From: bspahh@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Andrew Henry)
Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport
Subject: Re: Racing Mags opinions
Date: 17 Apr 92 11:26:54 GMT
Organization: School of Biological Sciences, University of Bath, UK

In article <1992Apr16.192326.24328@fang.att.com> naren@fang.att.com (Narendra Chauhan) writes:
>From article <johnl.225v@amiganet.chi.il.us>, by johnl@amiganet.chi.il.us (John Liskey):
>> Ok.. I allready subscribe to On Track, IndyCar Racing, and Autoweek.. but  
>> am curious on some other media I've never looked at. Lemme know what you 
>> think of these in email or whatever. (If I'm spending approx $100/yr on 
>> magazines, I sure want to have the most for the money!)

>  If you interested in F1, then Eric Waiter Associates has some
>  that might interest you.  I subscribe to Checkered Flag, a successor
>  to Prix Editions that folded last year.  It is very good - at least
>  the first issue.  I am still waiting for the April issue. 
>  Subscription rates are $59.00 (2nd class in USA) per year.
>
>  EWA also has 3 others that you may like: Autosport (weekly),
>  Formula (10/yr)
>  and Motorsport (12/yr).  I believe these are all from the UK.
>  Sub rates are: Autosport - $134/yr, Formula - $35/yr and
>  Motorsport - $35/yr.  EWA phone # is 800-272-2670

The two weekly motorsport publications in the UK are Autosport and
the Motoring News.  Traditionally, MN concentrated on rallying and
Autosport covered circuit racing. Now, they cover a similar range
of topics, although MN does have a lot more on club rallying, Drag 
racing, and the Spedeworth stock car racing scene. You also get
David Tremayne's wonderful F1 reports in MN.  MN is a newspaper
format, A year's subscription to MN costs 70 UK pounds from the US.

Until recently, I only bought MN and just read the interesting bits
of Autosport in the shop.  This was because MN comes out a day earlier
than Autosport, and it costs 70p to #1.50 for Autosport.  At the moment
I get both. Autosport has Nigel Roebuck's wit and wisdom, and Giorgio 
Piola's (sp?) sketches detailing new developments in F1 cars.  It also 
had some extracts from Guy Edwards's book on getting sponsorship.

Motor Sport is from the same publishers as MN.  It is a bit staid,
but is often interesting. It covers modern racing (eventually) but 
also has quite a lot of stuff on racing history. It has strong links 
with the Vintage Sports Car Club. Bill Boddy, the editor, has been 
involved in UK motor sport since the '30s. Denis Jenkinson also has 
a column which is usually thought-provoking  (he was Stirling Moss's 
co-driver on the 1955 Mille Miglia). David Tremayne does the F1 race
reports.

>  While I was in the UK last Christmas, I came across one called
>  Fast Lane.  I bought the annual review.  It is excellent. A
>  friend of mine agreed to subscribe to it if I subscribed to
>  Checkered Flag.  I will post details about the sub rates as 
>  soon as I have my copy back.

Fast Lane concentrates more on fast road cars than the pukka motorsport 
magazines.  Its run by Jeremy Clarkson whose interests include loud engines,
wheelspin and posing in general, so it has an F1 column! Car and Car 
Conversions is a magazine that covers low cost competition cars and 
modified road cars.

When it appears Racecar Engineering has very good technical articles.
Car Design and Technology has good technical stuff on road and
race cars. They proof read it now too.

If you want to improve a foreign language (I've spent 2 1/2 hours
reading two pages of Jackie Stewart track testing a March 881 in 
German), I can recommend some European Motorsport publications:

"Motorsport Aktuell: Powerslide" is a Swiss small-sized newspaper,
written in German. It splits each issue between motorbike racing and
F1/rallying/car circuit racing. In the F1 reports, they break down
each of the best 6 qualifying laps showing split times and numbers
from speed traps.

"Auto Hebdo" is French and is best for its coverage of rally raids.
It was also quite entertaining to read when Prost was testing the
Ligiers. Thats probably just the nationalist Brit in me.

I've only ever read one issue of "Auto Sprint".  It was in Italian
but had a picture of ME in it (Ayrton Senna also sneaked into the
photo, in the middle of his qualifying lap). For information
freaks, their F1 reports have to be the best. You get qualifying
times, a lap chart and  a big table with all of the race lap times 
for each driver.

			Andrew  Henry


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