Weekly Autosport to cease publishing?
Discussion
moffspeed said:
I have been an avid reader of Autosport for 50 years or so, yes the mag is a pale, diluted shadow of its former self and printed media is on borrowed time, the recent bulking out with 'Performance" sections etc have been cringeworthy .. but Thursday wouldn't be Thursday without A'sport arriving on the hall floor...Interestingly my quarterly sub is approx. £35 and when I phoned yesterday I was told that this would be honoured for the foreseeable future - but at £11 a go the printed version is surely doomed.
Spare a thought also for "Motoring News" as it used to be called. As a kid I contributed race reports for them in the South Wales area i.e. Llandow. Before the 'net MN's classified section used to be the go-to place to buy your performance car, my first 3 "proper " cars - an Escort Mexico, RS2000 X pack and an Elan Sprint were all sourced from MN. Happy days.
RS2000 Spare a thought also for "Motoring News" as it used to be called. As a kid I contributed race reports for them in the South Wales area i.e. Llandow. Before the 'net MN's classified section used to be the go-to place to buy your performance car, my first 3 "proper " cars - an Escort Mexico, RS2000 X pack and an Elan Sprint were all sourced from MN. Happy days.
Gorgeous cars. Bet you wish you'd hung on to it now
Derek Smith said:
Eric Mc said:
Magazines for news have probably had it.
Magazines for specialist interests possibly still have some life left in them.
These 'specialist magazines'? Like to tell us more, Eric?Magazines for specialist interests possibly still have some life left in them.
Derek Smith said:
Eric Mc said:
Magazines for news have probably had it.
Magazines for specialist interests possibly still have some life left in them.
These 'specialist magazines'? Like to tell us more, Eric?Magazines for specialist interests possibly still have some life left in them.
Derek Smith said:
Eric Mc said:
Magazines for news have probably had it.
Magazines for specialist interests possibly still have some life left in them.
These 'specialist magazines'? Like to tell us more, Eric?Magazines for specialist interests possibly still have some life left in them.
Angling (coarse and game ) is my other lifelong passion in addition to cars and motorsport and almost exactly the same thing has happened to its press. We do have two weeklies but one of them is little more than advertorial and 90% of content is about the equivalent of F1 , carp (and one type of carp is even called F1! ). But the all rounder, well written magazine , catering for a wide range of interests died 20 years ago and , instead , the newsagents shelves groan under the weight of mags for single species - and as often as not they thin, dreadfully written and overpriced .
My theory is that most fishermen and most car folk now have the attention span of ants , and that's just the ones who don't move their lips when reading .
My theory is that most fishermen and most car folk now have the attention span of ants , and that's just the ones who don't move their lips when reading .
Eric Mc said:
StevieBee said:
Eric Mc said:
I don't understand myself why some areas of interest seem to have had a magazine explosion over the pat few years and other areas are in decline.
Without wishing to lower tones, I am regularly surprised that many of the more 'adult orientated' titles prevail on the upper shelves.
All very odd, this week’s edition carries the same page 3 “note to readers”. The “your say” page doesn’t publish any correspondence re the price rise but gives a short statement re the “number of e mails” received concerning this - “we will continue to share updates as early as we can “ (sic).
What is really odd is that the front cover features the BTCC rather than the Japanese GP . We know that it is F1 that sells Motorsport mags and I can’t think of a post GP week when A’sport hasn’t run an F1 themed front cover. The cynical might suggest it is an attempt to reduce sales and accelerate the demise of the printed version....
What is really odd is that the front cover features the BTCC rather than the Japanese GP . We know that it is F1 that sells Motorsport mags and I can’t think of a post GP week when A’sport hasn’t run an F1 themed front cover. The cynical might suggest it is an attempt to reduce sales and accelerate the demise of the printed version....
eastlmark said:
only 2 weeks without the mag and starting to feel about out of the loop... Anyone recommend an online source of motorsport news, national and club that isn't Autosport?
The motorsport website that owns Autosport, they post all the stories you'd have to pay to read on the AS website.... eastlmark said:
only 2 weeks without the mag and starting to feel about out of the loop... Anyone recommend an online source of motorsport news, national and club that isn't Autosport?
For sports car racing, http://www.dailysportscar.com/ is brilliant. It is probably one of the reasons Autosport struggled.moffspeed said:
Spare a thought also for "Motoring News" as it used to be called. As a kid I contributed race reports for them in the South Wales area i.e. Llandow. Before the 'net MN's classified section used to be the go-to place to buy your performance car, my first 3 "proper " cars - an Escort Mexico, RS2000 X pack and an Elan Sprint were all sourced from MN. Happy days.
Happy days indeed.Always used to be 15 mins late for work on a Thursday morning (and then a Wednesday morning after they changed it) as 'needed' to wait for the bloody paper boy to deliver the papers so I could read Muttering Screws at lunchtime at work, and search the classifieds as well
I bought 2 of the 3 x RS2000's I had, plus a Mex, my Sunbeam Ti and lastly my Sunbeam-Lotus all through ads in Muttering Screws.
eastlmark said:
only 2 weeks without the mag and starting to feel about out of the loop... Anyone recommend an online source of motorsport news, national and club that isn't Autosport?
I subscribe to Readly. It has Autosport on its lists, although I don't know for how much longer. Whilst it's interface is clunky and magazines come and go, it's save me a fair bit of money over time as I used to buy quite a few mags each month. The only regular for me now is Private Eye.Thread resurrection:
Autosport to go monthly from 2025
https://www.autosport.com/general/news/autosport-c...
I gave up buying the print copy years ago but am a digital subscriber. I guess this will remain "live".
Autosport to go monthly from 2025
https://www.autosport.com/general/news/autosport-c...
I gave up buying the print copy years ago but am a digital subscriber. I guess this will remain "live".
I consider myself to be an ‘an armchair’ motorsport enthusiast, so always enjoyed a coffee and a read through Autosport magazine.
It might be old news by the time it comes out, but has kept me informed - alongside a couple of close friends who ‘engineer’ at a fairly high level and have a very good insight into what goes on behind the scenes.
It might be old news by the time it comes out, but has kept me informed - alongside a couple of close friends who ‘engineer’ at a fairly high level and have a very good insight into what goes on behind the scenes.
Like many, I bought and then subscribed to Autosport. I think I got every copy from about 1988 to about 2016. By which time I was fed up of the 99% F1 bias. The best bits for me were always the rallying news and then the National News. I always wanted to appear in the National section, first my name in the results of a race, maybe pic or comment and then an article. Achieved most of that.
Of the changes for 2025, I would subscribe to a national news newsletter. That's pretty much the only motorsport I am interested in theses days - the club scene.
Of the changes for 2025, I would subscribe to a national news newsletter. That's pretty much the only motorsport I am interested in theses days - the club scene.
Where do you actually buy Autosport now ? It used to be one of the standard car mags that even supermarkets would stock, but I haven`t seen a copy for years. I would always buy a copy of the Le Mans build up to take to read while we were there, but for the last two years even WH Smiths didn't have any.
Gassing Station | Formula 1 | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff