F1 Coverage - The Verdict: 2013 Season

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  • User68571User68571 Posts: 3,901
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    Jonpollak wrote: »
    Thanks for taking the time to detail your trip Ms.McNabb.
    I can't say you are wrong in your impressions outside of a few Texas skewed issues.
    But I'm gonna have fun with it anyway..



    Jp

    Completely off topic I know....but are we justified in being this miserable???

    I've been to the USA a few times and somethings I loved, others I didn't. I will confess to having a hideous craving for vegetables when I got back! As much as I love steak etc I got too much having that and burgers day in day out. But we were in tourist mode so I accept we probably overlooked alot!!

    I'm really keen to go and see ALMS at Road Atlanta, infact I'd love to go there for a season and do Sebring, Road America, Lime Rock, Mid Ohio and COTA. I really fancy the big motorhome BBQ weekend thing, I do get frustrated at the coldness of some our natives.
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    gomezz wrote: »
    It worked even better when they showed the actual time gap between each group of riders. Something they seem to have abandoned this year. :(

    LOR
    PED
    +5.3
    ROS
    DOV
    CRU


    for example

    Did they?
    I'm sure I saw a very similar tower information graphic as they came over the start/finish line on Sunday. The time gap was in a white block under the last rider in the group.
  • gomezzgomezz Posts: 44,507
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    I am pretty sure that all I saw on Sunday was a divider between each group. Will have a look at my recording and check that out later.

    Edit: Ah yes, they did use the gap version of the tower display occasionally. Of course they lost timing altogether in the middle of the race.
  • F1KenF1Ken Posts: 4,229
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    Completely off topic I know....but are we justified in being this miserable???

    I've been to the USA a few times and somethings I loved, others I didn't. I will confess to having a hideous craving for vegetables when I got back! As much as I love steak etc I got too much having that and burgers day in day out. But we were in tourist mode so I accept we probably overlooked alot!!

    I'm really keen to go and see ALMS at Road Atlanta, infact I'd love to go there for a season and do Sebring, Road America, Lime Rock, Mid Ohio and COTA. I really fancy the big motorhome BBQ weekend thing, I do get frustrated at the coldness of some our natives.

    :D

    When I skimmed across the pond in the days of Concorde(Oh what an amazing, beautiful thing :cry:), on a humble business trip. I found the yanks to be puzzling. particularly this one man. He was having a problem making this part for a cruse missile (so no biggie). The poor simpleton could not understand the drawing. I tried to help out and the reply was "Wow are you Scottish!" I replied " No, I'm civilised! :D" And he didn't get the joke ,he said "where's that in England?". To which I had to explain. He said "You British are great at crap jokes!".

    I giggled and left the pitiful excuse for a man to drown in his own stupidity.

    Apart from that and working in INCHES!!!!! :mad::mad: It was fine. :)

    Travelling on Concorde was the best though.

    I wonder if that bloke was JP! :D

    Ken
  • TrinitronHDTrinitronHD Posts: 581
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    Jonpollak wrote: »
    Thanks for taking the time to detail your trip Ms.McNabb.
    I can't say you are wrong in your impressions outside of a few Texas skewed issues.
    Hey, anywhere that serves breakfast waffles in hotels in the shape of the state has to be respected! You're right about Texas thinking it's the centre of everything though. I was there in January and didn't have much problem finding decent food that wasn't covered in cheese (!) or full of corn starch. But then most of it was Mexican :) Or cooked ourselves.

    You can spot those who haven't experienced the USA much when they think a 3 1/2 hour drive from Dallas to Austin is long! Of the two, Austin has a lot more character and the street carts serving food are superb.
  • JonpollakJonpollak Posts: 2,552
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    Completely off topic I know....but are we justified in being this miserable???

    I've been to the USA a few times and somethings I loved, others I didn't. I will confess to having a hideous craving for vegetables when I got back! As much as I love steak etc I got too much having that and burgers day in day out. But we were in tourist mode so I accept we probably overlooked alot!!

