Preferred motorsport

Balfa

Which do you enjoy watching the most.

Apologies if I've left stuff out. There's a hell of a lot of motorsport in the world!

dearg_doom

Nice poll, very thorough.

Myself, I'd have to say F1 and WRC/Circuit of Ireland, purely because these are the only forms of motor racing I'd have seen enough of to have any opinion on!

I used to watch the NASCAR/CART/F3000 on euro a long time ago, but I wouldn't have seen anywhere near enough of them or the others.


It's fascinating though, I've lived in Europe, and their channels would have a much broader range of motorsports than us(GOOD THING!). There was a weekly/regular (Porsches, IIRC) race on, after a few weeks of watching them properly, and reading about them in l'Equipe, ye really get into it so quickly! - I'd say this would be true of any of them if ye were to get to watch them enough.

DivX

I voted for Two wheel.

It should be easy to catch the MotoGP live this year seeing that RTE have just announced comprehensive coverage of the season!

Off to the TT Races in june for a few days, so will be watching that one live.

Balfa

I just find it so hard to choose between them. Traditionally, i've always liked F1, but i also love WRC for the unbelievable speeds on such narrow roads I'm discouraged by Peugeot's exit from the sport, though
I love the cars used GT, and the racing can be pretty close, and now that i live in america, i'm finding a new appreciation for nascar
But in the end, i gave my vote to two-wheelers. The lack of downforce, long braking distances and varying racing lines make for great position-swapping races

Jonny Arson

I love pretty much any type of motor racing.

I love watching MotoGP and World/British Superbikes - some great action.
The BTCC has unbelievable drama and action.
NASCAR is class.
I like F3000/GP2, Formula Nippon, British/Euro F3 - its good to check out the up and coming stars.

The racing I'm absolutely hooked on at the moment is the IRL. I only really started watching the IRL about 2-3 years ago when most of the big teams and drivers defected from CART and the racing is absolutley pulsating stuff on these high speed ovals. The racing is ultra competitive and many drivers have a chance of winning. The series also has world class drivers like Tony Kanaan, Helio Castroneves, Dan Wheldon, Sam Hornish Jr.,Tomas Scheckter who could all cut it in F1. I don't really watch CART (or Champ Car as it is now known) anymore. The series barely registers an 18 car field these days and most of the top teams, drivers and manufacturers have now gone. There are very few oval races left in the series so its diversity has now gone and most of the drivers racing in it are only there because of their big checkbook. Sebastien Bourdais is the only thing worth watching in that series anymore.

Balfa

nice info, zane. I was thinking, are there any minardis outside of F1? Like, teams who've survived for decades at the very back of the field? I'm sure no-one's managed the scale of minardi's consistent crapness, but surely there must be some other teams around where you tend to ask yourself what the point is. I have complete respect for minardi, btw

Vokes

On Eurosport, i sometimes see a motorsport where they have large trucks (slowly) navigating their way down the side of a mountain. Looks like fun.
What is this motorsport called?

dearg_doom

lol, I remember that from when EuroS was on Cablelink!

It was always in Iceland or some other Scandi country!

Weird sport though.

Balfa

The sport is called Truck Trials, and it's great fun to watch You have to complete a course laid out by flag gates usually involving driving over big rocks and up 50 degree inclines. If you knock a flag you're penalised five seconds or something. They have classes all the way from little dunebuggy creatures up to huge firetruck-like things, much bigger than this:



Any slow very technical motorsport like that is usually called trials. There are BMX and motocross trials as well, where the contestants have to hop the bike around on top of huge boulders and along logs and stuff. Great display of balance



Then there's also auto gymkhana which is quite boring and involves street cars negotiating a small technical cone circuit in a carpark or something, where going in reverse is used a lot.

edit: Screamer Off-Raod (not to be confused with Screamer Rally), for the PC, offers the closest thing to truck trials i've ever seen in a game. The courses are faster and not as technical, and most of the vehichles are about landrover size, though there is a huge unlockable truck.

Poutre

F1 fastest and best crashes - what can you do

SouperComputer

Poutre wrote:

F1 fastest and best crashes - what can you do

hmm, in terms of average speed and heafty crashes, I think NASCAR and CART have F1 well beat!

Curran

Massive F1 fan........though i must admit gone a bit pear shaped at the moment but it will hit back with a big BANG

Love the WRC...class!!

Motorbikes.....brave b*st*rds! Great racing

Nascar.....dont like the going round in circles approach there! Love to see them race on a flat oval (with no banking)....the cars wouldnt turn the corners!

Touring car....great racing...with bumping and nudging...super racing!

HEY.....i'll watch anything with an ENGINE, WHEELS and SPEED

....even boat racing or scrapheap challenge! :rolleyes: