I'm really into the F1. I got into it back in the '60's with Jim Clark & Lotus.
Really, for the cars. It's just amazing that they can turn the engines to 18,000 rpm.
Wow ! But the GT & Prototype cars are really interesting, too. Did you see the
Mercedes flip over at Le Mans acouple years ago ?

Ted

Dale Botkin wrote:

> Yeah..  I don't watch NASCAR, and quite frankly even though I'd love to
> *drive* an Indy car, I don't watch the 500.  Turn left, turn left, turn
> left, pit...  *yawn*.  Give me F1 -- wait, no, too many soap operas.  How
> about GT and road racing.  Yeah, that's the stuff.  And airplanes too,
> from what I've heard...  nothing as beautiful as P-51's rounding a pylon.
>
> Dale
>
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Ted Melton wrote:
>
> > You HAVE to get Speedvision ! Did you know the rest of the world doesn't race on
> > ovals ? :-) Really they have a really broad selection of racing. Also, some
> > really neat stuff from the '50's & '60's before all the commercialation (sp ?)
> > of racing. Cars with the coutry colors, not billboards.
> >
> > Ted
> >
> > Dale Botkin wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Bob Ammerman wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Perhaps 50Hz teens will tend not to be quite as stupid as 60Hz teens...
> > > > >
> > > > > I try to limit the stupidity of mine.  We don't allow MTV, VH-1 and some
> > > > > other channels into the house.  We are, of course, the world's meanest
> > > > > parents.
> > > > >
> > > > > Dale
> > > >
> > > > Nope, we are. We only have 'broadcast service' on our cable connection.
> > >
> > > We're close.  "Basic" cable service actually saved me about $.20 a month
> > > on my cable modem bill... the cable-modem discount for cable TV customers
> > > was that much more than the basic service.  They think,of course, that NO
> > > ONE could ever put up with only basic service,and will soon be spending
> > > $50 or $80 a month for full service, plus of course pay-per-view WWF
> > > <gag!>.
> > >
> > > All I want to add is a few channels, like the History Channel, A&E, CNN,
> > > Discovery Channel and maybe Speedvision so I can watch some non-NASCAR
> > > racing once in a while.  Until I can do that without twenty channels of
> > > garbage, they can keep it.
> > >
> > > Dale
> > > --
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