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[Gert]

How much media coverage is this story getting in the US right now?

It got a good amount of coverage on all the motorsport channels as well as a few mentions in the mainstream sports press, unfortunately, other than the formation of the team, there isn't much news to create any buzz. People are just saying " cool lets see how it plays out" . frankly the only negative comments have come from afar, people here in the US are (if thy care at all) are at least interested in how the team will shape up. Even NASCAR fans seem to think its a good idea.


You see here in the US there are a LOT of sports to follow. MLB Baseball, NFL football, NBA Basketball, Hockey, Soccer, and we've already got 3 NASCAR series as well as IndyCar, Grand Am and even ALMS. Its sports oversaturation here.

As oppose to a least a dozen forms of professional single seater racing (& that's just in Europe) + Rallying + the WTCC, various national championships (Germany has 2) + all the feeder tin top series. + Sportscars (at least 1 professional national championship per country + FIA events & ACO events) + Rally Raids & Ice racing. The there's all the amatuer stuff.

Moving away from 4 wheels, there are more bike series than I can count & then there's speed boats & back to 4 wheels with dragsters & those tractors with 5 engines or something.

Then every country has at least 2 levels of professional soccer & very often it's more. In Britain the best non-professional league (off 4) players get paid too. Germany & some other countries have professional Handball teams whilst some others have professional cricket teams in 2 or more leagues + 2 different types of professional rugby.

Then there's cycling + athletics & wintersports & & & &

So if you really want to compare sports saturation I reckon the non North American cou ntires have it pretty much sewn up.

The reason that USF1 isn't geting much coverage now in the US (or in the rest of the world) is 'cos it looks, on mature reflection, to be a pile of amateurish poo.

In much the same way that a team based in Spain, using Danish technology & entering NASCAR from it's base in Iceland would look more than a little bit silly to people in the US as well as, on mature reflection, the rest of us too.

[EwanM]

USF1 will get more interest from the rest of the world than America itself. Mark my words.

[texasmr2]

USF1 will get more interest from the rest of the world than America itself. Mark my words.

I think you are correct about that.

[Stealthgate007]

by the way.. the website bounce to:

http://www.usgpe.com/


Hmmmm... You can begin the speculation..

[Gert]

All I can say is - if this is the quality of the teams we are expectedto pay our hard earnt to watch I'd rather not bother thanks.

& I definately don't want to bother if the rules get bent to allow half-arsed projects like this to actually start winning.

[headless]

How much media coverage is this story getting in the US right now?

It got a good amount of coverage on all the motorsport channels as well as a few mentions in the mainstream sports press, unfortunately, other than the formation of the team, there isn't much news to create any buzz. People are just saying " cool lets see how it plays out" . frankly the only negative comments have come from afar, people here in the US are (if thy care at all) are at least interested in how the team will shape up. Even NASCAR fans seem to think its a good idea.


You see here in the US there are a LOT of sports to follow. MLB Baseball, NFL football, NBA Basketball, Hockey, Soccer, and we've already got 3 NASCAR series as well as IndyCar, Grand Am and even ALMS. Its sports oversaturation here.

As oppose to a least a dozen forms of professional single seater racing (& that's just in Europe) + Rallying + the WTCC, various national championships (Germany has 2) + all the feeder tin top series. + Sportscars (at least 1 professional national championship per country + FIA events & ACO events) + Rally Raids & Ice racing. The there's all the amatuer stuff.

Moving away from 4 wheels, there are more bike series than I can count & then there's speed boats & back to 4 wheels with dragsters & those tractors with 5 engines or something.

Then every country has at least 2 levels of professional soccer & very often it's more. In Britain the best non-professional league (off 4) players get paid too. Germany & some other countries have professional Handball teams whilst some others have professional cricket teams in 2 or more leagues + 2 different types of professional rugby.

Then there's cycling + athletics & wintersports & & & &

So if you really want to compare sports saturation I reckon the non North American cou ntires have it pretty much sewn up.

The reason that USF1 isn't geting much coverage now in the US (or in the rest of the world) is 'cos it looks, on mature reflection, to be a pile of amateurish poo.

In much the same way that a team based in Spain, using Danish technology & entering NASCAR from it's base in Iceland would look more than a little bit silly to people in the US as well as, on mature reflection, the rest of us too.

|There is a hell of alot of choice everywhere, with many sports being much lesser know, but everybit as fun and exciting as the next one.

[texasmr2]

All I can say is - if this is the quality of the teams we are expected to pay our hard 'EDITED for spelling earned money' to watch I'd rather not bother thanks.

