Moto ST

[KTG]

I got some people in place, so when you're ready...

Can you get me Kevin Schwantz? He's a good announcer

[Scotty Ryan]

Which is complete Bullshit anyway.  From AMA to Motogp to Moto-st!  They need to cut it down to an hour or less to make room for 23hours of Nascrap and Pinks!   And the picture quality is so bad, sometimes I can't tell if I'm looking at Duhamel or a child pushing a wheel down the road with a stick.....Fug speed!  We need something new.....Ahh rants

Not by any means am I saying that I agree with the way Roadracing is covered in the U.S. - TV or print - And believe me when I say this.... I would of like to have been on TV more then I was this season - When I made my way up to 12th in the Daytona 200 I would have expected something.... But it is the way it is because the Big Boys are the ones putting the big money into the financial side of the sport - and if they aren't kept happy - they don't come back... Then none of us have anywhere to showcase our talent (or lack of) and try to make our way onto the TV screen.... Nascar TV coverage is better for a few reasons - The camera can see the whole track - The cars come by every 2.2 seconds and Nascar does everything they can to keep the races as close as possible.... How much would all of us bitch if we got a full course caution behind the pace car every time someone made a mistake(not counting Daytona and Moto-ST).... It wouldn't be roadracing anymore - it would be straight politics.... Sure I'd like to be on TV more - but I'm glad to be racing and if I can go fast enough to get one of those spots on the screen - then I've earned it...
***Watch the coverage of Moto-St from Road America on Speed this Tuesday and see if I get good coverage or not**** Sorry shameless plug...... Then we can go over what we thought about that :)

[KTG]

Not by any means am I saying that I agree with the way Roadracing is covered in the U.S. - TV or print - And believe me when I say this.... I would of like to have been on TV more then I was this season - When I made my way up to 12th in the Daytona 200 I would have expected something.... But it is the way it is because the Big Boys are the ones putting the big money into the financial side of the sport - and if they aren't kept happy - they don't come back... Then none of us have anywhere to showcase our talent (or lack of) and try to make our way onto the TV screen.... Nascar TV coverage is better for a few reasons - The camera can see the whole track - The cars come by every 2.2 seconds and Nascar does everything they can to keep the races as close as possible.... How much would all of us bitch if we got a full course caution behind the pace car every time someone made a mistake(not counting Daytona and Moto-ST).... It wouldn't be roadracing anymore - it would be straight politics.... Sure I'd like to be on TV more - but I'm glad to be racing and if I can go fast enough to get one of those spots on the screen - then I've earned it...
***Watch the coverage of Moto-St from Road America on Speed this Tuesday and see if I get good coverage or not**** Sorry shameless plug...... Then we can go over what we thought about that :)

Granted the top players in any sports are the ones who get showcased.  And the more popular they get the more airtime they get.  Generally when a person watches a race, they want to see whats going on up front.   On short races its hard to show everyone.  Even in MotoGP where the money is pumping quite high, only the few riders are shown....Unless of course ya crash.  My dislike of "TV" comes from the poor picture quality and compression of time.  There is basically 1 racing station and you'd think they are using cameras from the 80's and/or processing equipment.  I've heard that they are going to high def soon, so that might finally change.  That won't change the time compression....."When they went to a commercial weren't there 8 laps left?....It says 3 now!" haha. 

If you don't receive some airtime Tuesday, then something went very wrong on the cutting room floor!   

[apriliaman]

Another Mid-Atlantic CCS racer here that did a Moto-ST event.  Out of the Blue Racing, me and Mark Evry plus his dad to help with pit stops.  We did the VIR round.  Couldn't be any more privateer, no fancy rig, set up, uniforms or anything else.  Two racers with a bike.

I'm not impressed with the TV coverage.  If your not a big team, don't crash, burn, blow up or run in the top two, you pretty much won't be seen.  The least they could do is give the complete starting line-up and final results.

My bike was on screen for a total of about 1 second spread out over 4 shots. Most of that was the three shots of me behind Team Duc NY before they had their fire problems.  I thought for sure they would've included some footage of that when we were going through T1.

I think 5th in class and 17th overall out of 30 was a pretty decent finish.

Also we had no quick fill for our gas so our pit stops took 1 minute at the fastest !!! If we were in the GST class we would have been 2nd.Just wished i would have rode a little bit better for the race.

[SVbadguy]

Anybody see the latest round shown today?  I'm watching it now.  So far it's been like 10 minutes of re-capping the previous three races AND they're showing all the same footage from before.  ::) 

But they did showing the points standings for the top five in each class.

[PJ721]

 

can't remember if I set the DVR to record!!!!!!

[KTG]

I've never watched racing set to 70's porn music!

[spyderchick]

I've never watched racing set to 70's porn music!

So true.


Although it's pretty cool to watch all the peeps we know.

[Scotty Ryan]

I only got to see the last half - The vcr started late..... Yeah I know - VCR - But I had mixed feelings...I can't remember the team - but they came in for a pit stop and the bike wouldn't fire - the camera crew focused on that for what I felt was an over extended time.... The slow motion was kinda stupid.... I thought that they focused on the overall leaders a little more then they needed to - Maybe I'm biased - but I thought they should have covered some of the other action on the track... Maybe there wasn't much - maybe I don't know for sure cause I was on the track for 2/3 of the race.... Like the battle I had with Danny Bilanisky for my last stint - we went back and forth a few times a lap - with him beating me to the line by half a bike... I thought that was good drama considering we almost won the middle weight class on a lightweight class bike... I did get some coverage so that was good - and I'm not complaining about that..... I know that the first time anything is done - it takes a while to get right - but you would think that Speed would have this sort of thing figured out by now.... Maybe I'm just looking at it wrong.....

None the less - I still think it was good :)

[Team Spalding]

I sure enjoyed watching. It's pretty cool to see guys I know or at least have met out there racing hard on TV. Thanks to Speed for showing the series.

[Scotty Ryan]

Once again - stuck at work - but Meghan said that the coverage was much better this time... They even showed the flaming crash - Something I didn't think they would do.... She also said that I got a fair amount of air time again - not a bad thing I suppose.... I am thinking that the reason the coverage was a bit better was because the track is considerably smaller then your average road course... I will post my thoughts of the race once I actually see it....

[xb9racer]

That and they didn't have the BMW there to show ever 2 seconds. You guys got a fair amount of air time. Though the end truly sucked. I was at the race, pitting for James Gang Racing. That's the first time  I saw the crash, and hopefully the last.