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F1 Coverage - The Verdict: 2016 Season |
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Might use the F1 App this weekend for the team radio
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Might use the F1 App this weekend for the team radio
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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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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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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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Why has nobody anywhere brought up what happens about drivers getting ot safely and quickly and more importantly when a car turns over?
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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how long before someone dies before it is upside down and they cannot be reached.
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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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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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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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.
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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. 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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No Johnny Herbert this weekend - Hurrah!!
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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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Has there been a previous season of F1 with so many changes or 'clarifications' to the rules as this year? This is just ridiculous.
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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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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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It's so refreshing to have Ant back on the Sky coverage this weekend, makes the world of difference.
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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Top Gear is back on I see...
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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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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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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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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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FOM seem to have found a magnifying tool:
https://flic.kr/p/KwRnov |
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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 look forward to the day they broadcast a drivers radio message unbleeped in error and go into monumental meltdown.
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Graphics on blancpain coverage are awful, the tower is a mess of colour
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