More 2012 dates added, WEC and LMS series!

The Motorsport Calendar App has been updated, current version now 0.9.7.1. It has undergone a performance improvement a general tidy up and 2012 dates added as they are confirmed and published by the relevant championship organisers.

For 2012 we also promise extra improvements above just adding the 2012 dates... Stay tuned! These are planned for inclusion in the first few months of next year.

It may be necessary to do a Cache clearance after installing the latest version, to pick up all of the updates correctly.

Weekend in Motorsport (19/20 October 2011)

We start this week with the Los Angeles Motor Show, and the pre-launch of the future trackday hero the Subaru BRZ which is claiming to be impressively lightweight for a car from a mainstream manufacturer.



The NASCAR boys are down in Homestead, Florida where it seems bringing ice into the grandstand is a capital offence.

Looking Forward... Event of the Week
The East African Safari Classic Rally starts in Mombasa ("...in a bar room drinking gin") before a hoard of classic rally cars head around Kenya and Tanzania (including the lower slopes of Kilamanjaro and wildlife havens of the Ngorogoro Crater).

Don't forget to support the excellent Micro-Finance cause being promoted by Race4Change.



Looking Even Further Forward...
The FIA World Endurance Championship 2012 calendar dates have been announced (visible on your favourite Android application shortly) with the headlines seeming to highlight the absence of the Petit Le Mans from the schedule.


Also across the pond, could this be the first good looking Daytona Prototype?


Looking Back...
It goes without saying that everyone who's seen an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard knows the origins of NASCAR racing are the back roads of Moonshine country.


One of the better pieces of journalism on the subject is Tom Wolfe's legendary story "Last American Hero" chronicaling the life of Junior Johnson. It is available alongside the eponymous tale of custom car pioneers 'Big Daddy' Ed Roth and George Barris in the Kandy-kolored Tangerine-flake Streamline Baby



If I Won the Lotto This Week, I Would Buy...
A Hunton XRS43 Powerboat, as featured in the very poor film Sahara.


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Weekend in Motorsport (12/13 October 2011)

The Lame Duck F1 season heads to Abu Dhabi this weekend and no-one will care when Seb Vettel roars off into the distance . The only interest the weekend could generate is if any 2012 driver line-up rumours emerge.

Another Not As Good As It Used To Be event is the Rally GB in Wales. The current "TV Friendly" weekend WRC rounds are a pale imitation of the week-long marathons of the past. The MSC Crew as motorsport obsessives will argue to anyone who'll listen that a return to lengthier events would work perfectly now fans have access to modern tools such as online timing, videos and social media such as Twitter. Armchair fans can follow the progress of rallies from their office desks or mobile phones and then catch up on nightly highlights online or on tv before the final stages are broadcast live on a weekend. This will allow A Story to build and interest to be generated by chatter on forums etc.



Looking Forward... Event of the Week
The ILMC is in China this weekend for a 6hr race. With China becoming a major market for auto makers expect it to feature on every worldwide series calendar from now on.

The good people of Audi TV will be broadcasting video of the whole race which can be combined with excellent commentary (and forum discussion) from Radio Le Mans and (free!) reportage from DailySportscar.com.

The race takes place in the early hours of Sunday morning for those of us in Europe.

Looking Forward... 2012
As the supermarket shelves start filling with mince pies and discounted booze it is time to look forward to 2012. The Motorsport Calendar Android Application's next release (available on the Android Market shortly) will include the first batch 2012 dates for series such as F1, Grand-Am, British GT and the Le Mans 24hrs. As more dates are officially announced by series in the New Year and these will be added to the application, so keep downloading the new versions as updates appear on your phone.

The first event of 2012 is The Dakar Rally which is again in South America rather than its traditional home of North Africa. The 2012 route takes in Argentina, Chile and Peru.

The truck category has a large number of Dutch entrant and the leading De Rooy team have launched their 2012 challenger and updated website: http://www.dakar-derooy.com/2012/

Looking Back...
Porsche's annual Rennsport Reunion IV at California's Laguna Seca raceway is a celebration of their long and glorious racing heritage.



