Category: Too Much Racing

World of Racing: 16 Jan 2011

Links posts. Often useful, these can sometimes be seen an easy route to blogging, simply sharing what’s around as a way to have something on your own blog. Never one to shy away from stealing a good idea which lazily gives me content, I present ‘World of Racing’, my interpretation of the ubiquitous links post!

I’ve noticed many posts in this style focus on one championship, so you’ve got F1 sites sharing F1 links and IndyCar sites sharing IndyCar links, which great and these blogs do it very well indeed, but I don’t see many cross-motorsport blogs doing the same which I think is odd. Whilst it is true many fans focus on one series as their preferred championship and they might not watch all the races of other series or read the dedicated blogs/news sites, perhaps they are interested enough in other championships to watch the occasional race, catch up with a bit of gossip or read an interesting post on the topic. That’s where I hope to come in.

Let’s get started with the first set of links!

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Blog: 2010 in review

[Happy New Year! As you can see, I’ve switched to a completely different blog theme and layout, a fresh start for a new season, with bigger easier-to-read text and far less clutter on the page, not to mention I finally have a header image now! I hope you like the redesign and bear with me while I iron out the kinks and final colours etc. A similar change has been made to my personal blog to keep a common thread between my sites.
This is quite self-indulgent, apologies for that. The following stats were sent to me as an email by WordPress, it offered the option to publish it and I thought.. why not? I’m not one to crow but I’m really pleased with how the site grew in visitors over the past year, and I also thought you might be interested in the most popular posts in 2010. Thanks to everyone who stopped by in 2010 and I hope you’re interested enough to return!  I have a few other little projects to finish off and then I’ll be back to normal blogging. Here is the unedited email.]

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

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The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 16,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 4 fully loaded ships.

In 2010, there were 137 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 361 posts. There were 17 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 3mb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was May 15th with 181 views. The most popular post that day was 38th ADAC Nurburgring 24 Hours.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were sidepodcast.com, twitter.com, toomuchracing.blogspot.com, vivaf1.com, and google.co.uk.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for too much racing, 2010 alms google calendar, izod indycar, goodwood 2010, and indycar google calendar.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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38th ADAC Nurburgring 24 Hours May 2010
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2010 Race Calendar January 2010
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Game February 2010
2 comments

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IndyCar – A New Hope July 2010
4 comments

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Report: 2010 Autosport International January 2010
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Not Just F1

Somehow despite this supposedly being a blog about all forms of racing I seem to keep writing about F1 alone. My blog schedule has been severely delayed by a series of events (including moving house and my main computer needing repair).

I will soon write posts about the fantastic new-found positivity in IndyCar, the changes happening in ACO-affiliated sportscar racing, and the interesting changes in last week’s FIA World Council meeting which relate not just to F1 but to a host of other championships.

So if you are a fan of racing other than F1, please do bear with me.

My Blog Swap Post – Pruning the Feeder Series

As part of the current round of the Blogger Swap Shop, I have written about the structure – or lack of it – of the European junior series. Given how often I complain on Twitter and elsewhere about the proliferation of series, you might be surprised to find I leap to the defence of many of them.

Check out my conclusions and suggestions at The Formula 1 & Motorsports Archive.

While you are there you really should read Leigh’s Q&A with Justin Wilson as well, its good stuff in which Justin is an actual human, there’s little of the usual PR stuff drivers frequently trot out.