Comments on: F1 Racing vs Motorsport

By: Don Speekingleesh

Don Speekingleesh — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:19:45 +0000

I gave up buying F1 Racing just before the start of last season. For a while I’d been finding the articles less and less interesting, and I was really only buying out of habit. (And EJ’s sucking up to Mosley to get the 12th grid place was a shameful waste of space.)
My brother started buying since I stopped, and I’ve looked at the occasional issue – don’t miss it at all. Superficial news analaysis, Windsor being a Hamilton fanboy instead of Schumacher one.

By: sigmund

sigmund — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:38:51 +0000

I subscribe to F1-racing, but as an alonso fan I’m tired of Windsor always saying he is a second rate driver, who should look at Lewis and Kimi for how to drive a car. Come on!

He wasn’t at his best last year, but he is a hell of a driver. Alan Henry even suggested that he will never win a race again. It might be true, but I seriously doubt it. Also as a non-british reader, I’m fed up of Lewis on the cover. I still enjoy the magazine, but I might start reading Motorsport instead.

I have only ever read one issue, but I liked a lot.

By: Steven Roy

Steven Roy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:57:30 +0000

I think Roebuck has worked wonders with Motor Sport. It is a magazine I have gone through phases with over the years. Sometimes I love it other times I don’t. It seems to be on a permanent see saw between modern and historical. The current writing team are as good a team as I have seen put together anywhere and Roebuck is the best I have ever read.

I used to buy every issue of F1 racing but I am now at the stage where I don’t think I would miss it. My interest is not entirely focussed on F1 so a magazine that only does F1 is not especially appealing. Autosport is still a must even though Roebuck is no longer there. Mark Hughes is now the first page I turn to on a Thursday. I kind of get the impression that Haymarket knew a year in advance that Roebuck was leaving and Mark Hughes was being groomed for that prime position.

By: rob ijbema

rob ijbema — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:06:18 +0000

haven’t read F1 mag for years,who needs a double page spread of a groved tyre,or a blue glove?
I buy Motorsport for the historic matter and they should leave modern F1 to Autosport and the net

By: Obster

Obster — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:33:54 +0000

Hate to see the increased coverage of modern F1 in Motor Sport magazine-I just read an article about what’s-his-name who runs the BMW team that said virtually NOTHING.
Leave the "soap-opera" aspects of modern F1 to other mags and the internet, please.

By: Vertigo

Vertigo — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:19:06 +0000

I’ve got a lot of hate for Windsor in F1 Racing too, and it can be a bit soft, but it’s still worth buying for the Long Interviews and the fact that you get at least one good feature a month – the article featured this month about the guys hoping to get into F1 in 2009 was a good read.
I quite like Autosport, but I don’t buy it every week – £3 is a bit much when it doesn’t really hold my interest.

By: George

George — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:12:53 +0000

Well, I enjoy Autosport and Motorsport and find their coverage of other formulas enjoyable – there is more to racing that JUST F1 (though not too much!). I’ve always enjoyed F1 Racing and shamefacedly confess to enjoying Peter Windsor’s writing – I find his insight’s into the various drivers techniques and psychology to be utterly fascinating. Mark Hughes makes Autosport worth buying for his contributions alone, in my humble opinion and I must admit that I had allowed Motorsport to drop completely off my radar for many a year (I don’t think I’d bought it regularly since the early 90s), until they signed-up the great Roebuck, who is genuinely one of the very greatest F1 writers there is. So, I’m now in a tricky situation – I like bits of all of them, and my magazine bill is going to go through the roof!

By: oliver

oliver — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:32:18 +0000

I’ve read Motorsport Magazine often, and you are right Keith their bias isn’t really F1 but they do give their F1 articles a kind of life u do not find in many magazines they are more for the nostalgic feel, however, even a race held just yesterday is made to feel like one held perhaps a few decades earlier, more especially with the way they present their pictures.

By: MartyP

MartyP — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:37:50 +0000

I’ve been having this very argument internally for the past few months so it’s interesting to read the comments here.

I’ve had a subscription to F1 racing since ’97, not long after it began. More recently I’ve picked up a subscription to Motorsport Magazine and am starting to wonder if that will be the only one I hang onto.

F1 racing is still a decent mag, but I think the articles in Motorsport have more depth and variety. I also like the fact that I can open Motorsport and learn something about sportscar racing in the 70’s, or some semi-obscure F1 driver. When I open F1 Racing, there is little to learn other than the topic of their ‘Wheel to Wheel’ quiz.

I’m a Grand Prix history buff so my opinion will be pretty biased, but I will likely keep my F1 Racing subscription simply because I’m afraid of what I might miss, and not because I think it is better value than Motorsport.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:41:36 +0000

I mentioned last year that Windsor has been the biggest flag waver for modern GP where races are won and lost by following another driver, waiting for them to pit, driving a fast lap and exiting your stop in front. (exactly what Kimi did on Sunday and has done on numerous ocassions. We seem to go nuts about what a ballsy and pure race driver he is yet no-one has brought up how boring and un-F1 that tactic that is!)

If he and the magazine were real advocates of the Sport they would be
1. Baying for Max’s blood
2. Pointing out what a shifty bugger Bernie is
and
3. Pointing out what complete rubbish a lot of F1 races are, instead of fawning over them.

A final straw, they have Eddie Jordan as a contributer. A man whose credibility was savaged by the UK courts. Lets get someone honest to contribute eh?