    I guess you ARE justified..
    After hundreds of years of being oppressed by the government, the class system and socialism gone wrong I too would look at the world with a jaundiced eye.

    I took part in a media manipulation seminar around 15 years ago and was amazed to find that the British were the easiest to convince of anything via newspapers and TV.They said the trust placed in media here was all consuming.
    There was one chap who told us how the media actively sought to create a culture of distaste for anything foreign, especially American, and fostered a kind of comforting in all things homespun so as to keep the proletariate happy with their horrid lot.

    It seems to have worked.

    However...

    I always rejoice at coming home to gorge on the fruits and veg here.I spent my teenage years as a vegetarian and there were plenty of great tasting fruits and veg. When I won the foreign exchange lottery at UCLA to come to England to study theatre I was absolutely blown away by the depth of taste and fullness of the produce.When we moved to Italy in the 80's my taste buds were sent into ecstasy and never recovered. Sadly, today America has the worst tasting F&V in the world. but it's like I said..Agri-Business has ruined it all for us with their poisoning of everything they touch.


    Ok, enough with the cross cultural observations already..

    :yawn:
    Jp
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 22,309
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    Jonpollak wrote: »
    Ok, enough with the cross cultural observations already..

    Cross-cultural observations and the merits of different timing system graphics.

    Sounds like a normal day in the life of THE VERDICT thread to me :D
  • stefmeisterstefmeister Posts: 8,390
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    Classic F1 Bahrain 2006/07/08/09 been added to the SSF1 schedule next Tues/Wed. Im guessing 2010 will be shown on Thursday.
  • JonpollakJonpollak Posts: 2,552
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    I feel I owe some broadcasting info..:cool:
    USA GETS AN INTERNET STREAM...better late than..
    I'll wait until judgement is prudent and offer THE VERDICT when I see it.
    Maybe?.
    Jp
  • pakokelso93pakokelso93 Posts: 11,018
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    Classic F1 Bahrain 2006/07/08/09 been added to the SSF1 schedule next Tues/Wed. Im guessing 2010 will be shown on Thursday.

    'Classic' and Bahrain... eh... ;):p
  • dansusdansus Posts: 2,559
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    Sky giving out free NowTV passes like candy, just need a picture worth watching now.

    pm me if you would like one, i have no use for them.
  • stevvy1986stevvy1986 Posts: 7,061
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    Have there been any classic races at Bahrain? If they do show 2010, oh dear, that was absolutely slaughtered as one of the worst races in a long time. I'd much rather they'd have gone for races at a former track. No doubt races like Singapore will just show each of the 5 races there's been there, or Abu Dhabi where they'll probably just show the last 4 races there as there's only been 4.
  • stefmeisterstefmeister Posts: 8,390
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    stevvy1986 wrote: »
    Have there been any classic races at Bahrain?
    There has been some good races at Bahrain, In fact I'd say the only really bad races held there were 2009/2010.

    2004 wasn't bad, 2005 was pretty entertaining as was 2006/2007 & 2008 was fairly good as well.
  • DanielFDanielF Posts: 2,006
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    Anyone know when the fourth and fifth episodes of the BBC4 show Motor Racing at the BBC are on? Seems to have disappeared this week and it's annoyingly not had a series link on it...
  • gomezzgomezz Posts: 44,507
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    My series link picked up the 4th episode last Monday and the 5th and last episode next Monday.
  • DanielFDanielF Posts: 2,006
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    Bugger. Sky haven't series linked it so was setting it when I watched each one. Typical :(
  • User68571User68571 Posts: 3,901
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    Sunday's going to be a great day for coverage and racing if people want to laze on the sofa all day...

    6am-8am - F1
    8am-10am - Post F1 race forums, coming on here for a natter/moan/whatever
    10am - Live F3 from Silverstone (Motors Tv)
    12pm-6pm - Live World Endurance Championship from Silverstone (Motors TV)
  • F1KenF1Ken Posts: 4,229
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    Sunday's going to be a great day for coverage and racing if people want to laze on the sofa all day...

