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Old 28-07-2016, 20:40
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Might use the F1 App this weekend for the team radio
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Old 28-07-2016, 22:32
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Might use the F1 App this weekend for the team radio
And the pit-lane channel might be worth having on again - as long as they swap the sizes of the picture so that the Pit-lane is large and the world feed is small. Pit Lane channel has been a joke this year. All it did was confuse me when they did a replay - screen is too small to see the replay banner!!
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Old 29-07-2016, 09:03
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Eir Sport giving us a throwback to the old flyaway coverage days. A poor line to commentary makes the coverage seem phoned in.
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Old 29-07-2016, 09:37
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Has there been a previous season of F1 with so many changes or 'clarifications' to the rules as this year? This is just ridiculous.

F1 is open cockpit racing, the halo is ugly and where will they fit the wipers on the windscreen thing, otherwise racing will be stopped due to 'light rain at turn 4'.
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Old 29-07-2016, 11:19
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Have i seriously just watched christian horner say its ok to use the track limits and more?
Hope i never get in a car with him, he seems to think its ok to drive down the pavement in a town centre.
They have a tarmac strip round the track, if you are not capable enough to stay on it then go somewhere else, it is time the FIA made it simple, stay on the track or else, The dvla tell me the same and i manage to do it.

And so so sick of this halo rubbish, its OPEN COCKPIT racing, the day they fetch it in is the day i say goodbye to F1 and watch more GT and touring cars.
Why has nobody anywhere brought up what happens about drivers getting ot safely and quickly and more importantly when a car turns over?, how long before someone dies before it is upside down and they cannot be reached.
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Old 29-07-2016, 11:29
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Why has nobody anywhere brought up what happens about drivers getting ot safely and quickly and more importantly when a car turns over?
I saw somebody say yesterday that when Ferrari took the Halo to Austria the FIA decided to try an extraction test & found that it took safety workers 12 minutes to get a Ferrari mechanic out of the car.

This is apparently one of the reasons why teams who were in favor of the halo decided that it maybe needed more testing & decided to vote against it yesterday.
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Old 29-07-2016, 11:45
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how long before someone dies before it is upside down and they cannot be reached.
More have died because of debris hitting them in the head. One in F2; one in IndyCar and one during F1 testing.
Cars don't tend to flip anymore as a general rule because the driving standards are better and the runs offs are tarmaced.
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Old 29-07-2016, 12:40
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If Health & Safety is the main issue, then take the drivers out of the car and drive by remote control or even have a race of Simulators - 100% safe, 0% viewer ratings.

Motorsport is dangerous, the risk & reward is part of the attraction. Not excessive risk, but it's considerably safer than it ever has been.
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Old 29-07-2016, 13:26
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Cars don't tend to flip anymore as a general rule because the driving standards are better and the runs offs are tarmaced.
On that point, looking at one of the crashes during last weekend (can't remember who), I noticed that because the wheels are tethered, the detached wheel wedged itself between the ground and the car and caused the car to flip over. It's that pro/con of these safety measures - in this case the tether - that need to be weighed up. (Obviously, the tether is much safer than no tether, but there is still a knock-on effect by having it.)
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Old 29-07-2016, 14:32
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On that point, looking at one of the crashes during last weekend (can't remember who), I noticed that because the wheels are tethered, the detached wheel wedged itself between the ground and the car and caused the car to flip over.
Same thing happened to Perez during F1 practice at Hungary last year.
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Old 29-07-2016, 15:09
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And so so sick of this halo rubbish, its OPEN COCKPIT racing, the day they fetch it in is the day i say goodbye to F1 and watch more GT and touring cars.
Why has nobody anywhere brought up what happens about drivers getting ot safely and quickly and more importantly when a car turns over?, how long before someone dies before it is upside down and they cannot be reached.
Every single discussion about this has included talk about what happens if the car turns over.

They don't catch fire anymore, fortunately. So even if a driver is trapped inside an upside down car he's not in any danger.

The Halo is a bit of a half-arsed solution. If canopies are where we're going just do that.
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Old 29-07-2016, 15:19
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No Johnny Herbert this weekend - Hurrah!!
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Old 29-07-2016, 15:59
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More have died because of debris hitting them in the head. One in F2; one in IndyCar and one during F1 testing.
Cars don't tend to flip anymore as a general rule because the driving standards are better and the runs offs are tarmaced.

Tell Alonso that
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Old 29-07-2016, 18:44
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Has there been a previous season of F1 with so many changes or 'clarifications' to the rules as this year? This is just ridiculous.
True. But they've been more or less inconsequential ones. James Allen's blog has got a "top 10 mid-season rule changes" article up, which is kind of funny, really...
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Old 29-07-2016, 21:56
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It's so refreshing to have Ant back on the Sky coverage this weekend, makes the world of difference.

There's a nice video on the app of Barrichellos onboard first lap from 2000.
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Old 30-07-2016, 10:29
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The audio commentary line from Channel 4 to Eir Sport Ireland remains poor today and even broke up while Holly was interviewing in the pits. It's weird because the team radio clips are attached to the TV feed, the radio clips sound better than the commentary.
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Old 30-07-2016, 10:41
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It's so refreshing to have Ant back on the Sky coverage this weekend, makes the world of difference.
Just superb stuff form him this weekend.
Id add him to the common question, who you would love to have as a dinner guest.

Some pratt on twitter mentioned by Croft in practice 3 was criticising Ant. Whoever it was, just go away.
Why did sky even mention that, just one more nail in the coffin for me for Crofty and his twitter nonsense.
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Old 30-07-2016, 12:45
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Top Gear is back on I see...
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Old 30-07-2016, 12:47
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Sky's car soccer makes me long for the glory days of Louise in Trulli's vinyard. 2019 is a scary prospect.
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Old 30-07-2016, 13:00
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The audio commentary line from Channel 4 to Eir Sport Ireland remains poor today and even broke up while Holly was interviewing in the pits. It's weird because the team radio clips are attached to the TV feed, the radio clips sound better than the commentary.
Gawd. Quality is awful. Sounds like the 1980s when they simply used whatever phone line they could find
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Old 30-07-2016, 14:06
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Sky's car soccer makes me long for the glory days of Louise in Trulli's vinyard. 2019 is a scary prospect.
Quess that was England losing the world cup again then.
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Old 30-07-2016, 15:25
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Childish how Sky apologised for Toto Wolff saying 'balls out'
I mean seriously?!?!!!!

No reason to say sorry for that, at all!
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Old 30-07-2016, 15:27
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FOM seem to have found a magnifying tool:
https://flic.kr/p/KwRnov
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Old 30-07-2016, 17:03
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Childish how Sky apologised for Toto Wolff saying 'balls out'
I mean seriously?!?!!!!

No reason to say sorry for that, at all!
I was wondering what the apology was for as I was sure I didn't hear anything sweary.

I look forward to the day they broadcast a drivers radio message unbleeped in error and go into monumental meltdown.
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Old 30-07-2016, 17:09
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Graphics on blancpain coverage are awful, the tower is a mess of colour
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