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Old 03-07-2013, 10:44 PM
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Default Best channel lineup for motorsports

Since the demise of Speedvision and now Speeds final death throws, what channels/subscriptions do you guys find the best.

Not interested in NASCAR and since it has its own channel...
Streaming is ok if it is reliable and HD.

What channel/subscription/pay per view do/will you be watching for:

1.F1?
2.ALMS (rest of 13)?
3.GrandAm?
4.WEC?
5.WRC?
6.DTM?
7.British Touring?
8.Aussy V8?
9.continental?
10.Carrera Cup?
11.what am I missing?
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What's the lowdown on Speed?
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any word on Speed2?
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Speed may very well survive they are just going to have to open up their format to a larger variety of events. Lets just hope they did not do well with that abomination "Are you faster than a Redneck".

Have to admit I didn't watch but hope it bombed to keep that out of the mix for the new format.
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So far I have resorted to TSN and TSN2.
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What's TSN?
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I don't love the faster than redneck show but one thing that is great about it is you get to actually see people driving around the track! unlike a lot of latter day speed programming. so I will watch that before a lot of other bad programming on speed.
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I gotta agree with MrMan on this one. I think the show is kinda funny. Certainly not high brow entertainment but how many shows can we watch where they bolt aftermarket crap onto a truck or paint flames on a hot rod? 10, 200, 15000? Or the 100 hours of programming they devote to every Nascar race? I know what Denny Hamlin had for lunch today because they followed him into the can and collected his stool to examine it for the viewers.

There must not be enough of us to support one channel devoted to only motor sports but here's hoping we still get to see all the races on TV somewhere.
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Originally Posted by Streak
What's TSN?
Its a Canadien TV channel devoted to sports. http://www.tsn.ca/
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Bring back SpeedVision! We need Two Wheel Tuesday, Wings and Water Wednesday, Thunder Thursday, and where is that Brian "guy" that used to do the F1 grid walk?
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We'll be searching for a new home for our Ultimate Street Car Invitational show, which also currently airs on SPEED, so I'm interested in everyone's feedback on which channels they will tune into when SPEED turns into a FOX Sports channel. By the way, we have a qualifying event coming up at Carolina Motorsports Park, the same track where the Redneck show was filmed and several of the rednecks will be competing in the event. Those of you who are curious enough will get the chance to answer the question of whether or not you are faster. The event is timed, but not wheel to wheel, so if you crunch your car, it will be your own fault. Personally, I'd love to see more Porsches and less Camaros end up in the OUSCI, so if you can make it, please get out there. Joey Seely's Carrera was the only Porsche we had in our 2012 event and we picked him off the SEMA show floor-



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Jim ,
when is the CMP qualifying?
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The Southern Slam is April 20 & 21st. I hope you can make it!

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What about Velocity. Some good shows on that channel.
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Whats sad to me is,SpeedVison was so good in the early years.


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