Porsche Announcement of the Week...
Whilst Audi and Peugeot have contested the headline class in ACO regulated events in recent years the traditional sportscar battle has always been Porsche vs Ferrari. The Maranello Mob have had the advantage recently but Porsche's 2012 911 RSR should redress the balance: Story and Pictures from SpeedHunters.com

If I Won the Lotto This Week, I Would Buy...
An ice driving course with the The Tuthills.



The Last Word...
Motorsport Commentator Paul Truswell has written an excellent piece on why (in his words) Sportscar racing is more worthy than Formula One.

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Weekend in Motorsport (5/6 November 2011)

Looking Forward... Event of the Week
The Motorsport Calendar's local event the Tempest Rally takes place amongst the army's various pieces of woodlands in the north eastern Hampshire area.

Looking Back...
Back in the '79-'80 season 12 British BMW dealerships ran identical BMW 323i's, all prepared by Tom Walkinshaw Racing in a one make series in support of the Aurora F1 series. Pedalled by a stellar cast of drivers (vaguely associated with the county 'sponsoring' each car) including Martin Brundle, Win Percy, Mrs Needell's boy Timothy, Frank Synter and Derek Bell.



Good Cause of the Week...
Raising money for MicroFinance projects, Race4Change will be running a Tuthill prepped 911 in the East African Classic Rally in a couple of week's time. Microfinance is an excellent way of empowering communities and a modest donation goes a long way to improve people's lives.



Mandatory Porsche Videos of the Week...

Fatlace TV x RAUH-Welt BEGRIFF : Idlers Documentary from Luke Huxham on Vimeo.

The Racer's Group: 2011 Finale from TRG on Vimeo.

If I Won the Lotto This Week, I Would Buy...
An Alpina B12.


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Weekend in Motorsport (29/30 October 2011)

Another dark week for motorsport fans, so we begin with a Tribute to Marco Simoncelli.



Looking Forward... Event of the Week

The Formula One circus heads to India for the first time. RedBull have marked the occasion by driving on the World's Highest Road.



Looking Back...

The Bridge to Gantry site has another interesting video from the VLN series at the Nurburgring, this time featuring former Ring-Taxi pilote Sabine Schmitz 'enjoying' a lap in the rain.



Competition of the Week...
James Allen has yet another excellent prize on offer on his well respected site.
Win a go in an F1 Simulator.

If I Won the Lotto This Week, I Would Buy...
A Unicat truck and drive to Cape Town via the scenic route.



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The Motorsport Calendar App, 2012 beckons

Fear not MSCers! We are collating the dates for 2012. Included in the current release (updated in the official Android Market) are the Le Mans 24 heures, the Le Mans Classic and the Formula One dates for 2012. These are the only Motorsport dates that are currently confirmed. Once other Championships confirm their dates the App. will be updated.

Weekend in Motorsport (22/23 October 2011)

After a difficult, soul-searching week for the motor racing community, it is right and fitting to firstly link to Marshal Pruett's tribute article to Dan Wheldon

To lighten the mood before getting back to business, here are some low brow motoring themed music videos from Mighty Car Mods off of Australia and then the Rubberbandits off of Ireland.





Looking Forward... Event of the Week

Dan Wheldon was due to co-drive in the Gold Coast 600 in another classic V8 Supercars event where series regulars are paired up with a Who's-Who of Top Name International Drivers. Darren Turner takes Wheldon's seat.

Looking Back...
Ginetta had mixed fortunes at the recent Britcar 24 Hours, bonus points for spotting The MSC crew loitering in the background on the grid walk.


Porsche have wheeled out another decent video detailing their well documented trip to Siberia in the moderately unsuitable Cayenne.


If I Won the Lotto This Week, I Would Buy...
A Motor Boat with Helicopter Engines.

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Weekend in Motorsport (8/9 October 2011)

Shop!

