Did anyone else watch TUSSC on Saturday? Worst coverage ever

[DiscoColin]

The new Tudor United Sports Car Championship should be a great thing to watch for motorsports fans. However - Saturdays broadcast on MotorsTV was quite simply the worst sports coverage of any kind that I have ever seen. Motors were not the problem, the issue was that the feed was from Fox Sports in the US. It seemed that there was at most 3 minutes in 10 of actual racing. When they went to commercials they cut the sound completely to the feed - not just lack of commentary but actual silence. Then they cut back in to tell you that they were continuing after more commercials and cut straight away again. It was truly unbelievable.

And it got worse. When they interview someone, cut to picture of talking head in the pit lane. Because obviously nobody tuned in to watch a race would possibly rather watch the cars while listening to an interview...

So a mixture of prototypes plus a GT class including full factory Corvette, Viper, Porsche and BMW crews is covered in such a way that it is essentially unwatchable. Manufacturers should be upset, sponsors distraught and whoever is in charge of coverage : Fired IMHO.

This really needs an HD feed (Eurosport or Sky) and proper commentary from someone who actually understands sportscars such as the Radio LeMans crew or this series is going to die as fast as it sprang up.

[wildman0609]

I agree, I watched it DVR'd sunday morning. I was looking forward to it being a short 1hr40min race, I could see the whole thing and know what was going on.
I had no idea what was happening, it was so disjointed.

I've tried so hard to enjoy this new series, I even went to Daytona, but the coverage of Sebring and Long beach was so awful I'm not going to stick with it much longer.

Like you say it needs a world feed with local commentators and presenters. There was so little coverage of the racing that there wasn't much to get annoyed at with the commentary, apart from calling the corvettes cadillacs!!!!!

There is so much potential here, we have the right cars and some great circuits, even BOP seems ok, we just can't watch it.

[Altrezia]

Terrible. One of the worst races I've ever bothered to watch, coverage wise. It's a shame as the actual racing was good.

Out of the last 25 minutes of the race, I think we were allowed to watch 7 minutes. Shocking!!

Won't bother tuning in again. A real shame as the ALMS was my series up until now

[Red Firecracker]

Pirelli World Challenge is far far better than TUSC at the moment;

http://www.world-challengetv.com/

They seem to be able to run a race without screwing with the result, either before or after the finish, and the coverage is much better.

[wildman0609]

Red Firecracker said:

Pirelli World Challenge is far far better than TUSC at the moment;

Really?

Its a GT3 series that runs on uninspiring tracks. St pete is awful. Its no where near as good as Balncpain.

[Red Firecracker]

wildman0609 said:

Really?

Its a GT3 series that runs on uninspiring tracks. St pete is awful. Its no where near as good as Balncpain.

I didn't suggest it was better than Blancpain (which flavour?), just that it was better than TUSC.

As US road racing goes, at the moment, PWC's package is better from most angles than TUSC's, and in that I include everything such as broadcasting, fan interaction etc. TUSC needs time, but it remains to be seen as to whether the fans, sponsors and teams will allow them that time to get back to the level of product that ALMS was and then better it.