Comments on: Rain, Rain – Go Away http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/rain-rain-go-away/ Speed is Life Sat, 18 May 2013 18:58:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: NaBUru38 http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/rain-rain-go-away/#comment-7003 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:21:11 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/rain-rain-go-away/#comment-7003 One question for Randy. Several countries currently lack any IndyCar race coverage, be it on free or paid television or internet streaming. Yesterday, ESPN’s announcer “announced” on Twitter that they would only show 5 more IndyCar races in Hispanic America (the same as ABC in the US). The others would be shown on Speed, which hasn’t announced anything on their website or Facebook page for Alabama. Speed costs extra money in most places, whereas ESPN is one of the leading sports networks in the region alongside Fox Sports.

The question is: how can IndyCar let these countries have such little or no converage? How are fans prevented from watching practice and qualifying outside the US? How benefits from this, when there is no alternative for fans other that watching illegal internet streams that can’t be measured like an official streaming and don’t sport local advertising as networks like ESPN do?

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