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That is a good point. Really easy to do and it’s an opportunity for them to have reminder in your calendar. It’s probably more useful for non plus people.
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there are sites out there that can generate calendars for various digital formats but...
the reason i mention the plus format is that could in theory be augmented with existing historical data about the event eg links to past results, tyre selections, etc. might take a bit of prep work to pre-create pages and update them but it’s not my area of expertise. |
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I see F1racing.net (or GPUpdate.net) has now been swallowed up into the Autosport belly. Another smaller news outlet gone.
The one thing I don't like to see on the Autosport site is that it only takes someone related to the F1 circuit to sneeze and it generates a "top headline", yet when other series have major events or news taking place, there is never much coverage. |
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add clickbait headlines to that as well. "x announces new driver" instead of "y to drive for x" has been cropping up this winter.
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That's been a common criticism for a lot of years now and it was the main reason I stopped buying it, what, 12-15 years ago?
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That was also one of the reason I got quickly disheartened working in the motorsport press for the short time I did.
You would spend hours writing story, speaking to people on the phone, then it would be dropped because some F1 nerk would do something, and you were left to explain to the guy whose time you had wasted that something came up. And they wonder why people don't buy their crap anymore. the content is meek, the writing is average and the prices are too high. Magazines have always been a luxury to most, and they feed off of peoples desire to not miss a copy. Once you do, dropping it is so, so easy. |
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I used to buy every copy back in 1998 to about 2004 because I was massively into F1 at the time and it did do a good job of covering that aspect of motorsport. But as my F1 interest has waned, so has my appetite for such publications, plus you can get free articles online (still - hopefully!) so I haven't really bought it regularly in years. The last one i did buy was the supertouring edition several years ago.
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I noticed that the magazine got a little smaller by 1/2 an inch this issue (Guide 2018). No biggie. I think you'd like to know that by 9 a.m on Monday, all 4 copies were sold out at my local magazine shop in the San Fernando valley of Los Angeles. Maybe there are F1 fans in the US after all.....or maybe there are only 4 ;-)
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I stopped buying Autosport on a regular basis several years ago.
I bought last weeks issue for the Henry Hope-Frost tribute by Marcus Pye, but was disappointed to read that national/club race results are not going to be published. Does this mean that race reports will also be culled, meaning journalists and photographers, most of whom are freelance, will lose work or is it just an excuse to cull a couple of pages and reduce the cost of printing when we all know the cover price won't drop to reflect the reduction in quality/quantity. |
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I've been a subscriber since about 1980, originally collecting the magazine from a newsagents on my way to work, and more recently having it posted to me at work. In the early days I read the thing from cover to cover, but nowadays, thanks to websites like this one, (and to be honest the Autosport website) I can find out what I want to know without the printed magazine.
I still keep my subscription open out of habit, but keep thinking to myself I should save myself some money by cancelling it, and having just full on-line access but so far I've not been able to find out the cost of that (not that I've been trying that hard. What I suppose says it all is that the past three issues are currently sitting on my desk still in their plastic sleeves! (Maybe it is about time for me to do something about this?) |
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I got into that position (unopened copies) and cancelled. That was before the Autosport Plus online thing.
Also there are changes to the club section, less results and choosing which races to cover. I get the rationale, but they risk sales of people looking for their own name |
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Bought last couple- are Roebuck and Pye columns now just occasional? And God , but some of the mangled , portentous prose in the F1 stuff was near unreadable. Guys, it is not compulsory to use 'parlay ' at every opportunity .
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Yes the Fifth Column is now only monthly. I think though they are making a mistake by showing less club racing coverage.
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Is Autosport easily found throughout London? I remember having a hard time finding it around town, including at Heathrow, Gatwick and various train stations. Granted that was 10-years ago, but just asking?
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I don't live in London but it seems getting a copy of Autosport is now like getting hens teeth.
The shops won't stock too many copies because it is a weekly and they don't want to return copies, customers then can't find it so retailers don't stock it because no one buys it, its a downward spiral. To be honest with the speed of the internet, and the sources of news available then the days of a weekly print issue must be numbered. The last issue I bought was the one with the obituary for HHF a few weeks ago, that was probably the first print issue I have bought in several years. |
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So, basically it's easier to find copies in Los Angeles than London? It comes out Thursdays in the UK, and 4-days later in the USA. The F1 preview issue sold out (4-copies) in 2-hours on Monday morning before the first GP. I got their at 9:30 and I bought the last one.
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I enjoy the retro articles, which is probably why I read Motorsport too. But there is far too much in the way of page filler F1 articles. Most of the time it’s the same old press releases. I have every sympathy with Autosports journalists on this, as they must be so sanitised by the Team media before any real journalism can be achieved.
• Increase the club racing element. I understand most are not interested how Jonny Smith came 12th in a Saloon race at Anglesey. But interviews with manufactures, engine builders, stalwarts of club racing etc. • Bring back race of my life feature as published in the 1980’s • Track tests • Articles on racing championships from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s such as FVL, F3, Renault 5’s etc. • Racing in other countries. A feature to say what races in Mexico, India, listing maybe of what cars have appeared there, ex ……… • It always makes me laugh when I see articles listing Radicals or £25k as budget motorsport ! Metro cup, Monoposto, and the likes never get a mention in this respect |
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I struggle to find any Autosports in newsagents these days. Good job I have an online subscription
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Over the last few weeks Autosport has lost no opportunity to tell us how poor Ferrari are and how amazing McLaren and RedBull are, a strange disconnect with reality or just appeasing their paymasters?
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Interesting. I stopped reading it but still sounds like it’s the unofficial McLaren site though, with contractual Renault mentions. Doubtless still denying it though.
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Ya, that's why if Alonso races at kart in Spain, it'll probably be on the cover for 3-weeks in a row. Once before the event, 1 right after the event and an interview 2-weeks later telling us why & how it went. Wait till Le Mans 24.....
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If you're not in the top 100, then WH Smith (which was still the biggest player in the market back then) didn't automatically stock you... it was down to discretion of individual store managers. Or you could pay WHS to carry it, but that would get expensive to do every week. Supermarkets now have the bulk of magazine sales, but many of them stock an even smaller range - some only the top 40. Autosport's circulation figures continued to fall, and then about 8 years ago they withdrew from ABC, so nobody knows how far they have fallen since, as there are no longer any independently audited numbers. |
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