Motors TV
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Nicholas Blair

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4,111 posts

313 months

Sunday 14th June 2009
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What's happened at Motors TV ?- No DTM/Le Mans/decent racing or anything of note at all this year? Appears to be endless dirt biking type stuff from US of A.

Just finished watching all of Le Mans on Eurosport, so at least it was on somewhere.

Eric Mc

125,609 posts

294 months

Sunday 14th June 2009
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I only signed up for Motors when Le Mans switched to them a couple of years ago.

petergb

236 posts

211 months

Sunday 14th June 2009
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A lot of it in 4:3 format - which I detest!

Andy 308GTB

3,053 posts

250 months

Sunday 14th June 2009
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In their defence they do show quite a bit of GT Racing. GTCup, British GT's, FIA GT's. Also F3 which runs alongside these series. But overall the dirt bike racing and American Pick Up trucks appears to have taken over.
As for the format - I assumed my TV was broken biggrin

Hugh Jass

2,193 posts

214 months

Monday 15th June 2009
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The only thing worth watching, for me, is the Rallycross.


Should have said Bathurst as wellsilly

Edited by Hugh Jass on Monday 15th June 22:10

Melman Giraffe

6,794 posts

247 months

Monday 15th June 2009
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Eric Mc said:
I only signed up for Motors when Le Mans switched to them a couple of years ago.
I thought it was free on Sky?

Northern Munkee

5,354 posts

229 months

Monday 15th June 2009
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I was most disappointed that DTM (and GP2) got bought up by Setanta, in view of the fact I can't barely justify the full sky package, and in setanta's financial problems, I had hoped DTM might return to Motors, and GP2 to eurosport.

Motors is good for AussieV8s, ALMS. & LMS(?)

Nicholas Blair

Original Poster:

4,111 posts

313 months

Monday 15th June 2009
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Northern Munkee said:
I was most disappointed that DTM (and GP2) got bought up by Setanta, in view of the fact I can't barely justify the full sky package, and in setanta's financial problems, I had hoped DTM might return to Motors, and GP2 to eurosport.

Motors is good for AussieV8s, ALMS. & LMS(?)
Fingers crossed - didn't know Setanta had bought the rights.

Eric Mc

125,609 posts

294 months

Monday 15th June 2009
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Melman Giraffe said:
Eric Mc said:
I only signed up for Motors when Le Mans switched to them a couple of years ago.
I thought it was free on Sky?
What sport is FREE on Sky?

Andy 308GTB

3,053 posts

250 months

Monday 15th June 2009
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Eric Mc said:
Melman Giraffe said:
Eric Mc said:
I only signed up for Motors when Le Mans switched to them a couple of years ago.
I thought it was free on Sky?
What sport is FREE on Sky?
I think 'free on Sky' refers to Eurosports 24 hour coverage of Le Mans

The Black Flash

13,735 posts

227 months

Monday 15th June 2009
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No, Motors is free on sky...or at least, it's not a subscription channel. Might be in one of the packages.

They do a fair bit of grass roots stuff which is good, but I agree on the dirt biking thing. Seems to be on all the time at the mo'.

Cliffv8

565 posts

234 months

Monday 15th June 2009
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I'm sick of seeing US speedway on, speedway does nothing for me anyway but this st looks like it was filmed on someone's bloody mobile phone

Northern Munkee

5,354 posts

229 months

Monday 15th June 2009
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I know! US Speedway rubbish, the best speedway is apparently in Poland!

But what about European Late Model Series?! It appears to have cars from the equivalent of the Vauxhall conference of Nascar! And I must confess British Hill Climbing leaves me a little cold as well, although at least it's British!

I get the feeling that some of these programmes are produced, or their production costs paid for, by the organisers (or their sponsors) of the championships themselves, and given free to Motors, just to get it out there, raise their profile, so fair enough. Consequently the production values are lower, as they are made on a much lower budget.

For me it beats me why they don't show more karting, British karting, plenty of racing, and is relatively cheap to produce, and would benefit drivers and british racing, with better profile, comes potential sponsorship.