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Haven't seen the original article, but maybe he was asked about it?
As Volvo doesn't really have much racing pedigree, they are probably looking at their racing efforts simply from a financial point of view. LMP1 is expensive and gets very little publicity. edit: now that I actually read the article properly I don't find anything wrong with what the Volvo guy said. |
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20 Jan 2015, 06:44 (Ref:3494364) | #6202 | |
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Touring cars is a good place for them imo. And they have lots of success in that area (scandanavia especially).
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It would be interesting to see Geely a chinesse company entering mainstream racing rather than local touring car races but as already said i can't see it happening and also Volvo are not able to generate the income to fund a large scale racing programme so again i think it is very unlikely
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According to Dagys some really good NA news are about to be announced today. Goodwin added 'potentially' & 'deals not done' to that, which was kinda amusing coming from him as he has often made same sort of half promises for the future.
But in any case, it's probably not LMP1s at Sebring etc given the timing, more likely IMSA than WEC news - they'd surely hinted at it @ Detroit powerpoint presentation instead... Last edited by Deleted; 20 Jan 2015 at 12:06. |
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Didn't see that coming but a very welcome development!
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20 Jan 2015, 16:16 (Ref:3494498) | #6212 | |
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So it's a TV channel coming to North America, huh? Well, let's hope that they will have other forms of motorsport such as DTM and V8 Supercars!
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So the NA viewers are finally gonna witness the epic SD blur-vision of Motors. Trying to identify car from horse...
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In terms of mainstream media only taking notice only for short period, of course he's right on that. However, that is still infinitely more he's ever gonna get with his niche touring cars wherever they race. And Formula E? About as unheard championship as WEC is. So in commiting to this sport it might just be mainstream fame for 24 hours + one 30 second clip in evening's sport news or whererever, but unless Volvo goes F1 or NASCAR, wherever else will you find the same? Therefore, the whole mainstream media should be axed away from the whole discussion and just concentrate on racing fans in the first place. Volvo is not associated with sportscars, but nor are they with single seaters. So if Volvo goes Formula E and it's spec cars (yeah there's gonna be variation in some of the components I believe but hardly anything substantial), does electric single seater car improve marketing any more than hybrid LMP1 car / conventional LMP2 car with some mild association or plain rebranding / waiver equipped production GTE car? Okay FE has the eco-friendly imago, but ACO has also gone to that direction with things like Green X and Garage 56 etc, so if one really wanted to play that game in their marketing with sportscars they could. Also the market and technology for electric cars is still in it's infancy. Yes I've been one of the most local critics of WEC and still am, but no matter what ACO does - wrong or right - for general public that is still just one event "and some others". Because this is niche form of sport. So with WEC, even if it was the most amazing thing on Earth with Sebrings and whatever, it's still gonna be just some series in the background of Le Mans. ACO's job shouldn't be try to reach Billy Bobs on street, not in numbers at least, but make it known inside the racing world and grow the appeal for manufacturers and customers. Last edited by Deleted; 20 Jan 2015 at 16:45. |
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I will take SD WEC racing over risking viruses to find a nice stream online.
This is amazing news... you Europeans don't really realize how starved for racing we Americans really are. |
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It's also coming to Latin America
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20 Jan 2015, 19:42 (Ref:3494565) | #6216 | ||
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I hope that this will help to have more contents in spanish Current spanish broadcasters are really good but they just cover the primetime live events (Australian V8 supercars, WEC, ALMS, Nascar, F3, LOORS, motocross and a few more)
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20 Jan 2015, 23:36 (Ref:3494640) | #6217 | |
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Just a few (even if you go with the average Sebring/Petit crowd) - but I'm with you!
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21 Jan 2015, 07:40 (Ref:3494694) | #6218 | ||
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it will be interesting to see if the extra coverage of sportscar racing this brings will result in an increase in the number of fresh faces at the ten tenths meeting this year at Le Mans, the number of american visitors has grown in the last few years and it will be good to see a few more in the next few years
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Just because its introduced in the US, does not mean that any of the major cable tv will pick it up, so it could be there but nobody is distributing it
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Oh you're special alright! This could be big if there was an option to stream, with decent features, for a smaller fee. I don't see the sport growing significantly because people who purchase the Extra Gold Platinum Diamond I'm-a-cable-exec-anyway are no where near as common as people who don't want to pay more for the top tiers, or want to get out of cable packages altogether. |
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