This weekend could well be the busiest weekend of televised motorsport of the year, so stock up on beers and snacks, clear a space on the sofa and fire up the Sky box.... (All Times in British Summer Time (GMT+1))

First up on Saturday morning is Qualifying for the Formula One from Japan (BBC1, 05h00-07h30)

(Vaguely Related Video)


Then it's up all night for the highlight of the Australian motoring year, the Bathurst 1000

Featuring some familiar names to northern hemisphere fans such as Wimbledon's David Brabham and Denmark's Allan Simonsen.

Qualifying Highlights, Preview and Live Race Coverage on MotorsTV (Sky413) from 20h50 through to 07h30.

(Vaguely Related Video)


The last British winner was TheMSC's hero Winston Percy in 1990.


Sunday, of course, could (should?) be the conclusion of the F1 driver's championship if Seb Vettel keeps it shiny side up at the Japanese Grand Prix. (BBC1 06h00-09h10)

Those still awake can digest their luncheon whilst following MotorsTV (or living streaming on the web) again for more live racing from the Blancpain Endurance Series from Silverstone. Featuring GT3 class cars including the McLaren MP4-12C the race is sharing the bill with British GT and Formula 3 (both races also live on MotorsTV).

(F3 Race 1 - 11h20-12h00 Race 2 - 16h00-16h55, BlancPain - 12h00-15h35)

If I Won the Lotto This Week, I Would Buy...
An Art Morrison Corvette.

On the subject of Corvettes, this week's video of the week is a trailer for The Quest

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Weekend in Motorsport (01/02 October 2011)

We're approaching the end of the motor racing season here in the northern hemisphere, but there's another action packed weekend ahead of us.

This week's main events are the Petit Le Mans from Road Atlanta and the Britcar 24 Hours from Silverstone.

The PLM sees the stateside return of Audi and Peugeot after sitting out most of the ALMS races this season.

Axis Of Oversteer: Lap Road Atlanta with BMW's Dirk Warner

Also returning to the driving seat is former Le Mans GT2 winner Justin Bell. He's normally to be found at ALMS races as SPEED tv's pitlane pundit but will be joining the AF Corse team to pedal their GT-class Ferrari.

Bell has long been a contributor to the online videos at Jay Leno's Garage and has just started a new series of videos for eBay Motors entitled World's Fastest Car Show.

Silverstone in October is usually a wet and windy affair but the UK is currently experiencing a bit of an Indian Summer so this weekend's Britcar 24hrs will be a sun drenched affair for a change.

Previous runnings of the race have seen length Safety Car periods and even Red Flags overnight due to mist and fog, so perhaps this year will see an uninterrupted run from Flag-to-Flag.

To remind yourself of last year's event, check out the following lengthy documentary:

MJC Ferrari & the 2010 Silverstone Britcar24 Hours from Chris Simpson on Vimeo.

If I Won the Lotto This Week, I Would Buy...
It's a twofer this week. Having just returned from a couple of week's in Africa I'm still dreaming of roaming the dark continent in a 70-Series Land Cruiser. This makes a nice contrast from cruising the urban jungle in an opinion splitting bandit Porsche 356.

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Weekend in Motorsport (17/18 September 2011)

Now then Sportsfans,

Goodwood revival is the pick of bunch. It's a complete sell out, no general admission tickets are available. From the website "An unusual form of pedal power will take to the famous Goodwood motor circuit at this week’s Revival when the Baker Boys RAF Bicycle Display Team ride on the track in perfect formation.". It promises, as always to transport race goers back to the sixties. They are also celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Supermarine Spitfire - "On Sunday 18^th September up to 12 Spitfires will take to the skies with a spectacular display as the Band of Royal Marines and RAF Choir perform on the motor circuit and airfield below."

Aussie V8 Supercars visit Phillip Island, Melbourne for a 500 kilometre race. It sees the start of the 'Endurance Season' where the 28 regular drivers team up with a co-driver.. Which should promise to mix things up a little!

