Formula 1 TV Coverage discussions

It works for you without a VPN because all EU streaming subscriptions have to work in all EU countries. Unfortunately this isn't the case for people with Turkish subs.

I see that Sky Sports F1 is finally being added to Virgin Media.

The 360 cameras are too high a bandwidth to do live. It's essentially 4K so they record it to disk and then provide it to the broadcasters after.

Re Nico, it look ridiculous from a production perspective that he is dialling in from his bedroom. I used to enjoy listening to him when he was part of the coverage and at the track.

Mind you, I would take Nico remotely over Johnny Herbert any day. Damon Hill isn't much better.

I thought that Hannah Schmitt "bit" on Sky was extremely poor.

Totalled about 10 minutes. Started off with her talking about what feeds into strategy and then a few minutes on how they caught and passed both ferraris in Monaco including a hand drawn diagram with some colour markers. Rubbish.

Give her a solid thirty minutes and build her profile for christ sake. Cover her interests when she was younger, what she did in college/University, where she started strategy wise, what she did to develope in her role, achievements, something she figured out that makes her proud etc etc

I would suspect its no coincident it's related to the Queen's passing could be staffing resources or also anticipating smaller ratings

Yeah he’s really annoying.

Only watch alongs on YouTube I'd say.

David Lewis Coulthard embarrassing himself today was hilarious to watch, now he wants wheel to wheel racing and excitement during the last lap of races, the hypocrisy and lack of self awareness of the biased fool knows no bounds.

You are not wrong but its been done to death

Crofty's pronunciation of Curva Grande (curveh gronday) was so irritating today. As he talks for a living the least he could do would be to learn the basics. It's not French, it's Italian. And Sergio should be pronounced "Serkhio" as he's Mexican and not Italian ("Ser-jeeo"). Thar goes for them all, in fact.

You might say it's pedantic but it doesn't take much to get it right.

Yes this, i absolutely detetest that. It's not like there's a comedian beside him, just him spouting nonsense and then laughing at it.

I only listen to sky for Brundle's commentary which I like, might check out that F1tv coverage though as somedays I need a break from Croft.

@eviltimeban

Is so nice to just hear the cars go around. Croft just doesn't shut up and finds the most long winded ways to say something simple so he can be clever. There is never any silence or gaps, constant talking, does my head in

I'm generally busy when the race is on live so I stick with the C4 highlights and find the presenting team generally good. Apart from Webber, he's a dope. Interested to read here the Ben Edwards has gone to F1TV? I'm almost sure when he left F1 he said it was because he was retiring and had had enough of all the travel?

Although it was pretty obvious that the C4 commentary was done remotely for Japan, only the Welsh gobshyte and Felipe Massa were at the track, Coulthard, Monger and Jacques were in a booth with blinds drawn and never appeared on camera from the paddock.

I watched the build-up while doing other things but did they speak of the McLaren and Williams updates? The teams put out a list every weekend with the updates they are bringing as it's no a secret anymore, Gary Anderson used to be brilliant at explaining why the updates will be faster.

after the first half of the year, I would give a thumbs up for

Bernie

Damon

Danica

Simon

Naomi

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but Ted and Karun are brilliant..

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Croft annoys me to bejaysus...

apologies, as I am new to the thread.

Well I did my usual sync up with the BBC crew. Sadly website only today so no play back available, but along side lead commentator Harry Benjamin (in the back) were from left to right, Jack Aitkin former Williams reserve who drove when Russell first bumped up to Mercedes-Benz in 2020, Ruth Buscombe, former strategist for Alfa Romero and Jennie Gow who continues to make great progress recovering from her stroke.

I saw an interview with Ruth Buscombe on the Pitstop podcast on youtube a week or two ago and it was one of the best pieces of F1 related content I've watched in a long time. It's insane the amount of work done by so many strategists, engineers etc that gets pretty much zero coverage and attention in the media. The amount of detail she goes into in the interview, from doing track walks and noting down access road and marshal post details so they can estimate the likelihood of a safety car for a given incident anywhere on track, to the way they would look at the rubber laid down on the clean / dirty side of the track and feed it back in and recalibrate their simulation code - a result of this being that she was the one responsible for the infamous deliberate penalty for Felipe Massa by breaking the gearbox seal to put both their cars on the clean side of the track. It's incredible the amount of thought that goes into every little detail.