Originally Posted by lettice:
“See the draft F1 calendar for 2017 is out today and looks like Le Mans and Baku clash.
Do think the Le Mans weekend should not be an F1 weekend.
Be a better fit for Baku after Russia, they are only 14 hours by road and 7 hours by air for a quick week turnover.
But with another 21 race calendar and having to have the August three week break, its going to be difficult
See the start in Australia is back to end of the month, was 2011 when it was last at the end of March. Something to do with the teams have been give a little extra time to get ready for the 2017 rule changes.”
“See the draft F1 calendar for 2017 is out today and looks like Le Mans and Baku clash.
Do think the Le Mans weekend should not be an F1 weekend.
Be a better fit for Baku after Russia, they are only 14 hours by road and 7 hours by air for a quick week turnover.
But with another 21 race calendar and having to have the August three week break, its going to be difficult
See the start in Australia is back to end of the month, was 2011 when it was last at the end of March. Something to do with the teams have been give a little extra time to get ready for the 2017 rule changes.”
This might be Bernies last chance to make sure that F1 and Le Mans clash. (Can anyone explain why they modified the schedule al the last minute to move Bake a week earlier and make it clash with Le Mans? The teams were hard pressed to get the gear moved to Baku in time.)
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“I love the fact that BT go ad free during the US breaks.
However, Kevin Lee, Townsend Bell and especially Paul Tracy are now, HANDS DOWN, the best commentary team in racing.
Where else are you going to get comments like...
PT:" Yeah, outside of Andretti the only other ride Marco will get is with UBER."
I both spilled my beer and dropped the remote at that one
I did not find the BT studio PiP all that annoying. Alas poor #Adrian sounded a bit stiff but perhaps not too bad of a debut for someone from the 'internet'.
But someone needs to tell BT studio team to TALK ABOUT WHAT'S ON THE TV SCREEN.
duh..
Still....IndyCar is far and away the best car racing on the planet.
Hope DJ Willy P will be cleared for Sonoma. Would be terribly anticlimactic to have the championship decided by Charlie Frickin' Kimball's crap driving.
Jp”
“I love the fact that BT go ad free during the US breaks.
However, Kevin Lee, Townsend Bell and especially Paul Tracy are now, HANDS DOWN, the best commentary team in racing.
Where else are you going to get comments like...
PT:" Yeah, outside of Andretti the only other ride Marco will get is with UBER."
I both spilled my beer and dropped the remote at that one
I did not find the BT studio PiP all that annoying. Alas poor #Adrian sounded a bit stiff but perhaps not too bad of a debut for someone from the 'internet'.
But someone needs to tell BT studio team to TALK ABOUT WHAT'S ON THE TV SCREEN.
duh..
Still....IndyCar is far and away the best car racing on the planet.
Hope DJ Willy P will be cleared for Sonoma. Would be terribly anticlimactic to have the championship decided by Charlie Frickin' Kimball's crap driving.
Jp”
Was thinking during the race on Sunday that there was after all these years of watching F1 that for the first time, I was enjoying Indycar more than F1.
Cutting away from the Track Guide was ridiculous. How long do ESPN have left on their International Feed contract? All credit to BT for putting in the breaks commentary. Also, they tried the full race commentary for one race, saw the reaction and changed back. We just need to get the NBCSN race build-up, but I know that BT have no control over that.
PT was uncompromising on track and he has taken that same attitude into the commentary box! Took me a second to register how insulting he was being about Marco Andretti
(Mind you, I agree with him - have done since A1GP days. Indycars equivalent of Maldonado!)RE: The F1 coverage, I'm in the C4 camp. I'll watch C4 for the live weekends. On other weekends, EirSport with C4 commentary for practice sessions, but Qualy and Race on Sky for HD picture. My minor gripe with C4 is the points table and calendar for every session. Race build-up fine, but not every practice session. Steve is growing on me, and when the people in the know are talking/interviewing he lets them get on with it. Noticed him over the weekend about to ask a question to a guest, but saw that Eddie had more, so left him off.
C4 race build-up has a more professional feel to it - you get a proper intro to the race show - sometimes poetic, sometimes matey but always watchable. It doesn't assume that you have been watching all weekend, so works as a stand-alone show. If you have been watching all weekend, it is mostly new content, because they only have 45 minutes to fill (taking out ad-breaks).
Sky's race show starts as though they are just back from an ad-break, so for the race-only viewer they feel like they have come in half-way through. If you have been watching all weekend, then it's full of content that you have probably seen before, either through the repeated questions or VT that has been trailed to death.
I think Herbert would be more tolerable if A: He wasn't asked the same questions every session and B: He didn't do every session!! And I can't stand him on the track parade.
Post race, either is fine - Sky could do more with the time - Sky pad is fine, but cover all the stories. Like everyone else here, Ted's Notebook is must-see TV.
I've said it before, but Sky could do more for GP2/GP3. We need to get to know the drivers. for example, Rossi was just another GP2 driver last year until the American GP when he was all over the race coverage because of his Manor drive. Now I feel like I know the person in the car. I wouldn't recognise Davide Valsecchi until this year! A GP2/GP3 show over a weekend or mid-week would do wonders. We are humans - we want to watch humans racing not just cars! They did have Jordan King on Mid-week this week, so that was a start. (Mind you, asking a GP2 driver about F1 drivers is probably not a good way to go - they probably can't afford to risk insulting anyone in F1!)
Ooops - went on a bit - Sorry





