Australian V8 Champ to NASCAR

[MattR]

Why Not some Australian V8 Supercar news? 2003 and 2004 ASTC Champ Marcos Ambrose has decided to leave supercars and Australia, and move to America to pursue a NASCAR Career.

Pirtek Racing’s Marcos Ambrose has signed a multi-year driver development agreement deal with Wood Brothers/JTG Racing in the US. The agreement calls for Ambrose to pilot a Ford F-150 in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck series next season, with an eye toward driving one of the teams Ford Fusions in the NASCAR Busch Series and Nextel Cup series in the future.

http://www.v8supercar.com.au/news/la...nd=M&gid=21346

I can't wait to see him on a roadcourse, he will be hard to beat.

[tysonK]

Yeah from his background he should give Gordon and Stewart all kinds of grief on the road courses, cool news!

[tysonK]

oh and..... sick c4mber!!

[MattR]

Originally Posted by tysonK

oh and..... sick c4mber!!

That's what my sti looks like now! mwahaha

[Dean]

It all depends on his team I think.

I was expecting more out of Boris Said this year, but he only got out of the cellar at Watkins Glen with a respectible 3rd, but he did that well when he only ran the two road races a year.

[MattR]

Agreed...Wood brothers racing has become a midpack team, and as far as I know, this will be their first attempt at the truck series. I think he'll be competitive, but the learning curve will be a tough one.

As far as Boris said goes, He's continued to struggle with the ovals, his team is competitive though, last year the 01 and 10 cars (his two teamates) were fairly competitive, not sure why he can;t put it together.

[Dean]

4 Words... Only 7 Oval Starts! Ya gotta take the flag to get the seat time. Maybe Boris should drive a truck, or Busch car for a season or two... I think he finished every race, he just didn't excel.

[MattR]

He did drive Crafstmans truck for a 64 starts. In 97-98 he was quite successful
http://www.nascar.com/drivers/dps/bs...uck/index.html

[Dean]

Originally Posted by MattR

He did drive Crafstmans truck for a 64 starts. In 97-98 he was quite successful
http://www.nascar.com/drivers/dps/bs...uck/index.html

Hmmm. I go back to the team then...

[Nick Koan]

Cool. Good find.

[AtomicLabMonkey]

Originally Posted by nKoan

Cool. Good find.

You're going to make sperry's head explode.

[MattR]

I didn't want to start a new thread for this...But Speed has been airing the whole season of the V8 supercars....But it appears as though they are not airing the finale ???

It really is the shittiest network there is, talk about a crappy monopoly. I wish there was an obscure motorsports network that catered to my needs.

[MikeK]

I just checked their site to check and noticed something even worse ... Formula 1 is no longer mentioned

http://www.speedtv.com/programs/

[AtomicLabMonkey]

The glory of Speedvision is long dead, replaced with Barrett-Jackson coverage, Kenny Wallace getting personal grooming & endless replays of last weekend's Cup & Busch events. It's only going to get worse, gents.

We dropped our extended cable 2-3 months ago because we weren't getting anything useful out of it.

[sybir]

Oh, but thank god we get such gems as:

2006 Barrett-Jackson Auction
Autoline Detroit
Barrett-Jackson 2006 - The Auctions
Barrett-Jackson – Life on the Block
Car Crazy
Chrysler Test Drive - SRT
Corvette Test Drive
Dodge Test Drive
Honda Test Drive
Jeep Commander Test Drive
Lexus Test Drive
Mercedes AMG Test Drive
Mitsubishi Test Drive
MotorWeek
My Classic Car
NOPI Tunervision
Pontiac Test Drive
Range Rover Sport Test Drive
Redline TV
Small Block Shootout
Street Tuner Challenge
Truck Universe
Tuner Transformation
Tuner Transformation Special
Unique Whips

[code3con]

Originally Posted by sybir

Oh, but thank god we get such gems as:

2006 Barrett-Jackson Auction
Autoline Detroit
Barrett-Jackson 2006 - The Auctions
Barrett-Jackson – Life on the Block
Car Crazy
Chrysler Test Drive - SRT
Corvette Test Drive
Dodge Test Drive
Honda Test Drive
Jeep Commander Test Drive
Lexus Test Drive
Mercedes AMG Test Drive
Mitsubishi Test Drive
MotorWeek
My Classic Car
NOPI Tunervision
Pontiac Test Drive
Range Rover Sport Test Drive
Redline TV
Small Block Shootout
Street Tuner Challenge
Truck Universe
Tuner Transformation
Tuner Transformation Special
Unique Whips

OMG, that is Shitty, I would rather watch JetSki racing on espn!