Indycar is visiting the Motegi circuit in Japan. Can Will Power complete a hat trick of wins after topping the podium at Baltimore & Sonoma? "More than 420,000 pounds of cargo and 1,525 tires shipped to Japan, where it's unloaded at Twin Ring Motegi"

DTM returns back to Germany, after racing at Brands Hatch, and goes to Oschersleben. "In the past three years, the previous championship leader never succeeded in winning at Oschersleben. While the winner of the Oschersleben round always secured the title, in the end: Timo Scheider in 2008 and 2009, Paul Di Resta in 2010." Which should make things interesting as the top two are separated by a single point! Audi have unveiled their new A5 DTM car, at the Frankfurt Motorshow, which looks fast.

I don't read many of the motorsport magazines, but have been reading "No Angel". For those who don't know it's a biography by Tom Bowers about Bernie Ecclestone. It covers a period from his early childhood right up to almost the current day. It is a gripping and enlightening read, which attempts to shed light on what makes Bernie the man he is.

Videos of The Week
Lancia Delta S4 Bergrennen Hillclimb DTM BMW M3 Subida Oberhallau 2005 - Porsche 935 - Gruppe B and IndyCar Motegi Jeff Simmons Flip


If I Won the Lottery This Week, I Would Buy...
A Noble M12, saw one of these recently, understated excellence. Again, a few available on Pistonheads. They represent amazingly good value for money!

As always all of the aforementioned Race Series are available in the Motorsport Calendar App from the Android Market, Slideme.org and the Amazon App Store.

Weekend in Motorsport (10/11 September 2011)

Morning Sportsfans,

Topping the bill for this weekend is The Le Mans Series & International Le Mans Cup at Silverstone. 6 Hours of proper racing, featuring some of the same vehicles that muscled their way around La Sarthe, for the Endurance Race.

F1 is back, after the summer holiday, while Truckosaurus (your usual motorsport blogger) is trekking up Mt. Kilimanjaro on his summer holiday, the F1 circus rocks in to Monza. One of the proper old circuits still left on the calendar, admittedly it's been a bit ruined over the past few years (thanks Max!!) but it is still the fastest circuit on the F1 calendar. There was a little controversy surrounding the tyres and cambers being ran at Francorchamps a couple of weeks ago, see the James Allen on F1 blog for great insight into the tyres and other F1 related ephemera. F1 is joined by GP2 and Porsche SuperCup.

NASCAR is at Richmond, sponsored by Wonderful Pistachios 400... I kid you not!

Super GT is at Fuji, from their site "A turmoil race means keep your eyes on GT-R fleet"

I don't read many of the motorsport magazines, but have been reading "No Angel". For those who don't know it's a biography by Tom Bowers about Bernie Ecclestone. It covers a period from his early childhood right up to almost the current day. It is a gripping and enlightening read, which attempts to shed light on what makes Bernie the man he is.

Videos of The Week
Graham Rahal vs Safety Truck IZOD Indycar... at the start of the race!! Le Mans Legend Henri Pescarolo finally got given back his team and produced a win at Le Castellet!! Henri, Henri, Henri! As F1 is at Monza, here is a superb video of the 1972 race, featuring Emo.

If I Won the Euro Lotto (126M GBP!) This Week, I Would Buy...
A TVR Sagaris, lush! A handful for sale on Pistonheads. Omnomnom!!

As always all of the aforementioned Race Series are available in the Motorsport Calendar App.

Motorsport Calendar App, now available on the Amazon App Market

Following on from the Motorsport Calendar being available on www.slideme.org it has also now been approved and is available on the Amazon App Market.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005IQRAIQ

Amazon review and comprehensively check each App before it is allowed to be published on their market. It should also allow for Apps to be used on Windows machines (7 onwards) once Bluestacks is openly available.. http://www.bluestacks.com/ !!

The Motorsport Calendar App, now available from slideme.org

As we strive to give our users more choices and options we have made our App available here http://slideme.org/application/motorsport-calendar-free Some Android device owners don't have access to the Android Market and we felt that it was important to ensure that these owners were able to benefit from our App!

