Help save the motorsport in Mexico

The only motorsports show on free TV in Mexico, the only one that brought deep and insight information about the worldwide racing events in Mexico and the only one with a serious and professional approach to this sport is in danger.

Momento Racing, which in 2005 has been a great support for the Champ Car World Series with exclusive broadcasts from Sebring, Monterrey, Milwaukee, Long Beach, Las Vegas, Australia and Mexico City, that has also been a great support for the Tech/PitLane Volunteer Program in Mexico and that has come to its 3rd anniversary last September aired for one hour every Monday night at 9:00 CST sadly was not aired last night.

Instead of a great motorsport show, we had a new Sports News show that spent over 40 minutes of its one hour talking about soccer, with notes that have been presented all day long on more than 7 soccer daily shows and on all sporting news spaces in Mexico in all channels. Soccer is the #1 sport in Mexico.

Momento Racing has been broadcasted by Multimedios Television in Monterrey Mexico and, according to messages presented live on the show, it has been followed live on the internet (www.multimedios.tv) by racing fans in most of Mexico, the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, England, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama, France, Thailand, Portugal, etc.

Mexico has two main free air TV corporations, Televisa and TVAzteca. Televisa broadcasts a domestic stock car series called Desafio Corona, some F1 races and some A1GP highlights, also some notes about the CCWS races in Mexico but only days before and after each one of the Mexican events. TVAzteca has the exclusive rights to broadcast the Champ Car races but only did air some races of the 2004 and 2005 seasons and some highlights of some of the remaining races that were not watched by many because they did not have any promos of them on the air. This has been a mayor complain from the race fans in Mexico.

Mexico also offers some cable and satellite sports channels in Spanish, such as Fox Sports en Espaсol that aired most of the CCWS races of 2005 but with poor quality, its commentators got to the point of saying that Bruno Junqueira was doing a great pass at the Portland and Denver 2005 races when all of us knew that he as at the hospital due to the injuries suffered at the Indy 500, some fans said that they watched the races but with no volume on the TV set. ESPN en Espaсol is also aired on pay TV but shows the IRL series and has limited exposure of other series. Speed Channel is the one with the most coverage of motorsports but is not broadcasted in Spanish in Mexico.

So the only TV show that gave the fans the most information about domestic and international series such as Easykart, Rotax, Champ Car, IRL, Formula 1, A1GP, NASCAR, Bush Series, Craftsman Truck Series, LeMans, Rally, WTC, Toyota Atlantic, Desafio Corona, Dragsters, Moto GP, G3, SuperCross, etc., with exclusive interviews with drivers, team owners, team engineers, promoters, fans, etc., is about to come to an end.

Please dont let an important part of the motorsport in Mexico die. Sign this petition and we will forward it to Mauricio Alatorre Gonzalez ([email protected]), Production and Programming Director of Multimedios Television.

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Lets save the motorsport in Mexico! Lets do it for the sport, for its future and for the fans not only in Mexico but worldwide.

Thanks!

The Mexican Champ Car Volunteers.