Motorsports and automotive entertainment

What type of motorsports do you like to watch/follow? I used to watch NASCAR, NHRA, Indy/Champ and F1 regularly but big corporate racing just doesn't do it for me anymore. I really despise the elimination of "the grey area" of the rule books, especially in F1 and NASCAR. The politics of F1 are unpalatable and I really miss the V8, V10 and V12 cars, hell the old moon-boosted 4 banger F1 cars are cooler than the current ones. NASCAR hasn't been interesting to me since the introduction of the COT and I'm not a fan of everyone in Indy limited to a couple of chassis options. I miss the 'run what you brung' days of racing and seem to enjoy grassroots racing more now.

Desert racing really grabs my attention since the rule book allows for innovation and the 2WD vs AWD TT battle is fun to watch.

I really like ole Cleetus McFarland's YouTube channel. His events at the Freedom Factory keep getting better and the participants come from all over motorsports.

So what's everyone else into?

(Here's a clip of my favorite F1 driver of all time, Aryton Senna, in the rain at Monaco in 1984. There are a lot of legends in this race, Prost, Senna, Mansell [crashes at 11:20], Lauda, Rosberg...)

This was Senna's rookie season and he was driving a car that wouldn't have been very competitive in the dry, but the mad man Senna was an animal in the rain, and well, the rest is history.

I don't watch any motorsports. I watch the Finnegan/Cleetus type stuff.

Motocross and Supercross is my sport. Something about living on the edge and controlled chaos gets me pumped!

Only one I follow is the FIA world endurance championship.


Pick your poison.

I watch F1 when I can (but I'm not getting up at 4-5am on a Sunday to watch it), gets kind of monotonous watching Hamilton win every single weekend lol

Started watching Extreme E, lot of F1 guys own teams / are involved, all racing Electric 4WD cars, race in locations around the world, cool to see unfold.

IMSA or nothing. After going to the Rolex 24 at Daytona I cant really get into anything else.

Zemedici said:

I watch F1 when I can (but I'm not getting up at 4-5am on a Sunday to watch it), gets kind of monotonous watching Hamilton win every single weekend lol

Started watching Extreme E, lot of F1 guys own teams / are involved, all racing Electric 4WD cars, race in locations around the world, cool to see unfold.

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No one wants to watch a guy who wears dresses win F1 races.

DoneItDeliberate said:

No one wants to watch a guy who wears dresses win F1 races.

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its so awful, cuz he's so ****ing good. Makes it 'sting' twice as much hahahaha

I should add, I watch the big time historics, Goodwood, Monterey, the new Gulf historics etc. Cars that needed to be DRIVEN by real men.

blk02edge said:

I should add, I watch the big time historics, Goodwood, Monterey, the new Gulf historics etc. Cars that needed to be DRIVEN by real men.

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Real men who wear pants.

Zemedici said:

its so awful, cuz he's so ****ing good. Makes it 'sting' twice as much hahahaha

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It so easy to dislike him and to root for Max to whoop his ass. I really like Max, he a risk taker like Senna was. And boy do I like racers who are checkers or wreckers.

I don't watch any big league sports/races anymore because of the politics and bullshit surrounding it all. I used to watch Formula One, V8 Supercars, and Stadium Trucks. I've put my money where my mouth is regarding not supporting this woke nonsense.

Blown 89 said:

I don't watch any big league sports/races anymore because of the politics and bullshit surrounding it all. I used to watch Formula One, V8 Supercars, and Stadium Trucks. I've put my money where my mouth is regarding not supporting this woke nonsense.

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I forgot about V8 Supercars, great racing series.

I'm right there with you on not supporting wokeness. I don't give any of these companies any money, I don't have cable or satellite, I pay for a streaming service that is the equivalent of the old cable black box. I even had to drop hockey when the NHL went woke after Fentanyl Floyd OD'ed and the US went full retard.

DoneItDeliberate said:

I forgot about V8 Supercars, great racing series.

I'm right there with you on not supporting wokeness. I don't give any of these companies any money, I don't have cable or satellite, I pay for a streaming service that is the equivalent of the old cable black box. I even had to drop hockey when the NHL went woke after Fentanyl Floyd OD'ed and the US went full retard.

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I'm in the same boat. No cable or satellite. If I watch anything it's Youtube and even then I wish there was an alternative to a Google owned company.

F1 is about all I religiously watch. Hoping Max can pull something crazy out but it's obvious Mercedes has the pace and have made bad calls to capitalize on it.

I'll say there are other forms of racing I don't really like watching (nascar) but if we are at dinner and there is a race on of any kind, I can't stop watching it.

I actually really enjoyed the new SRX series last year. It was seriously a lot of fun to watch. I think it was only 6 weeks or so.

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I actually really enjoyed the new SRX series last year. It was seriously a lot of fun to watch. I think it was only 6 weeks or so.

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What's SRX?

Mainly just Supercross and Motocross is all I keep up with.
F1 lost me with the retirement of Schumacher from Ferrari.

Blk04L said:

Mainly just Supercross and Motocross is all I keep up with.
F1 lost me with the retirement of Schumacher from Ferrari.

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I was really hoping Schumacher was going to join the F1 broadcast team. His input would be fantastic during races, so sad that ski accident wrecked him.

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What's SRX?

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It's kinda like the old IROC series, only it has more fun and less seriousness built into it.
Lots of retired racers from Nascar, INDY, F1 etc.