Statement from Coventry Racing Club:

STOCK Car racing at Coventry Stadium is to be featured on Channel 5 this season in a groundbreaking deal.

Coventry Racing Club, in conjunction with Startline Productions, have secured a season-long agreement for Brisca F1 Stock Cars to be shown in a series of eight one-hour highlights programmes.

The programmes will feature all the track action, driver interviews and the support formula.

Coventry Stadium's Jeremy Heaver said: "We have had several opportunities to get Brisca F1 back onto TV in the last few years, ranging from late night free satellite channels to live paid for sports channels.
"However none of the previous offers gave us or our paying public what we wanted. This deal gives everybody what they want, which is a highlights programme on terrestrial TV shown a few days after the event, and then a repeat for those who miss it first time round.
"The initial deal is for the 2007 season but we are confident the viewing figures will enable us to secure a longer term deal."

This is great news for the sport and I for one will be looking forward to watching the coverage on Channel 5 this year.

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Come On You Stones - Maidstone United FC
DTM @ Brands Hatch - 31st August 2008

The first scheduled programme was announced at the Coventry meeting last night. It will be shown at midnight on Sunday 29th April. A much better slot than I was expecting... And keep an eye out for some primetime trailers in the run up

The stock car season runs from April to November, with Brandon staging meetings on the first Saturday of every month.
Er....foot in mouth time....are you referring to Brandon in my part of the world, because I am not aware of a track there??

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Australian V8 Utes UK scribe.

http://www.coventrymotorspeedway.com/indexsc.htm

Sean

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Supporting McLaren and Force India in F1 and Ralf Schumacher in DTM

Thanks Sean, I could never see Brandon in Norfolk allowing such things there!!

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Australian V8 Utes UK scribe.

The first showing is now tonight / tomorrrow morning at 5.10am...

Brisca Formula One Stock Car Racing
On: five
Date: Wednesday 2nd May 2007
Time: 05:10 to 06:00 (50 minutes long)

Brisca Formula One Stock Car Racing
On: five
Date: Monday 7th May 2007
Time: 00:05 to 00:55 (50 minutes long)

Brisca Formula One Stock Car Racing
On: five
Date: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Time: 05:10 to 06:00 (50 minutes long)

There is also apparently a Saturday morning repeat to be confirmed...

It was due to be shown for the first time last Sunday, but there was a bit of a balls up with the schedule. From next month on, it will have it's first showing around midnight on a Sunday.

Have to remember to tune in when I get a chance

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Come On You Stones - Maidstone United FC
DTM @ Brands Hatch - 31st August 2008

Pretty poor effort by C5 first time out.

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Australian V8 Utes UK scribe.

Has the F1 been on again or have 5 dropped it?

Only saw one meeting