Podcast “La Tuerca Criolla” una herramienta de investigación en deportes automovilísticos

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to make motorsports in Ecuador visible through the radio podcast format called La Tuerca Criolla, which narrates the history, characters and challenges of motorsports in the country. At the same time, an analysis of the current Ecuadorian motor racing is made, where the situation of this sport with the media today is evidenced, and the relationship between the podcast and sports is studied. The research has been carried out from a qualitative approach and as a main tool we used interviews to experts on the subject of motor racing, podcast and sports media. A pre-production stage is carried out to make the scripts, then it goes to the production stage where the episodes are recorded and the interviews are joined and finally the post-production stage in which the effects are added or the sound errors are edited. This podcast makes a compilation of relevant information about motor racing in Ecuador by important characters and exposes them through 5 episodes. The first four episodes narrate the history of motor racing, the modalities that are practiced in the country, the most important race and the basic rules of this sport. The last one is the life story of Susana Pilca, the first woman mechanic, co-driver and pit boss in Ecuador. She is currently the president of Alfa Club and organizer of automobile events. The interviews conducted in this work place orality as the main communicative process for the production of the podcast. All the information gathered evidences the lack of programming focused on motorsports, and at the same time shows the relevance of the work to make motorsports visible, which does exist in Ecuador.