Wow!

Look at those stands. Nobody, but NOBODY, at Nazareth today!

Empty seats everywhere. Better do something quick Tony George or your
series will be following right along down CART’s path.

TV ratings for IRL have gone to crap, and attendance is still
nonexistent.

Doesn’t even look like Roger could get any Marlboro folks to show.

Sad.

Don’t miss Montreal. I was fortunate to see this race live. It’s a very good
race.

Once more I’m pissed at Eurosport for not showing CART and noy following
  their listed schedule. I wasted most of teh night waiting for a tape
delayed Tonto race sheduled at 2130 CET. But once again Eurosport screws
the fans. Here’s a copy of my mail to them;

—–
Dear Eurosport,

First of all I’m greatful for your CART coverage, particularly the live
one. Therefore, tonights treatment of the CART race in Toronto is all
the more disappointing. I wasn’t to pleased discovering that there was
no live coverage, but a tape delayed race was still better than nothing.
So I planned my Sunday night according to Eurosports schedule, which
both on teletext and your web site listed the Toronto race at 2130 CET.
But once again Eurosport failed to follow its own schedule and I wasted
another Sunday night waiting for CART on Eurosport (stupid of me to
postpone a date for a CART race, considering Eurosports scheduling track
record). For some reason you have chosen to broadcast last weeks NASCAR
race and last weeks IRL crash derby before a fresh (and far superior)
CART race. Sports are fresh commodity and I can’t really understand why
you choose to broadcast races that virtually every viewer allrady knows
the outcome of, instead of something interesting, exciting and fresh.

Having worked for several years in TV production (for an EBU broadcaster
I might add) have tought me that the most critical successfactor in
television is program scheduling. Considering Eurosports often strange
and inconsistent schedules I’m not surprised you struggle to keep afloat.

Once again, thanks for showing CART and I do hope for the future that it
gets higher priority.

Best regards

Hans Vigen
Oslo, Norway

My gosh, CART put more fans in the steats at Nazareth when there was snow on
the ground.  Compare Montreal to Nazareth, about 170,000 to 12,000 for 3 days.

In response to the obvious anti-IRLer who
subject posted the winner at Nazareth in RASI.

Today’s Montreal race was scheduled for tape delayed broadcast (highlights
only…) at 23:45 Sunday evening, directly after the NASCAR broadcast which
was supposed to start at 22:45.

How delightful it was then to switch on my TV at 23:00 to find CART already
in broadcast and already 11 laps down!!!

Then had to endure terrible editing which made the race look as exciting as
watching paint dry and as easy to follow as the maze from the end of The
Shining.

Plus, who the hell is that commentator?  I love Jeremy Shaw and whatever his
American buddy is called, but christ…who is this guy they use for the
highlights show?  He must have said about five times that it would be
wonderful if Jourdain Jr could take his debut win here today…..

It’s also obvious he can’t tell which car is which from the liveries.

Have to say that Sky Sports LIVE (Yes Eurosport, that’s LIVE!!!) IRL
broadcast was 1Million% better and more professional with ace commentary and
the usual excellent studio presentation with studio guests.

The question that always baffles me is, if Eurosport clearly can’t be
bothered to invest in their CART broadcasts – why the hell do they bother
even acquiring the rights to show it?

I’ve sent a letter to Autosport magazine although I doubt they’ll print it
due to the thousands of Alonso letters they’ll get after today’s F1 race
(and well done that man!).

Can’t be bothered to send a letter to Eurosport. I’ve done that many times
in the past and they don’t even bother replying.

Well done, Jourdain and Servia. Too bad for Rocketsports and Tags,
probably they were a bit too arrogant on that pit strategy. But I’m sure
that first win will come, for either Servia or Tagliani.

Bring on Denver! (Although it’s U.S. Open again this weekend, so only
highlights the following morning. Maybe they should schedule overseas
races around this time of the year in the future )

–
Duck.
—
The European ChampCar, Atlantic and Barber Dodge site
http://www.cart-europe.com/

When you are living in the U.S. and have SPEED, you shouldn’t be reading
this newsgroup — otherwise, you may find out your race picks were or
weren’t working

But here are they anyway…

Practice picks:

1. schaltung            225
2. Sander Verbrugge     200
3. Ron Bean             200

Ron! You copycat! Anyway, fourth highest was Mike Holthouse with
95…

Qualifying picks:

1. Sander Verbrugge     228
2. Ron Bean             133
3. Scott Smith          105

That’s better already

Race picks:

1. schaltung            84
2. Chriskap             78
3. Sander Roelofs       74

It’s beyond me why I didn’t pick Servia. Anyway, I took a gamble with
Papis and that did work out!

Race overall:

1. Sander Verbrugge     482
2. Ron Bean             387
3. schaltung            373

I’M BACK! With my highest score this season so far

And here’s the standings top 10 after 14 of 19 races:

01. (01.) Sander Verbrugge      4090
02. (03.) schaltung             3896
03. (02.) Mark Seem             3729
04. (04.) Mike Holthouse                3636
05. (06.) Accipiter             3486
06. (05.) Sander Roelofs                3484
07. (07.) FastKenny             3477
08. (09.) Ron Bean              3464
09. (08.) Jason Hoehn           3302
10. (10.) Olav Malmin           3231

Well, well, Ron’s ahead of Jason now

Of course with the last race in Canada this year now over, the RASC
Canadian Crown is decided. On the podium are…

1. Sander Verbrugge     1083
2. schaltung            1032
3. Scott Smith          856

Back in form, just in time ;-P

Next up is the Mile High race this weekend, after which we’ll be racing
at sea level through the bayside streets of Miami, Florida.

–
Duck.
—
The rec.autos.sport.cart World Series
http://www.cart-europe.com/rasc/

Why is it again that Canada outlawed auto racing?

"TC" <TomcanadaNos…@canada.com> wrote in message

news:MPG.19b337f1d0de04029897ce@NEWS.CIS.DFN.DE…

> 1 hour to go until TSN in Canada puts on the IRL race.

> That’s 11:00 pm EST.    IRL is so big in Canada that I bet they’ll be
> riots in the streets over not seeing it live.

> Damn!  I can’t wait for the IRL to come to Toronto when CART dies.
> I’ll find some drooling boob to rent my lawn mower shack to and use
> the money to buy some Coors lite for another drooling boob.

PS.

65,000 people attended the ALMS race at Mosport last week.

Yep, racing is over in Canada.  We need NeckCar like we need a Barber who
knows how to cut a Mullet hairdoo.