Motorsport Off Topic Thread

Anyone watching the Extreme E? It's been fun watching these cars in the desert, but the 3-way races don't seem to work with all the dust kicked up.
 
Yeah it's fun, though like you say the qualifying time trials probably worked better as a spectacle than the actual races.

Incidentally I've never seen a sports event on so many channels at once today! The final race is on ITV1, Sky Sports Action, Eurosport 2 and BT Sport 1! Also on the BBC Sport website.
 
Quite cool to watch, course looks good, but the format needs some work, win the race to the first corner and you've won the race. that and there hardly seems to be any racing really.
 
englishpremier said:
If you guys like this, then you ought have been watching the Dakar. Watered down though it is these days, it's still the best rally event around.
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Dakar is great but the coverage on a short course for extreme e was fantastic. Although Dakar and wrc have both massively improved with drone and cheaper in car cam tech over the past few years.
 
I do like Rally but I find it hard to follow because the stages are so long and I'm not engaged enough to know or learn the courses. Extreme E was short enough that I could recognise and understand each part of the course.
 
I tried to watch Extreme E but gave up during the (so called) crazy race because I was finding it incredibly dull. Perhaps the course was the problem, but there wasn't much in the way of racing, it was a case of whoever got to the first flag first won.

I'll pobably give the next round a try but so far I'm not a fan.
 
the-evaluator said:
I tried to watch Extreme E but gave up during the (so called) crazy race because I was finding it incredibly dull. Perhaps the course was the problem, but there wasn't much in the way of racing, it was a case of whoever got to the first flag first won.

I'll pobably give the next round a try but so far I'm not a fan.
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They should have gone with Rallycross.
 
Just spotted this on iPlayer.

Hunt vs Lauda_ F1's Greatest Racing Rivals
The victory duel for the 1976 Formula 1 Championship has become the stuff of legend. The spectacular battle for supremacy that raged all season between Austrian Niki Lauda and 'True Brit' James Hunt has never been equalled. Could swashbuckling Hunt catch the scientific Lauda? Could Niki overcome an appalling crash to come back from the dead and fight James all the way to the last race of the season?

This powerful story captures the heart of the 1970s - told through unseen footage and exclusive interviews with the people who were really there - the team managers, families, journalists and friends who were in the front row of the season that changed Formula 1 forever.
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This is a 48 minute documentary from 2013 and is only available for another 9 days.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0377tb1/hunt-vs-lauda-f1s-greatest-racing-rivals
 
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