Over the past 10 years Autosport magazine has gradually eased itself away from being a general motorsports magazine and more towards being an F1 only magazine. Rarely do other forms of motorsport make the cover these days.
I have heard the argument that putting F1 drivers on the cover sells more copies and maybe that's true, on Autosport.com other sports feature far more prominently in the "Most Read" section than their level of magazine coverage would suggest. The most prolific of these being Moto GP (even when you exclude recent events) and Rallying.
Moto GP obviously, had never really been feature of the magazine but WRC once was. Now it rarely gets a mention other than an event report, regular appearances in pictures of the week, and Henry Hope-Frosts page.
David Evans often bemoans the dearth of WRC coverage in UK press these days but when his own magazine doesn't bother how can we expect the newspapers to?
Will they bother mentioning the new BRC?
Is it time to start covering Moto GP or is that stepping on MCNs toes?
I've been buying Autosport for 25 years but to be honest I really do wonder why these days.....
Thoughts?