F1 Fanatic

Which other series do you watch and if you do, who do you support?

Here are mine:

Indy Car Series – Helio Castroneves, Takuma Sato, Tony Kanaan

Moto GP – Rossi, Lorenzo, Pedrosa

Renault World Series – Brendon Hartley, Daniel Ricciardo

Le Mans Series – Aston Martin

WRC almost as fanatically as F1 but not quite.
Now started Indy Car Series.
Le Mans Series.
Moto GP although bikes don’t do much for me, I like the characters there though and the celbrations are mad.
IRCGP2
Sometimes GT races.
BTCC and now WTCC and DTM sometimes.
F3
Now I have Sky though I pretty much watch anything and everything I can.

GT1 – Reiter Engineering (bascially because I love the Lamborghinis and the livery is cool, so nothing special really :P)
WRC – Kimi Räikkönen

V8 Supercar – Ford

Indy Car – Ryan Briscoe, Will Power

NASCAR – Marcos Ambrose

Renault World Series – Daniel Ricciardo

Red Bull Air Race – Matt Hall

Red Bull X-Fighters – Robbie Madason

Speedway GP – Jason Crump, Chris Holder

Moto GP – Casey Stoner

Can anyone see a theme here.

I watch/support:

Indycar – Dario Franchitti & Helio Castroneves
NASCAR – Jeff Gordon
BTCC – Jason Plato
V8 Supercars – Jamie Whincup/Holden
GP2 – haven’t decided yet
Continental Tire Challenge – none
Rolex Sports Car Series – Scott Pruett
American Le Mans Series – Corvette Racing Team

GP2 – D’Ambrision
Nascar – Montoya
Indycar – Baguette
GT1 – All Belgians (Kumpen, Leinders, longin,..) and Hezemans
Motogp – Rossi

I don’t manage to follow many other motorsport series closely on the TV as I don’t have Sky, but when I’m at my dads house who does have sky i can sit watching Eurosport or Motors TV for hours on end.

I think I would follow MotoGP if I just got into the habbit of watching it, I’ll watch F1 religiously on a Sunday afternoon but it doesn’t at all bother me if I miss a Moto GP race.

I try to watch as much GP2 and IndyCar as possible – though it depends on whether Eurosport and Sky Sports respectively are showing them live.

Eurosport are showing far too few live GP2 races this year, but at least it’s an improvement over the dark days of Setanta.

Thankfully Sky Sports has given up trying to get people to like NASCAR and we seem to be getting more live IndyCar this year.

I usually catch the BTCC and a bit of WTCC, though the latter is by far the less exciting and interesting. I usually get to one BTCC weekend per year, I was at Oulton this year.

I’m going to my second British F3 race of the year this weekend.

I see the occasional Renault World Series, GP2 and F2 race on TV. The only regular F1 support race I make a point of not watching is Porsche Supercup – I find it slow and dull.

I watched a lot of the Le Mans 24 Hours. Wasn’t half as good as last year’s race though. I’m fascinated to see what becomes of this sports prototype world championship, though, I could really get into that especially if the petrol cars can compete.

I’d watch F3 Euroseries, DTM and Auto GP but they’re on channels I don’t have.

I wish I had the same fondness for the WRC I did a decade ago but I just don’t. And bikes fail to move me too.