Bernie is explicitly on record saying that he doesn't want you as a fan because you're not a 75 year old millionaire.

Easier to watch, there are seats and air conditioning in luxury boxes, and it's over in under two hours.

That must explain the 581 million worldwide viewers per season of WRC, a figure that's up 35%.

from a performance perspective, anything competitive is going to be rocking a short wheelbase.

or VW, or Hyundai.

Enter this thing in a WRC race (you know, the big leagues) and it would finish in last place by about 27 minutes.

why doesn't anyone make a single cab pickup with those dimensions any more? These are perfection.

I was already going to be rooting for Jari-Matti Latvala after the Hirvonen retirement (I like Finnish accents, sue me) - this just makes it easier.

He still went full-NASCAR and smashed her head into a wall, right?

It *does* look like a decadent nest.

I agree. The fact that Beenie just assumes that these 70 year-olds are using the same dark magic and virgin sacrifices to stay alive that he is is incredulous.

are they running LeMans this year?

F1 provides the feed. F1 provides the footage. The networks who buy the feed don't have to produce any of it. For NBCSN, Leigh Diffey, Steve Matchett, and David Hobbs are watching the race in the NBC studio in Stamford, Connecticut and talking about what they're watching on a monitor that nobody from NBC is…

Only about 1/3 of the breaks.

Isle of Man TT is literally $2. The fact I'm willing to spend $200 for F1 shows how poorly the product is being treated stateside.

Bernie only cares about old viewers. He's on record saying he'd rather have one multi-millionaire viewer in his 70's than 50,000 fans under 30, because the latter aren't buying Rolexes and Johnny Walker.

I pay For WRC+ and MotoGP Video Pass. If F1 sold their product commercial free for a couple hundred bucks, I'm all in.

I guarantee late 2015 slips to early 2016, mid 2016, late 2016, early 2017, late 2017, and then ends up in administration some time in 2018.

Five years from now, you'll find that 65% of them are non-manuals.

no thanks - I read Doug's columns.