I completely agree with Craig; the Speedvision Touring Car and GT races are
the most exciting to watch. The in-car cameras are great and the
competition is fierce. You might even recognize some SoloII veterans in the
mix (Scotty B. White, Shauna Marinus, Neal Sapp...).
--Navid
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of craig boyle
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:35 PM
> To: James Creasy; Giles Douglas; John J. Stimson-III
> Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: racing was Re: Speedvision to become NASCAR channel?
>
>
> Speedvision GT's - especially when Derek Bell get's
> hit.
>
> Speedvision TC - huge fields. They should have more
> events.
>
>
> Craig
> --- James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > what is the best racing today? i mean, besides *US*
> > of course.
> >
> > people say F1 is boring- no overtaking.
> >
> > CART is full of bozos and amateurs
> >
> > IRL is worse
> >
> > NASCAR, well to me they aint race cars and ovals
> > bore me.
> >
> > the chance of seeing anything else is pretty remote
> > for me.
> >
> > -james c
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Giles Douglas <giles@vy.com>
> > To: John J. Stimson-III <john@idsfa.net>
> > Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 11:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: Speedvision to become NASCAR channel?
> >
> >
> > > Fox owns 33% of speedvision, and are trying to buy
> > the rest. Hopefully the
> > > remainder of the shareholders will say no.
> > >
> > > NASCAR sucks. The speedvision programming is much
> > more interesting, and
> > > closer to what I used to get to watch when I lived
> > in England. I'd just
> > > got used to watching Formula 1, Touring cars and
> > motorcycle racing again
> > > :(
> > >
> > > Giles
> > >
> > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, John J. Stimson-III wrote:
> > >
> > > > Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 10:51:58 -0700
> > > > From: "John J. Stimson-III" <john@idsfa.net>
> > > > To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > > > Subject: Speedvision to become NASCAR channel?
> > > >
> > > > This doesn't look so good. Fox (who owns
> > Speedvision) wants to create
> > > > a NASCAR channel, with mostly NASCAR and NASCAR
> > related programming
> > > > (which for some weird reason seems to include
> > Golf). They're planning
> > > > to do it by renaming Speedvision.
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> http://charlotte.bcentral.com/charlotte/stories/2001/06/25/story1.html
> > > >
> > > > I wrote my response to this to
> > info@speedvision.com. I don't know if
> > > > that's the best address to use. Maybe
> > programming@speedvision.com, or
> > > > someone at Fox.
> > > >
> > > > If this happens, then I'll no longer be annoyed
> > that AT&T in Sunnyvale
> > > > doesn't offer Speedvision. I'll just be annoyed
> > that Speedvision
> > > > doesn't even exist.
> > > >
> > > > Who wants to start a motorsports-oriented
> > network with diverse
> > > > programming? We could do a WWF-style miniseries
> > on SFR Solo2 Street
> > > > Mod, complete with pre-event trash talk. Plus
> > the purple car should
> > > > give us a boost in ratings. It sure worked for
> > "Night Man"...Navid,
> > > > how would you feel about wearing blue plastic
> > body armor?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > john@idsfa.net
> > John Stimson
> > > > http://www.idsfa.net/~john/
> > HMC Physics '94
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