Fairly decent bandwidth too. Seemed to be ~7Mb/s. Compare that to iPlayer which also only does 720p but at ~3Mb/s.

Not bad at all. Just paid my £11 for China.

No. But SRO do like to do things differently. I can see why SRO chose Bloomberg. It's bang on in terms of the right demographic for sportscar buyers. Wealthy individuals who love a shiny toy.

Interestingly, a Saturday qualifying race proposal is now being considered again (despite it being rejected at first because broadcasters didn't like it as it would impact on their advertising revenue - as they can currently put adverts between each of the 3 quali segments).

3x15 minute sprint races?

I hope it doesn't happen. The race should be the main event of the weekend; another short race on Saturday just dilutes it.

I think you might be over-analysing it a bit by going in to demographics and the like! SRO’s attitude has always seemed to be to give it away free to anyone who’d want to show it, and by the nature of Bloomberg, they had nothing to show at the weekends, so it filled up a bit of time.

Same way Superleague Formula, Formula E and all those sort end up on multiple, often random channels.

I was freelancing at Bloomberg at the time. My job at the weekend was to get the feed from BT Tower and switch it to line when it started. Easy money!

The Reason why Singapore is the longest race on the calendar is that Singapore gets regular interruptions by the safety car

Possibly. SRO focus on brands. Porsche, Mercedes, Maserati, Ferrari, Audi, BMW, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, Morgan, Corvette etc. These are the sort of car brands that high net worth individuals don't just aspire to. They can go and buy their products. Bloomberg has an audience of high net worth individuals. They still do news features on luxury cars like the Aston DB11.

What a shame you didn't switch the graphics off at the same time, so that we could watch the races without two day old share prices and forex rates scrolling across the screen.

Even if it's a clean run race it's still one of the longest races. It's an approx. 1m50s lap and there's 61 laps, so it's not going to be much shorter than 1hr50 minutes i.e. still the longest race or close to it.

The safety cars just tend to ensure the race goes the 2 hr distance rather than the lap distance.

1982 F2 review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agGZty4Gw0I

2004 British F2 Review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQPxVF3Guio

2012 British Historic rally Review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS__eHYRHag

BBC's Senna doc from late 1994:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x43...umentary_sport

McLaren's road to Pheonix 1991:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x43...nix-1991_sport

BBC's 2009 F1 Review:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x43...view-bbc_sport


More stuff to come........

It's because the average speed is lower:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2011/10/2.../averagespeed/

And unlike Monaco they don't shorten the race distance. Personally I think they should; 2 hours is too long.

Thank you for the uploads.

Personally i think Singapore needs to have less laps and why they continue to have as many knowing there is a HUGE chance of a SC coming out and ending it at the 2h mark is in need of a fix!

I'm not 100% certain on this, but all of the race distances are based on around 300km hence why you could have a 2 hour race at Singapore and a 1 hour 20 minute race at Monza.

Surely Singapore is longest because of the fact that you have Spa-type lap times but instead of 44 laps, there are (I think) 60?

Correct.

A Grand Prix race has traditionally been 300km & the number of laps each event has is based around going to the 300km (Or 2 hour) limit.

Singapore's 61 laps is 308.828 km, Monza's 53 laps is 306.720 km.

It's basically the amount of (racing) laps needed to get over 300km within 2 hrs, isn't it?

With the exception of Monaco, which is closer to 260km (thanks google).

I think 260km of Monaco is enough, if it was 300km, the races would be well over the 2 hr time limit.

It always used to be 200 Miles or 2 Hours until it got metricated to 300KM

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Cross platform access (members.fiawec.com) costs:
4.99 Euros to view a single 6 hour round live. 24.99 Euros all for the 6 hour races. 34.99 Euros for the 2016 season including Le Mans 24h.

The WEC is also shown on Motors TV (Except LM24) and Eurosport/Eurosport player.

The European Le Mans series remains free to view online on Dailymotion.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2m...2016-live_auto

No James Allen moderating the press conference today. Haven't a clue who they used instead.

Seems to be two or three new camera angles that I don't remember FOM ever having before at this track. Very nice.

Shame they completely missed Magnussen's tyre explosion though.

F1 show has been cut to 30 minutes from an hour , seems to be just race weekends now

Yep, it's kind of strange on one hand they are investing more money on more exclusive rights from 2019 yet with the other hand reducing investment in the current coverage. Perhaps they will reduce their output further when they have no real compeitiion?

There is however a F1 report show every week on Wednesday nights which used to be only after race weekends last season. It's one of the stronger Sky shows IMO, with a more varied roster of guests than the race weekends