Autosport - F1 Racing Print Discontinued
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Autosport - F1 Racing Print Discontinued
Any thoughts ?
https://www.grandprix247.com/2019/10/08 ... -editions/
Myself, I haven't brought Autosport in years....
Steve
https://www.grandprix247.com/2019/10/08 ... -editions/
Myself, I haven't brought Autosport in years....
Steve
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Re: Autosport - F1 Racing Print Discontinued
it's fully logical. I live in a 50.000 people town and right now there are only 3 press / mags. shops. It's not so easy to see people paying for a newspaper and almost the same happens with mags with information that can be found easily in the net.
However, the request for people that can write what the readers are interested in will stay the same. Only the support changes. Trees are happier today
However, the request for people that can write what the readers are interested in will stay the same. Only the support changes. Trees are happier today
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Re: Autosport - F1 Racing Print Discontinued
I follow Autosport on the internet and I pay for a subscription to the site but with the internet sites there was no reason to even have a digital subscription to the magazine. Mark Hughes I can read for free on Motorsport magazine’s web site for free and he’s the F1 journalist I enjoy the most. Best of luck to those made redundant, technology is claiming a lot of victims.
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Re: Autosport - F1 Racing Print Discontinued
They decided to continue the print version of Autosport for the moment. But its going to be 11 quid an issue, which is just an excuse for them to now pull back from the print issue at a later date. It was obvious there was going to happen to be a change with all the money being put into Motorsport.com recently.
I don't have the same connection to Autosport as many of you so it doesn't really affect me. In the mid 2000s when I started really watching international motorsport, the weekend editor had a habit of copying reports word for word from other people, so I didn't spend much time getting into it after that.
I don't have the same connection to Autosport as many of you so it doesn't really affect me. In the mid 2000s when I started really watching international motorsport, the weekend editor had a habit of copying reports word for word from other people, so I didn't spend much time getting into it after that.
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Re: Autosport - F1 Racing Print Discontinued
£11 an issue?
I stopped buying F1 related print when F1 News stopped way back when. F1 Racing was always to expensive imo.
nowadays i get my info from F1technical and motorsport.com
I stopped buying F1 related print when F1 News stopped way back when. F1 Racing was always to expensive imo.
nowadays i get my info from F1technical and motorsport.com
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Re: Autosport - F1 Racing Print Discontinued
That's what they wanted, Motorsport bought out Autosport years ago and has been consolidating everything under their banner.
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Re: Autosport - F1 Racing Print Discontinued
The demise of these printed publications over the last several years has coincided with my own decreasing interest in motorsport in general, and F1 specifically.
I haven't watched an Indycar race in years and really dislike the current formula in F1, the lousy new race tracks, the overly safe conditions with 2nd gear corners, and so on.
In this era, I just don't need to devour information about the sport like I used to when I was younger and much more interested in the sport.
I participate at F1 Technical a little and that's about it.
I haven't watched an Indycar race in years and really dislike the current formula in F1, the lousy new race tracks, the overly safe conditions with 2nd gear corners, and so on.
In this era, I just don't need to devour information about the sport like I used to when I was younger and much more interested in the sport.
I participate at F1 Technical a little and that's about it.
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Re: Autosport - F1 Racing Print Discontinued
Agree to 100%!The demise of these printed publications over the last several years has coincided with my own decreasing interest in motorsport in general, and F1 specifically.
I haven't watched an Indycar race in years and really dislike the current formula in F1, the lousy new race tracks, the overly safe conditions with 2nd gear corners, and so on.
In this era, I just don't need to devour information about the sport like I used to when I was younger and much more interested in the sport.
I participate at F1 Technical a little and that's about it.
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Re: Autosport - F1 Racing Print Discontinued
I completely get it. The biggest failure in F1 the last 5 years has been explaining why anyone should care about the new engines and also consistent stewarding. My interest has waned as F1 has decided that intentionally slowing down specific teams like happened in the 80s-early 2010s wasn't part of the sport anymore.
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Re: Autosport - F1 Racing Print Discontinued
When I was a teen-ager back in the 70's, in Unserville (Albuquerque, NM), we had the following ways to keep up with current F1 happenings: In order of most current news listed first:
New York Times on microfische at the Downtown public library (a week late), Auto Week (about 2 weeks behind), "RaceCar" with about a 2 month delay - found only at European Auto parts (I only found this mag at this little parts shop, on their counter - as I owned a '67 VW Squareback that needed parts from Germany like bees need pollen), and then the best, IMHO - articles back then came out of "Road & Track", Only about 3 months late - but worth it, as Rob Walker wrote the best articles back in the day (I found out years later that the same articles/ F1 Race Reviews were written originally for one of the British Racing magazines - and I believe it was "Autosport"!, and they were re-printed for us Yanks to read in R&T 3 bloody months later - as we wouldn't know any better! (Sorry about the swearing! hehe!)
New York Times on microfische at the Downtown public library (a week late), Auto Week (about 2 weeks behind), "RaceCar" with about a 2 month delay - found only at European Auto parts (I only found this mag at this little parts shop, on their counter - as I owned a '67 VW Squareback that needed parts from Germany like bees need pollen), and then the best, IMHO - articles back then came out of "Road & Track", Only about 3 months late - but worth it, as Rob Walker wrote the best articles back in the day (I found out years later that the same articles/ F1 Race Reviews were written originally for one of the British Racing magazines - and I believe it was "Autosport"!, and they were re-printed for us Yanks to read in R&T 3 bloody months later - as we wouldn't know any better! (Sorry about the swearing! hehe!)