Zero Le Mans coverage!

[Rave Racer]

    I think you're right on most points.  There is however one thing I
disagree on.  The LeMans series and the ALMS aren't actually second after
Nascar.  I think that title has to go to F1, then comes CART and the IRL.
You also have to keep in mind who we're looking at trying to interest.  LM
is popular in Europe, but I don't think CART or the IRL are as popular there
as they are here.  Of course there are all the other sorts of racing that
have the eastern hemisphere's attention and are not covered very well by
North American stations, i.e.: Paris Dakar Rally, WRC, plus all those road
rallies you never hear about through Italy to the Alps and beyond.  I know
people who drive to Montreal from here (Toronto area) to spend three days in
an expensive hotel for the open wheel classes.  We are a new breed
(relatively) here for sports car classes.  I made it to Montreal for the
Grand Am last year as well as the ALMS, but was camping and not paying for
hotels.  The crowds for Grand Am and ALMS at Mosport couldn't compete with
the Trois Rivieres events a few weeks ago.
    As for coverage, I thought there were live updates on an AM station
here, but I didn't listen in, and I think City TV (Toronto obviously) also
did updates on positions and times.  I wasn't watching, but I would have
thought they would fit that in somewhere.
    Basically I think it's all a matter of perspective.  We don't get much
live coverage of Outlaw racing here, but I'm sure there are some fans out
there somewhere, probably in some backwoods trailer park saying "Why don't
we get better coverage?  This form of racing has more class then that damn
Nascar!"

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----- Original Message -----
From: Brady Moffatt <bradym at sympatico.ca>
To: Michael Riebs / Audi V8 <AudiV8 at 1stchoicegranite.com>;
<Dave.Eaton at clear.net.nz>; 'Quattro List' <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 11:30 AM
Subject: Zero Le Mans coverage!


> Hi All,
>
> Was Le Mans coverage as pathetically scarce everywhere as it was in
> Montreal? Excluding Speed Channel/Vision, there was NO mention of it on
any
> local or national sports news, written, radio, or television. It's
pathetic.
> After all, it's only the most (OK, maybe 2nd most) important individual
> automobile race in the world. Hell, the stock car races got coverage on
all
> fronts, and they're just a couple out of 17865 races in their series that
> most Canadians know nothing about anyways. Canada ain't exactly the deep
> South. For Le Mans, they could even have played the Canadian driver angle,
> if they needed an "angle," as Ron Fellows co-drove the class-winning
> Corvette. We even have 2 ALMS races within 500 km from here. Trois
Rivieres
> is less than 2 hours away. Way to build the interest level!
>
> ARGH!!!
>
> Cheers,
> Brady Moffatt
> Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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>
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