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Open Wheel Racing 2021, anyone there to watch?
- Thread starter MichVandal
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Russell Jaslow
Registered User
Some drivers consider it bad luck to shave on race day.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Russell Jaslow
Registered User
"ABC got 3.1 million viewers for the race portion of Sunday’s F1 Miami race, per ESPN, becoming the most-watched F1 grand prix in U.S. history. It was up 58.2% over last year’s 1.96 million viewers."
solovsfett
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That’s a hell of a great number. Absolutely destroys INDYCAR audiences outside of the 500 but that’s a shell of its former self but what this really does is begin to provide the idea that nascar just maybe could be challenged head to head for supremacy in the U.S.
F1 has just the right amount of races here to maintain attention through a summer without oversaturating the market.
Roger Penske may rethink his myopic knee-jerk response to liberty media.
I read they got close to a million more viewers than nascar Sunday night.
It is going to be interesting how nascar does with their new tv contract. Not sure having it so spread out will help or hurt them.
Russell Jaslow
Registered User
They did. But to be fair, the NASCAR race was moved to cable because of the delay.
Slap Shot
I got nothing
The Gopher Motorsports team took 17th out of 115 schools at the 2024 SAE IC event at Michigan Speedway. They were a penalty away from 7th overall.
Our eldest kid drove for the skidpad event and took 4th which he said is the best finish ever for the school.
Their car and him in the racing suit.
Our eldest kid drove for the skidpad event and took 4th which he said is the best finish ever for the school.
Their car and him in the racing suit.
MichVandal
Well-known member
The Gopher Motorsports team took 17th out of 115 schools at the 2024 SAE IC event at Michigan Speedway. They were a penalty away from 7th overall.
Our eldest kid drove for the skidpad event and took 4th which he said is the best finish ever for the school.
Their car and him in the racing suit.
Nice!!! And congratulations! May he have a long, fun, time with Motorsports.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Please elaborate?
Russell Jaslow
Registered User
Liberty Media, who owns F1 and is in the process of buying MotoGP (if the EU approves), apparently made an offer to buy IndyCar (they were in play back when IMS and IndyCar were originally up for sale at the time Penske bought it). If they indeed made another recent offer (and presumably it included IMS), Penske turned them down.
Speaking of sales, Long Beach GP was up for sale as Kalkhoven's heirs wanted to unload their half of the ownership (Forsythe owns the other half). NASCAR was interested and presumably so was Liberty Media. However, Forsythe bought the other half to "protect" it from becoming anything other than an IndyCar event.
MichVandal
Well-known member
Just remember that the FIA is a lot more than F1. So they can seem distracted.
solovsfett
Registered User
Liberty Media has contacted Penske 3x (per Marshall Pruitt at Racer) with overtures to purchase the INDYCAR series outright.
each time Penske has turned them down and evidently he’s been uncharacteristically gruff about it.
this will bite both Penske and the series in the ass.
I can’t fathom Penske being able to save the series at this point. 70% of INDY 500 viewers don’t watch a single other INDYCAR race all season and their footprint is barely larger than nascar trucks at this point outside of INDY.
Liberty Media has the capital and the ideas that could return INDYCAR to a competitor with nascar imo but…
Russell Jaslow
Registered User
Liberty owns the commercial rights. The FIA are the regulators.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
I thought it was Liberty : FIA :: ESPN : MLB
MichVandal
Well-known member
FIA is like FIFA or other world sport regulator.