Car FYI

Photo Credit: Chris Nagy/Car FYI Canada After a brief hibernation from auto racing, March brings forth a full motorsport awaking. While NASCAR season is a few weeks old and the Rolex 24 at Daytona kicked-off the start of sports car racing, we welcome an all-new Formula 1 and NTT IndyCar Series schedule for 2019. With the latter organization, we were left waiting news on the network and channels we can anticipate watching the 17 races of this year. With only 5 days remaining before the green flag dropped, news of the Canadian broadcast package was announced leaving me to quote Vito Corneone from The Godfather in inquiring to Sportsnet, Rogers Communications as well as the open wheel racing sanctioning body. “What have I ever done to you to treat me so disrespectfully?” I ask as a longtime motorsport fan eager to watch a new year of IndyCar competition without major obstacles. Sadly, the so-called broadcast deal made between Sportsnet and the NTT IndyCar Series equates to a slap in...

Almost a year has past since Canadian car enthusiasts were delivered the awful truth that  Speed channel would no longer be brought into our cable-connected homes . Since Speed had degenerated into a channel consisting largely of repeated broadcasts, the only loss came with the broadcast of some motorsport events and the Barrett-Jackson auction. While 2014 dealt a raw deal to the motoring faithful in this country, 2015 is granting us an immediate sense of invigoration. This week, one of those programs lost to Canadians is airing with cooperation of a brand-new broadcast partnership with Discovery. Early in 2015, Canada has yielded one reward of this pairing as Discovery World and later the main Discovery channel is delivering Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction coverage to us above the 49th parallel . Additionally on Tuesday (ahead of Discovery World's first broadcast of the auction), it was announced Canadians will feel a sense of velocity...

Starting this Monday in Scottsdale, Arizona, millions of dollars in rare and exotic vehicles will be changing hands with the drop of a gavel. For 2015, the 44th Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction will provide bidders the chance to acquire vintage vehicles dating back to a 1903 Ford Model A , a brand-new first production unit Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang  and countless customized or modified cars. As much as the Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction is coveted by car buyers with large bank accounts, the event provides the public with a sight of some cars we rarity ever observe. Barrett-Jackson regularly sells general admission tickets to their auctions just for car gazers. For those unable to flee to the usual warmth of Arizona, television viewers have been presented with treat of watching the Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auctions for multiple hours of live coverage on Speed. From 1997 to 2014, the car auction emerged as one of the ...