May 13th, 2018, 05:58 AM | #1 |
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F1 SUCKS
Bought by an American Company (from Colorado), broadcast by an American Company (from Connecticut), and they can't find anyone that speaks understandable English to commentate.
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May 13th, 2018, 10:03 AM | #2 |
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Boring race this morning.
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May 18th, 2018, 04:52 AM | #3 |
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That does happen. Gotta admit that we've seen some great stuff this year, though. Ricciardo's drive in China was epic, as was the team's performance in getting him out into qualifying.
And the drama in Baku. Re the commentators... well, if you can't understand English and Scots accents there's always NASCAR.... In case you hadn't noticed, the ESPN coverage isn't generated by ESPN or Liberty Media. It's just a straight-up rebroadcast of the UK Sky Sports coverage. Here's what's really good about it (and much better than the NBC coverage last year): 1) They send the whole team to every race. NBC had Diffey (Australian accent, ahem), Hobbs (English, ahem) and Matchett (ditto) sitting in an office in Connecticut watching the world feed. They'd go to a couple of races a year, and that was it. 2) The on-air team is large and has current knowledge. NBC's on-air staff was four people total, and the only one with driving experience was in F1 40 years ago. Sky has FOUR drivers, including a guy who was in an F1 seat just a couple of years ago. Plus two (or maybe three, still working out the voices and faces) commentators. 3) They have good feature segments that inform, like Davidson's analysis of key moments using a big screen. And during practice in Spain they sent Brundle down to the last chicane and had him point out what the drivers were doing as they went past. That was really cool. 4) The on-screen graphics are far better. Segment times, personal bests, important gaps, etc. 5) Starting with this last race, they come out of commercial break exactly where they went in. You don't miss a thing (this is huge). 6) They're not constantly having to dumb down the coverage by explaining the same damned stuff over and over. Yeah, we know how qualifying works. We know that at one end of Spa it'll be raining while the other end is sunny. What did I like better about NBC? 1) Buxton. I never appreciated what he does so well until I saw Brundle floundering his way down the grid trying to find people to talk to. The guy was relentless and always had something to say. 2) Matchett. I loved his technical insights and focus. Really enjoyed the F1 "chalk talk" segments they used to do. All of that's missing now, though we do have a lot more insight into driving than we used to. Liberty does appear to be trying. Its hit-or-miss in a lot of ways. Grid kids? Okay, great, let's not objectify women. But the replacement is a line of anonymous children who are seen once per race and add absolutely nothing. And don't get me started about the professional wrestling pre-race bullish*t at COTA last year ("A prodigious talent.....")
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Live coverage is commercial free! The replay has commercials but come back to the point they left.
That is the best part of this year's coverage. Sky sports has too many people speaking in cheeky English slang.
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May 18th, 2018, 10:09 AM | #5 |
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It's odd, the same races and racers for the most part....but just doesn't seem as interesting to me as it was in previous years even though the racing (cars-teams) is closer than it has been in a while.
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You think cheeky English slang is hard to understand?
Link to original page on YouTube.
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May 18th, 2018, 01:57 PM | #7 |
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I haven't watched NASCAR since they kicked Danica out for using chewing tobacco and spitting out the window during the race!
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If you thought Spain was boring brace yourself for Monaco, it's like a parade that happens to have pit stops. This course has no business hosting anything as fast as the current F1 cars. I know it's traditional and everyone is in love with the history of the event, but it plays out as a boring parade of cars with no opportunity to pass each other (except for pit stops or crashes). There, I said it.
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Monaco has always been that way. You don't watch it for the racing... you watch it for the spectacle and the eye-popping on-board footage. Unlike anything else in the world... when I want to introduce people to how cool F1 is I show them that race. People who don't get racing aren't impressed by passes. They're struck by the overall impression of speed.
Boring is in the eye of the beholder. I give you the Indy 500. Equally rich history and sure there are passes... but they're pointless because every time the course goes yellow the whole thing effectively resets. It looks exactly the same from start to finish... all you really need to do is watch the last dozen laps.
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If you know what's going to happen, it's boring. If fake things are thrown in to shuffle the field randomly to keep predictions harder, it's borderline stupid. If it's competitive, interesting, and there's something on the line that can actually change from race to race - especially if it appears to be related to driver skill and risk acceptance rather than purely backroom engineering, then it's not boring.
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