129 Addresses for Motor Sport Magazines A1
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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.
129 Addresses for Motor Sport Magazines A1
American Roadracing Classifieds
Address: 14010 Marquardt Avenue, Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670, USA.
Telephone: USA (1) 310 921 9642
Fax: USA (1) 310 926 6964
Period: Updated 05/92
Language:English
Subscriptions: US $ 20 2nd class, US $ 35 first class per year for US
subscriptions.
Australian Auto Action
Address:603-611 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000
Australia
Telephone: Australia (61) 3 601 4236
Fax: Australia (61) 3 670 9096
Sport:1/1 Current News.
Period: Fortnightly, 54 pages, some colour, tabloid newspaper
Language:English
Subscriptions: Australia AUS $ 84.50, New Zealand AUS $ 104.64
Overseas AUS $ 162.50
Opinion: [ BR ] Highly Recommended. Published every second Thursday.
Features Australian Road Racing, Speedway (Ovals) Rallies and Drags
as well as good coverage of F1, Indycars and NASCAR. Mark Fogaty's
somewhat irreverent F1 column is well worth reading.
Australian Drag Racing News
Address: Performance Publications Pty. Ltd., PO Box 160, Lane Cove
NSW 2066, Australia
Telephone: Australia (61) 2 428 5100
Language:English
Opinion: Drag Racing results and interviews.
Australian Motorsport News
Address: P.O Box 7118, Melbourne, VIC 3004 Australia
Telephone: Australia (61) 3 699 5799
Fax: Australia (61) 3 696 9299
Sport:1/1 Current News.
Period: Fortnightly, 44 pages, some colour, tabloid newspaper
Language:English
Opinion: [ BR ] First published in 1993 by ex Autosport UK journo and
Kart racer Chris Lambden as competition to Auto Action. Good Writers
covering Aussie scene as well as F1, Rallies and Indycars. Has a very
good Aussie and US Drag racing coverage and even dabbles in Bikes.
Poor layout and pictures, It just doesn't seem to have the impact of
AA. Sometimes guilty of "going tabloid" in an attempt to scoop the
competition.
Auto Racing
Language:English
Opinion:[ AHH ] A UK magazine specifically covering the IndyCar
series.
Autosport (from UK)
Address:Haymarket Specialist Motoring Publications, 60 Waldegrave
Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 8LG, UK
Telephone:Great Britain (44) 181 943 5998
Fax:Great Britain (44) 181 943 5922
Telex:895 2440
Sport:1/1 Current News. Updated 1/95
Period:51/year, 104 pages, all colour, magazine
Language:English
Subscriptions:You can choose from:
1. Direct from the UK: Subscriptions, Autosport, PO Box 219, Woking,
Surrey, GU21 1ZW, UK. Tel: Great Britain (44) 1453 733800 Fax:
Great Britain (44) 1453 776573. The "premier" service includes
some freebies like 4 litres of Mobil 1 synthetic oil and reduced
prices for race tickets. The "competitor" service lets you share
in a prize fund if you have an Autosport sticker on your car and
you do well in an event. American subscriptions are officially
discouraged direct from the UK.
Premier Competitor
UK GBP 90.00 GBP 120.00
Europe, or Overseas surface mail GBP 97.00 GBP 127.00
Middle East/Africa/India GBP 131.00 GBP 161.00
Rest of World GBP 169.00 GBP 199.00
[ DJ ] I have subscribed direct through the UK since 1979. The
trend in the last year or two has been that I receive my issues on
the Monday or Tuesday after the publish date. In the early 90's I
received them always on the Friday after the publish date, i.e.
the next day and sometimes on Saturday. Unfortunately, for some
reason that doesn't happen anymore. I received the July 14th issue
on July 18th and the July 7th issue on July 12th. Mondays or
Tuesdays is pretty regular, but maybe once every 5 issues or so I
get them on Wednesdays or Thursdays. Then maybe once every 3 or 4
months I receive an issue one week late. Something has changed in
the last two weeks though. They now arrive in brown envelopes
instead of clear plastic and they are being sent from an address
in Holland.
2. EWA: 369 Springfield Ave, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922, USA. Tel:
USA (1) 800 EWA 4454 (toll free) or USA (1) 908 665-7811, Fax: USA
(1) 908 665-7814, E-mail: eric@EWAcars.com, Compuserve: 73424,1057
The rates are $ 239/yr first class and $ 159/yr second class. EWA
has been distributing Autosport in USA, Canada and Mexico since 1989.
See the section 23.2 for more details on EWA's service.
[ EW (of EWA) ] The fastest delivery in the USA is our First Class
mail service. Thursday's Autosport always gets here one day later
on Friday and is mailed the same day. Our 1st Class subscribers
get it Sat, Mon or Tues. I get a 'monitoring' copy by airmail
direct from the UK and that arrives anywhere from 7 days after
publication to 4 weeks at worst (See DJ's comments on this service
above).
3. Or: Autosport, PO Box 128, Pearl River, New York, 10965-0128. Tel
USA (1) 914 735-8083. Sent by second class post.
Premier Competitor
USA US $159.00 US $199.00
Canada and Mexico: US $196.00 US $236.00
This is a subscription agency which has started to take Autosport
subscriptions in mid-1994. There was another agency which was used
in early 1994. I don't know whether you get all of the freebies,
like the Mobil oil. Cheap admission at Silverstone will not be of
much use !
[ MS ] I have cancelled my subscription for Autosport through a US
distributor that is not EWA. I received no issues between the July
28th 1994 issue and August 23rd. The pre-British GP issue came a
week after the post-British GP issue.
Opinion:[ AHH ] Recommended. Published every Thursday. Has some big
name motorsport journalists: Nigel Roebuck, Denis Jenkinson, Giorgio
Piola, & Gordon Kirby. Looks nice and has reasonable text, although
you don't get that much to read. F1 reports have lap charts, WRC
reports have all the stage times for the best drivers. The Motoring
News comes out a day earlier. [ AR ] Covers every form of motorsport.
A little too expensive for me. [ MB ] Sometimes Autosport has a big
picture of a second placed British driver on the cover and ignores
the winner. [ PF ] Isn't quite as good a read as it used to be --
it's got flashier and has contained less in-depth stuff since about
88/89 -- but still indispensable. Concentrates on F1, Indy, BTCC,
WRC, BRC, F3, F3000, GTCC in the international categories, but also
covers British club motor racing and rallying strongly. Roebuck's F1
reports and columns and Piola's technical contributions are
excellent, and it does give results of all UK circuit races and major
hillclimbs/sprints (Marcus Pye is superb!). Less coverage of minor
internationals than it used to have, though in the winter the oddest
things sometimes get a lot of space! [ RG ] IMHO, Autosport used to
be wonderful until Bruce Jones took over as chief editor; since his
tenure began, the headlines have become increasingly lurid to the
point of ridiculousness [ e.g. "Damon Bares His Soul!!!" ] and the
pro-Hill bias has gotten really blatant.
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