Why are we suddenly so excited about DTM around here?
Discussion
Its been around for ages, its been coming to Britain for ages on and off, why do I feel its suddenly on someone's agenda that I hear a lot more about it and like it?
Our own domestic touring car series isnt exactly boring at the moment and is more accesible to the masses, yet the BTCC barely rates a mention on PH news pages.
Could it be as part of a marketing drive from Merc, Audi and/or BMW to link their print/web advertising with Haymarket, to getting more people seeing their cars race? In which case, f
k 'em. There is an Audi in BTCC that no one from VAG is paying any interest in, why should we follow those brands to their domestic series?
Is there an odour of a rodent to be smelled? Or is just my tin-foil hat needs a clean?
BTCC doesnt need British mass media telling the local public how good everyone else's series is. They need more exposure for their own. And as its such a close community and many of us are or have been part of it, I'm amazed we'd sooner bleat on about F1 cars with body-kits in Germany, than actual PHer's efforts in the BTCC.
Having said that, British media short changing their own sporting pursuits by at best, ignoring them (particularly in motorsport) isnt exactly new, is it?
Our own domestic touring car series isnt exactly boring at the moment and is more accesible to the masses, yet the BTCC barely rates a mention on PH news pages.
Could it be as part of a marketing drive from Merc, Audi and/or BMW to link their print/web advertising with Haymarket, to getting more people seeing their cars race? In which case, f
k 'em. There is an Audi in BTCC that no one from VAG is paying any interest in, why should we follow those brands to their domestic series?Is there an odour of a rodent to be smelled? Or is just my tin-foil hat needs a clean?
BTCC doesnt need British mass media telling the local public how good everyone else's series is. They need more exposure for their own. And as its such a close community and many of us are or have been part of it, I'm amazed we'd sooner bleat on about F1 cars with body-kits in Germany, than actual PHer's efforts in the BTCC.
Having said that, British media short changing their own sporting pursuits by at best, ignoring them (particularly in motorsport) isnt exactly new, is it?
I would suggest airing your grievances in the DTM thread: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=42&...
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