Awesome race

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YouTube Video

[BusaLoco]

 

Who was piloting the Eurofighter? ... The Stig?

[powderbrake]

The Top Gear guys have a fun time with cars. What a difference in attitude than here in the US.

 

Here cars are BAD things, they pollute, they kill people, they are the root of all evil. Ever notice how when there is an accident , the news media always will make sure that if a guy is driving an SUV, you hear about it. Also the driver is never at fault, it's always the SUV, as if it had a mind of it's own.... " an SUV jumped the curb and hit a pedestrian"

 

We need a car show like Top Gear, instead of 24 hours NASCAR, or ricer meets, where all they show is the T&A of the models. The show should be about cars as FUN items, with crazy matchups like the Bugatti and fighter.

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The Top Gear guys have a fun time with cars. What a difference in attitude than here in the US.

 

Here cars are BAD things, they pollute, they kill people, they are the root of all evil. Ever notice how when there is an accident , the news media always will make sure that if a guy is driving an SUV, you hear about it. Also the driver is never at fault, it's always the SUV, as if it had a mind of it's own.... " an SUV jumped the curb and hit a pedestrian"

 

We need a car show like Top Gear, instead of 24 hours NASCAR, or ricer meets, where all they show is the T&A of the models. The show should be about cars as FUN items, with crazy matchups like the Bugatti and fighter.

 

That is SO true, except if there was also a Corvette involved. Then it's automatically the Corvette's fault

[drew...]

Folks, check out this website www.theracingnetwork.com they are proposing a new network similar to the old speedvision. Everything from austrailian bog racing to ALMS.

[eVox]

OMG austrailian bog racing was the greatest thing ever.

 

DAKAR coverage at reasonable times, indoor jetski racing, Trials events, motorsport mundial!

[Mondo]

I've emailed that webpage to a bunch of my friends who are also fed up with trying to find something good between the nascar shows.. Wish they'd just create a Nascar channel and be done with it

[Mandurath]

As its probably my redneck nationalism, but top gears cool stuff is balanced by its yuck attitude toward American vehicles. Always wanted to see a round two in the one with the atom vs the dodge ram on the track. But in part two pulling a 20 foot boat, will four people in it and the gear needed for a day at the lake. Of course the atom would have to do what the dodge did in the same time. I mean, if we are gonna put the apple in with the oranges, you gotta put the orange in with the apples too. Have to admit, i had some humorous moments imagining the atom, festooned will a trailer hitch and people hanging off of it. Though, before i draw the ire of atom folks, I like the atom, so don't get me wrong.

 

As to favorite thing to watch, it probably the nuts guys from Denmark/Greenland etc racing those insane hill climbs and other off road races. When they raced the hill climb jeep vs the snowmobile across the lake........

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The trouble I foresee for TRN is that I find it very unlikely that any major carriers are going to carry BOTH Speed and TRN (the execs won't see the value in licensing two dedicated motorsport channels). And as long as a significant number of F1, ALMS, CC races etc remain on Speed (and none of those are to the point in the US that they can be exclusively network-carried) I fear that most fans won't give up Speed to get TRN, even though they would like to have access to the niche motorsports available on TRN.

[Mondo]

I think it was called something else before 'SpeedTV".... I actually liked watching the races that others wouldn't send top camera crews to. Most of them didn't have big sponsorships etc... and you could tell they were just racing of the fun of it. The first big time events I watched were WRC & the Dacar desert races...

 

Anyway, your probably right on the big races. And Soeed will probably steal any shows that start getting good ratings. But there's a lot of stuff out there and I'm sure they can make it.

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It was originally Speedvision when it was founded back in ~1996, and it did have all kinds of cool off-the-wall stuff on.

 

The Racing Network is actually the brainchild of Jim Liberatore who was head of Speed starting when Fox bought it in 2001 until 2005 or so when he was let go apparently because he wanted to reduce the amount of NASCAR programming and the brass wasn't having any of it. (memory refreshed by a visit to Wikipedia)

 

He's apparently maintained that TRN would not be a Speedvision do-over, but I'm not sure if I've seen specifics about what he would do differently from a programming or business model.

 

I agree with you that it will offer lots of worthwhile programming, and I hope it succeeds, but if I'm being honest, as much as I hate how NASCAR-centric Speed is, I wouldn't give it up for TRN and lose F1, etc. If they can get themselves carried alongside Speed, then great; I'm just skeptical as to whether that will happen.