Ferrari Mailing List: Re: F1 on Speed

[Rick Lindsay (rolindsay]

Agreed, thus my comments about American brands in Europe and Asia.  No one here (defined as <0.1%) gives a s#!t about F1.  And if you looked at the stands in last weekend's race, they don't seem to care in Korea either!  I'm afaid that the Bernie-Swan-Song is about making as much money as possible in the SHORT TERM (after all, what else does he have, at his age?) and screw the future market.  Therre's certainly no consideration of the history of Formula 1.

 

And no Erik, I have no dilusions about F1 being a 'sport'.  It isn't.  Its an entertainment business.  And because it doesn't encourage drivers to hit one another on and off the track, or the bully voting a driver off the island, or involve some slutty New Jersey (pseudo-) housewife, it won't sell here.  And that's why I believe the goal is to get the American marketing money, not the Americans.

 

-rick

--- On Mon, 10/15/12, Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com> wrote:

From: Erik Nielsen <judge4re [at] gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] F1 on Speed
To: "Rick Lindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Date: Monday, October 15, 2012, 8:21 AM

Rick:

After 15 years you haven't figured out that this is about the money and not the fans?  I've walked away from watching, if I do catch a race, I DVR it at watch it in about 15 minutes...  I don't think that it is going to be successful in TX or NJ, but Bernie will get his share.  The sport is basically arbitrary and irrelevant.  Yawn.

 

Erik

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Rick Lindsay <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello old Friends,

With Bernie-Vision switching from SpeedTV to NBC (or NBC Sports) for 2013, I fear my following of F1 may come to a close (after 15 years of religious following).  The issue here is not anything against NBC, other than the four big networks' propensity for hate-TV (Vote the bastard off!!!, Cheat on your Wife and WWF).  The issue is that I live in south Texas, and Sunday morning TV in Texas is church.  If F1 is shown at all on the NBC affiliate, it will be delayed broadcast - unless it interferes with football.  Now if we're talking about some NBC Sports network, I probably won't get it at all as I have no sports channels on my TV service.

Forgive the rant, please.  This is just another Bernie-induced cock-up.  Bringing F1 back to America is not for Americans.  Its for the advertising of American brands in Europe and Asia.  After all, who watches F1 in America?  The FerrariLIST, FerrariCHAT and three guys who moved here from Germany.

-rick, disillusioned
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