Speed Channel adopts Balloon racing as its new sport.

t.nie

t.nie

Patience Tester
What has happened to Speed? It used to be that you could tune into racing of some form or another at any hour of the day on Speed, but sadly, those days are long gone. Now, it is just one show full of hot air after another. Despain plays with his Wind Tunnel night after night, filling the evening with nothing much that you can't hear or read in fifty other places. Two wheel Tuesday is just the Greg White talk show; numerous guests, lots of Greg White talking to hear himself talk, and occasional short race recaps. The rest of the weeks' evening schedule is filled with such riveting non-racing programs like "My Classic Car," "Chop, Cut, Rebuild," (which I originally thought was a documentary series following Stewart's pit crew for a season...) "Motor Week," and "Car Crazy."

I know there must be some interest in these shows, especially among the over 50 and made it big crowd, but I would rather see some FIA GT racing from Europe, or even the infamous 12 hour riding lawnmower enduro race, than another episode of "Car Crazy." Give me back my Speed TV, the way is used to be. I don't want to watch the CNN of the motorsports world, I want to watch racing.
 
toooooooooodddddddddddd.... did you go to the 'brandon paul school of complaining about everything???? hehehehehehehehheehhehehehehe. how's it going,buddy? half way expected to see ya at belleville on sunday.art.
 
Brandon would be telling them how to run the channel. I am just bemoaning the fact that my beloved Speed channel no longer has pure racing at its core. And I miss it.

Couldn't go on Sunday, had stuff to work on. We are getting closer though. Will be at the show on July 22, looking forward to it.:D :D
 
They need to have dirty thursdays as an every week thing instead of sporadicaly. Maybe show Woo one week and extreme latemodels the other.
 
I really do miss when they had more racing programs. With the last format I could turn on the channel almost anytime and find something to watch. Now I only watch Speed Channel a couple times a week and just flip by the rest of the time. I'm not sure if I can take another show on how to hot rod a Honda or bad 1970's car chase movies. Also, what was someone smoking when they came up with the Date a Racecar Driver train wreck. I guess this is what we get with Fox owning the channel.
 
Yeah, what's up with all these "Import Tuner" shows on nowadays. Off the subject but I was watching Horsepower TV on Spike and they've been working on some kind of four-banger jap car. :eek: I thought it was called HORSEPOWER TV.
 
Todd, have to kind-a agree with ya… for the most part anyway. I like the Windbag’s (Despain) show.

Speed has not been the same recently… kind of getting to be like MTV. The networks title says music BUT good luck finding any. The show’s you mentioned may have some cool cars or some somewhat interesting content… BUT it’s getting harder to find on that network anything that has any SPEED to it.

Windbag actually mentioned this kind of thing a while back on his show. He attributed it to lack of funding from the sanctioning bodies. I like many other assumed that organizations like USAC and XDCS were paid to have their racing televised… NASCAR is. So my thinking was other smaller racing organizations got paid as well, just less money. Actually it’s the other way around. They have to pay the network to have their events televised.
 
t.nie said:
What has happened to Speed? It used to be that you could tune into racing of some form or another at any hour of the day on Speed, but sadly, those days are long gone. Now, it is just one show full of hot air after another. Despain plays with his Wind Tunnel night after night, filling the evening with nothing much that you can't hear or read in fifty other places. Two wheel Tuesday is just the Greg White talk show; numerous guests, lots of Greg White talking to hear himself talk, and occasional short race recaps. The rest of the weeks' evening schedule is filled with such riveting non-racing programs like "My Classic Car," "Chop, Cut, Rebuild," (which I originally thought was a documentary series following Stewart's pit crew for a season...) "Motor Week," and "Car Crazy."

I know there must be some interest in these shows, especially among the over 50 and made it big crowd, but I would rather see some FIA GT racing from Europe, or even the infamous 12 hour riding lawnmower enduro race, than another episode of "Car Crazy." Give me back my Speed TV, the way is used to be. I don't want to watch the CNN of the motorsports world, I want to watch racing.
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