Comments on 'The F1 Magazine and the Internet' on F1 Insight

Comment by Craig

27/09/2007 07:46:42

I agree wholeheartedly Clive, and hopefully someone at F1 Racing has read your words. I'd like to think that Bishop's move has come as a direct consequence of our discussion - it can't just be coincidence surely ;) The internet is an amazing resource but there is something nicer about reading an actual physical publication so I really hope that the magazine can turn things around and get back on track.

Comment by Alianora La Canta

27/09/2007 12:51:01

I am convinced that the public would buy a detailed magazine that touched those areas the internet could not do, in a detail the internet reader would not be comfortable reading on-screen. (The WMSC transcripts are too long even for me to read without getting eyestrain...) One that takes into account the history of the sport to even-handedly cover the races and other occurrences within F1 in great detail. In other words, we need F1 Magazine again. Back in 2001, it used to do page-long weekend summaries for each and every team, as well as a race overview, several interviews, features of both the technical and historical aspects, and still manage to be 20p an issue cheaper than F1 Racing. Then Bernie bought it out and it became "an in-flight magazine", as one critic put it.

Comment by Clive

27/09/2007 13:10:34

Isn't it funny how, with so many of these things, the user knows exactly what is needed but the supplier stumbles around in the dark. If they weren't listening, Craig, they really ought to have been! I vote we put Alianora in as Editor. ;)

Comment by patrick

27/09/2007 18:55:51

Bernie bought it? In all honesty, no wonder it went downhill. Would you buy a newspaper owned by the government?Conflict of interest, frankly. I still think Autosport is the least worst of the motorsport magazines - though to be honest only the presence of Mark Hughes and my desire to have something tangible to read keep me buying. And the online Autosport is better. As it happens, I did a blog piece on this about a year ago: http://motorsportsramblings.blogspot.com/2006/10/write-stuff.html Its longwinded, but its actually one of the pieces I've done that I've most liked.

Comment by Clive

27/09/2007 19:13:15

An excellent piece indeed, Patrick, and it points the way forward - the internet, inevitably. I sometimes wonder whether the marketing men are right in their insistence on what the average readers wants. So often that seems to be gossip and scandal - which sell newspapers admittedly but I'd rather believe that the average F1 fan wants more solid info than that. And, as you say, these days the place to find that is the net, if you're prepared to dig around a little bit.

Comment by patrick

27/09/2007 19:36:23

...And if I was writing that piece today, F1insight would certainly be in my list of recommended websites. I've no idea if the marketing men really know what they are talking about (better watch out, my flatmate's a marketing man and I can hear the door now!) but it does seem odd that people reading a specialist interest magazine don't want anything too, well, specialist... If I had limitless spare time, I actually have the germ of an idea for a web-based motorsports magazine, but I'd doubtless lose my job and my social life in the process of setting it up, so that will have to remain in the "would have been nice if" pile.

Comment by Clive

27/09/2007 20:07:03

Thank you, Patrick. As regards the web-based mag, circumstances may change and the wise man waits for the correct moment. It may yet come - and disrupt your social life in the process. ;)

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