Which TV channels to see NASCAR and Indy Car in the UK?

[MitchT]

Currently I just have Freeview. I'm wondering which TV channels I need to be able to watch NASCAR and Indy Car. NB. UK resident.

[Altrezia]

I don't think you can on Freeview.

On sky, MotorsTV has Nascar (cup) and Bloomberg sometimes shows Nascar too. I'm not sure about Indycar, I've always watched that online (as it's free).

[Flying Toilet]

Premier Sports on SKY have Nascar coverage along with other motorsports.

[amokwa]

You also get a Nascar highlights programme on Sky after the race

[Glen320]

Motors tv has the Nascar Nationwide series this year.

[hornet]

I believe Sky has Indycar this season. I'm really looking forward to it this year, especially if Rubens signs up. Ways and means of watching if Sky isn't on offer.

[bigbadbikercats]

MitchT said:

I'm wondering which TV channels I need to be able to watch NASCAR and Indy Car. NB. UK resident.

BitTorrent.

Personally I'm more than a little disapointed that ESPN haven't been making any of their NASCAR coverage available through VoD on BT vision - wall to wall drag racing is all good and fine but it would be nice to have something else for a change...

[onomatopoeia]

Glen320 said:

Motors tv has the Nascar Nationwide series this year.

Yay! It was the Motors coverage of the Nationwide series that got me started following NASCAR, glad they've picked it up again after NASN / Setanta gave up then vanished. While it was often possible to find a live stream, for races in the evening Eastern time that meant staying up to past 2am to watch the start and sometimes it would be dawn by the time the races finished.

[DanB7290]

www.justin.tv

I use this all the time, as I can't afford, nor have any desire to line Murdoch's pockets. Thing is it streams the American channel, so you get all the US commercials, which 99% of the time are either for food, or viagra.

[hornet]

DanB7290 said:

www.justin.tv

I use this all the time, as I can't afford, nor have any desire to line Murdoch's pockets. Thing is it streams the American channel, so you get all the US commercials, which 99% of the time are either for food, or viagra.

I have the Nationwide Insurance jingle in my head as I type!

The ones I love are the ultra low budget "Crazy Bob's Discount Car Bunker" type that look like they were filmed on a mobile phone.

[anonymous-user]

bigbadbikercats said:

BitTorrent.

Personally I'm more than a little disapointed that ESPN haven't been making any of their NASCAR coverage available through VoD on BT vision - wall to wall drag racing is all good and fine but it would be nice to have something else for a change...

But ESPN only show Nascar Now in europe anyway, not any racing.

[bigbadbikercats]

tux said:

But ESPN only show Nascar Now in europe anyway, not any racing.

They don't show the full length NHRA drag racing coverage either (or at least not on Freeview) do they? but its still available on ESPN's VoD service throuigh BT Vision.

I'm guessing the rights for VoD would be cheaper than live broadcast and with no requirement to sacrifice anything else (i.e. football!) to free up time in the schedule it kind of feels like it ought to be a little more doable than live broadcast would be..

[Flying Toilet]

There is 120 & 180 minutes of NHRA qualifying and race day on over the next week.

I presume its the live broadcast from the States replayed over here the following day...

[onomatopoeia]

hornet said:

I have the Nationwide Insurance jingle in my head as I type!

The telephone number for Nationwide insurance is permenantly wedged in my brain and about the only one I can remember apart from my own! Arrgh!

[anonymous-user]

Can you get Sky Sports via freeview?
Nascar coverage isn't good but their indy car is.

[Fane]

So, just to summarise, we've got:

Indy - Sky.
NASCAR Nationwide Series - Motors TV.
NASCAR Sprint Cup - Premier Sports.

It'd be great if one of them picked up the Truck Racing - in a way it's my favourite of the three big NASCAR series.

[CaptainSensib1e]

Sorry for the thread bump, but is it still the case that Indy car is only available on Sky?

[eastlmark]

CaptainSensib1e said:

Sorry for the thread bump, but is it still the case that Indy car is only available on Sky?

Nope, has not been on Sky all of 2013.. its on ESPN/BT, the first year for ages that I never saw one race even....... dont know what the score is for next season though.

[matt3001]

Is it live on BT or just highlights?