The Wonders of Modern Technology

The NASCAR Sprint Cup season is now well under way and thanks to the wonders of modern TV broadcasting and satellites I can sit at home in England and watch every race. If the race is on in the middle of the night UK time I can record it and watch it the next day. I can also do the same thing with this seasons Nationwide races. So with this in mind life is good...

This season, via the very same medium known as television I can also watch every Grand Am race, every BTCC race along with all the support races and every V8 Supercar race, all from the comfort of my own sofa! Again as a race fan life is good...

I could, if I paid the necessary monies, also watch every IndyCar Series race... But I am not able to do so.

Life as a race fan has come a long way from having to read about your favourite championships and drivers in Autosport the following Thursday.

This month is the month of May and my mind instantly focusses on the Indy 500! I was preparing myself for the dark day at the end of the month where I would miss the great race however there is now light at the end of Mays tunnel.

It has come as a nice surprise to discover that all of this years IndyCar races are being uploaded onto the modern medium known as the internet, courtesy of YouTube and the IndyCar Series themselves!

http://www.youtube.com/indycars

Even if it is available later in the week, I now have the chance to watch the great race and am looking forward to it. The new DW12 cars look good in oval spec and I hope they enable the drivers to race closer together than the old cars while also staying safe!

Thanks to modern broadcasting technology and the internet life as a race fan has never been this good...

Only problem...

Not enough hours in the day...

It's a hard life...