JGTC on Speed TV this month

[Tank]

Speed TV will be showing JGTC races on Thursday December 11 from 6pm to 7pm Central time. It will be replayed from 11pm to 12pm. Go to http://www.speedtv.com/schedule/ then click on December 11th. It's called Japanese Touring Cars in the program schedule.

JGTC(All Japan Grand Touring Championship) Is the inspiriation for the Gran Turismo series of games.

 

[SR20DET]

good looken out Tank.... i woulda missed it if it wasn't for you... imma tape it for sure...

 

[milefile]

I watched some of this yesterday around dinner time. I love these races. I don't know why they can't bump a few CRAPCAR races for this. But the hillbillies reign supreme I guess.

It's funny how they condense the race and it seems like all they do is crash.

300 kph in the straights. Who wouldn't like that?

 

[12sec. Civic]

Yah, I watched some yesterday.


For anyone interested. This year the Supras have changed from the Turbocharged 2.0L Inline-4 they have been using for the last several years (including the ones in Gran Turismo) to a 5.4L Naturally Aspirated V8!

The Skylines now use a Turbo V6, because the Skyline/G35 use the V6 now, not the old RB26 of earlier Skylines. I personally like Inline 6's more, but oh well.

 

[Pupik]

Americans don't watch much NFL Europe (do they still have that?), nor care for soccer, Cuban baseball, or even minor league stick-and-ball sports. The mere fact that NASCAR has any appeal is that the series is "all-American" and some people dig that.

Sorry, but it's still a limited audience that can appreciate anything else but oval-course racing; let alone with cars that few people own or can even buy in the USA, with cumbersome driver names that only anime fans can pronounce.

Don't get me wrong, I really wish I had SpeedChannel right now.

 

[Sleek Stratos]

I saw those JGTC races. 👍 Some of the coolest racing there is on this 'dirtball'.

 

[bigrick]

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[ShobThaBob]

I missed it, damn. I hate all the nascar stuff that they put on there. Usually the only stuff I watched on speed was the WRC, but now that its over, I watch the SCCA stuff, Star Mazda Series, and German Touring car stuff....are they going to be replaying the JGTC race?

 

[Sleek Stratos]

You're in luck Shob. 👍
They'll run some new ones on Thursday the 11th, at 7 a.m. and 12 a.m. if you feel like staying up (both are eastern times)

 

[Hell Patrol]

i saw last 5 mins of it.. sux..

I don't hate nascar i feel they put to much nascar on there. I only watch it occasionaly

I watch WRC, JGTC, Speed Touring cars/GT love it, DTM, BTC...

 

[JohnBM01]

I'm not going to say that no one cares about this racing, but American racing has been about circles and straights.

I remember E-mailing to (then, Speedvision, a much better channel (couldn't care less about planes, though. Boats are alright.)) about putting on BTCC, DTM, and JGTC action.

Fast forward to 2002, and Speed Channel is on with JGTC action. It's a 30 minute show called "On the Limit," and that's cool with me. As long as I see the cars, the tracks, and the pretty JGTC Race Queens. This year, it's more of the same, just new music and cooler graphics.

I don't know if any Speed Channel or JGTC officals take a look at stuff like this, but hear me out...

If JGTC came to Speed Channel live, seeing a live race would be as simple as watching it at... 1AM Eastern, early Sunday morning (signing("I'm easy like early Sunday morning..."). If Americans are willing to wake up at 7 AM Eastern to catch F1 (and who can?), then JGTC is as easy as not going to the nightclub on Saturday, and staying home Saturday night. I don't know when those races in Japan start, but at the most, that is about the time to stay up to see a race there LIVE. If it is midnight in Houston, Texas, it is about 3PM in Japan. And 3PM is well-recognized as a time most races either end, start, or in progress. I mean, it would boost Speed Channel's lineup of races (if they also add BTCC and DTM and British GT). I mean, Speed Channel killed Le Mans and Petit Le Mans with circle-track racing on days of road racing fanaticism (imagine how I feel). So why not bring JGTC to speed? I mean, I'm cool with a 2hr45m show every Saturday night. And circle track racing at night? Why not tape-delay? And besides, JGTC is coming to America next year, so that is another reason. My best guess, of course, is Laguna Seca. So, it is good to bring JGTC to Speed, why not up the ante? BRING JGTC TO SPEED, with at least 75% of race coverage, some live events, and don't "Americanize" it.

With that said, carry on.

 

[spaceratk]

looks like you've done it again JohnBM01, sum up exactly what i am thinking, well said.

 

[JohnBM01]

Been a month since the last post. There were some here-and-there showings of "On the Limit." If JGTC brings JGTC to Speed with tape delay or "live on Saturday nigh, replays on Sundays and Monday," it would diversify racing coverage.

One thing I'd hate to see happen is if JGTC coverage was done by NASCAR specialists. Like I could recall "Hi-Rev Tuners" when Bob Dillner did coverage of the show with "Doc" Kuhfeldt (and the lovely Thai-American roaming reporter Ann Poonkasem (http://www.annpoonkasem.com)). Anyhow, Dillner does NASCAR coverage regularly. So, I think to make things authentic, you'll need authenticity. I'm okay with Ralph Sheheen doing World Rally in this example. So in any event, why not go JGTC racing, with the best quality? Make it enjoyable to more than just us GT race fans. Educate our youth about the world of racing. So how about it?

 

[-]=Dr=[-Devil-]]

bring a Japanese in to do the coverage so its gonna be authentic..

I have to get illico... so ill get speed... but to get that its like 70$ monthly (canadian(I AM CANADIAN! )) but still...

JGTC isnt the sole inspiration for Gran Turismo that stupid and not true... Jtgc has influence on it but Polyphoni dint creat the game just for JGTC maniaks...

 

[JohnBM01]

As Kazunori Yamauchi said once, he wanted to make GT an "encyclopedia of cars." In my view, him and his team were primarily concerned with bringing a racing gamer to about as close as the gamer can get without having to be at the track, ready to compete. So where does the JGTC fall into this? Apparentely, the JGTC is the most popular aspect of the GT series. And did you notice all those JGTC cars to buy or earn in GT2? I think the Gran Turismo series helped educate people about the JGTC, more so than fishing around online until... ah! The JGTC. I think I can remember looking up the JGTC website in 1998 at high school (the Internet was free on us that day), and I heard of Toyota Supras beating their rival Nissan Skylines. The popularity rose since then, and now the JGTC is expanding to the world market. Go to the JGTC website and look for the online movie. Asia is covering the action on Asia Star or something. Europe has Sky Sports, I think. And North America has the Speed Channel. Now the JGTC is coming to America, and it will be a hell of an experience. The cars. The fans. The drivers. The Race Queens. Can you say...

WHOOO! This is going to be great!

 

[JohnBM01]

And by the way, I should have said "get a Japanese announcer good at English to do JGTC coverage." Thanks for that reply. Nice to see someone knows how to make non-NASCAR and non-oval races more interesting.