It's not too bad of a reality show.

There is one loud-mouth on there that is being owned by the mechanicals ....

The guy with two first names?

Damn I'm actually in the middle of watching this right now, this just spoiled it bah!

Mee too!

What show is this? I hope there is a re-run.

I'm hoping for re-runs too! Is it weekly?

When will you people learn that all things revolve around Texas, including TV schedules ...

The ballad of Ricky Bobby.

I missed it. I was t the shop working on the camaro.

kyle

In Kalifornia.....we have teknology to overkum the bias of the TV skedule......it's called TIVO.

http://www.speedtv.com/programs/473/

Forza Motorsport Showdown Coming to SPEED in February

SPEED has joined forces with Microsoft Game Studios in presenting a live-action mini-series based on Xbox 360’s new Forza Motorsport 2 video game.

Forza Motorsport Showdown, produced by Bud Brutsman of the popular SPEED reality show, Payback, is set to air February 2007. The four-episode series will be hosted by Lee Reherman, best known as ‘Hawk’ on hit television show, American Gladiator.

Each episode rigors a diverse group of competitors through a roster of competitive motorsports disciplines – drag racing, road racing, autocross and drifting – in a $100,000 winner-take-all format. Forza Motorsport Showdown is designed to be the ultimate test of high-performance driving and mechanical skills.

“These are real people, real crews and real cars battling it out for a very significant cash prize,” said Robert Ecker, VP of Programming for SPEED. “It’s a very dynamic production encompassing an incredible amount of drama and suspense. Each team and personality has to excel in every one of these racing categories to be competitive; there’s not much room for error.”

Forza Motorsport 2 is Microsoft Game Studios’ sequel presentation to its award-winning Forza Motorsport title, which debuted in 2003. This offering is expected to set new standards for high-definition gaming, customization, driving, physical and damage simulation. In addition, Forza Motorsport 2 allows gamers to collect more than 300 personalized racers and pursue worldwide competitions through its revolutionary Xbox Live gaming community.

I guess I need to pay closer attention to what Speed TV is airing...

Yeah...now the NASCAR races are all starting late enough to wreck an entire Sunday....thing will be on til dinner time. Just one more reason not to watch NASCAR!

I just got rid of the SPEED channel 2 weeks ago because the only thing good on it was PINKS! which actually sometimes was a disappointment.

Damn my cable company! Someone there should've talked me out of it!

I LOVE how the mustnag "broke" / ran out of gas

its on youtube.

The longest Forza video I could find was 2:09...

I noticed the promos a month or so ago when I was programming my new dish dvr.
Saw the post here, checked it and it was there.
Worth watching TV.
Lou sure was nervous with that 17 yr. old kid in his car.
He's on the radio to Lou "The Check Engine Light is on" while the 350z is on his butt.

The girl has her Paris face on.
Guy from Georgia's southern accent is a little much.
Was sorry to see the driver/car match ups as they were.
They put American bubbas in American iron and Asians in Asian cars.
Woulda been more interesting to mix that up a bit.
Dorky host with his sunglasses down on his nose (rides around in a 5th gen show car).
Someone never got the memo that Oakleys are out!
"Camaro Killer" mopar blows a drive shaft nearly taking the drivers right arm off (incar vid is great!).
At least it's not like Pinks with all mudstains.

jb

C'mon Jeff ... don't hold back.

I thought it was decent as well. Better than Discovery Channel's attempt.

Yeah, the host is kind of annoying.....he NEEDS to go.

I wish I could have been a fly on the wall to see the look on Lou's face when the person that was picked for him could only muster a 13.3 in a new Vette while the Mustang pulled a 12.9. Now granted the Mustang was modified but I don't think that elevation was an issue.

......he did, however, make amends in the road course to win them the President's suite.

** EDIT ** The kid actually ran a 13.17

I didin't think the host was too bad, he's definitly better than rich christianson from pinks..

Yeah, the only one that seemed to be able to drive at the drag strip was the girl who had never drag raced before. Of course, Atlanta Dragway is not the fastest track around. I was always several tenths slower there than at the other dragstrip south of Atlanta.

As for the kid making amends on the roadcourse, not really. He BARELY held of the drifter, who was in a mostly stock 350Z. If they had reversed cars you could tell the other guy would have left him in the dust easily, so really it was more the car overcoming the driver's shortcomings in that case.

I cound't find it on youtube.com either!?

I have only caught one episode of this, the first one. I think LG came in second on the dragstrip, and first on the first road course event.

I have my DVR set to record 'new' episodes, and it shows the next one is Wednesday (2/28) at 10pm CST. I believe this episode will show the autocross and drift portions of the event.

If any of you read this soon, they're re-running (I assume) the first episode right now at 9pm CST, and again tomorrow morning (Sunday 2/24) @ 3am CST.

Pretty decent show so far, and I too wanted to see Lou's reactions more

"This is a C6 with 500 miles on it, and I expect the driver to treat it as such"

Yea, if the drifter were in the vette, he woulda smoked the kid. And Im kinda disappointed in Lou, all he does is whine about what the kid is going to do to his car - he needs to stop 'reminding' the kid how young and inexperienced he is and start giving him some useful advice. He sounds like an a**.

OMG, I sound like my wife talking about a soap opera! I'm outta here --

Ok, so you would've pumped up the ego of a kid who doesn't even have experience driving a stick so he'd have more confidence in his (non) ability while driving your brand new C6? Yeah, that'd really happen.

Gushi seems to like low-probability passes. Him driving through the grass was absolutely insane.

Hmmm... I guess to me 'giving useful advice' and 'pumping someones ego' are different things altogether, but thats just me. Every single interaction they showed between Lou and that kid had Lou either ripping on him, belittling him, or threatening him. Sorry if I offended anyone by giving an opinion about Lou, perhaps they only included those scenes to make good TV, but I stand by what I said.

