This Poll is in regards to this thread (click me) (http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=665380&page=1&pp=25)

We want to focus our collective effort on *ONE* specific race series (so pick your favorite!)...To ask Speed TV for just 30 more minutes of coverage (we'll work on this later)

Would you like to see more attention given to a particular series already beign broadcasted (WRC, Speed GT, etc)??

Or would you like to see a racing series not broadcased, or no longer shown?

And again, let's decide on what to focus on and then we can decide on the details and how to approach this.If you don't see something on the list, just let me know and I will add it! And as a general rule, to avoid pointless arguments we've already had, you CANNOT use the word NASCAR in this thread ;) :D

Thank you EVERYONE for your cooperation! You will be rewarded! lol

And in case you need a refresher, check out the websites:
SCCA - http://www.speedvisionwc.com/ or http://scca.org/
WRC - http://www.wrc.com/
BTCC - http://www.btccpages.com/
JGTC - http://www.jgtcusa.net/
MotoGP - http://www.motogp.com/
ALMS - http://www.americanlemans.com/

(props to Subie Gal for the pollage ;) )

W.....R.....C.....
& other Rally coverage.....
More US rally.....

I think it's a shame Speed doesn't cover the Macau Grand Prix.

Instead of Motorsport Mundial recaps, I would like to see, even in abbreviated form, FIA GT championship series races.

More attention SHOULD be given to Speed World Challenge, GT & Touring. Heck, they are the primary sponsor. Think of how great an "inside look" type show would be of this series....especially touring car.

BriDrive inputs............

Anything that is NOT oval racing. I can't stand the boredom associated with NASCAR and all the oval racing series -- it is like WWF with cars neutralized to be so the same and banking that is so excessive that my grandmother could go left left left and the car technology is non-existant (circa 1960's).

The series I want to see:
F1
WRC
Champ Cars
IRL (if they do more road courses)
Speed World Challenge (GT and Touring)
V8 Supercars
All motorcycle racing

Rob.

*dreamin'*
I want to see ProSolo. I'm not kidding.

Trim down the fields covered: SS, STX or ESP (joe viewer couldn't tell the difference, but might enjoy Sammy vs. Tom, particularly if there are interviews :) ), SM, B or CP, and AM.
Mimic the best of the NHRA, World Challenge coverage (between-run interviews and in-car multi camera coverage).
Toss in a well-spoken color commentator who has a relevant clue/opinion/perspective like KC (I wanna hear someone say, "whikkid retodded" after a spin :D ) along with the usual bobblehead.
Pay Despain's way and make sure he has a good-enough time to make it remarkable and worth return trips.
Cross-promote the hell out of it on GRM and Sports Car Revolution with project cars and background pieces.


...shake (never stir), and you'd have content every bit as good as the australian big block puddle dinghies, and/or all of the lesser-series' circle-track events currently cloggin' up the works.
*/dreamin*

My tivo's ready. :banana:

European RallyCross, please. :)

anything other than more of this

http://www.bustedtees.com/images/boringnascar.116.gallery_normal.jpg

Whoops, the other thread had the poll

Oh well, regular tally will have to do

pm me what u want on the poll and i can add it.

cheers
Jamie

Please include coverage of the JGTC.

We have a round on US soil this year and it's pretty big with the "tunerz" crowd so the money in advertising is there too.

Full JGTC races instead of recaps. Full DTM races instead of recaps. MotoGP qualifying or qually recap.

pm me what u want on the poll and i can add it.

cheers
Jamie

thanks! sent

pollage added :D

i'd like to see more of me, frankly :)

Poll should be multiple choice... I can't decide between BTCC and JGTC. :(

I have a feeling this will become SCCA vs. Rally

Poll should be multiple choice... I can't decide between BTCC and JGTC. :(

Well, from what Ive learned in Statistics courses (and I may be totally off on this) there should be only one answer allowed on somethign like this. So you have to vote for your very very very favorite ;) Sorrry

I'll be making a seperate tally for all the responses though, so don't worry!

we can edit the poll to show who voted what :devil:

hehehe... okay.. we wont do that

I voted for WRC coverage, and maybe off season replays of the regular coverage and I'l love to see more coverage of US rallies, like a full hour and maybe replay it a few times in case I miss it the 1 time they play it.

Realistically, I'd like to see more of every event listed in the poll.

SCCA, JGTC and Le Mans/ALMS

JGTC has some of the best racing out there and coolest cars too.

we can edit the poll to show who voted what :devil:

hehehe... okay.. we wont do that

I confess, I voted JGTC :o

But only because SpeedTV already has plenty of Rally coverage...(if theres such a athign as "plenty of rally coverage", but I think you know what I mean)

More rally! :devil:

JGTC :rolleyes: They look really sloppy when they race "another thread on this a while ago" better drivers in BTCC... cool looking cars though

Realistically, I'd like to see more of every event listed in the poll.