[sperry]

Originally Posted by code3con

OMG, that is Shitty, I would rather watch JetSki racing on espn!

I would rather watch JetSki racing projected on a fat naked chick's flabby ass.

[skimonkey30]

Originally Posted by MikeK

I just checked their site to check and noticed something even worse ... Formula 1 is no longer mentioned

http://www.speedtv.com/programs/

I noticed that the other day if they drop formula one I'm going to be pissed WRC was bad enough but now F1

[dknv]

Originally Posted by MattR

I didn't want to start a new thread for this...But Speed has been airing the whole season of the V8 supercars....But it appears as though they are not airing the finale ???

It really is the shittiest network there is, talk about a crappy monopoly. I wish there was an obscure motorsports network that catered to my needs.

Have you guys seen this petition to Speed, to change their programming?
http://www.petitiononline.com/SpdTV/petition.html

I glance through some signatures and did recognize at least one scca person in the latest list. Other than that, though, not sure how legitimate it is..

[sperry]

Originally Posted by dknv

Have you guys seen this petition to Speed, to change their programming?
http://www.petitiononline.com/SpdTV/petition.html

I glance through some signatures and did recognize at least one scca person in the latest list. Other than that, though, not sure how legitimate it is..

Online petitions do nothing. The fact is, Speed makes money off of NASCAR crap... more money than they do off non-NASCAR programming. They don't care about the audience, they only care about what shows the advertizers pay for... and since the ad monkeys all think NASCAR is the hot shit, that's what they pay for, which determines Speed's lineup.

What's going to happen is that Speed will see their viewership decline (hopefully, otherwise I have no faith in american motorsports fans) and realize that more Kenny Wallace is not going to help the situation. Once the advertizers see the audience go away, they'll stop paying for the NASCAR junk, and either Speed will go under, or change programming quickly enough to get the audience back.

What sucks is that we're going to have to go through a period of garbage programming while that occurs.

[Dean]

If ESPN was smart, they would pick up the slack on one of there numerous useless channels. ESPN Motorsports....

Or OLN could spawn FLN Fast Lane Network.

I wish congress/FCC would force them to offer channles a la carte... All the crappy channels would cease to exist if nobody payed.

[sperry]

Originally Posted by Dean

I wish congress/FCC would force them to offer channles a la carte... All the crappy channels would cease to exist if nobody payed.

So would all the nitch channels, you know like Speed, or any such motorsports channel. I certainly don't want to pay $30/mo just for one channel because it's no longer subsidized by the bigger channels in its package. The cable companies would only carry the big income channels, or rape us on the price if it were a la carte.

[Dean]

Originally Posted by sperry

So would all the nitch channels, you know like Speed, or any such motorsports channel. I certainly don't want to pay $30/mo just for one channel because it's no longer subsidized by the bigger channels in its package. The cable companies would only carry the big income channels, or rape us on the price if it were a la carte.

I don't beleive this is the case. What chennels do you beleive are subsidising Speed? You can already order it and some other channels a la carte on some services.

If you pay $43 a month for 120 channels (DishTV), that is $.35 per channel. I watch maybe 30 channels. You don't think those channels would rather have $1.40 each? I know it isn't evenly distributed, but all $120 have to colectively be profitable for the individual entities broadcasting them, or they would pull them. This just gives me control, not them.

[MikeK]

I watch shows on about 4 of my 150 odd channels. I could pay $15 a channel and still come out ahead.

[MattR]

Originally Posted by MattR

I didn't want to start a new thread for this...But Speed has been airing the whole season of the V8 supercars....But it appears as though they are not airing the finale ???

It really is the shittiest network there is, talk about a crappy monopoly. I wish there was an obscure motorsports network that catered to my needs.

Looks like all the bitching worked. Speed will air the Aus. V8 Supercars Finale on March 1st at 9:30 AM. DVR set.