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This week is the end of Speed Network as we know it. It is being rebranded as Fox Sports 1 on Saturday. It is losing a good number of motorsports shows. Speed Center and Wind Tunnel have already been confirmed to be on the chopping block. I am not sure what everyone else thinks about the fact we are losing the best way to follow all motorsports.
What does everyone else think about the end of this era?
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If previous FOX F1 coverage is a preview, .
It was disappointing enough to see the team of Varsha, Hobbs, and Matchett broken up when NBCS took over F1 broadcasts, I don'y have very high hopes we'll go upwards from there.
I can't believe they killed Wind Tunnel. I really hope someone picks it up. That was the best show they had IMO. Speedcenter was pretty good, too. Like dbbd said, we don't need more stick and ball coverage. Though I will say Speed has gone downhill. I hated the pinks all out, south Bronx parts, and all of that other crap. They even tried pimp my ride for a short time last year. Now I guess it's just victory lane after the race, but they mostly rehash the stuff I heard on the post race telecast and I can't stand Kenny Wallace.
This is just another sign that motorsports is becoming more of a niche with the baby boomers getting older and my generation (I'm 17) not being into cars/racing that much. All I ever hear about is football and basketball with them.
Oh well. Their coverage of F1 sucked, the MotoGP coverage sucks, WSBK is non-existant, wayyy too many crappy shows, NASCAR over and over and over....
The channel sucked. FOX can't do much worse. It sucks that we now have ANOTHER stick and ball channel..but oh well. I don't think it will be very successful for them.
IMO, Fox had the opportunity to turn this into a real Gear Head channel and have blown it.
I grew up on motorsports. I start watching mud bogs, truck and tractor pulling and monster trucks in the crib and saw Days of Thunder by the time I turned 4. There are a good number of younger motorsports fans too that I see at motocross, NASCAR, stadium super trucks and monster truck events. I will say it is lower post-recession (but name a sport that hasn't really had a drop.)
I am mad about the programming they are dropping. I can deal without Stacy David Gearz and the car shows that I think are syndicated. I liked My Ride Rules and the early episodes of Dumbest Stuff on Wheels (before they went cute with the graphics) but I think could use some more well rounded sport coverage. However, I wish they would balance it with current coverage of motorsports including SpeedCenter and Wind Tunnel.
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Now I guess it's just victory lane after the race, but they mostly rehash the stuff I heard on the post race telecast and I can't stand Kenny Wallace. 