The main Android App Market will always be the location to find the most up-to-date release of the Motorsport Calendar, but we will continue to roll out the App to other sources, if we feel that they offer real benefits to users.

Weekend in Motorsport (20/21 August 2011)

Morning Sportsfans,

Topping the bill for this week is The American Le Mans Series from the Road America circuit at Elkhart Lake in Wisconsin.

Former Bentley Boy Guy Smith seems to be topping the time sheets in practice in his Mazda engined Lola.

The race will be shown live on MotorsTV in Europe, on ABC in the States and online at espn3.com and on the ALMS website.

Another series that is pioneering online coverage is the SRO's European GT3 series, with GT1TV complementing MotorsTV and the Bloomberg news channels output. This weekend the series is debuting at the SlovakiaRing outside of Bratislava. Slovakia is not normally a country that we'd associate with motorsport, but a quick glance at a map shows the circuit is located neatly between the neighbouring capitals of Budapest and Vienna as well as being not a million miles from Brno across the border in the Czech Republic. Dull fact of the week: Slovakia builds more cars per head of population than any other nation due to manufacturers such as VW and Kia setting up new factories in the country since its entry to the EU.

Slovakia also has links to Skoda and this week saw EVO magazine's Richard Meaden taking a modified Octavia vRS to the Bonneville salt and hitting 214mph.

Videoes of The Week
A recent Gareth Jones on Speed podcast featured Gaz taking a few laps of Goodwood with the 2nd Nicest Man in Motorsport, Austin Kinsella in a Merc SLS. (The Nicest Man in Motorsport is, of course, Win Percy).

If I Won the Lotto This Week, I Would Buy...
A De Tomaso Magusta.

Lastly, as previewed last week:

Fatlace TV x RAUH-Welt BEGRIFF : Nakai-San from Luke Huxham on Vimeo.

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v 0.9.6 Now available from the Android Market

The App has been updated to include more circuit information. In addition the memory footprint of the Motorosport Calendar App has now been greatly reduced. In v 0.9 we started noticing that a small handful of users were getting App Errors due to memory and bitmap handling. The layout for 320x480 resolution devices was updated, to align it with the newer display of information.

If you do suffer an Android Error and are able to report it, please let us know the handset that you are using and Android OS version, as this helps us to troubleshoot problems raised.

Many thanks for the continued support, we are gaining new users every day! Work has commenced on updating the data for the forthcoming 2012 season, which will be added to the Free version of the App.

Weekend in Motorsport (13/14 August 2011)

I trust we are all well.

First up this weekend is Grand-AM and NASCAR from Watkins Glen in upstate New York.

United Autosport's Mark Blundell talks about the event to SPEED tv's John Dagys:



And let's not forget, Blundell has a history of being Any Good in a sportscar:



As always there is a very strong British presence in the Indycar series in New Hampshire (state motto: Live Free or Die) with Testing Timesheet Topper Dario Franchitti being joined by part-season entrant the fragrant Pippa Mann and three other British drivers (Mike Conway, James Jakes and Alex Lloyd).

If I Won the Lotto This Week, I Would Buy...
a big arsed RWB modified 911 from Japan.

RAUH-Welt BEGRIFF Teaser from Luke Huxham on Vimeo.

Finally, a tale about a dream car that reminds us that motorsport is not all sweetness and light.

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v 0.9 Now available from the Android Market

We've now added 120+ circuit maps to the App, so that when selecting a race event you can see what the circuit looks like. In addition to this information we also give the circuit length and a URL to the official website of the race circuit selected.

There will be a couple more updates and then we will create a Paid For version which will add more functionality to the existing free functionality. The Free version will continue to exist and will be updated, but may not gain all of the functionality of the Paid For version.

Please keep the feedback coming, it really helps to get a feeling for how the App is being used.

Weekend in Motorsport (6/7 August 2011)

Now then.

