Originally Posted by mel_drew:
“Of course, mens gymnastics is universaly popular, whilst F1 is very much a minority, niche sport. In the eyes of the BBC!
Mind you, I'm not especially bothered about seeing any more of this borefest. As others have said, Monaco is all about the glitz, and nothing to do with motor racing.
It's a shame that the BBC felt the need to include this as one of their full coverage races. A ten minute programme of highlights would have been quite enough.”
“Of course, mens gymnastics is universaly popular, whilst F1 is very much a minority, niche sport. In the eyes of the BBC!

Mind you, I'm not especially bothered about seeing any more of this borefest. As others have said, Monaco is all about the glitz, and nothing to do with motor racing.
It's a shame that the BBC felt the need to include this as one of their full coverage races. A ten minute programme of highlights would have been quite enough.”
It is an Olympic year so they've rightly been covering sports that will feature. Even though I don't like gymnastics it's been an important event, Britain won their first ever team gold yesterday and they did have a contender today.
As for picking Monaco, it's a massive event in the calendar that would attract a casual fan even if Canada makes for better racing not showing live Monaco would be leave a huge hole.
The format of the agreement with Sky does tie their hands to an extent as well (i.e. they can't show 3 live races in a row).




btw anybody know of any viewing figures for sky/bbc with all the races in general? Curious as to see how they both doing (Over the season so far I should say and not just the monaco GP)