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18 Sep 2017, 01:09 (Ref:3768120) | #1 | ||
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2018 Pirelli World Challenge silly season
2018 Pirelli World Challenge calendar:
March 9-11: St. Petersburg March 23-25: Austin April 13-15: Long Beach April 27-29: Virginia May 18-20: Mosport Park May 25-26: Lime Rock Park June 22-24: Road America July: to be announced Aug 10-12: Utah Sept: to be announced Oct 19-21: Laguna Seca (8 Hours) |
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18 Sep 2017, 07:33 (Ref:3768172) | #2 | ||
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19 Sep 2017, 17:36 (Ref:3768602) | #3 | |
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http://sportscar365.com/world-challe...rview-9-19-17/
This weeks SC365 Podcast features a interview with Greg Gill, starting about 26 minutes in. Lots of talk about next season. |
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20 Sep 2017, 03:46 (Ref:3768709) | #4 | |
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I don't want to listen to the whole thing, any talk about dropping the stupid MTOD deal and putting the races on YouTube?
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20 Sep 2017, 17:31 (Ref:3768841) | #5 | ||
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No mention of it in the podcast. Sounds like there are some changes coming to the PWC streaming. What that means for MToD, I don't know.
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21 Sep 2017, 07:10 (Ref:3768999) | #7 | |
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MTOD sounded like a great concept but it simply never worked. Streaming via YouTube (I'm sure SRO will happily help out with that!) is a much preferred method IMO.
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21 Sep 2017, 19:52 (Ref:3769145) | #8 | ||
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There's been a lot of talk internally about both TV and streaming. Should be a lot better in 2018 and beyond.
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21 Sep 2017, 22:44 (Ref:3769168) | #9 | |
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23 Sep 2017, 14:59 (Ref:3769429) | #10 | |
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Simple, all races streaming only on youtube. Then available for viewing afterward. Then, when you are in a country like Japan or China, you don't have to be up at 2am to watch a live race. You can wait until the morning and watch it before you know what happened and whatnot, thus no reason to watch the actual live broadcast. Same if you live in the US and can't watch the race live because of some other prior commitment but you can watch it 2 hours later. Run pop up ads and regular ads during the broadcast. Then it'll be attractive for sponsors. The current method is not. PWC needs to take the lead on this for the US. Most middle age and just about all younger people don't have or watch CBS Sports. Even here, there are about 2-3 of the same people that only ever comment or watch the races over the weekend. It shouldn't be that way but it is.
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23 Sep 2017, 23:37 (Ref:3769489) | #13 | ||
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That's ok for customer-focused championships. But major championships need TV and sponsor money, both of which need millions of fans watching.
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26 Sep 2017, 02:09 (Ref:3769857) | #14 | ||
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Sportscar racing is pretty much all business to business marketing, not business to customer marketing like you see in NASCAR. Getting eyes on the product is now easier and better via free live streaming. Why would you want to sign a deal with a cable channel when thousands and thousands of people are fleeing the cable tv scene and going to online-only platforms?
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Another team looking forward to the next World Challenge race?
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28 Sep 2017, 17:11 (Ref:3770319) | #18 | |
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With Caddy gone for 2018, the whole series is now with privateers and 3-4 cars that are owned by the privateers but paid for by a manufacturer. At this point, go with the YouTube generation. Get rid of the middle age white male thinking of TV only.
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WELL SAID With the Caddy news, they must be more accessible or they risk losing the great product they have put together. I honestly never liked the Caddy programme, it was against the customer style of GT3 I'm fine with Factory support and factory drivers, but if you don't even sell your cars it's completely against the original ethos of GT3 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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GT is going to look very different in 2018
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Opens a door for the Callaway C7?
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Shame about the Cadillacs. I haven't been able to watch the last few seasons thanks to their terrible streaming/media deal but I've always wanted to, mainly because of that car (and the NSX this season). I like the series that actually have unique GT3 entries instead of the same-y feeling mix of R8s and Huracans and AMG GTs and so on that every series has a half-dozen or more of.
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Bummer about the Caddies. I didn't really want to like the ATS-V, but after seeing it in person I couldn't help but be impressed. Hopefully Johnny O can land a ride with another team. (how about in a GT3 Vette.)
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News about the Cadillacs really sucks. Leaves a really big hole in the paddock.
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