[alfa] re: Victory by Design

[Joe Elliott <jee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I saw the Alfa and Maserati shows too (but I couldn't record them to 
DVD like I did the Jag show because my satellite signal was screwed 
up and I had to watch it elsewhere).  I was pretty disappointed, both 
in the Speed Channel presentation, and in the show itself.  For one 
thing, the 76 minute Alfa show was condensed into an hour on TV (yet 
they had time to repeat it a week later, followed both times by 
repeats of the Maserati show), yet the 52 minute Jaguar show, got a 
2-hour block.  (So TV viewers missed the SZ, TZ, and I forget what 
else.)  But the show totally didn't include anything about sedan 
racing, despite the 156 racking up 7 consecutive championships in the 
same series (in name, anyway) that the GTA won in the '60s, and the 
success of the 155 in '90s.  What really made me furious though was 
that there was no mention of the GTV-6 winning that same European 
Touring Car Championship manufacturers' title 4 times or whatever it 
was, although the Jag program mentioned the success of the XJS in 
that series and even included footage of XJS's racing against 
GTV-6's!  And to add insult to injury, deCadenet even made the 
explicit claim that Alfa hadn't won anything since the '77 World 
Championship for Makes or whatever.  When did the ETCC stop counting, 
and why did it still count in the '80s for Jaguar?

-Joe
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