RaceFansTV: Just what we have been waiting for!

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Jun 162010

There is so much great motorsport footage out there and yet it is frustrating finding the stuff. I could spend hours sifting through YouTube and while fun, it isn’t exactly the most efficient way to watch racing online. Things are looking up with the debut of RaceFansTV.

RaceFansTV is an international initiative led by motorsports enthusiasts to bring back great historical racing footage. Its just-launched website, RaceFansTV.com, offers TV-quality full-length historic motorsports video programming. The new motorsports video site brings the dynamics and emotion of classic racing and puts it into a TV-like user-friendly viewing experience surrounded by the latest news, comprehensive racing wiki, and an engaging community integrated with the latest social networking features.

RaceFansTV broadcasts thousands of hours of licensed motorsports video programming – much of it from original TV broadcasts – streaming around the clock and categorized by racing class across 8+ channels. Enthusiasts everywhere can watch through their web browser without the need of a plugin or download. Viewing scheduled videos is free along with setting reminders to allow time to tune in. Subscriptions are available at $4.99 (3.75€) per month offering videos at 3 to 7 times better quality, two on-demand channels, the ability to pause, restart, or scroll backward or forward within a playing video, and viewing videos any time 24 hours after a video was scheduled to begin.

Licensed video programming includes: American LeMans , European LeMans, DTM, BTCC, WTCC, United States Rally, Paris-Dakar, British Rally, British Formula 3, Formula 3 Euro Series, Australian V8 Utes, Isle of Man TT, World Supermoto, World Supercross, European Truck Series, British Hillclimb, Nurburgring 24 Hour Race, Demolition Derby, Ferrari Challenge, Sprint Car, Star Mazda, Classic Open Wheel, an extensive library of documentaries, and much more.

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Formula Fun: On Board the Red Bull Simulator with Mark Webber as He Races On the Streets of Monaco

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May 252010

The custom-built Red Bull Racing simulator puts the driver on a 10-foot, hydraulically-controlled hexapod. Atop this platform is a 180 degree screen fed by three projectors, along with an exact recreation of the RB6 cockpit. All of these elements combine to create one of Formula One’s most advanced simulators.

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Formula Fun: What would it feel like to be a Formula 1 driver for a day?

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Apr 272010


I read about this Joe Saward’s excellent F1 blog called Joe Saward’s Grand Prix. Joe is a true insider and his blog is a must read if you love Formula 1. Anyhow, today he wrote about the brand new Renault F1 “Feel It” experience where you are essentially a grand prix driver for the day and does it look cool! For a mere €5,500 for the day

You will switch between driving a single-seater car, to being the co-driver in a Megane Trophy piloted by one of the teams reserve F1 drivers, before getting behind the wheel of an F1 car for yourself for 2 laps of the challenging Hungaroring circuit.Completing the day’s experience you will be a passenger in an F1 three-seater racing car to see how the professionals do it!

Obviously aimed at the well heeled F1 fan, this program sounds pretty amazing if you can afford it. Just feeling like you are part of a modern F1 team as you stand there in your full race kit must be an indescribable feeling. If you go, let me know how you enjoyed it and Renault, if you are looking for an eager motorsport blogger to chronicle the experience, don’t hesitate to contact me!

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Formula Fun: Cooper Tires British F3 Grid Girls Take to the Track in an Aston Martin!

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Apr 262010

Well this is a fine way to start a Monday! Take a ride with Cooper Tires F3 grid girls Sam and Sarah as they tour Silverstone in a stylish and fast Aston Martin!

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Friday Formula Fun: Wayne Boyd Goes Airborn at the 2009 Macau Grand Prix

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Apr 232010

Check out this footage from the 2009 Macau Grand Prix when Wayne Boyd touches wheels with his teamate and goes airborn…and walks away from it!

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Formula Fun: Huge Formula BMW Pacific Shunt at the 2009 Macau Grand Prix

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Apr 092010

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Formula Fun: Star Mazda Carnage in Montreal

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Mar 282010

Here is a wild way to start your Monday! Check out this in car video from a car narrowly escaping the carnage at the Star Mazda race in Montreal in 2006. The speed at which it happens is what is so amazing!

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Formula Fun! Check Out This Amazing Airborne Manoever by Lucas Di Grassi During the 2005 Formula 3 Euro Series

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Mar 192010

Back in 2005, Lucas Di Grassi was involved in one of the most horrendous Formula 3 accidents ever. During the season opepner at Hockenheim, Di Grassi hit the back of van der Garde, got airborne and flipped violently across the gravel and onto the top of the tires. As you can see, he walked away unhurt. German Live Coverage with commentary from Ralf Heinke and Timo Glock.

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Friday Formula Fun – The funny side of Formula One – Part Two

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Mar 122010

As a follow up to last week I just had to add part 2 of The Funny Side of Formula One to get you in the mood for this weekend’s first F1 Race of the year!

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Friday Formula Fun! Formula One Follies

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Mar 052010

Motorsports is serious business and these days with the economy the way it is we tend to be dealing with a lot of doom and gloom so every Friday we here at F1 Prospects like to lighten the mood a bit. Whether it be a funny video, picture or anecdote, if we don’t laugh at the absurdity of this business at times we might as well get out of it!

This week we present a great video called “The Funny Side of Formula One.” Enjoy!

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