Of course - just look at the dollar vs Euro and it's a no-brainer for Europeans to come to the US. Last year we met up at Indy with good friends from London and we met up with them again this past April for Imola. Not only do these folks benefit from the exchange difference to come to the US they also have a very significant benefit of all the low cost airlines in Europe to attend many venues. Our friends went from London to Italy to the Ferrari Shakedown last January for something like an airfare of 14 GBP. The price gouging US airlines wanted $1200 for a seat from DFW-IND a couple weeks prior to the race. The one thing Indy has in it's favor is the price of seats. We've always been in Tower Terrace and paid about 85 USD for race day - for race day in Imola our seats were 265 Euro. Back on topic of F1 coverage from our "local" papers - we have one that comes out every Wednesday and the other on Monday and Thursday and the only sporting events reported are HS games. Our biggest town carrying a daily newspaper (Waco Tribune) I'm sure didn't have anything in it either. Although on a positive note, we took the Ferrari to our MB dealer for state inspection yesterday and our MB service manager was talking about the race! Carol Mark (dinogts) - you are absolutely correct about the Tour de France in fact John is in there watching it right now. OLN provides great coverage.
Local news totally ignores F1 and any other global sport for that matter. Since I never watch local news who really cares. I just wish ESPN would push more F1 into their coverage and discussions.
I asked an ad sales rep from one of the local papers here in Manteca if they were covering the race since Speed is the local boy, her response was, "Who is that?" I almost flipped. I offered to cover the story at my expense since I was going anyways if they would get me an interview or a press pass, the sports editor did not even come through with that. He didn't even know how to go about getting the press pass! On the other hand, the other Daily local paper did have a good write up that covered a good 20% of the page. They also did a good article a while back when Speed was given the seat for the team. I picked up the Indy paper when I was at the hotel on Monday prior to leaving, Talk about coverage. Almost the entire sports section was about the race. Then I picked up the USA Today from the front desk upon checkout, about 1 inch of coverage. What a joke!
I even get the feeling sometimes that Speed Channel only covers F1 because they have to as the designated racing channel. Like it gets in the way for them. On Saturday, they couldn't switch away from the end of F1 qualifying fast enough over to Daytona, where the Pepsi 400 was just about to start in, ohhhhhh, SIX HOURS! I'm surprised they bothered to rebroadcast that "Live from Indy" program later in the night. I would have thought they'd have a camera crew walking around outside the Daytona speedway doing some lame "Live from Daytona: Fans Without Tickets!" special.
We got ZERO coverage in the Easton paper, not one cm of news about anything, the Express-Times is a rag of a newspaper, I thought "hey, with 20 hours of coverage on TV and everything else that they would put SOMETHING in" but they didn't... But they filled an entire page with that NASCAR garbage... I guess I need to drop the paper and let them know why
that should concern Bernie, but not me. I read specialized F1 websites and i wouldn't trust any local media to provide coverage that is not worse than CBS.
I was in Indy for the USGP this year, but I'm almost positive that nothing of F1 was heard of in our local media.
It's beginning to seem as if Nascar is paying off the media mogals to not publish anything about F1. ????? Let's put a majority of the the motorsports coverage on Nascar, and just a little tidbit on all the other motorsports. Is That It? We may never know.
for the new york times to print a story about f-1, michael would have to run over bernie...three times... they think all cars are yellow with funny lights on top...
