this day racing things I saw on that show that I've never been able to identify!   All quite sad, but like all things this happens....remember when we got coverage of WRC, which died out? Coverage of sports cars has been worse over time, and SPEED used to have so much F1 stuff, at least in the course of a race weekend, now nothing. IDK if you ever saw F1 Decade, when they played races from 10 years before (03, 04, 05 thus 93-95) was great, and glad they didn't shy away from/edit the '94 San Marino GP at all. And post season commentary/analysis. Havn't seen any of that since the good days

Indeed! I think Speed shot itself in the foot when it started to flood the airwaves with all that terrible original programming and stuff like old episodes of Pimp My Ride. Especially when they had so much racing they could have shown!

I remember when Windtunnel was on like 5 nights a week...the one hour on Sunday's wasn't too bad, but since it changed to only a half hour on sundays it really diminished the quality and greatness that the show had...IMO. DD's departure sure leaves a hole and I hope he can continue the motorsports coverage in some way. Sadly, I didn't see enough of those f1 decade things...I caught a few, but most of them were like the last 10 laps of the event.

I just hope something remains on FS1 that links it to it's past...like showing a good chuck of the 24 hours of Daytona/LM and those silly little races like figure 8 racing (I think they call it 'On The Edge')...even monster truck racing.

Either way though...certainly a hit for motorsports in America.

Wouldn't surprise me, apparently most Americans thought Colin McRae was a made up computer game character until he turned up at the X Games for the first time around 03/4.

It appears that Ricciardo will get the Red Bull seat next year as Kimi's management have said talks have come to an end between them and RB. Could be a negotiation ploy but I don't see how that would work.

^ Ditto...but I'll still say:

Yeah, to be honest if Kimi really wanted to go to RBR the deal would have been done ages ago, look at when he came back it took him all of a week to sort out the Lotus contract so it's no real surprise.

Personally I'm glad he's not going, it keeps the top drivers spread around the top teams which I generally prefer, at least whilst there are 4 or 5 quality teams out there.