    6am-8am - F1
    8am-10am - Post F1 race forums, coming on here for a natter/moan/whatever
    10am - Live F3 from Silverstone (Motors Tv)
    12pm-6pm - Live World Endurance Championship from Silverstone (Motors TV)

    Elissa what is the length of the Sky race coverage on Sunday?


    I just wondered how it compares to the BBC's offering this weekend. First Live race for me!!! Exciting stuff. :)

    Ken
  • gomezzgomezz Posts: 44,507
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    Or watch BSB and WSB on Eurosport.
  • thedoppelgangerthedoppelganger Posts: 145
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    F1Ken wrote: »
    Elissa what is the length of the Sky race coverage on Sunday?


    I just wondered how it compares to the BBC's offering this weekend. First Live race for me!!! Exciting stuff. :)

    Ken

    And me. We ought to have a seperate BBC (Live) only championship. So Vettels antics in Malaysia don't count.
    We start from zero this weekend.
  • User68571User68571 Posts: 3,901
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    F1Ken wrote: »
    Elissa what is the length of the Sky race coverage on Sunday?


    I just wondered how it compares to the BBC's offering this weekend. First Live race for me!!! Exciting stuff. :)

    Ken

    Oh I just realised I got all my timings wrong! The F1 race starts at 8am!! I imagine Sky will go on air around 6:30am.

    No concrete idea on length but typically they do 90 mins pre race, depending on race events and 'other' broadcasters post race coverage it can be from an hour up to two hours!!

    With the BBC being live I can see Sky running a longer post race, I hope it doesn't go off into too much waffle on either broadcaster as sometimes I think they're too busy watching the clock trying to outdoo each other.

    I'm starting to just get a little bored of repetative nature of either broadcasters coverage....it's always a pre race word from Horner, Whitmarsh, Brawn, and then the same afterwords. I suppose it's what we want but I can see this weekend filling my seasonal 'Horner BS' quota in one fell swoop. The RBR story is going to dominate coverage this weekend, especially with comments made this week from Vettel and Marko which add more fuel to the fire.

    I'll predict on Sky we'll see a total of 7 interviews with Horner

    1 during FP1 or FP2
    1 live pre qualifying and 1 live post qualifying
    1 live pre race and 1 live post race
    1 interview filmed from the RBR factory to fit into qualifying build up coverage with another part added in on Sunday pre race.

    Anyone wanna take on that bet? ;-)
  • User68571User68571 Posts: 3,901
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    Entry list for Silverstones WEC race - loads of ex F1 and brilliant drivers http://www.fiawec.com/wpphpFichiers/1/1/ressources/Image/2013/rounds/02_6_Hours_of_Silverstone/FIAWEC2013_6_hours_of_silverstone_provisional_entry_list_030413_691.jpg

    spotters guide - http://www.spotterguides.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/WEC_13_SS_V1.jpg

    Give it ago, very different type of racing to F1, and it's only gonna get better when Porsche arrive with a Mr Webber leading them next year... ;-)
  • TOON FANTOON FAN Posts: 1,066
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    Sky's running orders for the weekend. Wonder how many times we'll hear the words "stunning hd".

    https://twitter.com/SkyF1Insider/status/322327891423657984
  • codename_47codename_47 Posts: 9,682
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    TOON FAN wrote: »
    Sky's running orders for the weekend. Wonder how many times we'll hear the words "stunning hd".

    https://twitter.com/SkyF1Insider/status/322327891423657984

    Looks like a new opportunity to play #f1bingo this weekend!!

    Makes a change listening out for "For sure"s and waiting for Kimi to speak on the radio anyway...
  • ballonballon Posts: 205
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    TOON FAN wrote: »
    Sky's running orders for the weekend. Wonder how many times we'll hear the words "stunning hd".

    https://twitter.com/SkyF1Insider/status/322327891423657984

    Can't remember it being discussed much in the past (apologies if it has) but what are people's views on the 5.1 sound with Sky F1 if they have it? Is it one of those things that are only worth bothering with if you already have the equipment, or so good it's worth going out and getting a decent 5.1 set up just for the F1?
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