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A plea for not spoiling the CART opener

Olav K. Malm

A plea for not spoiling the CART opener

by Olav K. Malm » Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Hello,

As only a lucky few (damn brits:) from Europe will get any CART live on this
sunday, and have to wait until thursday 00:30 CET to get a lousy 1 hour
review, i ask in a very nice manner not to spoil the race result here on this
newsgroup. It is unrelated too, but everyone here have a motorsport interest,
so it it easy to forget oneself and suddenly start to talk about what happened
in the race.

If anyone want to do so, please put a spoilerwarning in the header.

I am ususally very negative to people complaining about spoiled results, but
that is if one had tried to read the rec.autos.sport.cart for next week and
get mad because the result was spoiled. I have to unsubscribe to that
newsgroup for a week now and also have to stay away from any webpage that
are even remotely related to CART. Luckily the norwegian newspapers don't
know what CART is, so I can follow news at home.

Thanks!

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Olav K. Malmin
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david_j_wil..

A plea for not spoiling the CART opener

by david_j_wil.. » Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:00:00



I'm not sure that the newspapers in Detroit Michigan know what CART
(let alone F1) is either.  Unless, of course, someone dies, in which
case it will be on page one in color.

Dave Wilson

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Jan Verschuere

A plea for not spoiling the CART opener

by Jan Verschuere » Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:00:00

Olav,

Surely the time frame you mention is too long to expect the race not to be
spoiled. It's just not reasonable. Check the Official CART site
(www.cart.com). More than likely you'll be able to have live timing and race
commentary from your browser. I used it for the Atlanta race. It took be
back to my days as younster, when I used to sneak in a miniature radio to
school to listen to the Tour de France. <g>

As for the root of our problem... I have a lot of dead webspace (no time to
do stuff with it). I'm willing to donate the space to an online petition for
live CART on Eurosport. You never know...

Jan.
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Jeffrey Haa

A plea for not spoiling the CART opener

by Jeffrey Haa » Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:00:00


Olav,

Maybe the Brits get it live but those of us in the U.S. don't get it
live either !  It's on tape delay. Of course the Nascar race is live
but we won't get into that...

No Spoiler here,

Jeff

Graeme Nas

A plea for not spoiling the CART opener

by Graeme Nas » Sat, 25 Mar 2000 04:00:00

That should actually read "damn Brits with digital TV", and I'm not
among them :-(

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Graeme Nash

Marc Collin

A plea for not spoiling the CART opener

by Marc Collin » Sun, 26 Mar 2000 04:00:00

There is no reason to "spoil" any race results here ever.  If you need to
discuss a race here (and 99.9% of the time, you don't), just use a clear
header that doesn't ruin it for people who haven't yet seen the race.

Some of us live where we can get the races live, but have a few other things
going in life on weekends and have to watch a taped version at a later
time...we also don't want to have to avoid coming to r.a.s. between race
time and viewing time.

Marc.


> Olav,

> Surely the time frame you mention is too long to expect the race not to be
> spoiled. It's just not reasonable. Check the Official CART site
> (www.cart.com). More than likely you'll be able to have live timing and
race
> commentary from your browser. I used it for the Atlanta race. It took be
> back to my days as younster, when I used to sneak in a miniature radio to
> school to listen to the Tour de France. <g>

> As for the root of our problem... I have a lot of dead webspace (no time
to
> do stuff with it). I'm willing to donate the space to an online petition
for
> live CART on Eurosport. You never know...

> Jan.
> =---


> > Hello,

> > <snip>

Dave Henri

A plea for not spoiling the CART opener

by Dave Henri » Sun, 26 Mar 2000 04:00:00

  get yerself down to cart.com and listent to the race on Cart Radio and
"see" the lap by lap graphic updates.  Here in the states, we will see
the race Taped delayed so the Nascar Boys don't get interuppted.
dave henrie

> Hello,

> As only a lucky few (damn brits:) from Europe will get any CART live on this
> sunday, and have to wait until thursday 00:30 CET to get a lousy 1 hour
> review, i ask in a very nice manner not to spoil the race result here on this
> newsgroup. It is unrelated too, but everyone here have a motorsport interest,
> so it it easy to forget oneself and suddenly start to talk about what happened
> in the race.

> If anyone want to do so, please put a spoilerwarning in the header.

> I am ususally very negative to people complaining about spoiled results, but
> that is if one had tried to read the rec.autos.sport.cart for next week and
> get mad because the result was spoiled. I have to unsubscribe to that
> newsgroup for a week now and also have to stay away from any webpage that
> are even remotely related to CART. Luckily the norwegian newspapers don't
> know what CART is, so I can follow news at home.

> Thanks!

> --
> Olav K. Malmin
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Olav K. Malm

A plea for not spoiling the CART opener

by Olav K. Malm » Sun, 26 Mar 2000 04:00:00


> Olav,

> Surely the time frame you mention is too long to expect the race not to be
> spoiled. It's just not reasonable. Check the Official CART site
> (www.cart.com). More than likely you'll be able to have live timing and race
> commentary from your browser. I used it for the Atlanta race. It took be
> back to my days as younster, when I used to sneak in a miniature radio to
> school to listen to the Tour de France. <g>

Too long to get spoiled on the CART newsgroup of course. I just asked if
people could be kind enough not to mention the racewinner. It's is very
easy to just pop it in in a bi-setence.

After following practice yesterday on the internet, i think i will resign
and follow it live, and get the pics later.

If you have followed the topic on rec.autos.sports.cart some very dedicated
people have found out that it is Eurosports own fault, not CART's.

I've fiddled with the idea of making a petition webpage for some time just
to find out the interest. It would have to get marketed really heavy, because
i think the combination between real CART fans and actively following
motorsports on the net make really small numbers. A lucky 100 maybe ?

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Olav K. Malmin
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Eldre

A plea for not spoiling the CART opener

by Eldre » Sun, 26 Mar 2000 04:00:00




>> Hello,

>>...  Luckily the norwegian newspapers don't
>> know what CART is, so I can follow news at home.

>I'm not sure that the newspapers in Detroit Michigan know what CART
>(let alone F1) is either.  Unless, of course, someone dies, in which
>case it will be on page one in color.

>Dave Wilson

Another Detroiter?  Cool!
You jusy have to read the WHOLE paper to find mention of CART and F1...<g>

Eldred
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