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Originally Posted by joeb
I always like to see what the media coverage of indycar is outside racing websites. Our local paper had a half page story with large picture of Dixon on track. Good recap of the race in the story as well.
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Here in Europe it is non-existant.
I believe the races are shown in the Netherlands on Ziggo (UPC / Liberty cable network)
In Belgium some of them are shown on a dedicated sports channel, but you can only get that if you change ISP providers to the one provider who owns that channel, and then you have to take the most expensive suspscription, which means: all the soccer/football channels.
The only way to see the race is to find an illegal stream.
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Apart from that, there is no mention in the newspapers.
At the time, there was a 10-line article saying Sato won the Indy 500.
That's maybe because People remember Sato here.
Probably if Newgarden would have won, it would not have been mentioned at all.
Mind you, there is hardly any newpaper coverage about the Spa 24 hours race either.
In 'De Zondag' (a free newspaper you can pick up in shops at Sunday), there were 5 pages about the Soccer matches of this weekend, 2 about Vuelta and Giro and 75 words about Hamilton taking pole in Portimao.
Nothing about the Spa 24 hours, even though that race was ungoing.
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Even on 'Sporza', the sports website of our national broadcaster, there is nothing about the Spa 24hours.
If it is not F1 or Rally it does not exist.
(Formula E seems to exist since Vandoorne races there)