I feel the pit lane restrictions have a feel of eager over reaction about them - almost like its the excuse F1 wanted to restrict media access yet more.
Why is it F1 is so blind to the need to engage the average fan, not exclude them.
It's so disjointed. Sometimes you wait one week for a race, then its a 3 week gap, occasionally 2.
And honestly, I think there are too many races, F1 should be an event, once you go to 20 races and beyond its just too much.
20 races for me is a right number, it's the gaps. When it was 17/18 race calendar there was always 2 week gaps, except for maybe France/GB then together and then a 3 week summer break. For me this has been pointless with the 4 week summer break happening we have 2 '3 week' periods during the last couple of months.
20 races for me is a right number, it's the gaps. When it was 17/18 race calendar there was always 2 week gaps, except for maybe France/GB then together and then a 3 week summer break.
Yeah, the calendar is very stop/start and means the sport struggles to build momentum. If I recall correctly, Bernievision was actually in someways responsible for the every-other-week schedule that F1 ran in the late 90s/early 00s because they couldn't actually de-rig and re-rig the whole operation any quicker than that. The continuity and flow it brought to the season was a nice side-effect.
It's so disjointed. Sometimes you wait one week for a race, then its a 3 week gap, occasionally 2.
And honestly, I think there are too many races, F1 should be an event, once you go to 20 races and beyond its just too much.
I agree it's disjointed but disagree about the number of races. As a non sky f1 subscriber, relying on bbc coverage makes it feel even more disjointed. It just doesn't feel proper.
More races the better i say, one every week if possible please. Never get enough F1.
Looks like its heading to 24 at least, Journalists wont like it, but its more content for media. Teams will need two sets of mechanics to cover it all without burning out, but thats good for the industry.
It's bad news all round if true but completely and utterly predictable. The BBC for all their 'The only place to watch F1' spiel has fallen out of love it seems with the sport, it takes up far too much of their live scheduling.
Does it? Others than the few live primetime races I would have thought the BBC schedulers would appreciate having new available content to show in the daytime. Free practice is now on bbc2 because someone thought it was better than repeats that make up the rest of the weekday daytime schedule. Weekend daytime schedule has a fair few repeats in it too, would be interesting to see how quali and race viewing figures compare to what bbc1 shows on non race weekends.
If this rumour is true, I can only see it being for financial reasons, I don't think live f1 is preventing the BBC showing any other content.
More races the better i say, one every week if possible please. Never get enough F1.
Looks like its heading to 24 at least, Journalists wont like it, but its more content for media. Teams will need two sets of mechanics to cover it all without burning out, but thats good for the industry.
I'm like you in that the more races the better (eg I'm frustrated by this 3 week break which will then be followed by a 4 week break). However, I don't know about 2 sets of mechanics etc being good for the industry. Teams are struggling financially as it is, without having to fork out even more money for basically a second team (this is why they stopped constant in season testing, because of cost, and the need of having 2 teams basically). Plus even if you do that, what about those in the factory (if there was to be say 25 races and 8 days of in season testing, the pitcrews etc could switch, but what about those in the factory, they surely wouldn't get any break, as obviously between races, cars go back, get stripped down, built back up again, repainted, etc, so more races/testing means more work for them without a break).
When you see what Ted was wearing in practice as a sop to safety you saw rather how much of a wind-back it was from the original ban everyone ruling. Kneejerk? Er, yes.
I know. I was able to record FP1 but BBC appear to have messed up the Freeview 301 EPG info since I double-checked the timers yesterday and it didn't record FP2. They have corrected the FP3 slot error but I have set a locked timer for that just in case. I was planning to listen to FP1 and FP2 in the van while working tomorrow morning.
I'm like you in that the more races the better (eg I'm frustrated by this 3 week break which will then be followed by a 4 week break). However, I don't know about 2 sets of mechanics etc being good for the industry. Teams are struggling financially as it is, without having to fork out even more money for basically a second team (this is why they stopped constant in season testing, because of cost, and the need of having 2 teams basically). Plus even if you do that, what about those in the factory (if there was to be say 25 races and 8 days of in season testing, the pitcrews etc could switch, but what about those in the factory, they surely wouldn't get any break, as obviously between races, cars go back, get stripped down, built back up again, repainted, etc, so more races/testing means more work for them without a break).
