128 Motor Sport Magazines
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This article is from the Motorsport FAQ, by A H Henry bspahh@midge.bath.ac.uk with numerous contributions by others.
128 Motor Sport Magazines
In an ideal world, it would be easy to find entertaining, comprehensive
and accurate coverage of all the world's interesting motorsport. In
practice, you might find it better to subscribe to a magazine that
might not be widely available from local shops.
A magazine subscription can be a really good way of improving your
foreign language skills. Its much easier to grind your way through an
article, checking every third word in a dictionary, if you have a real
interest in the subject matter. You will pick up a lot of the specific
jargon in a very short time, after which you should be able to read
many of the articles in a reasonable time. If you already know the
outline of a news story, its much easier to translate complicated
sections.
It is very interesting to compare the reactions of the journalists
and letter writers from different countries to the same stories. In
1989, the German press was hilarious when it was discussing the abysmal
performances of the German Zakspeed and Rial F1 teams. I daresay
Italians would get as much enjoyment from some of the reactions in the
British press to Alfa Romeo's current domination of the BTCC.
I've added comments to some of the entries. I've left these blank for
some magazines where I don't read the magazine or if I'm not sure if
I've seen a representative issue. The issue I saw of Pit Pass included
a five page full colour pictorial about Derrike Cope's new house (!).
I've included magazines which have a significant amount of motor
sports coverage - say a half or more. This excludes magazines like Car,
Sport Auto, Autocar & Motor and Car & Driver which concentrate more on
road cars, even if they do cover some races.
Key for comments:
Andrew Henry [AHH] bspahh@midge.bath.ac.uk
Anupam Razdan [AR] raz@prairienet.org
Bill Dermond [BD] bdermond@cc.atinc.com
Bill Mette [BM] bmette@MCS.COM
Brett Ramsey [BR] ramsey@deakin.edu.au
Bruce Harrison [BH] beharr01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu
Chuck Fry [CF] chucko@rahul.net
Dale Maurice [DM] dale@cmr.com
Dan Jones [DJ] danjones@pyramid.com
Duane Sharpe [DS] ah131@yfn.ysu.edu
Eric Waiter [EW] eric@EWAcars.com, Compuserve: 73424,1057
John Posthill [JBP] ranger@jbp.rti.rti.org
Jonathan Crawshaw [JC] jonathan.crawshaw@canrem.com
Jonathan Crawshaw [JC] jonathan.crawshaw@canrem.com.ca
Keith Wood [KFW] Keith_Wood@mm.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Max Behara [MB] behara@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca
Michael Stucker [MS] stucker@aslvx1.sugar-land.anadrill.slb.com
Pete Fenelon [PF] pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Phil Rose [PR] PER4442@draper.com
Richard Welty [RW] welty@balltown.cma.com
Robert German [RG] GERMAN@nfask2.fask.uni-mainz.de
Russ Gould [RG1] russ_gould@rsomacserver.rso.upenn.edu
Stephen Shapiro [SS] sshapiro@mail.sas.upenn.edu
Tony Johns [TJ] zyllyx@netcom.com
Vincent B Ho [VBH] hbv@mercury.sfsu.edu
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