It seems that the media coverage of MotoGP especially has ratcheted up a notch.
When I was a teenager, it took forever to get race results from Europe. You had to wait months for a glossy magazine to show up in the mail, and even then you were lucky if it had more than just straight results. The couple of column-inches devoted to a report often left more questions than it did answers. Fast-forward to the Internet age, and results are instantaneous. With live timing and social networking sites, you can get lap-by-lap updates and commentary from people on the scene, and you can watch most racing live via streaming video. The amount of information about a race event available even while it’s happening is almost overwhelming. A seemingly infinite number of blogs and news sites issue reports, and the riders, teams and manufacturers all publish their own versions of what happened. Many riders even tweet or post on Facebook their own updates over the course of a race weekend.
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