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20 Aug 2015, 05:33 (Ref:3567123) | #1 | ||
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Autosport/F1 Magazines
Picked up 7 boxes of Autosport and F1 Magazine...virtually every magazine since 1997...catching up on some great old news stories....with some amazing pics.
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20 Aug 2015, 11:18 (Ref:3567209) | #2 | |
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Can you count how many non-F1 Autosport front covers you can find? And which year had them the most. Would be nice
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25 Aug 2015, 06:22 (Ref:3568518) | #3 | ||
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25 Aug 2015, 06:33 (Ref:3568520) | #4 | ||
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This is fun...
2000 32 Magazines - 3 non-F1 50th Anniversary edition Best of 2000 Edition Richard Burns/Subaru/Rally GB Special - Nov 30 2000 |
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25 Aug 2015, 14:05 (Ref:3568615) | #5 | |
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The further back one goes, further non F1 is there likely to be found I think |
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25 Aug 2015, 14:20 (Ref:3568617) | #6 | ||
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It's baffling that non-F1 weekends get F1 covers. There's rallying, sports cars, touring cars, IndyCar...
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25 Aug 2015, 15:19 (Ref:3568637) | #7 | |
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So far this year there have been 2 non F1 Autosport covers.
18 June LeMans and Porsche win. 30 April WRC and Kris Meeke's win. |
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25 Aug 2015, 15:32 (Ref:3568639) | #8 | ||
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25 Aug 2015, 21:06 (Ref:3568707) | #9 | |
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30 Aug 2015, 07:32 (Ref:3569782) | #11 | ||
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80's
I picked up a job lot from a recent BTCC meeting of 84/86/87 autosports, I was 4-6 at the time and remember most of the races like I watched them live due to me having seen them on my btcc/f3/f1 dvds.
Fantastic to read the magazine as if it is current, this was a time where british f3 was massive, f2000 and wtcc on the scene (only up to 86 yet!) A lot of Group B rallying front covers and topics, I have just read the article about the unfortunate crashes on the Corsica rally 86. Some fantastic images too. |
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13 Oct 2015, 16:30 (Ref:3582528) | #12 | ||
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Printed media is declining so expect Formula 1 to dominate cover and content.
I am watching to see if Moto GP creeps in too, which for me would be the beginning of the end of my subscription! |
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21 Mar 2016, 09:43 (Ref:3625441) | #13 | ||
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Moto GP has now crept in, the straw that broke the Camels back?
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21 Mar 2016, 10:01 (Ref:3625444) | #14 | |
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I like the fact that MotoGP is added but it will depend on how these extra 4? pages are included.
Are they 4 additional pages which just give the magazine more content (great) Are they 4 pages taken from F1 coverage (I can live with that) Are they 4 pages taken from the 25% of the magazine that does EVERYTHING else (this would not be great at all) |
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21 Mar 2016, 10:22 (Ref:3625450) | #15 | |
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Why not? A lot of car racing fans are drawn to MotoGP
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21 Mar 2016, 11:14 (Ref:3625469) | #16 | ||
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Not for me, it's as bad as Motorsport, Octane and god knows whatever magazines that have articles about watches in them. Bah Humbug.
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I miss some of the news I gleaned from it, but sadly there was no longer enough of that, too many photoshopped pictures of what an F1 car might look like if someone who was the subject of an unlikely rumour got a seat. Plus all of the experienced, quality journalists had deserted it. |
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21 Mar 2016, 14:25 (Ref:3625560) | #18 | ||
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Well, I remember being as proud as punch with an Autosport underarm in the preinternet era when TV coverage was primitive. I was ahead of the curve.
The internet means Autosport and other published magazines are inevitably outpaced on that front and even the 'scoops' contained in their paywall website snippets can be found elsewhere. Even if contemporary F1 is all that I would want, saturation coverage means that I'm kinda sufferin' from enough fatigue to be disinclined to then go on to read about it ontop of all the coverage. And all of the series that I have an interest are also broadcast online or on satellite channels and so on. That wasn't the case back in the day so the interest I had in a race reports back then is diminished today. Including MotoGP does nothing for me and the magazine is thin these days. They do produce good issues during the off season when they've time to reflect but when the racing gets underway a typical issue is far too watery and thin for me to engage with. |
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21 Mar 2016, 16:26 (Ref:3625604) | #19 | ||
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Perhaps MotoGP is in these magazines because it offers more in terms of racing and personality than F1 has for decades.
You are fairly far from the normal racefan if you don't like MotoGP, the vast majority of race fans do. And I think if it does nothing for you, that says more about your tastes than it does about the magazines and most race fans. Magazines are dying and within 10 years, all you have left are a few glossies, fashion, tv and some special interest. |
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Not that I care. The herd doesn't define my tastes. |
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22 Mar 2016, 08:29 (Ref:3625833) | #21 | ||
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Neither does it define mine.
I watch far more types of motorsport than most people, but you cant blame a magazine or website for following the herd, when subs are struggling and thousands of people stop buying you simply have to, to survive. If you didn't you would be negligent really. |
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22 Mar 2016, 09:17 (Ref:3625855) | #22 | ||
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My preferred bike sport is Irish Road racing (my Brother in Law does it) but that doesn't mean I want to read about it in Autosport.
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What people take/don't take from that is outside my jurisdiction. |
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26 Mar 2016, 12:23 (Ref:3627484) | #24 | |
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I recently cancelled my digital subscription to Autosport as I didn't like the revamped magazine, who wants to trawl through 15 pages of F1 to get to the news articles.
Magazines are now so out of date in the internet age, its like buying a 4 day old newspaper. The fact you couldn't download the digital edition till 8am when I could buy the paper copy from my newsagent at 6am made no sense. I picked up this weeks Autosport at a well known High St retailer and on reading an item about wings on MotoGP bikes I put it back down again. There are enough magazines that cater for bikes, I don't want to read about them in my car magazine. The move to include bike news will make me more determined not to spend my money on Autosport any longer. I gave up on F1 Racing when it became a mouthpiece for Red Bull Racing several years ago. |
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26 Mar 2016, 12:58 (Ref:3627502) | #25 | |
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I ordered all Autosport magazine in 2012, but soon I found that rather I read all the news from the Internet.
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