Speed nascar channel

[QUKBMER]

Yes, I miss the old Speedvision. They covered a little bit of everything in racing. Now, it is almost all Nascar. I can't stand it, but I deal with it.

Its really going to suck after this weekend. When F1 is done, I will be ready to pull my hair out.

Thats why i have my old school DUKE VHS videos after all the racing stops just about for the winter.;)

[318isbmw]

I remember the sweet old days when SpeedVision was a fledgling network trying to please its audience. In the winter there wasn't much live action on the track, so they would root through the archives to find amazing racing either from lesser-known series or from history. I was a happy customer!

+1, they had all sorts of awesome stuff on there, oddly enough I really miss watching old nascar races at 7am before school. I remember those growing up, I loved watching petty and earnhardt's early years of racing. The WRC and BTCC was always great to see as well after school.

[quickervicar]

At least give us Victory By Design again!

[tjts1]

I thought people around here would be happy to watch nascar now that BMW is joining.

[E-Thirty]

^That nascar is just a wee bit more interesting than the crap we have here thanks to things like technology that doesn't date back to 1950's trucks.

[dkbmxer002]

i believe fox originally bought it with the intent to turn it completely into a nascar channel but those plans were changed.. so it could have been worse... lol

but yes i agree that they should create a nascar channel and turn speed into more drag racing, f1, alms, rolex,wrc, all other fia series, grassroots, scca, nasa etc based station.

[318isbmw]

^That nascar is just a wee bit more interesting than the crap we have here thanks to things like technology that doesn't date back to 1950's trucks.

And several of the companies that don't even have V8's, but somehow are running chevy v8's, that doesn't seem stock to me.

[naplesE30]

Bad brakes, poor steering, pushrod carbuerated engines, and left hand turns only, truely on the cutting edge of technology. Why wouldnt you want to watch this 24/7

[dkbmxer002]

Bad brakes, poor steering, pushrod carbuerated engines, and left hand turns only, truely on the cutting edge of technology. Why wouldnt you want to watch this 24/7

though i hate nascar i will hardly knock the technology or potential of the cars.... i've seen old circle track cars pull of the same lap times as a porsche cup car....

[e30lov]

Bad brakes, poor steering, pushrod carbuerated engines, and left hand turns only, truely on the cutting edge of technology. Why wouldnt you want to watch this 24/7

these pushrod carb'd engines are 358 cubes, which spin at 9500+ rpm for extended periods of time, they also produce around 775rwhp N/a

[rabbitude]

I loved it the year Nascar allowed the trans am cars to race on the same weekend at sears point. The Trans Am cars were 4 seconds a lap faster. Thats when Nascar decided they had to run another track configuration so they would not compare the two. Both Watkins Glen and Sears Point now will not let any other series run the same track configuration as Nascar. Very funny stuff..

[QUKBMER]

I watched the long beach grand prix around 2003 in person and they were running trans am also. The trans am race was waaaaaayyyyy better than the cart race by far. :up:

[Jon325i]

Those who control the NASCAR organization ought to create their own channel/network and then place a charge on it just like the NBA channel does. With as many races run in NASCAR (including, Cup & Trucks) as well as all the support programming, they have more than enough programming to fill most hours of the day. The off hours can be paid programming as another revenue stream.

Seeing all the product marketing this genre of motorsport rakes in, starting their own network seems like the next logical step. A take a page from Bernie Eccelstones' playbook about exclusive broadcast and content rights to corner the market too.

[QUKBMER]

Damn !!!!!!! That was well put, SPOT ON ! :up: