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Scottish Motor Racing gets more Motors TV coverage
 Scottish
Motor Racing to
benefit from expanded Motors TV coverage in ‘09 . Motors TV will again
be the exclusive home of Scottish Motorsport in 2009 after series
organisers renewed a deal that sees the Channel expanding its commitment
to no less than 26 hours of coverage throughout the year.
The burgeoning Scottish scene produced some of the best club action to
be found anywhere in the UK last season with its mix of close racing,
competitive pricing and full grids proving a hit with teams, drivers and
fans alike. In recognition of this, and their commitment to hosting the
“Best of British Motorsport”, the High Speed Television Channel has
added an extra hour’s coverage per round to its 2009 line-up.
The country’s showpiece championship, the Scottish Mini Cooper Cup, once
again tops the bill and will benefit from an hour of coverage for every
one of its eight rounds which include trips south of the border to
Cadwell Park and across the Irish Sea to Kirkistown.
- Wednesday evenings from 6pm.
It’s joined once again by the Scottish Legends series, a championship
for hot-rod lookalikes, which also gets an hour’s dedicated programming
for each of its six races.
Meanwhile, the Ford championships have also been confirmed for a return
with an hour scheduled per round for the ever-popular Scottish Formula
Ford 1600 and XR2 Fiesta campaigns, the latter joined this year by the
model’s newer ST version.
The final one hour programme caters for touring car fans old and new
thanks to both the Scottish and Classic Sports and Saloons championships
where the usual array of panel-bashing and paint-swapping should be in
evidence.
Motors TV’s Head of Programming and Acquisitions, Frederic Viger said,
“Over the last few years we’ve been concentrating on expanding our
coverage of national and regional series. We found that last season’s
Scottish Motor Racing content was particularly well received, mainly
because it covers championships that would usually get little or no
exposure. So successful was it in fact that we’ve decided to go down
this same path again and expand our Scottish coverage for 2009 which
represents a key piece in Motors TV’s ‘Best of British Motorsport’
jigsaw.”
The retention of the Scottish club scene is just the start of Motors
TV’s plans to showcase the “Best of British Motorsport” in 2009 with a
flurry of new additions set to be announced shortly.
The Mini Cooper Cup kicks off this season’s Scottish coverage on
Wednesday, 15th April from 6pm.
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