We'll begin this week with looking back at last week's action. An eventful Spa 24 Hours saw the pace setting McLaren suffering a Very Heavy Crash in the opening hour, leaving Audi to take victory from BMW.

The chaps from Ingolstadt kindly documented their weekend for those of us not lucky enough to have made it across the channel.

QUALIFYING
BEFORE THE RACE
THE RACE - PART 1
THE RACE - PART 2


This weekend's Stateside action brings us Indycar and ALMS from Mid-Ohio and NASCAR at Pocono, PA.


Here in the UK it's the return of the BTCC from their summer break. This week's race will be at the revamped Snetterton circuit in Norfolk. The MSC team attended the Lotus Festival at Snet earlier this year and can confirm that the new layout is very spectator friendly with a number of very large viewing mounds (including one that is probably the highest point in the whole county) giving an excellent view of the track.

The Honda Racing team have created a video of their BTCC exploits that will be release later this month to coincide with the Knockhill round, the home circuit of driver Gordon Sheddon. TRAILER

Whilst we're in a BTCC mood, I came across the following video from 1986 featuring Southampton Football Club's leading celebrity fan and former Radio One disc jockey and helicopter crasher Mike Smith.

If I Won the Lotto This Week, I Would Buy...
a Morgan 3-Wheeler

...and Finally:

The excellent "SENNA" movie is now available to PRE-ORDER. If you haven't yet seen the film then you really should. The mixture of archive footage and the contrasting styles of Murray Walker's gentle english commentary versus the frenetic Portuguese of the Brazilian commentator make the story come alive for even the most cynical of motorsport fan.

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Weekend in Motorsport (30/31 July 2011)

Ahoy MSCers,

This weekend's motorsport action focusses on the Ardennes and the Spa 24hrs.

The headline entries come from McLaren's three GT3 versions of the new MP4-12C which showed good pace as invitation entries to the recent British GT round at Spa.

Most established teams such as United Autosports have star names such as Mark Blundell, Johnny Herbert, Arie Luyendyk, Eddie Cheever and Stefan Johannson in 3 Audi R8s battling factory backed R8s driven by amongst others Mike Rockenfeller who was last seen with his R18 in pieces against the armco on the Mulsanne.

Photos of the event build up available from Endurance Info

F1, of course, continues its march around the globe, having been at the Nurburgring last weekend in the rain.

Just imagine if they had the bottle to run on the old north loop, it might look something like THIS

My other favourite video of the week was the one to accompany Dickie Meaden's EVO magazine article on testing the latest iteration of the Porsche 911 in South Africa

Finally, please keep us informed if you find any bugs or quirks with the MSC app. One of the advantages of the Android platform is the wide range of devices that can run the software so it is possible that some issues only affect certain types of phone or tablet or a specific version of Android.

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0.8.8 now released!

An issue where the App Force Closed on device restart, or cold boot has now been resolved! No more errors, apologies that it's taken so long to resolve this issue.

When viewing all Events for a Series, past Events are greyed out, as per the All tab.

v 0.8.7 Now available on the Android Market

The latest version of the App is 0.8.7.

This includes an updated tablet version, which provides a landscape view of the App. This version also supports increased resolution devices, up to 1280x800.

Minor bug fixes have been applied and some data has been updated, for instance the Britcar round at Donington Park which has now been cancelled.

We are continually striving towards updating the App, to improve it's use, function and form. Quite soon it should be completed, giving Event information which will include circuit maps of each circuit.

Sometimes, if upgrading from a significantly older version of the App, users may experience problems. In these circumstances we recommend clearing the cache of the App. In all cases this has resolved the issues.

Coming soon, calendar integration (paid for App only) and filtering by Month and Circuit!

We will be updating the App for the 2012 Motorsport calendar as dates are announced. This will be included in the free App.

If you like the App please tell others, if you don't like it, for whatever reason, please tell us! We are listening to user comments and integrating them where technically feasible.

v0.8.5 of TheMSC available on Android Market

The latest version of The MotorSport Calendar is now available on the Android Market.