Well, if rally comes out the winner, we'll make another poll to "zero in" on exactly which rally series we want to conventrate on. I had this in mind, which is why I listed "WRC and other Rally" :D

I would be happy to just to see Speed TV. My cable company dropped Speed a few years ago so I dropped them. :lol:

Well everybody woud love to see more Rally on SpeedTV :D
But I would like to see series that we never see.
Like the JGTC, FIA GT, and other sports car racing.
It'll be cool if the covered series like the Ferrari Challenge, and other one make series.

More lower class of open wheels racing. Most notably F3 and top tier shifter kart races (super ICC in particular, or formula super A (non shifter i believe)..dunno if they still run that class)

but having karting world championship coverage would be awesome

Well everybody woud love to see more Rally on SpeedTV :D
But I would like to see series that we never see.


That's my reasoning. I love rally to death but I love motorsports too! :)

DRIFTING!!!!!!! j/k

id like to see scca (and whom ever will take over scca club rally) get more coverage. it would be really nice to see more money and attention focussed on struggling die hard american racers in all arenas.

27 votes in, and rally is just 1 VOTE BEHIND!!!

This could go any way folks!!!

And don't forget about the SCCA just a couple votes behind!

:banana:

Nice job, baileypicks24! I voted.

Gary
Sheehan Motor Racing
www.teamSMR.com

Although I love watching WRC and SCCA, I gotta say that Speed needs to start playing more British Touring car racing. The races I've seen have been incredibly competitive and exciting. There's no predicting who's going to win; they all have a good chance.

You can tell that those guys are all driving the snot out of the cars, and loving every second of it.

I vote for anything other than nascar, WRC, BTCC, and SCCA have my votes

So nobody wants NASCAR, so why is SPEED pushing NASCRAP NASCRAP NASCRAP down our throats?? Cause it is 'Mercan?? Y'all. Pathetic racing yet is covers every aspect of American TV and consume just about all available sponsors.

Still just don't understand the draw of NASCAR -- side by side racing -- yeah I do that every day in rush hour traffic. It is such a useless event where passing is accomplished by the standard hit the left rear quater panel of the guy in front and move on by -- yawn-o-rama.

And all the cash whore NASCAR drivers -- in it for just one reason, money -- driver talent has long since left NASCAR.

Oh that's right -- NASCAR has lead changes, lots of them, to keep the weak minded entertained -- the fans that think they can go to your local dealer an pick up #3 special with 750+ HP (beer included).

NASCAR is the biggest crock and dupe job since since since watergate. I really don't know how NASCAR drivers can live with themselves -- cash whores with little or no interest in the real sport of racing.

I guess you can say NASCRAP is the motorsport version of American football.
Only americans watch it
The track is in a stadium; so that, every fan can see the action.
There are lots of hits/crashes

How about more "old" races, like F1 Decade, except the entire race. They need "Speed Classic".

In addition to more WRC, I'd like to see more Touring Car races.

I'd also like to hear more commentary of a technical nature. Most of it is way too dumbed down. I want more slow motion replays with Madden-like analysis of racing maneuvers.

"Watch here how this guy times his overtaking perfectly coming into the corner. See the nose drop on this car? That's when he hit his brakes. Now watch this guy. He comes in right underneath him and doesn't hit the brakes until riiiiight here. Boom!" :lol:

Wow, 56 votes, and it seems as if Rally might come out the winner, and SCCA is almost in the #2 spot.

We'll let this poll go for a couple more days just so everyone can vote, and we'll move on from there.

Anybody think we should do a similar poll in the "General" forum, or perhaps a link to this poll?? :confused:

In addition to more WRC, I'd like to see more Touring Car races.


I agree. I want to see a "diversification" of Speed TV. Nonetheless, nothing wrong with more Rally...but we'll see how the poll comes out.

I didn't vote for SCCA because that it too general... their touring series is kinda cool, but not nearly as cool as BTCC. JGTC is cool, but it is too far out there. BTCC is just the only one that is nearly a realistic series vehicle-wise while still having good action and showing fun courses.

You people have to face it that Nascar is a series for the "lazy American" where you can sit in one place, not miss any of the action, and when there IS action, it's BIG and DESTRUCTIVE and FUN. IMO, it's a glorified demolition derby with more advertising then 10 porn web sites.

I didn't vote for SCCA because that it too general...

Well, if SCCA came out on top, the plan was to create a second poll to "zero in" on exactlyh which SCCA series to focus on, because indeed, SCCA is everythign from rally, to autox, to time trials, to track racing.

Nice job, baileypicks24! I voted.

Gary
Sheehan Motor Racing
www.teamSMR.com

thanks! Its all your idea :)

Anything but Nascar.

