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| |  Posted 21/02/2008 16:35:38 | |
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| What's anyone think about this - single seater racing cars decked out in football clubs' colours:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superleague_Formula
I'm a bit of a motor racing nut myself (I'm afraid football's second to F1 in my world), and from a motorsport perspective the series looks exactly like the million other single seater championships around that no-one watches.
They basically seem to be banking on football fans watching a sport they're not that interested in solely because there's a car painted in their team's colours. Surely that's not going to appeal to that many people is it? If City had a ping pong team I might watch them once or twice, but I wouldn't be going to matches or paying to see it on Sky.
One thing that surprises me is the lack of English teams - the whole operation appears to be a big marketing gimmick designed to sell 'the brand' to people. I'd have thought pretty well every team above us would have jumped at the chance.
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| Nearly Castillo (21/02/2008)
What's anyone think about this - single seater racing cars decked out in football clubs' colours:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superleague_Formula
I'm a bit of a motor racing nut myself (I'm afraid football's second to F1 in my world), and from a motorsport perspective the series looks exactly like the million other single seater championships around that no-one watches.
They basically seem to be banking on football fans watching a sport they're not that interested in solely because there's a car painted in their team's colours. Surely that's not going to appeal to that many people is it? If City had a ping pong team I might watch them once or twice, but I wouldn't be going to matches or paying to see it on Sky.
One thing that surprises me is the lack of English teams - the whole operation appears to be a big marketing gimmick designed to sell 'the brand' to people. I'd have thought pretty well every team above us would have jumped at the chance.
Concur.
I'm also surprised the premier league haven't got in on it-a money making opportunity missed? Shome mistake shurely.
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