In this ground-breaking new TV series you get to watch the first ever motorcycle racing game show where two brothers and two friends take on local challengers on the best racetracks from Canada to California.
Each episode has an interesting twist when the team challenges 10 local riders to a hot lap contest. The fastest rider who beats our team’s best lap time gets a ticket to the Grand Finale for a chance to race and WIN a FREE bike!
In addition to the main storyline of the two brothers racing, the show has a season-long story arc with travel editorial about a dream pilgrimage to race track Mecca’s of yester-year, including each track’s unique history and current special features.
HOT LAP is a first person adrenaline spiked tale, told by a likeable cast, as they travel the most famous race tracks – throwing down the racing gauntlet for the fastest lap.
The show is filmed as unscripted reality TV and mixes motor-sports tourism, fast paced racing action, an interesting cast of characters, intense competition and real danger with dramatic victories and defeats. HOT LAP is designed to appeal to all motorsport and travel enthusiasts.
Season one is being billed as ‘Canada to California’; season two is ‘L.A. to London’.
HOT LAP is designed to emulate characteristics of other highly successful shows in the motorsport genre such as “The Long Way Around” and “BBC’s Top Gear”. We recognize Europe as one of 3 primary markets for this show, so we’ve included a large segment of the UK’s best tracks – to be featured in season two.
1 day ago – HOT LAP, the motorcycle racing reality TV game show is pleased to confirm Jordan Szoke as its newest cast member. Szoke will be appearing …
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Bob Scholten, RDS Racing partners with HOT LAP
for California Episodes
Dec 31, 2011 (Toronto, Canada) – Congratulations to Bob Scholten of RDS Racing, California USA – Bob has been named “The Official Ambassador of All Challengers” by the producer and host of HOT LAP Andrew Shaw.
Bob Schotlten and RDS Racing are helping co-ordinate the track arrangements for the California group of race tracks scheduled for the grand finale episode of HOT LAP, the new Reality TV show.
Bob was actually the first challenger ever to sign up for HOT LAP, which now boasts over 500 registered riders. California is currently open for riders to register as challengers on the show…READ MORE
Saturday, December 09, 2011 (Toronto, Canada)- Today at the Toronto Motorcycle Show HOT LAP announced Jordan Szoke as its newest cast member. Szoke will be appearing as Team Coach and Technical Advisor for the production, which starts filming at the most famous racetracks across North America in 2012.
“HOT LAP is a great concept for a motorcycle television reality show,” says Jordan. “I am looking forward to coaching the team to win on the most challenging race tracks in the world.” READ MORE
Monday, November 14th, 2011 (Toronto) – HOT LAP, the new reality television game show that pits amateur sport bike riders against a cast of amateur track day riders is pleased to announce a media partnership with one of Canada’s largest online motorcycle forums, GTAMotorcycle.com. HOTLAP and GTAMotorcycle.com are cross promoting the TV show and rider community to manufacturers, enthusiasts and potential sponsors at the December’s Toronto Motorcycle Show, Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Furthermore, HOTLAP and GTAMotorcycle.com are both attending the International Motorcycle SUPERSHOW at the International Centre in Toronto, January 6-8, 2012 during the filming of the HOT LAP launch event. READ MORE
Monday, September 26th, 2011 (Toronto) – Every amateur sport bike rider longs to see how far he can push his motorcycle and his own skills. A new television show, HOT LAP, gives amateur riders a chance to race at ten of the fastest tracks in North America. Featuring amateur riders the series is the first motorcycle racing game show where challengers race for the fastest lap of the day to win a ticket to attend the season grand finale episode. This unscripted reality TV production launches production at the North American International Motorcycle SUPERSHOW in January 2012.
“We are very excited to be working with the SUPERSHOW on the launch of HOT LAP,” says HOT LAP producer and host Andrew Shaw. “There is no better venue to premiere our exciting new TV production than at North America’s largest motorcycle show! Visitors can also join us at the HOT LAP booth throughout the three-day event and apply in-person to be selected as a challenger during season one.”
In each episode of HOT LAP, the challenger with the fastest lap will win a ticket to the main event at Laguna Seca, California, where ten finalists will compete for the title of season champion and a chance to win a bike and to join the show as a cast member. HOT LAP is being released as a multi-part broadcast series for television, a sports travel documentary and streaming video series.
“HOT LAP is like a cross between the hit BBC series ‘TOP GEAR’ and a motorcycle racing game show version of ‘AMERICAN IDOL’ – it’s sure to be a hit!” says Andrew.
The casting call will take place at the North American International Motorcycle SUPERSHOW, the continent’s largest motorcycle show. The 2012 event boasts the 36th year the show with everything to do with motorcycles under one roof. The SUPERSHOW runs from January 6-8, 2012 at the International Centre.
To see the media kit and promotional video: click here.
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Media contact:
Dani Stern, Publicist
DS Publicity Group
(416) 457-3475
dani@dspublicitygroup.com
Our film productions group has started shooting a TV series called HOT LAP, filming in 2012. The 13 episode broadcast series is the first motorcycle racing game show where challengers race champions for the fastest lap of the day. This unscripted reality TV production is filming at 13 locations across Canada and the United States – at the world’s fastest race tracks.
Every episode, the challenger with the fastest lap will win a ticket to the main event to be hosted at Laguna Seca, California, where 10 finalists will compete for the title of season champion and a chance to join the show as a cast member.
HOT LAP is being released as a multi-part broadcast series for television, a sports travel documentary and streaming video series. The show’s social media outlets will be used to alert and attract local riders to our various track events all across the country – inviting them to attend and participate in there local area. The TV series has been designed to leverage social media in the motorsports community.
We are launching the production and filming the premiere episode live in January 2012 at North America’s largest motorcycle expo, the International Motorcycle Super Show, Jan 6,7,8.
Please join us at the motorcycle super show in Toronto – and be a part of the live filming event to be featured in episode 1. We will be holding a casting call event for North Eastern USA and Central and Eastern Canadian riders to register for a chance to appear as Challengers in season one.
This is worth watching, it is a really good educational piece from the TED conference on what it means to stand out in todays market. Watch this for a great background on marketing your products in the ‘broken TV days’ and how to get your selling message out with tools like social media, and influencing people to buy or talk about your products & services.
On January 12, we [Google] announced on this blog that Google and more than twenty other U.S. companies had been the victims of a sophisticated cyber attack originating from China, and that during our investigation into these attacks we had uncovered evidence to suggest that the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights activists connected with China were being routinely accessed by third parties, most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on their computers. We also made clear that these attacks and the surveillance they uncovered—combined with attempts over the last year to further limit free speech on the web in China including the persistent blocking of websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Docs and Blogger—had led us to conclude that we could no longer continue censoring our results on Google.cn.
So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected toGoogle.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk. Due to the increased load on our Hong Kong servers and the complicated nature of these changes, users may see some slowdown in service or find some products temporarily inaccessible as we switch everything over.
Facebook has caught up with Google for traffic. Is this a sign of the impending tech singularity? Notice that Google hasn’t dropped, but that Facebook just arrived at the same level? I truly believe this to be empirical evidence of the shift in how mankind is consuming media in a new and totally different way. No wonder traditional media channels are suffering such huge losses…
