Magazines 'NEW' Autosport Magazine

mark_l · 4 Mar 2004, 18:42 (Ref:893781)

Does that 'All New' Autosport also have a new price?

I haven't had a chance to get to my local newsagents today.

AndyM · 4 Mar 2004, 19:15 (Ref:893820)

Nope, still £2.80

mark_l · 4 Mar 2004, 19:28 (Ref:893832)

Thats a surprise. Normally when Haymarket revamp Autosport or Motorsport News they revamp the price.

AndyM · 4 Mar 2004, 19:35 (Ref:893840)

I was expecting a price-hike when I got mine this morning, quite surprised myself.

Knowlesy · 4 Mar 2004, 21:49 (Ref:893999)

I't's not all that different. two extra pages and a slightly neater layout.

But they have destroyed the logo!

Ryo28 · 4 Mar 2004, 22:06 (Ref:894022)

Yeah, it looks like a basic font from Word... Hope the rest of the mag doesn't go 'downmarket'...

Knowlesy · 4 Mar 2004, 22:12 (Ref:894031)

And may I say how unimpressed I am by the drawing of Sennas McLaren on page 44!

John McIlroy · 5 Mar 2004, 18:29 (Ref:895155)

You may. Although we said in the ads that have run for the last two weeks that the price wouldn't be going up, so that shouldn't have come as a surprise, to be honest...

John

Damon · 5 Mar 2004, 19:03 (Ref:895188)

I quite like the new look. A good freshen up every now and then is always a good idea.

**Aysedasi** · 6 Mar 2004, 08:43 (Ref:895622)

Its still Autoschueysport as far as I'm concerned......

Duffacus · 6 Mar 2004, 10:59 (Ref:895719)

Unfortunately I agree with you. Tons of pages and pages of F1 stuff and then what else - at the best a 3 page report on a race of a different sort

I'm starting to think about stopping my subscription...

As for the 'new look' I don't like that much either.

John McIlroy · 6 Mar 2004, 11:06 (Ref:895728)

Actually the IRL report is four pages. We've bumped that up for this season. And there are also features on WRC, Sportscars and ETCC in this week's mag, as well as the Bentley track test.

I'm obviously interested to hear people's views but equally, I don't want them just to hear sweeping generalisations without me having a chance to put our case across as well. Schuey's actually only 'featured' on six pages in total, including news and a spread in our 'Greatest Grand Prix Drivers of All Time'. Out of 112 pages, I wouldn't say that's dominating the mag...

John

diz · 6 Mar 2004, 11:13 (Ref:895739)

Quote:

Originally posted by John McIlroy

John,
Take a look at your own questions thread in National and Club Racing
diz

Duffacus · 6 Mar 2004, 11:26 (Ref:895766)

I know F1 is seen as the top of world Motor Sport and I know you need to contribute to it but sometimes your reports on the FIAGT's for example are only a page long! Maybe this isn't always the case and yes I can see that the IRL is four pages (I just looked) but the images are rather big too. I've been getting Autosport for a while now whether it be in the shops or more recently subscription and I am impressed with what you put into it but I think I'd just like to see a bit more on some of the worlds other motor sports.

(By the way the last two weeks I've got Autosport on a friday, is this something to do with Autosport or just the mail service? I wasn't sure)

John McIlroy · 6 Mar 2004, 11:44 (Ref:895790)

It's not always the case. Generally last year we either ran a spread or a single on ETCC/FIA GTs. One meeting and we've one correspondent there. With more budget I'd love to send two people to each one and devote a three-page report to each, but...

I note your point, though.

John

OVERSTEER · 6 Mar 2004, 12:17 (Ref:895827)

I liked the feature on Mcrae's test in the Bentley feature, any chance you could get him into to do any more tests in the future?

Damon · 6 Mar 2004, 12:39 (Ref:895854)

John, I actually very much like what you have done with the mag during your short tenure. The increased concentration on the techincal aspects of F1 in particular I find particularly good.

However, I did find the Greatest of all Time feature this week to be a little strange. It felt a bit like filler to me really with the usual arguments about the usual people put forward in the usual way. We see these so often in the various magazines during the course of a season that it would be nice to see an alternative perspective, perhaps looking in more detail at the drivers that statistically don't come close to close to the title of all time great, but that everyone know's could well have been had circumstances been different (a la Gilles Villenueve, whom the feature only briefly touched on).

Anyway, I'm sure we all appreciate the opportunity to voice views to you. I'll look forward to reading Mr Roebuck's race report on Thursday

.

Duffacus · 6 Mar 2004, 13:40 (Ref:895935)

Having said what I did though, I do like your 'Week in pictures' part of the mag at the front.

John McIlroy · 6 Mar 2004, 14:50 (Ref:895977)

Oversteer,

Colin has agreed to do more track tests for us this year but we have to come up with ideas - needless to say, we're working on it!

And Guy Smith will also be testing cars for us - we're kind of hoping to alternate them.

By the way, Damon, Nigel Roebuck stopped doing our race reports at the end of 2002. It's Mark Hughes now. But Nigel's double-length Fifth Column will still be in the mag, of course, next week.

John

Knowlesy · 6 Mar 2004, 15:29 (Ref:896000)

There's been a lot of criticisms here John, but fundamentally the magazine is still the best out there by miles and I for one will continue to buy. It beats F1 bloody racing and all that anyways!

Damon · 6 Mar 2004, 15:34 (Ref:896008)

Shows how much I've been concentrating! I always enjoy what Nigel has to say as, more often than not, it echoes exactly what I feel

.

Knowlesy, watch the F1 Racing bashing, that's their sister mag!

mark_l · 6 Mar 2004, 15:38 (Ref:896015)

I would prefer it if the small items of news in the columns were all grouped according to category and headlined, as in the old style.

In this weeks issue, in the same column of news you can go from FIA GT to World Nissan to BTCC, Too confusing for me.

I get the feeling that there are too many filler items (Jordan f1 history,for example) and large pictues filling up space that should be given over to print.

I'll give it another few weeks to iron out the teething problems, after that it may sit on the newsagents shelf.

Knowlesy · 6 Mar 2004, 15:43 (Ref:896023)

Quote:

Originally posted by Damon

Knowlesy, watch the F1 Racing bashing, that's their sister mag!

oops....

JAG · 6 Mar 2004, 19:37 (Ref:896188)

I don't mind large pictures etc. and even filler articles and the like, as long as they are not all F1 related. Lets face it F1 has saturation coverage, and even the hard core fans aree becoming a little sick of it.

I've never been a huge F1 fan, even less so now. I do find myself skipping through 40/50% of the mags F1 coverage and concentrating on the sportscar, rallying, touring car and historic/national coverage.

As for the increased IRL coverage, I realise there are a few UK drivers in there now, but who in the UK actually takes any notice of the series?

Try Hard · 6 Mar 2004, 19:53 (Ref:896209)

me? After meeting "dazza" manning at the Brands Cart race last year, kinda got real interest from me now. Plus i think the cars are quite technically ineteresting...

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