Due to modifications to the application's internal database this update will clear any favourites users had stored, so these will have to be re-added.

This change, whilst inconvenient, will make the application more stable and allow future database changes to be made without impacted user's stored favourites.

On the good news front, the application now lists the popular Japanese SuperGT and Formula Nippon series.

Have a good weekend!

Latest News on The MSC

Updates to The Motorsport Calendar Android App are still coming thick and fast.

We're now upto v 0.8.1 so visit the Android Market on your phone (select MyApps) to make sure you're up-to-date.

Coming Soon: diary dates for Japanese series like SuperGT and Formula Nippon.

We're also on Twitter @MsportCalendar

v0.7 available on Android Market

An updated version (v.07) of The Motorsport Calendar is now available from the official Android Market.

https://market.android.com/details?id=torquesoft.themsc

This version contains some small cosmetic updates based on initial user feedback, so keep sending in your views via the email link

The app is being picked up by 3rd party application sites, but these will always have a slight lag compared to the official app store.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/the-motorsport-calendar-free/torquesoft.themsc

Don't forget to subscribe to this blog or our Twitter Feed to keep upto date with changes.

The Motorsport Calendar LIVE on the Android Market

The Motorsport Calendar app is now live on the Android Market.

https://market.android.com/details?id=torquesoft.themsc

Create a list of Favourites by long clicking individual items or long clicking whole series. The Favourites list is used to generate Notifications 7 days before the event starts. Remove individual items from the Favourites list by long clicking an item. Remove all items from the Favourites list by using the button on the fourth tab.

When a user exits the application they will be returned to the tab that they were viewing when they exited.

Full calendars for all manner of motorsport events from around the world.

American Le Mans Series
Australian V8 Supercars
British Touring Cars (BTCC)
Britcar
British F3
British Formula Renault
British GT Championship
British Superbikes
DTM
Dakar Series
Euro F3
FIA GT1 World Championship
Formula 1 (F1)
Formula 2
Formula BMW Talent Cup
GP2
GP2 Asia
Grand Am Series
Indycar
Intercontinental Le Mans Challenge (ILMC)
Le Mans Series
MotoGP
Nascar
Porsche Supercup
Le Mans 24 hours (24 Heures du Mans)
WRC
World Series by Renault (WSR)
World Superbikes (WSB)
World Touring Cars (WTCC)

Screenshots and Launch Date

The Motorsport Calendar Android application will be launched on the Android Market as a free download on Saturday 9th July 2011 (the day before the British F1 Grand Prix).

We can also show for the first time a couple of the screenshots from within the application.

The Series List shows the comprehensive range of national and international series the application covers. The user can click on a series name to view the complete series calendar and can also choose to add individual events or the whole series to their Favourites List.



The Events List shows the complete calendar of events for the season, again the user can choose to add specific events to their Favourites List.




As not every user will be interested in following every single event that The Motorsport Calendar supports the Favourites List can be customised to only list events and Series users have selected. Of course events can be just as easily removed from the Favourites List.

The Motorsport Calendar Android App... Coming Soon...

We soon plan to launch a Motorsport Calendar for Android devices.

The application will detail events for the following national and international series.

American Le Mans Series (ALMS)
Australian V8 Supercars
British Touring Car Championship (BTCC)
British Endurance Championship (Britcar)
British F3
British Formula Renault
British GT Championship
British Superbikes
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM)
Dakar Series
Euro F3
FIA GT1 World Championship
Formula 1
Formula 2
Formula BMW
GP2
GP2 Asia
Grand Am Series
Indycar
Intercontinental Le Mans Series (ILMC)
Le Mans Series
MotoGP
NASCAR
Porsche Supercup
Special Events
World Rally Championship (WRC)
World Series by Renault
World Superbikes (WSBK)
World Touring Car Championship (WTCC)

Running on Android 1.6 onwards and screen resolutions, 320x480, 480x800 (240 dpi)
and 480x800 (160 dpi) allowing use on phones and tablets.

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