Maybe I came off a little too "keyboard warrior" with that post.

My comments weren't just because it's LG, but you've got a 17 yr old kid, in a brand new C6, going for a chance to win $100,000. I'm sure they put in all the parts that look good for TV, but during the "race" Lou just kept telling him to be calm, hit his apexes, and bring the car home in one piece. I can only guess he was trying to keep the kid from getting spooked with Gushi taking up space in his mirrors the whole time and trying to rattle him.

No doubt.... I hate that show and I especially hate that moron that host it.

I didn't think Forza was extremely bad..... a bit cheesy, but having Lou and Louis on it make it worth watching.

Yeah, it makes the series a lot more interesting watching someone from back home trying to make a run at it.

I think that Lou's whole point with that kid is to try and make certain that he just finishes ~ to get points

.......as, like most of us, he's just a competitive person trying to use the best what has been handed to him.

Looked to me like he missed his braking point and blew the chicane.
He was lucky he didn't hit Lou's car.
Tank slapper, if you will.

jb

I don't know. That move looked pretty intentional to me, sort of an act of desperation. I guess it's "anything goes" in the wheel to wheel driving portions??

I could only image what would have happened if that kid would have plowed LG's car.

That kid woulda beena swimmin' wiff da fishes'.

EDIT: So does Louis ever say anything?

I thought it looked suspiciously like a "Playstation GT4" move. I erased it already, or I'd go back and see if he was on the brakes.

What's the deal with these upgrades ?

Both 300Z's got brakes and turbos
The mustang got suspension and brakes
I don't remember exactly what the older cars received, but I believe they got tires and brakes.

........and the Vette gets an exhaust, hood and skirts

Seems a little biased to make for a better show to me ~ I mean, on a stock Vette, wouldn't you want better breaks and possibly shocks first ?
......as it appears that they pretty much have more HP than that kid wants to use already anyway.

I think those were LG hood, fender skirts, and splitter.

What's it matter if the kid can't use them? For being some stock car driver, this kid doesn't look like he has crap for experience. Seriously, who here couldn't light the tires on a 350rwhp 'vette? Those LG-style donuts used to cost me a lot of dough in tires even with a 200rwhp Trans Am right after high school.

looks to me like Lou is tryin to make the kid realize hes still a very big rookie and doesn't listen. and 2nd is still losing to Lou, can't have that

damn it was entertaining watchin them try to drift. did one of the year one cars go backwards on the course just to screw around?

makes me wounder that i'd probably look like that trying to drift as well... lol
I think LG driver needs to get some humility back and become a sponge for advice... maybe the whole camera thing is going to his head... who knows.

I don't know if it's just the camera...

The kid's website sounds like he's going to run for office some day, not try to drive a race car: http://www.jacemeier.com/

Wow, talk about miising the blatantly obvious ....... I guess that makes a lot more sense now


"What's it matter if the kid can't use them? For being some stock car driver, this kid doesn't look like he has crap for experience. Seriously, who here couldn't light the tires on a 350rwhp 'vette? Those LG-style donuts used to cost me a lot of dough in tires even with a 200rwhp Trans Am right after high school."

I don't know about you but IMPO I would upgrade the shocks, brakes and tires 1st with a rookie


As for my comment about him making amends, my point might not have come across as I intended, it was more to the fact that he won ~ barely but he did win. And he did pass the 350Z back after that guy made a straight away out of that one area.
......I do, however, think that 350Z (now with turbo) is going to put a "whip'en" on LG's guy on the road course ~ unless he was holding back to make the show more interesting

do we have a link yet so I can view since I cancelled SPEED a few weeks back due to boredom with Barret Jackson>>>??

Nah, good equipment (mainly the tires) can mask a lot of bad habits. I can't believe that the kid is driving hard enough that the stock 'vette equipment can't keep up. I know the car isn't god-like, but if a car with 100 less rwhp can keep up, you aren't driving fast enough to need those parts. The loose nut behind the wheel needs more work.

Is the C6 a Z51?
I know Lou is selling parts here but it's a shame there isn't another driver hanging up on that LG mods peg board display.

jb

Nah, good equipment (mainly the tires) can mask a lot of bad habits. I can't believe that the kid is driving hard enough that the stock 'vette equipment can't keep up. I know the car isn't god-like, but if a car with 100 less rwhp can keep up, you aren't driving fast enough to need those parts. The loose nut behind the wheel needs more work.

If we were talking about someone learning for the purpose of racing, I could see your point. But keep in mind that we're talking about a TV show (and no real learning curve) ~ one set of 1/4 mile runs, one set of drift runs, 2 sets of road course runs and I think 2 sets of AX runs.....that's it, you win or lose and you're done. What does masking bad habits matter in this case, he'll probably never drive a Vette again.

It appears to me that he doesn't need anymore HP ~ so why not add some things that might help his confidence with the car (ie brake fade, body roll, grip).

Let me put it this way, if you had a chance to be on TV to win $15,000 (or whatever the amount) if you came in 1st place, would you
1) want a stock car and possibly learn the limits of the car
or
2) get that same car modified and possibly test your limits
.......I know where I'd put my money.

.

That kid is blowing an opportunity of a lifetime.

I've been on the receiving end of an LG discussion.

The difference is I never thought I was Micheal Schumacher's love child

I gotta agree.

Lou seems to be a little hard on the guy....but as a 17 year old kid, you should be trying to soak up as much as you can.....his attitude S.U.C.K.S. And then, in steps the "enabler" dad...."My son has always been supremely confident...." If I was there and the kids father, instead of making excuses for the kid, I would take him behind the shop and give him a lesson in life....