autox
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Mower racing VS Pro Solo

To: autox mailing list <autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Mower racing VS Pro Solo
From: "Mark J. Andy" <marka@telerama.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:06:42 -0400 (EDT)
Howdy,

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Steven Eguina wrote:
> I've got Speedvision on and I'm wandering why week after week they have
> lawn mower racing. We no longer hear about how the Pro Solo series being
> televised.  With drag race type starts, the camera located on a platform
> above the course,  fender camera's and in car camera's, it would seem that
> Nationals would be more interesting to watch.  SCCA  runoffs were great and
> live. SCCA has a good relationship with Speedvision  Our National Pro Solo
> series, presented correctly, would seem to be more interesting to the
> public than mower racing. 

Yeah, but the SEB has shot that idea down.

If the ProSolo series started getting a fan following, then those fans
would join everyone else bitching and moaning when the SEB made another
stupid decision like keeping the M3 in ESP.

:-)

Mark

(seriously, I bet the mower racing is more marketable because its so damn
weird.  I know I watched it because I wanted to see how the hell it
worked.)


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>