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F1 British GP missed!

  • 08-07-2012 6:13pm
    #1
    ART6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭


    I had to be out all day today visiting a sick wife in hospital, so being a Sky customer I set my TV to record the British GP. I generally watch the F1 on BBC for the absence of endless and puerile ads. So, returning home, I prepared myself a good big fry-up, poured a glass of wine, and settled to watch. I selected the recorded programme, and sat through the endless graphics and the lectures from David Coultard and Eddie Jordan. I sat through the grid forming and the brief interviews with the drivers, and the start approached.

    Then, out of the blue, that idiot of a presenter announced that the GP was now switching to BBC2 and was about to be replaced by tennis from Wimbledon. TENNIS?! How in the name of God can such a pointless game replace something as important as the British F1 GP? So now I could watch a couple of lovely little people patting a ball around among bowls of strawberries and cream, but I could not see some of the best drivers in the world competing with high powered machines at two hundred miles an hour.

    Brits, this means WAR!


Comments

  • #2
    Max_Charger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭Max_Charger


    BBC 3 are showing the highlights right now,cant remember what sky channel it is, 200 and something!


  • #3
    Stuck Cone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Stuck Cone


    Is it on the red button for a day or two?


  • #4
    losthorizon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭losthorizon


    You could get foxy Proxy for a month €5 or 8 for the month ( just pay for the month not a recurring payment) I think and watch it online on the BBC website. You would see the whole Grand Prix. Not worth tbh.


  • #5
    ART6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    Max_Charger wrote: »
    BBC 3 are showing the highlights right now,cant remember what sky channel it is, 200 and something!
    Stuck Cone wrote: »
    Is it on the red button for a day or two?

    Thanks both for the advice. Unfortunately the red button on my Sky remote doesn't seem to do anything much. I did try (really I did) to watch this tennis business for a minute or two while I finished my fry-up and my glass of wine, but then I decided that my only way forward was to open the bottle of good Irish whiskey that I had in the cabinet. That convinced me that watching two prancers in shorts batting a soft ball about was no improvement on sitting and watching the grass grow in my lawn while I worked on getting p***ed. So I have decided upon the latter plan!


  • #6
    frostie500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭frostie500


    I dont mean to sound like a dick but the listings for the Grand Prix clearly said that the buildup was on the BBC1 and the race on BBC2. If you had a series link on Sky+ it recorded the buildup and race. It's little consolation for you but it was known in advance that the tennis would be on BBC1.


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  • #7
    ART6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    frostie500 wrote: »
    I dont mean to sound like a dick but the listings for the Grand Prix clearly said that the buildup was on the BBC1 and the race on BBC2. If you had a series link on Sky+ it recorded the buildup and race. It's little consolation for you but it was known in advance that the tennis would be on BBC1.

    Yup. I had other things on my mind and I simply missed the point. I took this simpleton's approach of simply selecting "record" for the BBC1 programme.

    I still hold the Brits responsible, and when I have finished this bottle I might still declare war! Hopefully I might yet find the race somewhere in the depths of the Internet. Anyone any good ideas?


  • #8
    Stuck Cone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Stuck Cone


    ART6 wrote: »
    Yup. I had other things on my mind and I simply missed the point. I took this simpleton's approach of simply selecting "record" for the BBC1 programme.

    I still hold the Brits responsible, and when I have finished this bottle I might still declare war! Hopefully I might yet find the race somewhere in the depths of the Internet. Anyone any good ideas?

    Did you try a certain site by the name of justin :)


  • #9
    Autosport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Did u not watch the repeat on the F1 channel? It was shown again at 7 and i think its on now :)


  • #10
    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    frostie500 wrote: »
    I dont mean to sound like a dick but the listings for the Grand Prix clearly said that the buildup was on the BBC1 and the race on BBC2. If you had a series link on Sky+ it recorded the buildup and race. It's little consolation for you but it was known in advance that the tennis would be on BBC1.
    They also mentioned the switch a few times during qualifing yesterday.


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