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Post by Aaron Drever on Dec 25, 2008 23:11:55 GMT 12
In the 90's Larry Rice would host a weekly Midget car show on ESPN..... Do you remember it at all, I think it feature Brett Horribin when he raced up their in the 90's....
Has anyone got any footage at all? or can remember this?
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Post by SprintCar Crazy on Dec 26, 2008 9:05:03 GMT 12
im pretty sure it was called saturday night thunder
it had jeff gordon on it when he raced midgets sleepy tripp etc nd im sure Brett Horribin was on it a couple of times
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Post by pallmall on Dec 26, 2008 10:06:23 GMT 12
I taped a huge number of ESPN USA open wheel shows from Eurosport and Skysport when I was living in England through the early/mid ninties. I have hundreds of VHS tapes sitting in a cupboard, but haven't had time to go through and sort them out or even look at them in years.
The Thunder series showed some great racing, sometimes it was Wednesday Thunder, or Friday, or Saturday. For me I hated the midgets running on pavement, and I can only recall ever seeing one meeting from the 16th Street Speedway, and a Bellville show featuring Midgets on dirt. The USAC (wingless) sprintcars were pretty good on pavement though.
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Post by Aaron Drever on Dec 26, 2008 10:16:18 GMT 12
I taped a huge number of ESPN USA open wheel shows from Eurosport and Skysport when I was living in England through the early/mid ninties. I have hundreds of VHS tapes sitting in a cupboard, but haven't had time to go through and sort them out or even look at them in years. The Thunder series showed some great racing, sometimes it was Wednesday Thunder, or Friday, or Saturday. For me I hated the midgets running on pavement, and I can only recall ever seeing one meeting from the 16th Street Speedway, and a Bellville show featuring Midgets on dirt. The USAC (wingless) sprintcars were pretty good on pavement though. There is a place where you can convert Tapes to DVDS - Pallmall and you could sell them..... I will buy a copy |
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Post by pallmall on Dec 26, 2008 10:33:17 GMT 12
There is the large issue of Copyright in regards to selling them.
I will look at converting them to DVD, and will gladly give you copies, wont be for a while though I am afraid.
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Post by Aaron Drever on Dec 26, 2008 10:42:49 GMT 12
Pall Mall all that stuff you must have you need a big shed or display you should put all your old things from Speedway in a book and publish it Old articals, pictures etc etc
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Post by johnf on Dec 27, 2008 10:22:13 GMT 12
Aaron when Pall Mall goes into his library it takes him 2 days to get to the other end.
I can' t promise but I'm sure I still have some ESPN stuff will have a look but it may have gone. If it is where I think it is it will need cleaning.
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Post by wayne on Dec 27, 2008 22:44:20 GMT 12
i have heard espn are coming to nz to film the teams champs at palmy , this year coming to suss it out and then film next year, do they still play any of the american racing on there anymore? www.digitiseitnow.com is a website for anyone wanting to convert video to dvd and greg is a motorsport man |
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Post by DTM1 on Dec 27, 2008 23:07:22 GMT 12
Brett Horrobin wasnt the only Kiwi who featured on the ESPN coverage,Carl Olsen also featured and if anything he had more coverage than Brett as he also competed on the asphalt as part of the USAC National Series,as opposed to just the Western States shows that Brett and most Kiwis who headed to the USA at the time focused on.
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