Classic Autolite Sportsman Challenge from Gainesville 1994 (1 Viewer)

[NYNitro86]

From Rose & Braksator (John Rose Jr's TAD) Youtube Channel

1994 GatorNationals Alky show - YouTube

I remember this episode with the Late Darrell Russell, Keith Stark with one of the commodity A Fuel Cars, Bob Sweet's Boston Strangler and much more.

 

[Dave]

I saw someone commented asking about the 1992 Summernationals Sportsman Challenge. (I think that's you on youtube?) A brief rundown. Not all events aired a Sportsman Challenge show. I know TNN used to air a sportsman edition of American Sports Cavalcade. I have part of the 1993 Atlanta show on tape. I'm not sure when the show started, but up until 1994 they only aired Top Alcohol Dragster, Top Alcohol Funny Car, and Pro Stock Bike. It was in 1994 that they started to air all sportsman finals and the Pro Stock Bikes got their own 30 minute show on ESPN. I don't think that the Summernationals sportsman ever got any air time unfortunately. I know looking at my February 1994 National Dragster it was not on the list for 1994. The TNN live shows usually included the alcohol finals as part of the NHRA Today just before the pro finals.

Also of note, in 1994 there were 19 national events (18 for points, 1 for money) and of those 19 7 were aired live on TNN and another 4 were aired on same day delay on ESPN that night. The other 8 races had anywhere from a 1 to 3 week delay. Amazing how much coverage we get now instantly over what we used to. Yet in my personal opinion, it seems the quality of that programming was much better.

 

[NYNitro86]

I saw someone commented asking about the 1992 Summernationals Sportsman Challenge. (I think that's you on youtube?) A brief rundown. Not all events aired a Sportsman Challenge show. I know TNN used to air a sportsman edition of American Sports Cavalcade. I have part of the 1993 Atlanta show on tape. I'm not sure when the show started, but up until 1994 they only aired Top Alcohol Dragster, Top Alcohol Funny Car, and Pro Stock Bike. It was in 1994 that they started to air all sportsman finals and the Pro Stock Bikes got their own 30 minute show on ESPN. I don't think that the Summernationals sportsman ever got any air time unfortunately. I know looking at my February 1994 National Dragster it was not on the list for 1994. The TNN live shows usually included the alcohol finals as part of the NHRA Today just before the pro finals.

Also of note, in 1994 there were 19 national events (18 for points, 1 for money) and of those 19 7 were aired live on TNN and another 4 were aired on same day delay on ESPN that night. The other 8 races had anywhere from a 1 to 3 week delay. Amazing how much coverage we get now instantly over what we used to. Yet in my personal opinion, it seems the quality of that programming was much better.

that was me, I remember in the National Dragster in 1992, there were episodes, including one from Montreal and I remember Englishtown in the schedule. The First Autolite Sportsman Challenge I saw was Indy in 1992 which had Alcohol and the Bikes, Some either had the Bikes or Comp.