F1 is dead to me

Anonymous

Chunkers1980 wrote:

Zero interest in the actual cars going round but you must at least appreciate the technology?!

I used to appreciate it more than I do. It seems that the pace of development has been stifled by stupid rulings in teh last few years.

montevideoguy

Have to say that it's a crap deal for fans of the sport. Sky have said they won't do adverts during the race but that's cold comfort to the people who'll have to fork out to get Sky Sports.

Hoping the sponsors tell Bernie to bin this deal as they basically get advertising on a channel which doesn't have advertising (so it's not as if they can purchase their own airtime).

As for BBC having adverts...or "in association with"... if they started that then they would come under huge pressure to bin the licence fee. Do that and you have ITV. You do get adverts on their international stuff (random adverts for Ukraine, Qatar Airways and Rolex) but that's pretty much a completely separate entity.


As a side note, I see they've finally brought out the international version of iPlayer. 7 Euros a month of 50 for the year. I'd pay it in a heart beat if it wasn't for the fact it is only in 11 countries (surprisingly, Uruguay is not on that list), and it's iPad only.

Time for me to take the plunge and go down the VPN route

sheepsteeth

so is this a forum full of gypos who cant afford sky or full sus bikes?

Fully-sprung

sheepsteeth wrote:

so is this a forum full of gypos who cant afford sky or full sus bikes?

No, but who the fook needs to pay that stupid bloody company to watch pointless programs that you should be able to see for free?
And we're already paying for it once with the licence fee, and that just goes to show repeats of every piece of carp they can dig out of the deepest gutter they could find at the time.

Anonymous

Fully-sprung wrote:

the licence fee, and that just goes to show repeats of every piece of carp they can dig out of the deepest gutter they could find at the time.

And the broadcasting network and equipment, and it's maintenance and installation. You know, masts, transmitter, boosters. Oh, and freeview.

The Northern Monkey

I'd rather have F1 than the Olympics.

There, I said it.

Anonymous

Ooooh, yes, I'll join you on that one.

Fully-sprung

Me to.

montevideoguy

The Northern Monkey wrote:

I'd rather have F1 than the Olympics.

There, I said it.

They could condense the interesting stuff in the olympics down to a one hour TV programme.

I'm in full agreement with you

The Northern Monkey

Montevideoguy wrote:

The Northern Monkey wrote:

I'd rather have F1 than the Olympics.

There, I said it.

They could condense the interesting stuff in the olympics down to a one hour TV programme.

I'm in full agreement with you

Nah, shorter... more like the length of a weather report on Family Guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktAKHww9 ... re=related

Don't even get me started on the Olympics.

Not. Interested. At. All.

Andy

Olympics > Formula 1

The Northern Monkey

Andy wrote:

Olympics > Formula 1

I agree, the Olympics should be replaced by Formula 1

97th choice

Montevideoguy wrote:

Have to say that it's a crap deal for fans of the sport. Sky have said they won't do adverts during the race but that's cold comfort to the people who'll have to fork out to get Sky Sports.

Contractually I don't think they can, they, like the BBC, have to take the F1 feed, which is why you don't currently get cutaways to the jake, eddie and dave show during the race.

montevideoguy

We get adverts during the races over here... and adverts that pop up in the bottom of the screen as well (we also get this with football...very annoying)

Welsh_Tom

Was gutted to read this today :x Just hope martin blundell stays with bbc, we can see if live on the i-player can we not?

if so just link the tv up to the pc

Andy B

From what I can tell it will only be live on Sky

You won't get it live on any other form of broadcast except for the half of the races that the BBC will have

Also the BBC will show edited highlights of the races that they do not show live, I guess it'll be a bit like a MOTD edited highlights programme

All of which sucks donkey dong big time

Welsh_Tom

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/sporteditors ... betwe.html

bit of a update

its a bbc blog so you can reply to it, funny so far there is 3000 saying bbc sucks ass. which they do

cooldad

Welsh_Tom wrote:

Was gutted to read this today :x Just hope martin blundell stays with bbc, we can see if live on the i-player can we not?

if so just link the tv up to the pc

Er Brundle. Blundell was Mark.

Muttly1981

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Chunkers1980 wrote:

Zero interest in the actual cars going round but you must at least appreciate the technology?!

I used to appreciate it more than I do. It seems that the pace of development has been stifled by stupid rulings in teh last few years.

As Toyota said a few years ago when they talked about the team spending limit "we spend more money on developing door handles......"

Stevo_666

Yep, it always seems that the powers that be in F1 are trying to crack down on the teams being creative in finding ways of going faster - which is kind of the whole point. I remember when they had the 1,500bhp turbos - one driver said he literally p1ssed himself in qualifying sessions they were so fast

Just think how much entertainment could be had from a 'no holds barred' F1 series where anything within reason goes (.e. barring stuff like Bodicea type spikes on the wheels and weapons). But that's a different debate...

Anonymous

Hell yes, unrestricted development is the way forwards. That way, they MUST eventually arrive at the "Wipeout" game

Gazlar

Ooh yeah, celebrity death F1 featuring Peaches Geldof, Barry from Eastenders and any members of the Sugarbabes past or present (except Mutya, I like her sausageyness)