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[ensign14]

That compares with 155,584 for Woman's Weekly.

A Woman's Weekly has other uses though, per Victoria Wood.

[lukestanton91]

Has there been any word on exactly when the first edition of the 'new' Autosport will launch?

Edited by lukestanton91, 20 January 2025 - 15:39.

[VWV]

Has there been any word on exactly when the first edition of the 'new' Autosport will launch?

I think later this week, Jan 24th.

[lukestanton91]

Cheers! 

[Roryswood]

I hope its launched on the 25th January the date Autosport was published on , I understand that some writers of long standing will not appear in the new publication

[Dick Dastardly]

Autosport email to subscribers says it is due out on the 23rd, this Thurs.  Price will be £6.99 per issue though that could be the subscribers cost rather than the on the shelf price.  . 

[GLaird]

I would have thought it might have been publicised a bit more in the run up....

 

I stopped buying after 35 years, a while back, but certainly I will give it a try.

[Alan Lewis]

The Xmas double issue - i.e., the last ever weekly one - also said 23rd. Presumably to keep the same Thursday publication day.

I may or may not be in Newcastle that day so we'll have to see whether I buy it then or later.

[JohnH]

Thanks for the date info , been wondering when this new issue appears, and I am expecting my GP Racing sub to roll over into it. I get it on iPad. 

[Sterzo]

I haven't seen information on how they'll treat subscriptions after the merger. There must be plenty of people with existing subs to both the magazines, plus households where one person subscribes to Autosport, and another to GP racing.

[nexfast]

I just renewed my subscription of Autosport at the same price as at least 2018.My main interest is access to the Forix database, I never open the digital edition and just kind of plane over the daily news. Understand, of course, that the published written word had to adapt to the digital era. I no longer have to wait for the weekly to arrive to tell me who won the Indy Car, the NASCAR or the Argentinian Turismo Carretera races. Since I am not British my interest in local club racing was next to nil, it was the international flavor that Autosport possessed that was it main attraction. So, now the articles cannot be about the events, rather the context and the backstage stories, thus the move to a monthly might not be a bad step. Just my two cents.

[JohnH]

It just got here on IPAD. I am very impressed. Terrific job combining both mags. 162 pages! Next one is only a few weeks away on Feb 13!

[blackmme]

It just got here on IPAD. I am very impressed. Terrific job combining both mags. 162 pages! Next one is only a few weeks away on Feb 13!

Yep, I was a GP Racing subscriber and the iPad App has updated and I’m now an Autosport (Powered by GP Racing) subscriber….

Quick flick through and I think they’ve done a very good job.

Physical copy should be here today or tomorrow and I’ll look forward to it.

 

Regards Mike

Edited by blackmme, 23 January 2025 - 07:28.

[Alan Lewis]

It's quite chunky. "Posher" feeling paper as well.

(There's probably a technical publishing term for it, but I'm just an 'umble software developer).

Edited by Alan Lewis, 23 January 2025 - 11:16.

[john aston]

It's a slick , nicely designed production ,and much better value than the weekly had become. As I expected, its focus is on the stuff which is on TV - mainly F1 , but also WEC , WRC and BTCC  . There's a some text on national and historic racing , but it feels desultory. But it deserves to succeed with its target audience, it's just that I'm not part of it , as I prefer two pages on the Pomeroy Trophy to ten pages of noodling about F1 .      

[Fred Gallagher]

I’m disappointed they didn’t use the opportunity to do more than just a “merge” of the two titles. 
 

I feel Motor Sport will be relieved.

[lukestanton91]

I’m really pleased with how it’s turned out. I feel like it’s a change for the better. The quality and heft of it really stood out for me.

The only down side is that it took some finding - though this isn’t exclusive to the new monthly format, as finding places that sell it became quite a challenge during the last 18 months of the weekly format too.

 

Well, it was in this part of Shropshire anyway!

Edited by lukestanton91, 28 January 2025 - 17:55.

[Sterzo]

I think we should bear in mind is that it is the off-season in the UK, and the mix of content may well change when racing restarts. I did find the "National" section interesting. Maybe that'll expand a little when there's more happening.

[Sterzo]

...and while past performance is no guarantee of future results, the current website does include such promising stories as: "Thick fog leads to Mallory Park Plum Pudding event being abandoned".

[moffspeed]

I was impressed by edition 1 but will have to see how it evolves.  I think if it becomes modern-day F1-centric I will end up ditching A/S rather than M/S though. It might hinge on which publication resists the temptation to have 16 pages dedicated to obscenely expensive watches every month. That's what did for my Octane and C&SC subs….

 

I was paying £14.99 quarterly for the weekly edition, so just over a £1 a copy - that seemed like a seriously good deal. I'm now paying £6.99 per copy on sub - just £1 discount on the cover price. I e-mailed the nice lady at A/S and told her this seemed a bit tight - I pointed out that my subscription record ran from when Fittipaldi first started racing. The answer was a bit blunt for a good-natured & harmless OAP like me. Basically - "well you know where the unsubscribe button is mate".

 

Maybe she thought I was referring to Pietro and not Emerson.

[john aston]

But neither has 16 pages a month about watches. On the odd occasion when there is more than a page or two , it's a supplement. I am not interested in watches, but neither  concours d'elegance nor auction results  interest me  much. As far as cost is concerned  , when  you can pay a fiver for a Starbucks coffee,  £7 or £8 doesn't seem unreasonable. Think of it as four or five 1st class stamps . 

 

I like magazines and always have done. Since the internet everyone seems to want free copy,  and I suspect  the increased prices reflect lower sales , in turn caused by people now wanting something for nothing. I've met plenty of motoring journalists , but I doubt if any of them were big earners....  Whenever I met Simon Arron , he was in a well patinated Punto.    

Edited by john aston, 30 January 2025 - 06:49.

[Dick Dastardly]

I was paying £14.99 quarterly for the weekly edition, so just over a £1 a copy - that seemed like a seriously good deal. I'm now paying £6.99 per copy on sub - just £1 discount on the cover price. I e-mailed the nice lady at A/S and told her this seemed a bit tight - I pointed out that my subscription record ran from when Fittipaldi first started racing. The answer was a bit blunt for a good-natured & harmless OAP like me. Basically - "well you know where the unsubscribe button is mate".

 

I was paying £14.99 every 4 weeks for 4 issues.....they took that amount earlier this month, I queried this given the change in frequency of issues, they replied saying it covered the next 4 issues [Jan - Apr inc], heard since that my next DD will be £6.99 from early May onwards.

[PJayBe]

I am very interested in the next issue to see what coverage the Grand Prix get in the magazine.

[john aston]

The new Autosports podcasts are welcome. In addition to F1 pod staple ,  there's now national and retro pods as well .