My wife and I watch MotoGP, Word Superbike, British Superbike and Formula 1 every year. Does anyone on here follow any of them or anything similar?
Are there any motorsport fans around here?
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Right here! I love F1, LeMans/WEC, MotoGP, Air Race World Series, etc. though it's tough to catch a lot of it here in the U.S. The populous has questionable taste in motorsports. 
Yeah, the UK is pretty much the Intergalactic center of racecar engineering and motorsport enthusiasm. Time zones and television providers make it extremely hard (worse now than ever) to watch it. I'd need to buy some asinine cable package to get up into the 'Murican sportsball channels obscure enough to carry global motorsport. One of the majors will pick up the western hemisphere races generally (COTA, Canada, etc.) and I'll catch them at a sports bar by my loser when I can.
I think the series' on this side of the pond (not just the US, but in general) would be a lot more interesting if the technical regulations let interesting cars get built. I remember the days of the IMSA GTP series in the early '90s fondly. The sheer sight of the Sauber C9s made my kid-brain want to love cars and racing. Unfortunately, sanctioning bodies over here want to NASCARify everything. The TUDOR series is a joke and I don't care about the cars in the least. IndyCar has gotten a bit better with allowing teams to design their aero kits, but it's still a crap spec series essentially with little room for bleeding edge engineering. I get driver-centric racing, really, I do. Dandy, make a true spec series and let them duke it out under true parity. A lot of us got into racing for the cars, not because we dreamed of becoming drivers (no disrespect to amazing drivers).
I think the series' on this side of the pond (not just the US, but in general) would be a lot more interesting if the technical regulations let interesting cars get built. I remember the days of the IMSA GTP series in the early '90s fondly. The sheer sight of the Sauber C9s made my kid-brain want to love cars and racing. Unfortunately, sanctioning bodies over here want to NASCARify everything. The TUDOR series is a joke and I don't care about the cars in the least. IndyCar has gotten a bit better with allowing teams to design their aero kits, but it's still a crap spec series essentially with little room for bleeding edge engineering. I get driver-centric racing, really, I do. Dandy, make a true spec series and let them duke it out under true parity. A lot of us got into racing for the cars, not because we dreamed of becoming drivers (no disrespect to amazing drivers).
That sucks. I suppose there could be some streaming services out there you could tap in to but i've not needed to look for them.
I used to sim race seriously a few years back and raced the GTP cars for a while. They were monsters! I didn't follow them back in the day but i've watched a fair amount of footage since. Amazing beasts! and going back further the Canams were great too.
I must admit i don't really follow Indy Car or Nascar and haven't done since the 90's although i do check out the results of the big races on the motorsport news sites.
I used to sim race seriously a few years back and raced the GTP cars for a while. They were monsters! I didn't follow them back in the day but i've watched a fair amount of footage since. Amazing beasts! and going back further the Canams were great too.
I must admit i don't really follow Indy Car or Nascar and haven't done since the 90's although i do check out the results of the big races on the motorsport news sites.
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