I had to go with Rally...never get too much Rally :D Actually the coverage is quite good now - as long as you manage to catch it's very limited window of availability!

They even show F1 races 3 times the same day, which I like, but there's no consistency to additional rally coverage, and finding a replay of a (late lamented) SCCA rally is about as likely as finding a monogamous porn star...

I keep a tape library of WRC and US rally (only) so you can see where my priorities are; I also watch: (roughly in order)

Rally: WRC, US
Speed Touring/GT
MotoGP
WSB
F1
Vintage/Historics racing...(depending on venue and content)
Champ Car - road courses only, if/when I can find one to watch
Goodwood! :banana: this low on the list solely because it's only once a year
various other Speed content; I've gotten so I quite like Alain deCadenet's discussions and demos of classic marques. I think I'd rather like his job :lol:

What a surprise...a Subaru Impreza forum chooses Rally

:lol:

More WRC. The three-hour shows that they did for one, glorious year, were a delight, even through the repeated segments and sloppy editing.

Kevin

it would be cool to see a wrc decade type of program, only have it go back farther than 10 years. the old "Legends" show sort went along the lines of showing old archived rally footage but the editing and commentating/narrating was horrible.

Too much NASCAR! Totally NASCAR, Speed News NASCAR edition, Trackside, pre/race coverage.....:furious:

More Rally, rally, rally! And please change time for the SCCA ProRally. Early afternoons are just a bad time for me.


-Mark
MAPmotors.com

I'd like to see the old WRC rallys too. When I was stationed in Italy they'd show the rallys (not just WRC) and wouldn't edit out the parts where spectators got plowed by cars going off course.

Okay all you English majors - is the proper usage rallys, or rallies? :)

Okay all you English majors - is the proper usage rallys, or rallies? :)

...ies

Kevin

Although I love watching WRC and SCCA, I gotta say that Speed needs to start playing more British Touring car racing. The races I've seen have been incredibly competitive and exciting. There's no predicting who's going to win; they all have a good chance.

You can tell that those guys are all driving the snot out of the cars, and loving every second of it. It was really good years ago when they had the following : Ford, Honda, Renault, Peugeot, Nissan, Volvo, Vauxhall, Audi. I think that was 2000. That was the great years it's actually pretty weak now. The DTM the European Touring cars are good now. But some of the 24hr races like the Nurburgring & Spa are cool to watch. Speed does show them sometimes. Hey Gary S. they don't give your series any air time that isn't right. 1/2 hr would be nice. since the cars are pretty popular. I watched your clips it looked cool. So I ordered it haven't seen yet.

Word challenge and SCCA runoffs get plenty of air time IMOP. Don't we get all the Challenge race, some are even live.

I've got 99 votes but JGTC ain't one...

HIT MEH

Anything besides NASCRAP.

id like to see meguiars car crazy go away. why is it the people that seem to be on that show think that wanting to polish your car every weekend makes you a "car guy"? imo those people arent car crazy, theyre obsessive compulsive.

id like to see meguiars car crazy go away. why is it the people that seem to be on that show think that wanting to polish your car every weekend makes you a "car guy"? imo those people arent car crazy, theyre obsessive compulsive. I agree that show sucks.

As far as I'm concerned, NASCAR (the reality show) is on the same intellectual lines as:

http://www.tbs.com/shows/therealgilligansisland

What has become of American TV?? So so sad.

bump

Mr. Gary Sheehan, I seek your guidance. You have a PM ;)

ALMS and LeMans as well as other road and endurance races(FIA GT, BTCC, Australian V8, and perhaps more vintage racing...SVRA)

i think wrc coverage is basicly good, they could work on the content, and maybe the pre and post race coverage (news style)

i would rather see them split up. fox can aford it and this will allow sponsors to be more specific in thier demographics. afterall, does a southern nascar fan drink scmirnof? or care about the wrc?

they only want nascar and see other forms of racing (none oval) to be trivial, if we do too i ay we aboandone them, and give them thier british empire, while we keep america and all it's freedoms

Hands down I want to see more Touring Car coverage. JGTC, BTCC, German and European touring car series, Aussie V8 touring cars, DTM, FIA GT and expanded coverage of the great endurance races like the 24hrs. at the "RING" and such. I feel that there is more action and competiton in the series than in most other series put together.

Speed GT and Touring series get plenty of coverage IMHO.

Thanx

Speed is crap they need to make just another one for nascar and then do everything else on it

More world-wide racing coverage whare the cars actually go around right hand corners would be great!

I hope they even have ANY WRC this year... not too promising.

After WRC, some more touring car championships and maybe even an auto-x national or something.

Oh, I'd actually love to see some more "local" (i.e. local to Finland, Sweden, etc.) rally coverage.