Think its a done deal on 2 teams and the factory works flat out anyway, so nothing new there.
Admittedly it will be financially difficult for the smaller teams, but thats F1. Keep up or go do something else, as Bernie would say.
Crofty and Ted mentioned a principals meeting with Bernie, all around the concorde agreement.
Ted said they issued a statement that said they set out a framework for implementation of the concorde agreement.
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Today I just got logged out Mid-FP3 & although I can sign into the sky website it won't let me log into the race control stuff (Thats actually happened 3 other times this year).
The TV interactive stuff continues to be flawless & I gather the ipad feeds never have issues, Just the online website which is frustrating since thats what I use :mad:
Its 2013, How hard can it be to provide an online streaming service that actually works?
Sent an E-mail to sky so maybe it will actually get looked at & improved, Not holding my breath though.
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Why is it F1 is so blind to the need to engage the average fan, not exclude them.
20 races for me is a right number, it's the gaps. When it was 17/18 race calendar there was always 2 week gaps, except for maybe France/GB then together and then a 3 week summer break. For me this has been pointless with the 4 week summer break happening we have 2 '3 week' periods during the last couple of months.
Yeah, the calendar is very stop/start and means the sport struggles to build momentum. If I recall correctly, Bernievision was actually in someways responsible for the every-other-week schedule that F1 ran in the late 90s/early 00s because they couldn't actually de-rig and re-rig the whole operation any quicker than that. The continuity and flow it brought to the season was a nice side-effect.
Once you get to 20 it's all much of a muchness if it's 20, 21 or 22, really.
I agree it's disjointed but disagree about the number of races. As a non sky f1 subscriber, relying on bbc coverage makes it feel even more disjointed. It just doesn't feel proper.
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but wouldn't the BBC still get half the races live if more race events were added to the calendar?
Correct.
Looks like its heading to 24 at least, Journalists wont like it, but its more content for media. Teams will need two sets of mechanics to cover it all without burning out, but thats good for the industry.
Now there was a series with the best one make single seater cars on the planet that was mismanaged by a terrible concept.
What happened to those cars, I wonder?
Does it? Others than the few live primetime races I would have thought the BBC schedulers would appreciate having new available content to show in the daytime. Free practice is now on bbc2 because someone thought it was better than repeats that make up the rest of the weekday daytime schedule. Weekend daytime schedule has a fair few repeats in it too, would be interesting to see how quali and race viewing figures compare to what bbc1 shows on non race weekends.
If this rumour is true, I can only see it being for financial reasons, I don't think live f1 is preventing the BBC showing any other content.
I'm like you in that the more races the better (eg I'm frustrated by this 3 week break which will then be followed by a 4 week break). However, I don't know about 2 sets of mechanics etc being good for the industry. Teams are struggling financially as it is, without having to fork out even more money for basically a second team (this is why they stopped constant in season testing, because of cost, and the need of having 2 teams basically). Plus even if you do that, what about those in the factory (if there was to be say 25 races and 8 days of in season testing, the pitcrews etc could switch, but what about those in the factory, they surely wouldn't get any break, as obviously between races, cars go back, get stripped down, built back up again, repainted, etc, so more races/testing means more work for them without a break).
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I can't - although you'd only be getting commentary anyway as it is a Sky exclusive weekend.
Think its a done deal on 2 teams and the factory works flat out anyway, so nothing new there.
Admittedly it will be financially difficult for the smaller teams, but thats F1. Keep up or go do something else, as Bernie would say.
Crofty and Ted mentioned a principals meeting with Bernie, all around the concorde agreement.
Ted said they issued a statement that said they set out a framework for implementation of the concorde agreement.
This was yesterday's error accompanied by the frame rate regularly going from a steady 25fps down to 15-19fps with jittery video/audio:
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The TV interactive stuff continues to be flawless & I gather the ipad feeds never have issues, Just the online website which is frustrating since thats what I use :mad:
Its 2013, How hard can it be to provide an online streaming service that actually works?
Sent an E-mail to sky so maybe it will actually get looked at & improved, Not holding my breath though.
Getting back to actual TV coverage, FOM are giving us 'Race Facts' now. Kinda interesting I guess.
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