& I definately don't want to bother if the rules get bent to allow half-arsed projects like this to actually start winning.

Geez your a drama queen, judge and (not &] jury concerning this effort. It seem's your just biased against an american effort to enter F1 and being very narrow minded with only your interest being the one that matters. Do you not care about the future and longevity of F1 unless it suit's your ideal's? You try to make cogniscent arguements or debate's but your talking bullpoo and only contributing to noise pollution.

[headless]

All I can say is - if this is the quality of the teams we are expected to pay our hard 'EDITED for spelling earned money' to watch I'd rather not bother thanks.

& I definately don't want to bother if the rules get bent to allow half-arsed projects like this to actually start winning.

Geez your a drama queen, judge and (not &] jury concerning this effort. It seem's your just biased against an american effort to enter F1 and being very narrow minded with only your interest being the one that matters. Do you not care about the future and longevity of F1 unless it suit's your ideal's? You try to make cogniscent arguements or debate's but your talking bullpoo and only contributing to noise pollution.

And don't create polution or you will have to wear green stripes.

[Gert]

All I can say is - if this is the quality of the teams we are expected to pay our hard 'EDITED for spelling earned money' to watch I'd rather not bother thanks.

& I definately don't want to bother if the rules get bent to allow half-arsed projects like this to actually start winning.

Geez your a drama queen, judge and (not &] jury concerning this effort. It seem's your just biased against an american effort to enter F1 and being very narrow minded with only your interest being the one that matters. Do you not care about the future and longevity of F1 unless it suit's your ideal's? You try to make cogniscent arguements or debate's but your talking bullpoo and only contributing to noise pollution.

A. My daughter's god mother is from the US so let's have just a little less of the "You don't like the US anyway" cack.

B. F1 has survived a good long time precisely because rank amateurs don't survive more than 5 mins in it.

C. I am unable to find out what "cogniscent" means, perhaps you have misspelt it? Along with quite a lot more. The 's in particular stand out.

D: As far as I'm aware America is a continent & is spelt with a capital "A". The US is not America, it is American. Do try & learn this otherwise you'll will just upset lots of Brazilians, Canadians, Bolivians etc.

E. It seems to me that you are the 1 who spends his/her time assuming that any criticism of his/her country, whether real or imaginary, is a direct insult to everything you personally hold dear & as such you are very tedious to have to converse with. Please do me a favour & get your head out of your arse. Thank you.

[EwanM]

Let's have none of this on the board thank you.

[Gert]

Er, that's "let's" - 's short for let us...snigger snigger

[digitaleye]

All I can say is - if this is the quality of the teams we are expectedto pay our hard earnt to watch I'd rather not bother thanks.

& I definately don't want to bother if the rules get bent to allow half-arsed projects like this to actually start winning.

Well then, you've always got Rally Raids, Ice racing and professional Handball to watch haven't you? Enjoy!

Oh, by the way "earnt" doesn't seem to show up in the dictionary. Perhaps you meant earned?

[Jensonb]

Let's have none of this on the board thank you.

Have you been asleep whilst on these boards for the past 2 years?

[bud]

USF1, the new American team for 2010, has been asked by Bernie Ecclestone and Formula One Management (FOM) to change its name.

The North Carolina-based outfit will forthwith be known as 'USGPE' (US Grand Prix Engineering), after FOM - believing it owns the series' name and derivatives - objected to the use of the abbreviation 'F1' in the title.

Existing competitors including Renault, Force India and Toyota all use 'F1' in their respective names, but it is believed FOM accepts these descriptors because they precede the word 'Team'.

The only exception is Williams, whose official trading name is 'WilliamsF1'.

Also at the request of FOM, Force India has changed its official logo for the 2009 season. Previously, the team's 'FI' (including the letter I) logo resembled 'F1' (including the number 1).



This year, the logo features a dot above the I, differentiating it from the official title of the series.

In 2007, it emerged that Formula One Licensing failed to gain exclusive control of the descriptor 'F1'; the UK Trademark Registry ruling that the abbreviation is a generic term and therefore "not registrable as a trademark".

what a bunch of w**kers....FOM

[Gilles 27]

Yup FOM are the scourge of F1. I have nothing in particular against Max and the FIA, althoguh they do the job badly sometimes, they are generally a force for good. FOM on the other hand are just more suits trying to make money out of the sport and strangling it to death in the process. The corporate element in F1 has been immensely damaging to the quality of the racing over the last 10 years...